List of personalities of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau

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Coat of arms of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau

Honorary citizen

The honorary citizens of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau , listed according to the year in which they were granted honorary citizenship:

  • 1755: Johann Christian Wentzinger (1710–1797), sculptor, painter, architect
  • 1798: Hermann von Greiffenegg (1737–1807), the last regional president of Upper Austria
  • 1810: Johannes Matthias Alexander Ecker (1766–1829), physician, professor of surgery
  • 1812: Johann Baptist Lingg von Linggenfeld (1765–1842), city commandant of Freiburg
  • 1824: Philipp Merian (1773–1848), businessman, founder of the foundation
  • 1828: Christian Freiherr von Gayling von Altheim (1775–1832), Grand Ducal Baden Real Privy Councilor, Oberhofmarschall
  • 1847: Maximilian Eusebius Freiherr v. Breiten-Landenberg (1805-1892), Grand Ducal Chamberlain of Baden, Knight of the Zähringer Order of Lions,
  • 1864: August Lamey (1816–1896), politician and lawyer
  • 1876: August von Werder (1808–1887), Prussian infantry general
  • 1892: Adolf von Glümer (1814–1896), Prussian infantry general
  • 1904: August Weismann (1834–1914), professor of biology
  • 1909: Christian Baeumler (1836–1933), director of the medical clinic in Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 1913: Otto Winterer (1846–1915), Lord Mayor from 1888 to 1913
  • 1920: Constantin Fehrenbach (1852–1926), Imperial Chancellor and President of the Weimar National Assembly
  • 1923: Fritz Geiges (1853–1935), artist and local historian
  • 1927: Ferdinand Kopf (1857–1943), Member of the State Parliament and President
  • 1933: Karl Ludwig Schemann (1852–1938), translator and racial theorist
  • 1939: Julius Weismann (1879–1950), composer
  • 1947: Conrad Gröber , Archbishop of Freiburg
    In recognition of his services to the city as a warning and comforter in difficult times
  • 1947: Robert Grumbach , city councilor, lawyer For the honorary position of a city council,
    which was carried out in an excellent way for the benefit of the Freiburg population, and the suffering suffered during the National Socialist rule
  • 1947: Benedikt Kreutz , Prelate
    In recognition of his brave demeanor during the National Socialist regime and his excellent work at Caritas
  • 1949: Martha Walz-Birrer
    For excellent help in alleviating the greatest need in the difficult post-war period as head of the " Swiss Donation "
  • 1949: Franz Christian Blum, Pastor
    For excellent help in alleviating the greatest need in the difficult post-war period as head of the local Caritas in Basel
  • 1949: Harry Pfund, Professor
    For excellent help in alleviating the greatest need in the difficult post-war period as the organizer of Quaker Aid
  • 1950: Paul Uhlenhuth , Professor of Medicine
    For outstanding services to humanity, which he earned as a university professor of hygiene and bacteriology and as a tireless researcher
  • 1951: Carl Noeggerath , Professor of Paediatrics
    For outstanding achievements in the field of child care in the interests of the city of Freiburg
  • 1954: Hermann Staudinger , Professor of Chemistry, Nobel Prize Winner
    In recognition of his great services in research and science and the associated gain in the reputation of the city of Freiburg
  • 1957: Karl Bender , retired Lord Mayor D.
    In recognition of his great services as Lord Mayor of the City of Freiburg from 1922 to 1933
  • 1957: Alois Eckert, President of Caritas
    In recognition of his great merits as President of the German Caritas Association and his fruitful social work for the city of Freiburg
  • 1959: Heinrich Brenzinger , factory owner
    In recognition of his services in the areas of local politics, economy, culture, art and science and in recognition of the attitude shown in the period from 1933 to 1945
  • 1971: Anton Dichtel , District President
    In recognition of the high merits as City Councilor, State Councilor and District President and the associated increase in the reputation of the city of Freiburg
  • 1979: Gertrud Luckner
    For energetic and effective help for those persecuted and threatened during the Nazi tyranny, especially the Jewish citizens
  • 1982: Eugen Keidel , retired Lord Mayor D.
    In recognition of his services to the city of Freiburg during his 20-year tenure as Lord Mayor
  • 1985: Philomene Steiger (1896–1985)
    For special services to saving the city in April 1945 and the tireless reconstruction
  • 1985: Franz Büchner , pathologist
    In recognition of the special services he has achieved as a scientist and citizen of the city
  • 1991: Georg Hüssler , Prelate
    Awarded in recognition of his special services to welfare, emergency and disaster aid, which he acquired as President of the German Caritas Association
  • 2002: Rolf Böhme , retired Lord Mayor D.
    In recognition of the contribution to the fortunes of the city and its citizens in the 20-year term of office as Lord Mayor
  • 2006: Eugen Martin , entrepreneur
  • 2010: Wolfgang Jäger , Professor of Political Science
    From 1995 to 2008 Rector of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

sons and daughters of the town

The following overview contains important personalities born in Freiburg im Breisgau, listed chronologically according to the year of birth. It is irrelevant whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Freiburg. Many moved away from Freiburg after their birth or later and became known elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

Born until the 18th century

1801 to 1850

  • about 1802, Maximilian Ruth , † April 2, 1873 in Rastatt, lawyer and bailiff in the Baden civil service
  • 1802, August 20, Heinrich Bernhard von Andlaw-Birseck , † March 3, 1871 in Hugstetten, Baden politician and ultramontanist
  • 1810, November 10, Sigmund Geiges , † February 9, 1898 in Freiburg, architect and master builder
  • 1815, Johann Baptist Rieder , † 1902, lawyer and from 1850 to 1852 mayor of Freiburg
  • 1815, August 7, Julius Füesslin , † May 21, 1866, doctor
  • 1816, August 25, Hermann von Rotteck , † July 12, 1845 in Freiburg, lawyer and historian
  • 1821, October 27, Bernhard von Beck , † September 10, 1894 in Freiburg, royal Prussian surgeon and general physician
  • 1822, June 16, Gustav von Rotteck , † August 8, 1893 in Freiburg, member of the Baden state parliament
  • 1824, April 9, Rudolf Robert Maier , † November 7, 1888 in Freiburg, pathologist and anatomist, university professor
  • 1827, February 2, Albert Schinzinger , † July 24, 1911 in Freiburg im Breisgau, surgeon and university professor
  • 1831, May 12, Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt , † February 6, 1902 in Karlsruhe, Protestant theologian and prelate of the Evangelical Church in Baden
  • 1835, January 12, Heinrich von Kageneck , † September 2, 1887 on Gut Munzingen, majorate and politician in the Grand Duchy of Baden.
  • 1835, May 5, Anton Hermann Albrecht , † February 10, 1906 in Dinglingen, Protestant theologian and writer
  • 1839, August 30, Ludwig Marbe , † November 21, 1907 in Freiburg, member of the Reichstag and Landtag (center)
  • 1846, April 29, Richard Reinhard , † June 1, 1920 in Freiburg, member of the Baden state parliament
  • 1847, November 10, Alfred Bräunig , † March 1, 1927 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Mayor of Rastatt from 1898 to 1913
  • 1848, May 1, Eugen Krebs , † May 31, 1912 in Freiburg, banker
  • 1848, November 18, Joseph Lauterer , † July 29, 1911 in Brisbane, German-Australian physician, biologist, ethnologist and travel writer
  • 1849, February 6, Hermine Villinger , † March 3, 1917 in Karlsruhe, writer
  • 1850, February 28, Herman Schell (also Hermann), † May 31, 1906 in Würzburg, Catholic theologian and philosopher
  • 1850, June 16, Ferdinand von Beck , † August 20, 1933 in Freiburg, royal Prussian lieutenant general

1851 to 1900

  • 1851, January 21, Johann Heinrich Freiherr von und zu Bodman , † April 26, 1929 in Freiburg, Baden Minister of the Interior (1907–1918) and Minister of State (Head of Government 1917–1918)
  • 1852, March 10, Gustav Adolf Knittel , † May 17, 1909 in Freiburg, sculptor
  • 1853, June 30, Adolf Furtwängler , † October 11, 1907 in Athens, Greece, classical archaeologist
  • 1854, March 2, Wilhelm Lamey , † August 14, 1919 in Karlsruhe, lawyer and bailiff in the Baden civil service
  • 1856, March 30, Albert Schinzinger , † July 20, 1926, entrepreneur, Japanese Consul General
  • 1857, August 24, Wilhelm Dürr the Younger , † February 23, 1900 in Munich, painter, draftsman and university professor
  • 1861, January 30, Alexandra Schmitt , † probably in Berlin after June 1938, actress
  • 1864, May 31, Johanna Straub , † July 12, 1956 in Freiburg, politician ( DDP ), member of the state parliament
  • 1866, March 5, Friedrich von Friedeburg , † April 27, 1933 in Berlin, Prussian lieutenant general
  • 1866, March 26, Carl Christian Mez , † January 8, 1944 in Freiburg, botanist
  • 1866, September 25, Hermann Dischler , † March 20, 1935 in Hinterzarten, painter
  • 1868, October 1, Rudolf Schmid , † 1947 in Freiburg, architect and painter
  • 1870 (and. Sources 1873), December 26th, Oskar Graf , † 1957/1958 in Bad Boll, painter, draftsman and etcher
  • 1871, May 10, Karl von Kageneck , born in Munzingen, † 1967, colonel and diplomat (military attaché)
  • 1873, February 14, Wolfgang Keller , † February 16, 1943 in Cologne, literary scholar and university professor
  • 1873, July 6, Friedrich Gempp , † April 21, 1947 in Moscow, major general as well as founder and first head of the defense department of the Reichswehr
  • 1875, April 16, Ludwig Haas , † August 2, 1930 in Karlsruhe, lawyer, member of the Landtag and Reichstag, Minister of the Interior of Baden
  • 1875, June 12, Luise Elisabeth Bertha Koch , pseudonym: Maidy Koch , † May 25, 1966 in Rottweil, poet and playwright
  • 1875, September 6, Richard Kuenzer , † April 23, 1945 in Berlin, diplomat and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
  • 1876, March 28, Edwin Welte , † January 4, 1958 in Freiburg, inventor and industrialist
  • 1877, November 16, Felix Hunn , † July 10, 1944, football player
  • 1878, November 8th, Johanna Kohlund , † 1968 in Freiburg, women's rights activist
  • 1879, June 20, Heinrich Brenzinger , † December 1, 1960 in Freiburg im Breisgau, entrepreneur and art patron
  • 1879, July 2, Kurt von Lettow-Vorbeck , † January 12, 1960 in Kassel, district administrator in the districts of Cochem and Prenzlau as well as government councilor in Berlin
  • 1879, July 26, Waldemar Schleip , † May 16, 1948 in Heidelberg, zoologist
  • 1879, August 21, Eugen Baumgartner , † April 12, 1944 in Freiburg, politician ( center ), President of the Landtag, Minister of Education
  • 1879, September 6, Joseph Wirth , † January 3, 1956 in Freiburg, politician (center), Member of the Bundestag , Reich Chancellor, Reich Foreign Minister, Reich Minister of the Interior
  • 1879, December 26, Julius Weismann , † December 22, 1950 in Singen (Hohentwiel), composer
  • 1880, March 20, Josef Pollack , † 1958 in New York, soccer player, soccer official, entrepreneur and patron of Freiburg FC
  • 1880, April 24, Karl Hauptmann , † April 7, 1947 on the Herzogenhorn, Geschwend community, painter
  • 1880, May 1, Albert Lasker , † May 30, 1952 in New York, American entrepreneur; Founder of the Lasker Foundation
  • 1880, July 7, Theodor Herzog , † May 6, 1961 in Jena, botanist and bryologist
  • 1881, September 4, Engelbert Krebs , † November 29, 1950 in Freiburg, Roman Catholic theologian
  • 1881, October 30, Karl Gruber , † June 18, 1927 in Munich, physician, biologist, parapsychologist as well as ski pioneer and mountaineer
  • 1883, April 10, Richard Siebeck , † May 15, 1965 in Heidelberg, internist and university professor
  • 1883, October 8, Otto Warburg , † August 1, 1970 in Berlin, biochemist , doctor and physiologist , Nobel Prize winner
  • 1885, April 17, Franz Hirtler , † July 15, 1947 in Lörrach, teacher and writer
  • 1885, September 11, Heinrich Weber , † September 25, 1944 in Mauthausen concentration camp, trade unionist and victim of National Socialism
  • 1885, Werner Otto Müller-Hill , † 1977, lawyer
  • 1886, May 3, Erich Rominger , † January 28, 1967 in Freiburg, pediatrician in Kiel
  • 1886, May 6, Karlheinz Martin , † January 13, 1948 in Berlin, theater and film director and screenwriter
  • 1887, July 30, Friedrich Denzel , † August 7, 1952 in Freiburg, lawyer and district administrator
  • 1887, October 7, Friedrich Wilhelm Hack , † June 4, 1949 in Zurich-Hottingen, lawyer, entrepreneur and Japanese networker
  • 1888, September 2, Leo Wohleb , † March 12, 1955 in Frankfurt am Main, politician (center, CDU ), Member of the State Parliament ( Baden ), Prime Minister of the State of Baden (1947–1952)
  • 1888, November 1st, Carl Blum , † December 31st in Balingen, painter and graphic artist
  • 1889, May 2, Rudolf Muchow , † February 28, 1962 in Freiburg, painter and draftsman of Expressionism
  • 1889, September 12, Rudolf Hans Bernd Hoffmann , † December 31, 1958 in Flensburg, historian and university professor
  • 1891, February 3, Luise Kräuter , † December 21, 1937 in Freiburg, politician ( SPD ), member of the state parliament
  • 1891, February 12, Ernst-Christoph Brühler , † September 1, 1961 in Freiburg, politician ( DNVP / DP )
  • 1891, February 16, Hans FK Günther , † September 25, 1968, eugenicist and "race researcher"
  • 1891, September 19, Hans Heyck , † June 24, 1972 in Kempfenhausen, writer and poet
  • 1893, December 3, Julius Bissier , † June 18, 1965 in Ascona (Ticino), painter (forerunner of Tachism )
  • 1894, July 18, Heribert von Larisch , † May 16, 1972 in Hamburg, Lieutenant General in World War II
  • 1894, October 30, Helmuth Klotz , † February 3, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee, naval officer and publicist
  • 1894, May 22, Friedrich Pollock , † 1970 in Montagnola (Ticino), social scientist
  • 1894, July 27, Elisabeth Rothweiler , † June 8, 1982 in Donaueschingen, politician and teacher
  • 1895, January 1, Hans Freiherr von Geyer zu Lauf , † August 10, 1959 in Freiburg, painter
  • 1895, February 6, Sepp Allgeier , † March 11, 1968 in Ebnet, cameraman and photographer
  • 1895, September 1, Engelbert Zaschka , † June 26, 1955 in Freiburg, chief engineer, designer, inventor and helicopter pioneer
  • 1895, October 31, Ludwig Weber , † 1991 in Beinwil am See, pilot and designer of motor vehicles
  • 1897, January 31, Arnold Keller , † 1972 in Berlin, philologist, numismatist and specialist author
  • 1898, May 28, Adolf Wingler , † August 30, 1986, lawyer, district court president in Waldshut and Heilbronn
  • 1898, September 11, Werner Höll , † April 14, 1984 in Reutlingen, National Socialist artist
  • 1899, June 10, Wilhelm Eckert , † November 12, 1980 in Freiburg, lawyer, university professor and politician (CDU), member of the state parliament, finance minister of Baden
  • 1899, October 17, Robert MW Kempner , † August 15, 1993 in Königstein im Taunus, deputy chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials
  • 1900, February 16, Konrad Beyerle , † 1979 in Singen (Hohentwiel) or Überlingen, engineer

1901 to 1925

  • 1901, May 29, Hermann Kopf , † May 5, 1991 in Freiburg, politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
  • 1901, August 10, Carl-Theodor Kromer , † August 28, 1993 in Freiburg, engineer
  • 1901, August 30, Gerda von Kries , † February 29, 1972 in Freiburg, writer
  • 1901, October 30, Josef Brandel , † January 15, 1964 in Freiburg, from 1956 to 1962 Lord Mayor of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 1902, February 20, Martha Gubler-Waigand , † July 19, 2005 in Weinfelden, photographer
  • 1902, November 24, Hans Graf von Kageneck , † September 15, 1996 in Freiburg, German civil servant, diplomat and holder of the Swedish Order of Vasa (KVO 1938)
  • 1903, February 10, Waldemar Hoven , † June 2, 1948 in Landsberg am Lech, concentration camp doctor
  • 1904, March 5, Karl Rahner , † March 30, 1984 in Innsbruck, Austria, cath. Dogmatic
  • 1904, March 5, Max Rieger , † March 5, 1989 in Gengenbach, football player
  • 1904, March 24, Hans Ludwig Gottschalk , † July 17, 1981 in Salzburg, Arabist
  • 1905, March 26, Erich Oberdorfer , † September 23, 2002 in Freiburg, biologist and a pioneer of plant sociology
  • 1905, May 13, Hermann Anselment , † July 5, 1981 in Liestal (Switzerland), painter
  • 1905, June 10, Hanns Ludin ; executed on December 9, 1947 in Bratislava, SA leader and war criminal
  • 1906, June 6, Ernst Petersen , † March 30, 1959 in Ihringen, architect and actor
  • 1906, December 8, Heinz Krebs , † August 11, 2003 in Freiburg, entrepreneur and bank manager
  • 1907, February 5, Hans Bender , † May 7, 1991 in Freiburg, psychologist and head of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene
  • 1907, June 14, Volker Aschoff , † July 14, 1996 in Burgberg (Königsfeld), university professor for communications engineering and rector of RWTH Aachen
  • 1907, July 14, Ekke Wolfgang Guenther , † March 19, 1995 in Ehrenstätten, geologist, paleontologist and university professor
  • 1907, November 8, Fritz Walter Meyer , † March 4, 1980 in Freiburg, economist, university professor and economist
  • 1908, May 4, Wolrad Eberle , † May 13, 1949 in Cologne, athlete
  • 1909, April 4, Viktor Huber von Gleichenstein , † June 16, 1994 in Konstanz, administrative lawyer and district administrator
  • 1910, June 28, Lotte Paepcke , † August 9, 2000 in Karlsruhe, writer
  • 1910, October 8, Carmen Gronau , † 1999, art historian and art dealer
  • 1910, November 12, Kurt Hoffmann , † June 25, 2001 in Munich, director (Das Wirtshaus im Spessart)
  • 1911, March 24, Manfred A. Schmid , † July 27, 2009 in Zähringen, painter and illustrator
  • 1911, May 14, Hans Münch , † 2001 in Roßhaupten, doctor; Camp doctor in the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps
  • 1911, June 20, Paul Pietsch , † May 31, 2012 in Karlsruhe, racing driver and publisher
  • 1911, September 17, Wolfgang von Groote , † July 31, 2000 in Kius, officer and military historian
  • 1912, March 2, Priska von Martin , † March 12, 1982 in Munich, sculptor and draftsman
  • 1912, May 25, Elimar Precht , † March 7, 1969 in Offenburg, camp dentist in concentration camps and SS-Hauptsturmführer
  • 1912, July 17, Elisabeth Schmid , † March 27, 1994 in Basel, prehistoric, geologist and paleontologist
  • 1912, September 7, Ludwig Vorgrimler , † February 23, 1983, weapons designer
  • 1913, January 25, Jürgen Aschoff , † October 11, 1998 in Freiburg, director at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Andechs and co-founder of chronobiology
  • 1913, July 12, Renate Brie-Kölmel , poet
  • 1914, January 1, Edith Picht-Axenfeld , † April 19, 2001 in Hinterzarten, harpsichordist
  • 1914, April 19, Günther Haselier , † October 9, 1991 in Karlsruhe, teacher, historian and President of the State Archives in Baden-Württemberg
  • 1914, July 22nd, Charles Regnier , † September 13th 2001 in Bad Wiessee, actor and director
  • 1915, February 13, Wilhelm Buggle , † May 19, 1989 in Tuttlingen, politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
  • 1915, September 2, Hans-Joachim Koellreutter , † September 13, 2005 in São Paulo (Brazil), German-Brazilian composer, flautist, conductor and music teacher
  • 1915, September 9, Leif Geiges , † April 5, 1990 in Staufen im Breisgau, photographer and reporter
  • 1916, January 30, Benno Kusche , † May 14, 2010, opera singer
  • 1918, October 14, Heinrich Bihler , † January 17, 2017 in Freiburg, Romanist, Hispanic, Catalan and Medievalist
  • 1919, June 23, Luitgard Brem-Gräser , † January 6, 2013, psychologist
  • 1919, September 30, Bernfried Leiber , † August 16, 2003 in Neu-Isenburg, pediatrician and university professor
  • 1920, July 14th, Ernst Seidel , † August 5, 2015 in Freiburg, founder and honorary president of the European Cultural Forum Basel, president of the Pro Europa foundation as well as German syndicates and entrepreneurs
  • 1920, August 20, Hermann Heidegger , † January 13, 2020 in Stegen, historian and officer
  • 1921, April 6, Walter Gerteis , † November 17, 1999, sculptor
  • 1921, May 13, Kurt Spitzmüller , † December 15, 2014 in Nordrach, politician (FDP / DVP), Member of the Bundestag
  • 1921, October 28, Fred Mayer , † April 15, 2016 in Charles Town (USA), agent of the US secret service OSS during World War II; prevented the destruction of Innsbruck in 1945
  • 1922, April 15, Hans-Joachim Baeuchle , † November 11, 2007 in Hinterzarten, politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag
  • 1923, June 10, Heinrich Rombach , † February 5, 2004 in Würzburg, philosopher
  • 1924, January 9, Georg H. Endress , † December 14, 2008 in Arlesheim, Switzerland, German-Swiss entrepreneur in the field of measurement and control technology
  • 1924, August 15, Hedy Epstein , † May 26, 2016 in St. Louis, Missouri, writer and civil rights activist
  • 1925, January 25, Felix Eckstein , † January 13, 1988 in Freiburg, classical archaeologist

1926 to 1950

  • 1926, April 14, Helmut Engler , † October 25, 2015 in Freiburg, lawyer and politician of the CDU
  • 1926, August 11, Wera Frydtberg , † June 16, 2008 in Munich, actress
  • 1927, April 4, Franz Anton Keller , † March 28, 2007 in Oberbergen, winemaker, wine merchant, restaurateur and hotelier
  • 1927, April 7, Albrecht Schlageter , † June 6, 1999 in Lörrach, Director of Studies, local researcher and mining researcher
  • 1927, December 2, Rudolf Albert Maier , † July 2, 2012 in Gauting, archaeologist and state curator at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  • 1927, December 24, Angelika Schrobsdorff , † July 31, 2016 in Berlin, writer
  • 1928, Ernst von Rudloff , architect and university professor
  • 1928, February 17, Wolfhart Zimmermann , † September 18, 2016, theoretical physicist
  • 1928, March 12, Alfred Erhart , † January 18, 1984 in Stegen-Eschbach, sculptor
  • 1928, March 14, Karl Schmitz-Moormann , † October 10, 1996 in Princeton, philosopher and Catholic theologian
  • 1928, April 23, Karlfried founder , † March 12, 2011 in Freiburg, historian of philosophy
  • 1929, January 4, Herbert Vorgrimler , † September 12, 2014 in Münster (Westphalia), theologian, friend and successor of Karl Rahner
  • 1929, April 3, Klaus Hemmerle , † January 23, 1994 in Aachen, Bishop of Aachen 1975–1994
  • 1929, April 28, Hans Auras , † August 27, 2016, architect and university professor
  • 1929, June 15, Wolfgang Edelstein , † February 29, 2020 in Berlin, social and educational scientist
  • 1929, November 21, Wolfgang Kleiber , † June 4, 2020, linguist
  • 1930, January 13th, Werner Fischer , goldsmith, artist, art collector, gemologist and expert on precious stones and pearls
  • 1930, May 8th, Peter Felsenstein-Brenner , opera director and director
  • 1930, October 28, Paul H. Welte OP, † February 4, 2017 in Augsburg, religious and theologian
  • 1931, January 17, Sonja Sutter , † June 2, 2017 in Baden (Lower Austria), film and theater actress
  • 1931, February 1, Joachim Wollasch , † August 8, 2015 in Illingen (Württemberg), historian
  • 1931, March 18, Peter Starlinger , † September 1, 2017, geneticist and molecular biologist
  • 1931, April 6, Andreas Holschneider , † September 24, 2019 in Baden-Baden, music historian and writer
  • 1931, April 26th, Norbert Greinacher , Roman Catholic theologian
  • 1931, June 16, Francesca Schinzinger , † November 8, 1995 in Aalen, historian
  • 1931, June 18, Hans Maier , politician and political scientist
  • 1932, April 22nd, Jürgen van de Loo , † August 13th, 2016, doctor and university professor
  • 1932, October 7th, Ulrich Hommes , philosopher, lawyer, author and university professor
  • 1933, February 5, Benno Müller-Hill , † August 11, 2018, biochemist and geneticist
  • 1933, August 15, Wolfgang Held , † December 11, 2016 in London, writer and translator
  • 1933, November 22nd, Conrad Schroeder , † September 28th, 2006 in Freiburg, politician (CDU), member of the federal and state parliaments, regional president of the Freiburg administrative district
  • 1934, April 24, Heinrich Hamm , † September 21, 2017, organist, choir director, Roman Catholic church musician and university professor
  • 1934, July 27th, Rita Czech-Blasel , German cross-country skier
  • 1934, August 10th, Bruno Köbele , former federal chairman of the industrial union Bau-Steine-Erden
  • 1934, September 29, Hugo Leicht , † June 2, 2000 in Pforzheim, CDU politician
  • 1935, February 9, Walter Sturm , † March 20, 2018 in Freiburg, painter
  • 1935, February 11, Alfonso Hüppi , painter, sculptor, graphic artist
  • 1935, July 24, Gerhard Ulsamer , † May 30, 1999, lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 1978 to 1999
  • 1935, September 27, Ursula Kuri , politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
  • 1936, August 12, Georg Philippi , † July 6, 2010, biologist and plant sociologist
  • 1937, March 9, Peter Vogel , † May 8, 2017 in Freiburg, object artist
  • 1937, May 2nd, Hagen Keller , historian and university professor
  • 1937, June 1, Peter Nestler , actor and documentary filmmaker
  • 1937, June 25, Max Georg Huber , † March 20, 2017 in Bonn, physicist, professor at the University of Bonn and long-time Vice President of the DAAD
  • 1938, October 29, Jörg Keller (* 1938), mineralogist, geochemist, volcanologist and university lecturer
  • 1939, December 3, Karl Nicola , politician (SPD), member of the state parliament from 1972 to 1992
  • 1940, May 13th, Anton Stingl jun. , Church musician and musicologist
  • 1940, August 27th, Hans Jörg Sandkühler , philosopher and professor emeritus
  • 1940, December 7, 1940, Klaus Tschira , † March 31, 2015 in Heidelberg, entrepreneur
  • 1941, March 28, Helmut Lutz , sculptor
  • 1941, June 15, Winfried EH Blum , soil biologist and forest scientist
  • 1941, June 23, Hermann Wellenreuther , historian and university professor
  • 1941, July 18, Karl von Wogau , from 1979 to 2009 Member of the European Parliament of the CDU and member of the board of the EPP, since 2010 General Secretary of the Kangaroo Group
  • 1941, September 24th, Hans Reiner Böhm , engineer and university professor for environmental and spatial planning
  • 1942, January 7, Björn R. Kommer , art historian and museum director
  • 1942, February 26, Wolf Gremm , † July 14, 2015 in Berlin, director and screenwriter
  • 1942, July 8, Günter Schrempp , politician (SPD), member of the state parliament
  • 1942, September 18, Wolfgang Schäuble , politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister for Special Tasks (1984–89), Federal Minister of the Interior (1989–91, 2005–09), Federal Minister of Finance (since 2009), former Chairman of the CDU / CSU Parliamentary group in the Bundestag and former chairman of the CDU
  • 1943, March 19, Peter Radtke , author and actor and member of the German Ethics Council
  • 1943, November 4th, Ingeborg Schäuble , chairwoman of the German World Hunger Aid
  • 1944, Hans-Joachim Goetz , diplomat, ambassador to Slovenia
  • 1944, Bernd Müller , Brigadier General and Historian
  • 1944, March 14, Peter-Paul Zahl , writer
  • 1944, June 27th, Hans Julius Schneider , philosophy professor
  • 1944, July 12, Christoph Cremer , physics professor
  • 1944, July 17, Isabelle Carlson , stage and television actress
  • 1944, September 15, Jürgen Schrempp , Manager, from 1995 to 2005 Chairman of the Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler
  • 1944, September 21, Gabriele Dahms , † April 17, 1999 in Heidelberg, painter
  • 1945, January 2nd, Adolf Seger , wrestler, two-time world champion and medal winner at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and 1976 in Montreal
  • 1945, June 29, Andrea Jonasson , actress
  • 1946, July 22nd, Joachim Bohnert , legal scholar
  • 1946, July 24, Norbert Hartmann , † July 14, 2007 in Binzen, painter and draftsman
  • 1947, Frank Günther , literary translator
  • 1947, January 10, Karl-Reinhard Volz , forest scientist, professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-University
  • 1947, March 1st, Jörg Müller , cook
  • 1947, March 14th, Karl-Heinz Mießmer , football player
  • 1947, June 11th, Klaus Belke , Byzantinist and university professor
  • 1947, August 4th, Günter Koch , computer scientist, management consultant, research manager and project developer
  • 1948, Albert Schmidt , Benedictine, Abbot President of the Beuron Congregation
  • 1948, February 22nd, Angelika Bender , actress and voice actress
  • 1948, April 5, Tadeus Pfeifer , † September 10 or 11, 2010 in Basel, Swiss writer
  • 1948, November 6th, Christoph Bayer , politician (SPD), member of the state parliament
  • 1949, January 24th, Nikolaus Brender , former editor-in-chief of ZDF
  • 1949, February 28, Barbara Dürk , † April 20, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main, trade union official, publicist and management consultant
  • 1949, May 29th, Johann Krieger , Lord Mayor of Ehingen (Danube)
  • 1950, Franz Keller , cook
  • 1950, Eva Meyer , philosopher, writer and filmmaker
  • 1950, February 5, Alfred Haas , politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
  • 1950, April 28, Manfred Borchard , † September 30, 2015 in Freiburg, writer and editor
  • 1950, June 26th, Peter Gaymann , cartoonist, graphic artist and writer

1951 to 1975

From 1976

Personalities associated with Freiburg

Born before the 18th century

Born in the 18th century

Born in the 19th century

  • (1808–1877): Carl Mez , industrialist and politician, lived in Freiburg from 1830 to 1877
  • (1826–1849): Johann Maximilian Dortu , participant in the Baden Revolution in 1849, shot dead in the old cemetery in the Wiehre district
  • (1830–1914): Alfred Hegar , doctor and gynecologist, lived in Freiburg from 1864 to 1914
  • (1834–1914): August Weismann , evolutionary biologist, lived in Freiburg from 1873 to 1914
  • (1834–1891): Johann Jakob Vollweider , painter and graphic artist, lived in Bern and Freiburg, died in Freiburg
  • (1836–1918): Alexander Mitscherlich , chemist, lived in Freiburg from 1883
  • (1837–1911): Wilhelm Jensen , German poet and writer, lived in Freiburg from 1876 to 1888 and was visited by Wilhelm Raabe
  • (1837–1916): Heinrich Hansjakob , politician and writer, worked from 1884 to 1913 as a pastor in Freiburg
  • (1838–1907): Georg Friedrich Louis Thomas , Professor at the University of Freiburg
  • (1847–1917): Rudolf Nietzki , Professor of Chemistry
  • (1848–1910): Wilhelm Wetz , professor at the University of Freiburg
  • (1849–1923): Fritz Mauthner , philosopher, lived in Freiburg from 1905 to 1909
  • (1852–1926): Constantin Fehrenbach , Reich Chancellor (1920/21), lived in Freiburg from 1882 to 1926
  • (1852–1939): Ferdinand von Lindemann , professor of mathematics, proved the transcendence of during his time in Freiburg
  • (1853–1933): Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld , Karl May's first publisher, lived in Freiburg and the surrounding area from 1890, buried in Ehrenstetten
  • (1855–1924): Carl Philipp Schilling , church painter
  • (1855–1938): Heinrich Finke , important historian and Mediaevist, prorector and professor at the University of Freiburg, lived in Freiburg from 1899 until his death
  • (1858–1921): Lorenz Werthmann , founder of the Freiburg-based German Caritas Association , died in Freiburg
  • (1859–1938): Edmund Husserl , philosopher, lived and taught from 1916 to 1938 in Freiburg
  • (1862–1927): Ernst Grosse , ethnologist and collector of East Asian art, professor at the university, also curator of the municipal art collections from 1889–1902, died in Freiburg
  • (1862–1962): Lothar Heffter , mathematician, from 1911 professor and 1917/18 rector at the Albert Ludwig University, founder of the Association of Friends of the University
  • (1864–1920): Max Weber , was 1894–1897 Professor of Economics in Freiburg
  • (1864–1943): Gerhart von Schulze-Gaevernitz , University Professor (Economics) in Freiburg, represented the Freiburg constituency as a member of the Reichstag from 1912 to 1918
  • (1865–1941): Wilhelm Herrenknecht , professor and founder of dentistry at the University of Freiburg
  • (1867–1924): Carl Sutter , professor of art history
  • (1868–1936): Maxim Gorki , Russian writer, lived with his lover Moura Budberg for a few months in Güntertal in 1923
  • (1869–1941): Hans Spemann , biologist and Nobel Prize winner, lived in Freiburg from 1919 to 1941
  • (1869–1947): Jonas Cohn , philosopher and educator, lived in Günterstal
  • (1871–1944): Johann Baptist Knebel , dean, theologian and honorary canon, studied, worked and died in Freiburg; Honorary doctorate from the university
  • (1871–1953): Ernst Zermelo , mathematician, lived in Freiburg from 1926 to 1953
  • (1872–1948): Conrad Gröber , 1933–1948 Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Freiburg
  • (1874–1967): Eugen Fischer , physician, anthropologist, racial hygienist
  • (1874–1955): Konrad Guenther , zoologist and nature conservation pioneer, taught and lived in Freiburg since his studies
  • (1876–1967): Konrad Adenauer , first Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, studied from 1894 to 1897 in Freiburg
  • (1878–1957): Alfred Döblin , doctor and writer ( Berlin Alexanderplatz ), studied and earned his doctorate in Freiburg from 1904–1905 and also wrote here, † 1957 in nearby Emmendingen
  • (1879–1949): Benedikt Kreutz , second president of the Freiburg-based German Caritas Association
  • (1881–1968): Hans Dieter , German impressionist landscape painter and poet
  • (1892–1941): Marina Zwetajewa , important Russian poet, attended school in Freiburg from 1904–1905
  • (1883–1945): Alfred Wolfenstein , expressionist writer, studied in Freiburg in 1905
  • (1883–1957): Nikos Kazantzakis , Greek writer (including Alexis Sorbas ), died in Freiburg
  • (1885–1954): Wendelin Rauch , 1948–1954 Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Freiburg
  • (1885–1968): Romano Guardini , religious philosopher, studied in 1906 and 1912 and received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1915, received an honorary doctorate from the university in 1954
  • (1886–1929): Franz Rosenzweig , historian and philosopher, studied medicine in Freiburg, later history and philosophy, and received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1912
  • (1888–1969): Paul Waeldin , politician (DDP, later FDP), member of the state parliament, state secretary, 1952–1957 district president of South Baden
  • (1889–1967): Bernhard Villinger ; Doctor, athlete, film pioneer and researcher, co-founder of Berg- und Sportfilm GmbH Freiburg
  • (1889–1974): Arnold Fanck , director, pioneer of mountain films , co-founder of Berg- und Sport-Film GmbH Freiburg
  • (1889–1976): Martin Heidegger , philosopher, temporarily rector of the university, lived in Freiburg from 1928 to 1976
  • (1891–1964): Käthe Vordtriede , journalist, writer and emigrant, lived in Freiburg from 1923 to 1939, 2003 street name
  • (1891–1950): Walter Eucken , national economist, came to Freiburg as a professor in 1927 and lived there until his death in 1950
  • (1891–1942): Edith Stein , philosopher, nun, martyr and saint of the Catholic Church, lived and studied from 1916 to 1922 in Freiburg
  • (1892–1940): Walter Benjamin , philosopher, lived in Freiburg from 1912 to 1913
  • (1892–1941): Marina Ivanovna Zwetajewa , Russian poet, lived in Freiburg from 1904 to 1905
  • (1894–1974): Erich Wewel , publisher, studied and obtained his doctorate in Freiburg and in 1951 moved with his publishing house to Freiburg, where he died in 1974
  • (1895–1958): Wilhelm Süss , was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Freiburg and Rector there from 1940 to 1945
  • (1896–1964): Arnold Bergstraesser , political scientist, became professor at the university in 1954 and lived in Freiburg until his death in 1964
  • (1896–1984): Heribert Fischer-Geising , painter and graphic artist, lived in Freiburg from 1961 to 1984
  • (1897–1948): Adolf Lampe , national economist, came to Freiburg as a professor in 1926 and lived there until his death in 1948
  • (1897–1973): Karl Löwith , philosopher, studied philosophy in Freiburg between 1919 and 1922 with Edmund Husserl and his assistant Martin Heidegger
  • (1898–1979): Herbert Marcuse , philosopher, political scientist and sociologist, studied German language and literature in Freiburg between 1920 and 1924 and philosophy with Martin Heidegger between 1928 and 1933
  • (1899–1969): Ludwig Heilmeyer , internist, researcher and university professor, was professor of internal medicine at the Freiburg University Medical Center from 1946 until his retirement
  • (1899–1992): Friedrich August von Hayek , economist and Nobel Prize winner, lived in Freiburg from 1962 to 1992
  • (1900–1977): Erich Doflein , musicologist and publisher, founding director of the Freiburg University of Music
  • (1900–1984): Friedrich A. Stock , chess functionary and hotel owner, lived in Freiburg for many decades

Born in the 20th century

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gundolf Keil : Nikolaus von Freiburg. In: Author's Lexicon . Volume VI, Col. 1075.
  2. ↑ Paul Malthan: Wilhelm Raabe's encounters with Freiburg , In: Badische home 60, Freiburg 1980, p 25-34
  3. ↑ In Varel I roared like a wild animal! - Biographical sketches for the 80th birthday of the soprano Hildegard Behrens. In: Kulturland Oldenburg magazine , issue 1.2017, pp. 2–5.
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/StiftungLPV/videos

literature

  • Peter Kalchthaler, Walter Preker (ed.): Freiburg biographies. Promo, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ISBN 978-3-923288-33-5
  • Ingrid Kühbacher: You lived in Freiburg. Schillinger, Freiburg im Breisgau 1987, ISBN 978-3-89155-057-1

Web links

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