List of personalities of the city of Ellingen

Coat of arms of the city of Ellingen

The list of personalities of the city of Ellingen contains personalities born in Ellingen , a city in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , as well as those who have a connection to the city because, for example, they had their (main) sphere of activity here, without being born there themselves be. All sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Konrad Herold von Höflingen auf Schönau (1612–1682), Vice-Rector of the Padua Law University, Bavarian clergyman and prince educator

Johannes Anton Peter von Rummel (born February 22, 1771 in Ellingen, † January 12, 1863 in Mergentheim ) was a Württemberg government president and member of the state parliament

• Franz Xaver Zech (1692–1772), canonist
• Christoph Anton Hirsch (1707–1760), painter
• Franz Christoph von Scheidel (1748–1830), theologian
• Anton Peter von Rummel (1771–1863), Württemberg government president and member of the state parliament
• Jacob von Roeser (1799–1862), personal physician and traveler.
• Gottfried von Feder (1806–1892), district president and member of the Reichstag
• Max Berz (1845–1915), painter and art dealer
• Eitel Klein (1906–1990), painter and graphic artist from Hörlbach

Personalities associated with the place

• Heinrich von Zipplingen († 1346), important member of the Teutonic Order and advisor and secretary to Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian
• Hans Kurz (around 1550–1608 or 1601), master builder during the Renaissance
• Karl Schweikard von Sickingen (* in the 17th century; † 1711), Knight of the Teutonic Order
• Karl Engel (* before 1664, † after 1702), Baroque builder from Graubünden
• Karl Heinrich von Hornstein (1668–1745), Knight of the Teutonic Order
• Georg Daniel von Buttlar (1671–1725), Knight of the Teutonic Order
• Franz Xaver Bovius (1677–1725), Catholic priest and manufacturer of sundials, 1714 cooperator in Stopfenheim
• Johann Friedrich Maucher , sculptor of the Teutonic Order Castle around 1734 (see Neustadt an der Aisch # Town Hall and Market Square )
• Konrad Christoph von Lehrbach (1677–1767), Knight of the Teutonic Order
• Johann Christoph von Buseck (1687–1759) was Commander of the Teutonic Order
• Franz Joseph Roth (1690–1758), plasterer and master builder of the Teutonic Order during the Rococo period
• Franz Philipp von Wildenstein (1696–1770), Knight of the Teutonic Order
• Reinhard Adrian von Hochstetten (1700–1765), Knight of the Teutonic Order

Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels (born May 13, 1708 in Cologne , † April 15, 1784 in Bonn ) was Archbishop of Cologne , Elector of the Holy Roman Empire and Arch Chancellor of the Italian nation.

• Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels (1708–1784), Archbishop of Cologne from 1761 to 1784, Elector of the Holy Roman Empire and Arch Chancellor of the Italian Nation, heard theology in Ellingen
• Franz Sigismund Adalbert von Lehrbach (1729–1787), Land Commander of the Teutonic Order
• Rudolf Kleiner (1758–1822), German lawyer and administrative officer
• Ferdinand Ernst von Waldstein-Wartenberg (1762–1823), privy councilor in Bonn, lieutenant general in the British Army, commander of the Teutonic Order and sponsor of Ludwig van Beethoven
• Carl Philipp von Wrede (1767–1838), Bavarian field marshal and diplomat
• Ludwig Heumann (1869–1918), Catholic priest, naturopath and founder of a chemical-pharmaceutical factory, was a cooperator in Ellingen
• Heinz Hummitzsch (1910–1975), SS-Sturmbannführer, general practitioner in Ellingen after the war
• Georg Hofmann (1923–2012), German CSU politician
• Herbert Lang (* 1936), German Roman Catholic pastor and historian, pastor in Ellingen

Professors and students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg

• Sep Ruf (1908–1982), important German architect and designer
• Wunibald Puchner (1915–2009), German architect, interior designer, university professor and sculptor
• Georg Karl Pfahler (1926–2002), German painter, artist and art professor
• Otto Birg (1926–2015), German painter, draftsman and sculptor
• Toni Burghart (1928–2008), painter, draftsman and author
• Heinz Schillinger (1929–2008), German graphic artist