List of personalities of the city of Esslingen

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This list contains personalities who were born in Esslingen am Neckar or who worked there. They are listed chronologically according to the year of birth. It is irrelevant whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Esslingen. Many moved away from Esslingen in the course of their lives and became known elsewhere.

Coat of arms of the city of Esslingen am Neckar

Honorary citizen

Karl Pfaff monument on the Maille

The city of Esslingen am Neckar has so far granted nine people honorary citizenship, including:

Personalities born in Esslingen

The list contains well-known people who were born in Esslingen, regardless of whether they later had their sphere of activity in Esslingen.

Until 1800

19th century

1801 to 1850

  • Sophie Herwig (1810–1836), Protestant song poet
  • Franz von Weber (1812–1874), politician, member of the state parliament, president of the state parliament
  • Karl Deffner (1817–1877), manufacturer, member of the state parliament
  • Karl Mayer (1819–1889), politician, member of the Landtag and Reichstag
  • Valentin Salzmann (1821–1890), founder and first chairman of the Swabian Alb Association
  • Ernst von Ege (1823–1905), theologian, general superintendent of Schwäbisch Hall and Ludwigsburg, member of the state parliament
  • Immanuel Faißt (1823–1894), composer, co-founder of the Stuttgart music school
  • Wilhelm Christian Hochstetter (1825–1881), botanist, university gardener and inspector of the Botanical Garden in Tübingen
  • Theodor Georgii (1826-1892), lawyer and pioneer of the German gymnastics movement, publisher of the Turnblatt for and from Swabia (later Eßlinger Turnzeitung )
    Theodor Georgii monument on the Maille
  • Adolf Otto (1827–1898), lawyer in Heilbronn
  • Adolf Bacmeister (1827–1873), Germanist and writer
  • Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829–1884), geographer, geologist, natural scientist and explorer
  • Albert Günther (1830–1914), zoologist
  • Carl von Häberlin (1832–1911), born in Oberesslingen, painter and illustrator
  • Emil Ege (1833–1893), farmer, member of the Landtag 1877–1882 and 1889–1895
  • Ernst von Herzog (1834–1911), classical philologist, ancient historian, epigraphist and Roman provincial archaeologist
  • Theodor Schott (1835–1899), theologian, librarian and writer
  • Oskar Merkel (1836–1912), under his leadership the Merkel & Wolf company became a large company
  • Karl von Ege (1837–1899), Reich judge
  • Ernst Johann Eitel (1838–1908), Protestant missionary
  • Julius Motteler (1838–1907), leading member of the early German labor movement, member of the Reichstag
  • Karl von Zeyer (1839–1920), Württemberg civil servant, Minister of State
  • Kuno von Falkenstein (1840–1899), Württemberg general of the infantry
  • Carl von Schott (1845–1913), General of the Württemberg Army
  • Albert Regelmann (1846–1912), City Planning Officer of Oberhausen

1851 to 1900

20th century

1901 to 1950

1951 to 2000

Personalities who work or have worked in the city

  • Jörg Amann (15th / 16th century), city doctor and author of a little plague book
  • Johann Ludwig Andreae (1667–1725), Protestant pastor, cartographer, globe maker and author
  • Eberhard Bauer (1914–1984), entrepreneur
  • Solvejg Bauer (* 1976), director and general manager
  • Ambrosius Blarer (1492–1564), Protestant pastor and hymn poet, reformer in Esslingen 1531
  • Christoph Bossert (* 1957), organist and university professor
  • Karoline Breitinger (1851–1932), first female doctor in Württemberg
  • Otto Borst (1924–2001), historian
  • Ernst Camerer (1836–1919), lawyer, co-founder and president of the Swabian Alb Association
  • Dina Cymbalist (1900 or 1907–1989), artist
  • Carl Deffner (1789–1846), factory owner, building up the metal goods industry in Esslingen, member of the state parliament
  • Albert Dulk (1819–1884), free thinker, who repeatedly withdrew to the Dulkhäuschen in Esslingen, which was later named after him
  • Konrad Feyner (15th century), first printer in Esslingen
  • Nicolas Fink (* 1967), member of the state parliament and councilor in Esslingen
  • Karl Fuchs (1872–1968), lithographer, graphic artist and painter
  • Georg Geist (1895–1974) was district administrator for the Esslingen district from 1946 to 1966
  • Daniel Hauff (1629–1665), Esslingen councilor at the time of the Essling witch trials
  • Volker Hauff (* 1940), politician, former member of the Bundestag D., Federal Minister a. D., former Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
  • Frigga Haug (* 1937), sociologist and feminist
  • Otto Hauser (* 1952), politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag a. D., Government Spokesman and Parliamentary State Secretary a. D.
  • Elise Henle (1832-1892), writer
  • Walter Hirrlinger (1926–2018), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament, minister of economics, 1990–2008 president of the social association VdK Germany, 1953–1968 local council in Esslingen
  • Werner Illing (1895–1979), writer, screenwriter and director
  • Emil von Keßler (1813–1867), founder of the Esslingen machine factory
  • Friedrich Ludwig von Geß (1828–1905), lawyer and politician, Reich judge, member of the Reichstag and Landtag
  • Emil von Keßler jun. (1841–1895), director of the Esslingen engineering works around 1885, son of Emil von Keßler
  • Georg Christian von Kessler (1787–1842), founder of the sparkling wine cellar of the same name
  • Philipp Knipschild (also Knipschildt; 1595–1657), lawyer and legal historian
  • Cosmann Friedrich Köstlin (1711–1790), "Senior Ministerii" (Oberpfarrer) of the imperial city of Esslingen, Scholarcha ("Head of School") and marriage judge
  • Johann Konrad Kreidenmann (1577–1655), City General Counsel
  • Hermann Kurz (1813–1873), poet, writer and translator
  • Alfred Leikam (1915–1992), notary, politician and Righteous Among the Nations
  • Tobias Mayer (1723–1762), cartographer, mathematician and astronomer
  • Johannes Merkel (1798–1879), founder of the Merkel & Wolf company , later Merkel & Kienlin (woolen knitting yarns, worsted yarn spinning)
  • Hans Meyer (1867–1949), architect of the Merkel swimming pool
  • Karl Oppel (1816–1903), writer, attended the teachers' college in Esslingen am Neckar from 1833 to 1835
  • Paula Rueß (1902–1980), resistance fighter and women's rights activist
  • Thomas Ruf (1911–1996), politician, Member of the Bundestag for the Esslingen constituency
  • Giovanni Salucci (1769–1845), Italian architect, designed the pavilion in Weil
  • Agnes Sapper (1852–1929), writer
  • Heinrich Schickhardt (1558–1635), builder of the Duchy of Württemberg
  • Louis Schlegel (1858–1929), politician, member of the Reichstag and Landtag
  • Jakob Ferdinand Schreiber (1809–1867), founder of the J.-F.-Schreiber-Verlag, known among other things for children's books and model making from paper
  • Rudolf Schwarz (1904–1963), writer and parapsychologist, spent his youth in Esslingen and used motifs from the city in his novels
  • Hans Erich Slany (1926–2013), designer and university professor
  • Alexander Christian Friedrich von Württemberg (1801–1844), poet and lieutenant colonel in the 3rd Württemberg cavalry regiment stationed in Esslingen
  • Niklas von Wyle (around 1410–1479), early humanistic writer and translator , from 1447/9 to 1469 town clerk of Esslingen

Web links

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