List of personalities of the city of Eisenstadt
The list of personalities of the city of Eisenstadt includes encyclopaedically relevant personalities from history and contemporary history who have a clear biographical reference to the Burgenland provincial capital Eisenstadt ( Hungarian : Kismarton , Croatian : Željezno , Romani : Srasta ).
Personalities born in Eisenstadt
Irrespective of their subsequent place of work, those personalities whose place of birth is Eisenstadt are listed here. This partial list is arranged chronologically according to the year of birth.
- Selected portraits
Surname | Year of birth | Year of death | to person |
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Siegfried von Kollonitsch | 1572 | 1624 | imperial field marshal |
Paul I. Esterházy de Galantha | 1635 | 1713 | Majority lord of the Esterházy family |
Joseph I. Esterházy de Galantha | 1688 | 1721 | Majority lord of the Esterházy family |
Karlmann Pachschmidt | 1700 | 1734 | Benedictine and composer |
Paul II Anton Esterházy de Galantha | 1711 | 1762 | Majority lord of the Esterházy family |
Isaiah Berlin | 1725 | 1799 | rabbi |
Matthias Klaus | 1758 | 1833 | Mayor of St. Pölten |
Akiba Eger | 1761 | 1837 | rabbi |
Joseph Weigl | 1766 | 1846 | Composer and conductor |
Josef Hyrtl | 1810 | 1894 | anatomist |
Ferdinand von Rosenzweig | 1812 | 1892 | Feldzeugmeister |
Franz Storno the Elder | 1821 | 1907 | Painter, architect, restorer and art collector |
Josef Kis | 1833 | 1900 | Portrait, history and genre painter |
Moriz Benedict | 1835 | 1920 | neurologist |
Hirsch Hildesheimer | 1855 | 1910 | Jewish scholar, lecturer, writer and activist against the ban on the Shekhita |
Sándor Wolf | 1871 | 1946 | Collector and founder of the Burgenland State Museum |
Josef Wagast | 1881 | 1946 | Politician |
Gustinus Ambrosi | 1893 | 1975 | Sculptor and poet |
Julius of Farkas | 1894 | 1958 | linguist |
Paul V. Esterházy de Galantha | 1901 | 1989 | Majority lord of the Esterházy family |
Josef Palham | 1905 | 1988 | Politician and middle school professor |
Otto Roessler | 1907 | 1991 | Semitist and Africanist |
Hans Tinhof | 1915 | 1979 | Politician |
Rudolf Heinz Fischer | 1916 | 2011 | Politician |
Franz Soronics | 1920 | 2009 | Politician |
Josef Handler | 1927 | Politician | |
Herbert Hoffmann | 1930 | 2012 | archaeologist |
Moshe Se'ev Feldman | 1930 | 1997 | Deputy and Deputy Minister in Israel |
Linden Rotta | 1937 | Writer | |
Helmut Schatz | 1937 | Mediciners | |
Maria Perschy | 1938 | 2004 | Film actress |
Elfriede Krismanich | 1940 | Politician and AHS teacher | |
Achim Leutz | 1940 | 2017 | Aviation engineer and flight instructor |
Peter Pongratz | 1940 | Painter, set designer and jazz drummer | |
Elisabeth Ficker | 1941 | Member of Parliament (SPÖ) | |
Günter Unger | 1941 | Writer, publicist and director | |
Karl-Heinz Rieder | 1942 | 2017 | physicist |
Christian Prosl | 1946 | diplomat | |
Gertrude Spieß | 1947 | Politician and secondary school teacher | |
Ernst Schmid | 1949 | Politician | |
Christa Agnes Tuczay | 1952 | Old Germanist and cultural scientist | |
Ewald Ivanschitz | 1953 | 2014 | Clarinetist and music teacher |
Johannes Haider | 1954 | 2014 | Artist |
Rudolf Simek | 1954 | Philologist, Scandinavian and Germanistic Medievalist | |
Andrea Fraunschiel | 1955 | 2019 | Mayoress of Eisenstadt |
Martin Nehrer | 1955 | Politician and doctor | |
Johann Dihanich | 1958 | Soccer player and coach | |
Doris Mayer | 1958 | 2018 | Actress and writer |
Oswald Klikovits | 1959 | Politician | |
Johann Tschürtz | 1959 | Politician and policeman | |
Josef Bernhardt | 1960 | Artist | |
Nikolaus Berlakovich | 1961 | Politician and farmer | |
Manfred Horvath | 1962 | photographer | |
Manuela Khom | 1963 | politician | |
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger | 1964 | Computer scientist | |
Andreas Liegenfeld | 1964 | Politician | |
Richard Saringer | 1967 | actor | |
Eva Maria Marold | 1968 | actress and singer | |
Verena Moritz | 1969 | Historian | |
Rainer Windholz | 1969 | Politician (SPÖ) | |
Elvira Schmidt | 1970 | Politician (SPÖ) | |
Thomas Bugnyar | 1971 | Behaviorists, scientists | |
Michel Reimon | 1971 | Author, politician | |
Harald Tauber | 1971 | Singer and actor | |
Christian Ries | 1972 | Politician | |
Ursula Bredlinger | 1973 | Long distance runner | |
Simone Fuith | 1973 | actress | |
Icarus | 1974 | Musician and producer | |
Hans-Jürgen Mader | 1974 | Basketball player | |
Beate Schreiter-Radel | 1974 | Painter and glass artist | |
Barbara Eder | 1976 | Director | |
March Höld | 1976 | Writer | |
Harald Suchard | 1976 | Soccer player | |
Michael Fuith | 1977 | actor | |
Wolfgang Millendorfer | 1977 | Journalist and author | |
Jürgen Wutzlhofer | 1977 | Politician | |
Markus Morawitz | 1978 | Western rider | |
Thomas Mandl | 1979 | Soccer player | |
Thomas Borenitsch | 1980 | Soccer player | |
Mari Lang | 1980 | Moderator and journalist | |
Michael Mörz | 1980 | Soccer player | |
Christoph Zarits | 1980 | Politician | |
Jürgen Bauer | 1981 | author | |
Silvia Fuhrmann | 1981 | politician | |
Anton Pauschenwein | 1981 | Soccer player | |
Barbara Zeman | 1981 | Author | |
Andreas Ivanschitz | 1983 | Soccer player | |
Robert Weinstabl | 1983 | Soccer goalkeeper and coach | |
Astrid Eisenkopf | 1984 | politician | |
The Mayerin | 1984 | Singer-songwriter | |
Jürgen Rauchbauer | 1984 | Soccer player | |
Simon Schumich | 1985 | Business economist and author | |
Patrick Niklas | 1987 | Soccer player | |
Thomas Sailer | 1987 | author | |
Philipp Hosiner | 1989 | Soccer player | |
Maximilian Koellner | 1991 | Politician (SPÖ) | |
Lukas Rotpuller | 1991 | Soccer player | |
Felix Wendelin | 1992 | Soccer player | |
Mario Pavelic | 1993 | Soccer player | |
Marko Daňo | 1994 | Ice hockey player | |
Caroline Hat | 1996 | musician | |
David Nemeth | 2001 | Soccer player |
Other personalities related to the city
This partial list includes those personalities who were not born in Eisenstadt but who owned or have their main place of work in Eisenstadt. It is arranged alphabetically according to the surnames of the personalities.
- Selected portraits
Surname | Year of birth | Year of death | to person | Related to Eisenstadt |
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Nicholas Bencsics | 1937 | Linguist, historian, educator and writer | Pedagogue at the episcopal boarding school and at the pedagogical college | |
Walter Benigni | 1934 | 2019 | Art photographer | Main residence |
Heinz Birthelmer | 1884 | 1940 | NSDAP politician | General director of Eisenstädter Elektrizitäts AG |
Vinzenz Böröcz | 1915 | 1994 | Politician and printer | City Councilor of Eisenstadt |
Edmund Brauner | 1899 | 1960 | NSDAP politician and SA leader | from 1938 district leader of the NSDAP in Eisenstadt |
Helga Braunrath | 1944 | Politician and BHS professor | Member of the Eisenstadt municipal council and city senate | |
Rudolf Burgmann | 1874 | 1943 | Politician | Primary school director in Eisenstadt |
Melinda Esterházy | 1920 | 2014 | Hungarian-Austrian nobles | Sole heir to Esterházy Palace |
Anton Forti | 1790 | 1859 | Singer and violist | Chamber singer in the Princely Eszterházy Chapel |
Johann Nepomuk Fuchs | 1766 | 1839 | Composer and conductor | Court conductor of the Esterházy |
Michael Gangl | 1885 | 1977 | Clergyman and politician | Roman Catholic parish priest of Eisenstadt from 1929 to 1962 |
Joseph Haydn | 1732 | 1809 | composer | Hofkapellmeister in Eisenstadt |
Esriel Hildesheimer | 1820 | 1899 | Co-founder of modern orthodoxy in Judaism | Rabbi in Eisenstadt from 1851 to 1869 |
Norbert Hofer | 1971 | Politician | Eisenstadt municipal council | |
Wolfgang Horvath | 1966 | Conductor and church musician | Cathedral organist at St. Martin's Cathedral | |
Paul Iby | 1935 | Clergyman and canon lawyer | since 1992 Bishop of Eisenstadt | |
Herwig Ilkow | Politician | |||
Thomas Katsich | 1919 | 2004 | Politician and lawyer | Eisenstadt municipal council |
Josef Kirchknopf | 1930 | Politician | Eisenstadt municipal council | |
Paul Koller | 1889 | 1950 | Politician | Mayor of Eisenstadt |
Kurt Korbatits | 1937 | Politician | Mayor of Eisenstadt | |
Klara Köttner-Benigni | 1928 | 2015 | Writer, publicist and conservationist | Radio Burgenland, main residence |
Günter Kovacs | 1968 | Politician | Vice Mayor of Eisenstadt | |
Heinrich Kunnert | 1904 | 1979 | Librarian and archivist | Head of the cultural department of the Burgenland Provincial Government |
Stephan László | 1913 | 1995 | Clergyman | from 1960 to 1992 Bishop of Eisenstadt |
Wolfgang Lentsch | 1939 | Musician and conductor | Pedagogue in Eisenstadt | |
Niccolò Mestrino | 1748 | 1789 | Italian violinist and composer | worked in Eisenstadt from 1780 to 1785 |
Géza Molnár | 1984 | Politician | Eisenstadt municipal council | |
Rudolf Perthen | 1884 | 1941 | architect | Architect of the country house and other buildings in Eisenstadt |
Regina Petrik | 1963 | Politician | Councilor of Eisenstadt | |
Georg Poch | 1895 | 1970 | doctor | Head of maternal health care in Eisenstadt |
Adalbert Riedl | 1898 | 1978 | Teacher, museum director and politician | Director of the Landesmuseum Burgenland |
Josef Rittsteuer | 1914 | 2015 | Roman Catholic priest | City priest in Eisenstadt Cathedral |
Heinrich Schmidt | 1779 | 1857 | Actor and theater director | Head of the royal court theater in Eisenstadt |
Gaby Schwarz | 1962 | TV and radio presenter and politician | Editor at the ORF regional studio Burgenland | |
Anton Stirling | 1926 | 2011 | Clergyman | from 1977 Vicar General of the Diocese of Eisenstadt |
Otto Strobl | 1927 | 2019 | Teacher, choir director, composer | Teacher at PÄDAK Burgenland, choirmaster of the Haydn Choir Eisenstadt |
Luigi Tomasini | 1741 | 1808 | Italian violinist and composer | worked in Eisenstadt from 1761 |
Helmuth Vogl | 1928 | Politicians and trade unionists | from 1956 local council in Eisenstadt | |
Gregor Joseph Werner | 1693 | 1766 | composer | Hofkapellmeister in Eisenstadt |
Samson Wertheimer | 1658 | 1724 | Court factor, chief rabbi and promoter of Judaism | Rabbi in Eisenstadt |
Gerhard J. Winkler | 1956 | 2012 | Musicologist | Head of the Haydn Museum |
Alfred Zistler | 1929 | 2009 | Clergyman | Roman Catholic parish priest of Eisenstadt from 1972 to 1998 |
Honorary citizen
Here is a selection of the honorary citizens of the city of Eisenstadt.
- Esterházy family
- Joseph Haydn , musician
- Johann Michael Haydn , musician
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel , musician
- Josef Hyrtl , anatomist
- Stephan László
- Adam Liszt , musician
- Franz Liszt , musician
- Alois Mock , Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister
- Mordecai Mokiach , preacher
- Robert Musil , writer
- Maria Perschy , film actress
- Joseph Weigl , musician
- Emanuel Schreiber , rabbi
- Samson Wertheimer , rabbi
- Alois Schwarz , former mayor
literature
- Karl Semmelweis: Eisenstadt: a guide through the state capital with special consideration of the Haydn memorials . 7th edition. Burgenland-Verlag, Eisenstadt 1998, ISBN 3-85374-295-5