List of personalities from the city of Ellwangen
Honorary citizen
The city of Ellwangen granted the following people honorary citizenship :
- 1898: Friedrich von Landauer , lawyer and politician
- 1913: Albert von Häberlen , district president of the Jagstkreis
- 1928: Karl Ettensperger, mayor
- 1961: Karl Färber , publicist
- 1964: Viktor Burr , historian
- 1982: Karl Wöhr, Lord Mayor
- 1997: Josef Merz, councilor and parliamentary group leader of the CDU
Personalities born in Ellwangen
To 1900
- Ulrich von Ahelfingen (1278–1339), Ellwanger Ministerialer, came from one of the oldest Alemannic settlement families
- Paul Speratus (1484–1551), Roman Catholic priest, reformer and song writer
- Elisabeth Fürst , the mundist called (* 15 ??; † 1588), midwife; was burned as a witch
- Paul Goldstainer († 1590), Mayor of Schwäbisch Gmünd and author of the Gmünder Chronik
- Dorothea Berchtold († December 22, 1611), sister of the pastor Eberhard Berchtold (who looked after accused witches and came to the conclusion that they were innocent); was executed after a witch trial
- Servilian Weihelin (Veihelin) (* 1611; † 1675), Jesuit and theologian
- Johann Sebastian von Drey (1777-1853), Roman Catholic theologian and professor of apologetics and dogmatics at the University of Ellwangen and from its relocation in 1817 in Tübingen and founder of the Roman Catholic "Tübingen School"
- Franz Joseph Werfer (1778–1823), senior medical officer and author of a medical description of the country
- Joseph Ignaz von Beroldingen (1780–1868), Minister of State and Major General in Stuttgart
- Joseph Jacob Bollinger (1803-1884), together with the Admiral Comte de Villermont and Paul Renaudin, founded the French champagne house Renaudin-Bollinger in 1829
- Carl Friedrich von Leypold (1809–1882), Oberamtmann of Württemberg
- Ernst von Geßler (1818–1884), member of the government, from 1864 to 1870 Minister of the Interior of Württemberg, member of the state parliament
- Josef Anton Pflanz (1819–1883), writer and teacher
- Hermann von Werner (1821–1890), member of the state and Reichstag
- Theodor von Gessler (1824–1886), lawyer and politician
- Karl von Streich (1826–1917), judge and member of the Reichstag
- Karl Ludwig Schall (1827–1909), lawyer, member of the state parliament
- Friedrich Ludwig von Geß (1828–1905), Reich judge, member of the state parliament
- Theodor von Weizsäcker (1830–1911), politician, civil servant
- Oskar Freiherr von Soden (1831–1906), Wuerttemberg envoy
- Friedrich Ludwig Gaupp (1832–1901), lawyer, professor, member of the Reichstag
- Alfred Klemm (1840–1897), Evangelical Lutheran pastor and local history researcher in Württemberg
- Wilhelm Jordan (1842–1899), geodesist and mathematician
- Karl von Göz (1844–1915), legal scholar and politician
- Eduard Quintenz (1853–1935), Oberamtmann of Württemberg
- Sebastian Merkle (1862–1945), Roman Catholic theologian and church historian
- Hermann Rieger (1863–1933), Oberamtmann in Württemberg
- Julius Baumann (1868–1932), politician, member of the state parliament
- Martin Mayer (1878–1925), architect
- Theodor Franz Joseph Schermann (1878–1922), Catholic church historian
- Joseph Zeller (1878–1929), Catholic pastor, church historian
- Anton Hauber (1879–1917), historian and orientalist
- Walter Hirzel (1881–1943), politician and administrative lawyer
- Paul Koenig (1881–1954), pharmacist and agricultural scientist, tobacco researcher and institute founder
- Karl Stirner (1882-1943), painter and poet who in 1913 through his illustrations for Mörikes Stuttgart Hutzelmännlein became known
- Heinrich Eberhard (1884–1973), painter
- Karl Färber (1888–1979), editor, publicist and member of the “Reinhold Schneider Circle”, Roman Catholic intellectuals in the Third Reich
- Richard Heine (1890–1991), doctor and local politician
- Josef Heine (born May 10, 1895 - † September 16, 1966 in Hamburg), pathologist and university professor
- Hermann Cuhorst (1899–1991), lawyer in the Third Reich and chairman of the Stuttgart Special Court
- Felix Buttersack (1900–1986), journalist and founder of the Münchner Merkur
From 1901
- Viktor Burr (1906–1975), ancient historian and librarian
- Helmut Esdar (* 1908; † 1982), painter and sculptor
- Friedrich Haug (1908–2004), from 1957 to 1974 judge at the Federal Social Court
- Elisabeth Schachinger (1909–1998), painter, illustrator and metal designer
- Hermann Fauser (born November 4, 1918; † after 1992), engineer, mining scientist and university professor at RWTH Aachen University
- Bruno Bushart (1919–2012), art historian, university professor and long-time director of the municipal art collections of Augsburg
- Ludwig Manz (1920–1990), sculptor and restorer
- Philipp Jenninger (1932–2018), President of the Bundestag from 1984 to 1988
- Dieter Vogellehner (1937–2002), botanist, paleontologist and university professor
- Karlmann Geiß (* 1935), President of the Federal Court of Justice from 1996 to 2000
- Wolfgang Benz (* 1941), historian and 1990–2011 head of the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin
- Emil Kammerer (* 1941), professor of child and adolescent psychiatry
- Fred Rai (1941–2015), bourgeois Manfred Raible, rider, riding instructor, horse psychologist, author, country singer and amusement park founder
- Karl Stetter (* 1941), Roman Catholic clergyman, former bishop of San Ignacio de Velasco in Bolivia
- Willibald Bezler (1942–2018), church musician, university professor and composer
- Bernardin Schellenberger (* 1944), Roman Catholic theologian, former religious and writer
- Georg Fuchs (* 1945), microbiologist and university professor
- Michael Jürgs (1945–2019), journalist and bestselling author
- Bernhard Hermann (* 1949), radio and television journalist
- Rudolf Kurz (* 1952), painter and sculptor
- Paul Wengert (* 1952), Mayor of Augsburg from 2002 to 2008
- Karl-Christoph Kuhn (* 1953), Roman Catholic theologian
- Josef Lutz (* 1954), physicist, electrical engineer and university professor
- Dietmar Grupp (* 1956), judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- Michael Hummel (born October 5, 1956), hematopathologist and university professor
- Karl-Heinz Stanzel (* 1958), classical philologist
- Bernd Grimm (* 1962), German graduate designer, architectural model maker and artist
- Beate Rothmaier (* 1962), writer
- Thomas Geisel (* 1963), politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf since 2014
- Johannes Mayr (* 1963), organist
- Franz Brendle (* 1964), historian and university professor
- Markus Wissensner (* 1965), judge at the Federal Administrative Court
- Winfried Mack (* 1965), member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg
- Gina Mayer (* 1965), writer
- Norbert Zeidler (* 1967), Lord Mayor of Biberach an der Riss
- Jürgen Wieser (* 1969), long-distance runner
- Ansgar Mayer (* 1972), journalist
- Torsten Hoffmann (* 1977), actor, speaker and presenter
- Denis Bindnagel (* 1979), soccer player at SV Sandhausen
- Michael Dambacher (* 1979), Lord Mayor of Ellwangen
- Philipp S. Fischinger (* 1979), lawyer and university professor
- Katharina Heyer (* 1983), actress
- Amelie Köder (* 1989), actress, singer, speaker
- Michael Schindele (* 1994), soccer player at 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Other personalities associated with Ellwangen
- Method von Saloniki (around 815–885), Greek bishop and saint of the 9th century, known together with his brother Kyrill von Saloniki as the "Apostle of the Slavs", imprisoned in Ellwangen from 870 to 873
- Ignatius Desiderius von Peutingen (1641–1718), Stiftsdekan, founder of the Ellwang Jesuit College
- Philipp Jeningen (1642–1704), Jesuit, people's missionary and mystic
- Franz Georg von Schönborn (1682–1756), Prince Provost of Ellwangen from 1732 to 1756
- Jan Zach (1699–1773), Czech composer
- Johann Joseph Gaßner (1727–1779), Austrian exorcist
- Josef Alois von Frölich (1766–1841), doctor, botanist, entomologist, natural scientist, Catholic lay brother and Württemberg court medical advisor
- Aloys Wagner (1771–1837), vicar general of Neuwuerttemberg and cathedral chapter in Ellwangen
- Ludwig Lutz (1820–1889), master bottle maker and manufacturer of tin toys
- Anton Nägele (1876–1947), historian and theologian
- Hermann Weller (1878–1956), neo-Latin poet and Indologist, teacher at the Ellwang grammar school from 1913 to 1931, then professor of Indology at the University of Tübingen
- Eugen Bolz (1881–1945), representative of the constituency of Ellwangen / Aalen as a member of the German Reichstag
- Karl Allmendinger (1891–1965), infantry general in World War II
- Roman von Procházka (1900–1990), lawyer and genealogist, lived temporarily in Ellwangen
- Sieger Köder (1925–2015), priest and artist, lived and worked in Ellwangen since 1995
- Christoph Keller (1940–2015), theologian, grew up in Ellwangen
- Horst Köhler (* 1943), former Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany, served for two years in the 1960s as a soldier in an armored infantry battalion in Ellwangen and left the reserve as a lieutenant
- Gebhard Fürst (* 1948), Bishop of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, was ordained a priest in 1977 in the Basilica of St. Vitus
- Berthold Huber (* 1950), chairman of IG Metall, lived as a boarding school student in Ellwangen from 1961 to 1963 and attended the Peutinger grammar school
- Lothar Kuld (* 1950), Professor of Religious Education at the PH Weingarten, was a teacher at the Peutinger Gymnasium
- Eberhard Schockenhoff (1953–2020), professor of moral theology in Freiburg im Breisgau and member of the National Ethics Council, was a practical pastor and vicar in Ellwangen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franz Grivec: St. Methodius in Ellwangen . In: Ellwangen 764–1964 . Schwabenverlag Ellwangen, 1964, pp. 153-159.