List of personalities of the city of Fulda

This list contains personalities born in Fulda as well as those who had their sphere of activity in Fulda without having been born there. Both sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Fulda

Until 1800

Adam von Fulda (around 1445 - 1505), composer and music theorist
Adam Krafft (1493–1558), Protestant church reformer
Balthasar Raid (around 1495 - 1565), Protestant theologian and reformer
Johannes Kymaeus (1498–1552), Reformed theologian and reformer
Justus Menius (1499–1558), Protestant theologian
Balthasar Rüffer (1534–1599), merchant and mayor of the city of Würzburg
Justus Heinrich Dientzenhofer (1702–1744), architect and builder
Nikolaus Burkhäuser (1733–1809), Jesuit, philosopher and university professor
Georg Joseph Wedekind (1739–1789), legal scholar
Johann Leonhard Herrlein (1752–1814), painter and restorer
Franz Andreas Schramm (1752–1799), Catholic theologian and university professor
Johann Christoph Herrlein (1760–?), Painter
Heinrich Komp (1765–1846), Catholic theologian and university professor
Lothar Herquet (1767–1849), lawyer, member of the Hessian Estates Assembly
Johann Joseph Schneider (1777–1854), doctor and regional historian
Aloys Maier (1782–1851), lawyer and district administrator of the Hünfeld district
Heinrich von der Tann (1784–1848), officer and member of parliament
Michael Henkel (1780–1851), composer and organist
Heinrich Josef König (1790–1869), author, literary and cultural historian
Ignaz Schwarz (1795–1880), doctor, politician and writer
Valentin Joseph Werthmüller (1799–1882), lawyer, member of the Hessian Estates Assembly and the Frankfurt National Assembly

1801 to 1850

Mordechai Wetzlar (1801–1878), rabbi
Eugen Höfling (1808–1880), doctor, allegedly the poet of the song O old boys' glory
Wilhelm Schenck zu Schweinsberg (1809–1867), lawyer and politician
Georg von Adelmann (1811–1888), physician and surgeon
Constantin Zwenger (1814–1884), founder of the field of pharmaceutical chemistry
Otto Bähr (1817–1895), lawyer and politician
Alexander Schöppner (1820–1860), educator and writer
Adam Joseph Schwank (1820–1902), founder
Adam Trabert (1822–1914), writer and lawyer
Ferdinand Zwenger (1824–1894), librarian and editor
Hugo Staehle (1826–1848), composer
Alexandrine Friedrike Wilhelmine von Hanau (1830–1871), Princess von Hanau and zu Hořowitz
Karl Herquet (1832–1888), archivist and historian
Heinrich Fidelis Müller (1837–1905), priest and composer
Friedrich Riesch (1840–1912), Prussian district administrator and member of the state parliament
Ferdinand Gößmann (1840–1921), judge and member of the Prussian House of Representatives
Justus Schneider (1842–1904), doctor and writer
Philipp Braun (1844–1929), German classical philologist and school principal
Adolf Braun (1847–1914), lawyer, banker and director
Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), physicist, electrical engineer and Nobel Prize winner

1851 to 1900

Richard Müller (1851–1931), politician (Center Party)
Adalbert Ricken (1851-1921), mycologist
Friedrich Endemann (1857–1936), lawyer and university professor
Joseph Vonderau (1863–1951), prehistoric archaeologist
Ludwig Hupfeld (1864–1949), musical instrument maker and industrialist
Wilhelm Jestädt (1865–1926), Catholic theologian
Ferdinand Schneider (1866–1955), engineer, entrepreneur and inventor
Maximilian von Hoen (1867–1940), Austro-Hungarian field marshal lieutenant and military historian
Ludwig Kathariner (1868–1920), zoologist
Wilhelm Heye (1869–1947), officer, head of the army command in the Weimar Republic
Curt von Ulrich (1876–1946), politician
Clara Harnack (1877–1962), painter, teacher and mother of the resistance fighters Arvid and Falk Harnack
Julius Wiegand (1880–1956), literary historian, Germanist and teacher
Thea Arnold (1882–1966), politician
August Fleck (1885–1978), officer, banker and politician
Cuno Raabe (1888–1971), politician
Heinrich Vetter (1890–1969), politician
Anton Storch (1892–1975), politician
Paul Deichmann (1898–1981), officer

1901 to 1950

Hans Schütt (1901–1986), politician
Fritz Lafontaine (1903–1964), actor
Werner Jacobi (1904–1985), physicist and inventor
Emma Wahler (1906–1993), politician (CDU)
Hans Kahrmann (1908–1973), motorcycle racing driver
Ernst König (1908–1986), major general
Ernst Kramer (1909–1993), architect and local historian
Hans Hermann Wahler (1909–1984), politician
Karl Storch (1913–1992), track and field athlete
Wilhelm Balthasar (1914–1941), Air Force officer
Eckhard Reith (1919–2011), politician
Josef Oxfort (1923–1996), civil engineer
Emil Maier (* 1925), soccer player
Werner Liebschwager (1927–2005), football player
Erwin Sturm (1927–2016), Catholic priest, local history researcher and author
Wolfgang Schmidt (1929–1995), painter and graphic artist
Wolfgang Brückner (* 1930), folklorist and Germanist
Erich Dauzenroth (1931-2004), educational scientist
Winfried Jestaedt (1931–2011), journalist, editor-in-chief and publishing director of the Würzburger Catholic Sunday newspaper
Lothar Ruppert (1933–2011; born in Neuenberg near Fulda) Roman Catholic theologian, exegest and Old Testament scholar
Hartmut Broszinski (* 1935), librarian and old Germanist
Winfried Rippert (* 1935), politician
Bernward Thole (* 1936), games critic and media scientist
Klaus Wittstadt (1936–2003), church historian
Ingo Kümmel (1937–1990), art mediator and gallery owner
Reinhold Sebott (* 1937), canon lawyer

Edgar Papp (* 1938), Germanist medievalist

Klaus Reichert (* 1938), English scholar, translator and poet

Franz Erhard Walther (* 1939), artist

Josef Leinweber (1940–1992), Catholic theologian

Günter Ederer (* 1941), business journalist, filmmaker and publicist

Verena Pfisterer (1941–2013), artist

Günter Zint (* 1941), photographer

Peter Hess (* 1941), sound therapist and book author

Christoph Maria Fröhder (* 1942), journalist and foreign correspondent

Lothar Penners (* 1942), movement leader of the international Schoenstatt Movement

Michael Mott (* 1943), local historian, monument conservator, journalist and author

Bodo Nüdling (1943–1987), politician

Klaus Strehl (* 1943), politician

Elmar Brähler (* 1946), social psychologist

Werner Faulstich (1946–2019), media scientist

Günther Grauel (* 1947) German painter and graphic artist

Silvia Hillenbrand (* 1947), politician

Michael Popovic (* 1947), former managing director of the State Medical Association of Hesse, journalist, genealogist

Beate Schneider (* 1947), professor

Martin Hohmann (* 1948), politician

Carola Kretschmer (* 1948), rock guitarist

Winfried Michel (* 1948), composer, recorder player and music editor

Moritz Neumann (1948–2016), journalist, local politician and chairman of the Jewish communities in Hesse

Erich Pipa (* 1948), politician

Ernst Mikosch (* 1949), legal scholar and judge

Ursula Safari Chabestari (* 1949), lawyer

Ulrike Crespo (1950–2019), psychologist and patron

Manfred Hohmann (* 1950), obstetrician and perinatal specialist

From 1951

Martin Weskott (* 1951), Protestant pastor
Margarete Ziegler-Raschdorf (* 1951), politician
Egon Spiegel (* 1952), Roman Catholic theologian
Herdolor Lorenz (* 1953) documentary filmmaker
Engelbert Schramm (* 1954), biologist and environmental scientist
Michael Bardo Henning (* 1955), jazz musician and composer
Monika Becker (* 1955), politician ( FDP )
Axel Beer (* 1956), musicologist, professor at the University of Mainz
Roswitha Fischer (* 1956), linguist and English specialist
Wolfram Hänel (* 1956), writer
Thomas Brehl (1957-2010), neo-Nazi
Godehard Brüntrup (* 1957), philosopher and Jesuit
Jochen Cornelius-Bundschuh (* 1957) Protestant theologian and regional bishop of the Baden regional church
Stephanie B. Klein (* 1957), Roman Catholic theologian
Joachim Krause (* 1957), German-Swiss organist, church musician and conductor
Ulrich Link (* 1957), manager
Matthias Altenburg (* 1958), journalist and writer

Sebastian Kehl

Patrik Sinkewitz

Robert Brack (* 1959), crime writer
Volker Hirth (* 1959), radio and television presenter
Alfred Tönnis (* 1959), Catholic priest
Stefan Will (* 1959), composer
Michael Famulok (* 1960), chemist and professor
Thomas Freienstein (* 1960), racing cyclist
Martin T. Bohl (* 1962), economist
Markus Theodor Hofmann (* 1963), politician
Christoph Gregor Müller (* 1963), Catholic priest and theologian
Burkard Dregger (* 1964), Member of the State Parliament (CDU)
Rainer Goebel (* 1964), psychologist and university professor
Mechthild Maria Groß (* 1964), midwife and university professor
Volker Halsch (* 1964), politician and manager
Thorsten Herrmann (* 1964), politician
Thorsten Larbig (* 1964), pianist and painter
Winfried Schwab (* 1964), Catholic clergyman
Bernd Goebel (* 1967), theologian and philosopher
Gun-Britt Tödter (* 1967), author
Ralph Sonntag (* 1968), university professor
Detlef Musch (* 1970), basketball player
Guido Rohm (* 1970), writer and artist
Immanuel Bloch (* 1972), physicist
Oliver Bunzenthal (* 1972), former Eintracht Frankfurt soccer player , coach of Borussia Fulda
Michael Brand (* 1973), politician
Heiko Wingenfeld (* 1973), Lord Mayor of the City of Fulda ( CDU )
Indra Kupferschmid (* 1973), typographer and professor
Salvatore Barbaro (* 1974), politician
Zeno Diegelmann (* 1974), writer
Jorit Wintjes (* 1974), ancient historian
Carsten Rupp (* 1975), singer and conductor
Oliver Corvino (* 1977), German-Italian pop singer, composer and producer
Friederike Jehn (* 1977), film director and screenwriter
Tobias Sammet (* 1977), metal singer and songwriter

Tobias Sammet

Uli Kirsch (* 1978), actor
Thomas Trüschler (* 1978), actor
Thorsten Hohmann (* 1979), pool player
Sebastian Kehl (* 1980), soccer player
Michaela Möller (* 1980), psychologist and author
Patrik Sinkewitz (* 1980), professional cyclist
Markus Unger (* 1981), soccer player
Stefanie Becker (* 1982), soccer player
Sarah von Neuburg (* 1982 as Sarah Freiin Thumb von Neuburg) radio and television presenter
Tobias Schirmer (* 1982), drummer
Max Kramer (* 1984), professional golfer
Nicolai Pfeffer (* 1985), clarinetist
Reza Askari (* 1986), jazz musician
Julian Flügel (* 1986), long-distance runner
Jan-Philip Glania (* 1988), swimming athlete
Bengio (* 1993 as Ben-Giacomo Wortmann), singer and songwriter
Louis Schaub (* 1994), Austrian soccer player
Annie Laine (* 1995), writer
Lukas Fröde (* 1995), soccer player
Theresa Panfil (* 1995), soccer player
Marilena Kirchner (* 1997), folk music singer
Raphael Wahl (* 1997), pool player

Personalities who worked in Fulda

Church dignitaries

Bonifatius (* 672/673 in Crediton ; † June 5, 754 near Dokkum in Friesland), burial place in Fulda Cathedral

Sturmius (* around 705 probably in Lorch (Upper Austria) ; † December 17, 779 in Fulda) was a missionary and founder of the Fulda Monastery

Eigil von Fulda (* around 750 in Bavaria; † June 15 or August 6, 822 in Fulda), became fourth abbot in Fulda in 818

Rabanus Maurus (* around 780 in Mainz ; † February 4, 856 in Mainz), building up the Fulda monastery school

Einhard (* around 770; † March 14, 840 in Seligenstadt Monastery ) was educated in Fulda Monastery and came to the court of Charlemagne at an early age as a pupil of Alcuin , whose biographer he became

Bardo von Mainz (* ~ 980; † 1051), monk and provost in the Fulda monastery , abbot of the Werden monastery and archbishop of Mainz

Markward I., also Marquard and Marcuard, was abbot in Fulda from 1150 to 1165

Salome von Pflaumern (* 1591/92 in Sigmaringen ; † September 8, 1654 in Fulda) was the first prioress of the Benedictine abbey

Athanasius Kircher SJ (* 1602 in Geisa / Thuringia; † November 27, 1680 in Rome) was a German Jesuit and universal scholar of the 17th century, trained in Fulda

Heinrich von Bibra OSB (born August 22, 1711 in Schnabelwaid near Bamberg, † September 25, 1788 in Fulda), Prince-Bishop, Abbot of Fulda, school reformer.

Augustinus Erthel OSB (born October 8, 1714 in Wülfershausen , † October 13, 1796 in Fulda), subprior of the imperial abbey, theological author and editor, song writer and composer

Archangelus Löslein (born November 3, 1903 in Alzey ; † February 13, 1982), Capuchin Father , worked in the diocese of Fulda

Gereon Goldmann OFM (born October 25, 1916 in Ziegenhain; † July 26, 2003 in Fulda), Franciscan priest, missionary in Japan ( rag collector from Tokyo )

Johannes Dyba (born September 15, 1929 in Berlin , † July 23, 2000 in Fulda), Catholic Archbishop (honorary title), Bishop of Fulda

Heinz Josef Algermissen (born February 15, 1943 in Hermeskeil ), Catholic Bishop of Fulda since June 20, 2001

Ludwig Schick (born September 22, 1949 in Marburg ) was vicar general and auxiliary bishop and professor of canon law at the Theological Faculty of Fulda of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda in Fulda.

Karlheinz Diez (born February 20, 1954 in Horbach ), auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Fulda

Margot Käßmann (born June 3, 1958 in Marburg an der Lahn ), former general secretary of the German Evangelical Church Congress , former regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and chairwoman of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany .

Architects

Johann Dientzenhofer (born May 25, 1663 in Rosenheim, † July 20, 1726 in Bamberg), builder of the Fulda Cathedral and the city palace
Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray (born November 23, 1775 in Ehrenbreitstein near Koblenz , † October 4, 1845 in Weimar ), court architect and professor at the Lyceum in Fulda (1804–1816), friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Karl Wegener (* 1846; † 1914), master builder of various villas, the former Jewish retirement home, the former Jewish rabbinate and the former police station Sturmiusstraße in Fulda, president of the Rhön Club

Politician

Anton Thomas (born February 2, 1778 in Haselstein, † May 4, 1837 in Fulda), mayor
Franz Rang (born July 18, 1831 in Neuhof (near Fulda), † October 7, 1893 in Kassel), Lord Mayor and member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation
Alfred Dregger (born December 10, 1920 in Münster ; † June 29, 2002 in Fulda), politician of the CDU, Member of the Bundestag and Mayor of Fulda from 1956 to 1970
Norbert Rücker (born May 27, 1936 in Hirschberg ; † June 21, 2016 in Fulda ) was legal advisor for the city of Fulda for 20 years, later a full-time assistant in Weimar and then a freelance lawyer
Friedrich Kramer (born February 5, 1938 in Hindenburg , Upper Silesia ), is a German politician ( CDU ), MdL Hessen , District Administrator a. D. of the district of Fulda , former public prosecutor today lawyer
Wolfgang Hamberger (born August 25, 1930 in Bensheim ), Lord Mayor of the City of Fulda 1970–1998 ( CDU )
Gerhard Möller (born October 15, 1949 in Weyhers ), Lord Mayor of the City of Fulda 2003–2015 ( CDU )
Alois Rhiel (born October 6, 1950 in Ginseldorf) Lord Mayor of the City of Fulda 1998–2003, Hessian Minister of Economics 2003–2009 ( CDU )

Honorary citizen

The city of Fulda has so far granted the following people honorary citizenship (with the year of the award in brackets):

Josef Weinzierl (1847)
Johann Adam Förster (1848)
Georg Kopp (1887)
Eduard Goebel , philologist, grammar school director and member of the Prussian House of Representatives (1897)
Georg Komp (1898)
Robert Kircher (1906)
Joseph Vonderau , local history researcher and archaeologist (1924)
Georg Antoni , Lord Mayor of Fulda (1930)
Joseph Damian Schmitt , Bishop of Fulda (1932)
Paul von Hindenburg (1933)
Adolf Hitler (1933, later revoked)
Karl Weinrich (1939)
Johann Baptist Dietz , Bishop of Fulda (1954)
Gustav Schneider (1955)
Cuno Raabe (1956)
Walter Albert Bauer , entrepreneur and industrialist (1967)
Adolf Bolte , Bishop of Fulda (1967)
Reinhold von Thadden-Trieglaff (1967)
Alfred Dregger , Lord Mayor of Fulda (1970)
Max Will, local politician (1977)
Eduard Schick , Bishop of Fulda (1978)
Werner Schmid , entrepreneur (1987)
Wolfgang Hamberger , retired Lord Mayor D. (1998)
Heinz Gellings, retired city councilor D. (2006)

Other personalities

Balthasar Nuss (* around 1545; † 1618 in Bad Brückenau ), witch judge of the Fulda Abbey 1603–1606, brought about 300 people to the stake during the time of witch persecution . In 1603 Mrs. Merga Bien died in a witch trial .

Hans Brosamer (* between 1480 and 1490; † 1552 in Erfurt) German painter, engraver and form cutter, worked in Fulda from 1536 to 1550

Gregorius Stannarius (born January 6, 1610 in Marburg ; † January 13, 1670 ibid), reformed clergyman, theologian and philosopher, preacher and rector of the seminary in Fulda

Wilhelm I (Netherlands) (born August 24, 1772 in The Hague , † December 12, 1843 in Berlin ), from 1802 to 1806 Prince of Fulda, from 1814 as Wilhelm I, King of the Netherlands

Johann Christian Hundeshagen (born August 10, 1783 in Hanau ; † February 10, 1834 in Gießen ), forest scientist

Franz von Dingelstedt (1814–1881), poet, journalist, theater manager, 1838–1841 teacher at the grammar school (transferred from Kassel as a punishment)

Theodor Haas (born May 20, 1859 in Fritzlar ; † 1939) was from 1887 grammar school professor at the then grammar school in Fulda, today's Rabanus-Maurus school ; he was particularly known for his numerous publications on the history of the Fulda region

Leo Weismantel (born June 10, 1888 in Obersinn / Lower Franconia; † September 16, 1964 Rodalben / Pirmasens) writer, is considered to be the founder of today's Fulda University (at that time the Pedagogical Institute, from 1963 Pedagogical Institute, from 1971/74 University of Applied Sciences).

Joseph Theele (born April 3, 1889 in Halle (Saale); † February 19, 1944 in Fulda), librarian and director of the Fulda State Library

Reinold von Thadden-Trieglaff , (born August 13, 1891 in Mohrungen, † October 18, 1976 in Fulda) founder and president of the German Evangelical Church Congress

Erna Hosemann (born December 31, 1894 in Berlin-Treptow, † May 16, 1974 in Langen), city elder, founding chairwoman of the Fulda workers' welfare organization

Lioba Munz OSB (born April 15, 1913 in Bingen, † September 24, 1997 in Fulda), artist and nun, winner of the City of Fulda Culture Prize

Günther Simon (* July 12, 1921 in Kassel; † January 15, 2015 in Fulda), multiple honored internist with a practice in Fulda

Wilhelm Schöbel (born September 9, 1926 in Trebnitz (today Třebenice in the Czech Republic); † November 21, 2011 in Fulda); Association official in various associations of expellees, received the Winfried Prize in 2002

Robert Sturm (* 1935 in Bad Elster, † 1994 in Fulda) was a German sculptor, ceramicist and university professor.

Bernhard Jestaedt (born October 30, 1939), ehm. Judge at the regional court of Fulda; later judge at the Federal Court of Justice

Traugott Giesen (born May 6, 1940 in Bonn ), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and Christian author, grew up in Fulda.

Lutz Helmig (born January 26, 1946 in Güsen (Saxony-Anhalt)), entrepreneur, founder of the Helios clinics , founder of the holding company Aton and from 2007 owner of the Elector Fulda

Valerie Niehaus (* 1974 in Emsdetten), actress, grew up in Fulda, daughter of the former city planning officer Peter Niehaus

Individual evidence

^ Answer from Lord Mayor Dr. Heiko Wingenfeld on the request of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE.Offene Liste / Menschen für Fulda regarding the honorary title of "honorary citizen"

[1] Answer from Lord Mayor Dr. Heiko Wingenfeld on the request of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE.Offene Liste / Menschen für Fulda regarding the honorary title of "honorary citizen"