List of personalities of the city of Dillingen an der Donau

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Coat of arms of the city of Dillingen on the Danube

The list of personalities of the city of Dillingen an der Donau contains personalities born in Dillingen an der Donau , the district town in the district of Dillingen an der Donau , as well as those who are related to the city, for example because they had their (main) sphere of activity here without being born there myself. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Born in Dillingen

Associated with Dillingen

  • Sebald Mayer (16th century), first Dillingen book printer, brought to Dillingen by Cardinal Otto von Waldburg in 1549/1550
  • Heinrich Wangnereck (1595–1664), Jesuit, theologian, chancellor of the university
  • Matthias Wolcker (1704–1742), high baroque painter
  • Johann Kaspar Bürgisser (around 1800), painter, designed a. a. the church altar in Wittislingen
  • Johann Michael Fischer (1717–1801), the sculptor who died in Dillingen, created a. a. the altars and the pulpit of the study church, the high altar in Steinheim and side altars in St. Michael in Violau
  • Joseph Anton Weißenbach (1734–1801), theologian and clergyman, local preacher between 1768 and 1772
  • Matthias Klostermayr (1736–1771), "Bavarian Hiasl", poacher, leader of a band of robbers, convicted and strangled in Dillingen, then smashed, beheaded and quartered.
  • Joseph Anton Laucher (1737–1813), organist, music director, singing teacher, composer, has been teaching in Dillingen since 1774. There is a primary school named after him.
  • Johann Michael Sailer (1751–1832), Catholic theologian, professor of ethics and pastoral theology in Dillingen an der Donau, 1821 cathedral capitular and 1822 auxiliary bishop with the right of succession, 1829 bishop of Regensburg
  • Christoph von Schmid (1768–1854), Catholic theologian, writer for young people
  • Johann Evangelist Wagner (1807–1886), Catholic clergyman, professor in Dillingen and founder of the Regens Wagner Foundations
  • Sebastian Kneipp (1821–1897), Catholic priest and hydrotherapist, began studying theology in Dillingen in 1848 .
  • Valentin Thalhofer (1825–1891), professor of pastoral theology, Abitur in Dillingen (1843), studied in Dillingen and Munich, professor of biblical studies in Dillingen (1850), later cathedral dean and provost in Eichstätt.
  • Peter Dagn (1847–1921), church painter from the Kraiburg family of painters
  • Barbara Renz (1863–1955), the first woman in southern Germany to hold a doctorate, lived here for a long time and died here. There is a street named after her
  • Peter Dausch (1864–1944), exegete, author and professor of theology, worked in Dillingen from 1903 to 1930 and died there in 1944 as emeritus.
  • Sebastian Euringer (1865–1943), biblical scholar and Semitist, professor of Old Testament exegesis in Dillingen (1900–1924)
  • Paul Zenetti (1866–1943), geologist and historian
  • Georg Graf (1875–1955) Catholic theologian, orientalist
  • Sister Agreda Dirr (1880–1949), educator for the deaf and mute
  • Lothar Schätzl (1914–2006), artist and art teacher
  • Hilda Sandtner (1919–2006), artist and professor at the chair for art education at the Augsburg University of Education , master student of the glass painter Prof. Josef Oberberger , design of the church windows of Augsburg Cathedral , founder of the Mindelheim Textile Museum
  • Heinz Piontek (1925–2003), writer
  • Peter Rummel (1927–2014), Catholic church historian
  • Carmen Hanganu (* 1934), opera singer, vocal teacher
  • Erich Pawlu (* 1934), writer
  • Sister Vera Fischer (* 1943), teacher
  • Die Killerpilze , a three-piece rock band

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Former Mayor now also honorary citizen
  2. ^ Advertisement by Marlene Wetzel-Hackspacher | miteinandertrauern.de. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Gottfried Fellner now an honorary citizen
  4. ↑ Otto Bucher: Bibliography of the printed works of the Dillinger book printer Ignaz Mayer (1654–1668). In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2888–2912, here: p. 2888.
  5. ↑ Otto Bucher: Bibliography of the printed works of the Dillinger book printer Ignaz Mayer (1654–1668). In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2888–2912, here: pp. 2888 and 2912.
  6. ↑ Otto Bucher: Bibliography of the printed works of the Dillinger book printer Ignaz Mayer (1654–1668). In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968 (= Archive for the History of Books. Volume 62), pp. 2888–2912, here: p. 2888.