List of personalities of the city of Donauwörth

The following list shows personalities who are closely connected with the city of Donauwörth .

sons and daughters of the town

• 1291 Margareta Ebner , Dominican mystic
• around 1360 Ulrich Putsch , 1427–1437 Prince-Bishop of Brixen
• 1499 Sebastian Franck , German chronicler, publicist, geographer and proverb collector
• 1622 Stephan Kessler , Baroque painter
• 1692 Maurus Baumharter , Benedictine, composer and writer
• 1712 Johann Andreas Fux , organ builder (born December 4, 1712 in Donauwörth; † May 4, 1772 ibid)
• 1730 Ernest Weinrauch , German Benedictine priest and composer
• 1749 Ignaz Hübner , lawyer, member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , d. 1815
• 1751 Lorenz Hübner , ex-Jesuit and Catholic publicist, member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1799 , died 1807 in Munich
• 1787 Carl Anton Dietrich , brewer, landowner and member of the Bavarian state parliament
• 1792 Alois Dietrich , brewer and member of the Bavarian state parliament
• 1807 Bernhard Grueber , architect, architectural writer and art historian.
• 1838 Franz Hartmann , theosophist, Freemason, Rosicrucian and author of esoteric works
• 1848 Michael Deffner , classical philologist and director of the Greek national library
• 1859 Carl Bezold , orientalist, full professor at the University of Heidelberg
• 1861 Ferdinand Bonn , actor and writer
• 1865 Karl von Unzner , lawyer and President of the Bavarian Supreme Court in Munich
• 1870 Centa Bré , actress
• 1875 Konrad Ressler , photographer, among others from the famous portrait representations Bertolt Brecht come
• 1900 Georg Ernst , resident internist in Dresden- Weißer Hirsch and Honored Doctor of the People of the GDR
• 1901 Werner Egk , composer, 1936 Olympic champion in the discipline "orchestral music" (born in what is now the Auchsesheim district)
• 1904 (–1977) Franz Dirlmeier , professor of classical philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , there a. a. authoritative academic teacher of Franz Josef Strauss
• 1905 Pius Haugg , high school teacher and co-founder of the CSU
• 1933 Meinhart H. Zenk , full professor of pharmaceutical biology at LMU Munich
• 1936 Heinrich J. Völk , from 1975 director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg
• 1942 Werner Schnitzer , actor (including Jakob Hahne from the ZDF crime series Siska )
• 1948 Manfred G. Schmidt , German political scientist
• 1953 Georg Schmid , 2007–13 CSU parliamentary group chairman in the Bavarian state parliament
• 1957 Martin Kluger , non-fiction author
• 1957 Ludwig Kronthaler , long-time chancellor of the Technical University of Munich , judge at the Federal Fiscal Court , since 2010 Secretary General of the Max Planck Society
• 1959 Marianne Schlosser , theologian, since 2004 Ordinaria for Dogmatics at the University of Vienna
• 1961 Jutta Stroszeck , classical archaeologist
• 1968 Thomas Gabriel Brogl O.P. , since 2015 Provincial of the Austro-South German Province of the Dominican Order
• 1968 Volker Hintermeier , German stage designer
• 1968 Hans-Peter Trojek , German journalist
• 1977 Mitsch Oko , musician and music manager
• 1980 Carolin Hingst , German athlete (pole vault)
• 1980 Manuela Stöberl , kayak, 2012 world champion
• 1987 Raoul Strohhäker , chess player
• 1988 Veronika Eberle , violinist

Monument to Ludwig Auer

People related to the city

• 1136 Hugo von Liechtenstein , first documented member of the later noble family, whose ancestors came from Donauwörth
• 1197 Family Usefulel von Sündersbühl step on a train of Emperor Heinrich VI. after Werd for the first time in the light of history
• 1256 Maria von Brabant (1226–1256) , victim of the (judicial) murder by her husband Ludwig the Strict
• around 1455 Jakob von Linz , Hebrew Jakow bar Jechiel (approx. 1435–1511), later personal physician to Friedrich III. , temporarily Chasan of the Jewish community in Donauwörth
• 1475–1498 Georg Feierabend , at this time chaplain and pastor in Donauwörth
• 1500 Emperor Maximilian I , while staying in Schwäbisch Werd, the news of the birth of his grandson Karl of Burgundy was brought, which he then celebrated extensively in the dance house
• In 1518, Martin Luther crossed the city immediately after he had fled Augsburg as a result of his conversation with Cardinal Cajetan
• 1544 Wolfgang Musculus , did the Reformation in Donauwörth - notabene not in the sense of Martin Luther, but under Reformed auspices
• 1545 Ottmar Stab , temporarily Protestant pastor in Donauwörth, later court preacher in Heidelberg
• 1606ff. Laurentius von Brindisi , Capuchin and apologist of the Expeditio Thonawerdana Maximilian I of Bavaria
• 1672ff. Johann Kasimir Röls , later auxiliary bishop in Augsburg
• 1704 August Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern , on July 2nd d. J. Battle of Schellenberg like
• 1704 Hermann Otto II of Limburg-Styrum , on July 9th. J. died as a result of the same battle
• 1725 Johann Baptist Enderle , German baroque painter
• 1738 Johann Georg Fux , organ builder, born 1651, dies in Donauwörth
• 1745 Roman Christoph von Bauer, knight von Heppenstein (1676–1765) , maintenance commissioner in Donauwörth and father-in-law of Wiguläus von Kreittmayr
• 1763 Jacob Hochbrucker , b. 1673 in Mindelheim , inventor of the pedal harp , resident in Donauwörth since 1699 and d.
• 1764 Joseph II. , On the return journey from his coronation as King of Germania in Frankfurt am Main to Vienna at Donauwörther Hafen, changed with his entourage to ships
• 1764–1770 Joseph von Weber , theologian, philosopher and natural scientist, full professor at the universities of Dillingen an der Donau, Ingolstadt and Landshut, attended the Latin school of the Benedictines of Heilig Kreuz in those years
• 1772 Pierre Michel d'Ixnard , builder of the Teutonic Order House
• 1795 Franz Xaver von Predl , Bavarian nobleman and officer, director of the Bavarian Army Veterans Institution and commandant of Donauwörth 1859–1866
• 1839 Ludwig Auer , elementary school teacher, publisher, entrepreneur
• 1863 Leonhard Kleiber , military bandmaster and composer, born in Mertingen, lived in Donauwörth from 1920 until his death
• 1883 Käthe Kruse , doll maker, mother of the writer Max Kruse .
• 1878 Karl Mayer , Mayor of Donauwörth, Lord Mayor of Neuburg an der Donau and judge in denazification proceedings.
• 1928 Franz Eirenschmalz , convicted war criminal , worked as a construction manager in Donauwörth in the year in question.
• 1940 Melanie Faltlhauser , native Donauwörtherin brought in that year in Munich-Schwabing her son Kurt Faltlhauser to the world
• 1943 Hans Leipelt , member of the White Rose
• 1945 Günther Lützow , prominent fighter pilot in the German Air Force in World War II, on April 24th J. missing at Donauwörth
• 1948 Arno Breker , who has lived in Wemding since 1945, was sentenced to followers before the Donauwörther Spruchkammer
• 1949 Wilfried Scharnagl , later editor-in-chief of " Bayernkurier ", attended the Donauwörth grammar school from that year on
• 1956 Ernst Freys , b. 1863 in Fulda , director of the Bavarian State Library , d. In Donauwörth.
• 1956/57 Johann Deisenhofer , winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988, attended the boys' secondary school in Heilig Kreuz
• 1967–2000 Helmut C. Walter , "picture maker"
• 1968 Helmut Grob , professional table tennis player
• 1990–1994 Ilse Aigner , was busy with "Development of system technology for helicopters" at Eurocopter
• 2012 Bernd Meier , former goalkeeper of TSV 1860 Munich , died in Donauwörth

Honorary citizen

• Andreas Mayr (1898–1975), Mayor before and after 1945, appointed January 25, 1968
• Werner Egk (1901–1983), composer, director of the Nazi Reichsmusikkammer , Olympic champion in Berlin 1936 , appointed November 11, 1971
• Artur Proeller (1898–1983), appointed April 27, 1978
• Alfred Böswald (1931–2018), appointed December 7, 2001

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alf Mintzel: The CSU 1945-1948. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1993, ISBN 9783486559828 , p. 1875. limited preview in Google book search
2. ↑ Evelin Oberhammer, in: NDB 14 (1985), p. 513f., Here 513.
3. ↑ Karl Hausberger , in: NDB 12 (1982), p. 722f., Here 722. Federica and Marc Rogat , Laurentius von Brindisi and Donauwörth, in: Mitteilungen des Historisches Verein für Donauwörth and its surroundings (MittHVDon) 2007–2009, p. 63f.
4. ↑ Kurt Faltlhauser. (No longer available online.) In: faltlhauser.de. Archived from the original on February 10, 2015 ; accessed on January 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Curriculum Vitae ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Ilse Aigner (PDF) 
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} List of honorary citizens on the city's website