List of personalities of the city of Giessen

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Coat of arms of the city of Giessen

This list contains personalities born in Giessen as well as personalities who had their sphere of activity in Giessen, as well as those who taught or studied at the University of Giessen . All sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Giessen

Until 17th century

Elisabeth Amalie Magdalene of Hessen-Darmstadt

18th century

Ludwig Julius Friedrich Höpfner

19th century

1801 to 1820

August Wilhelm von Hofmann

1821 to 1840

Wilhelm Liebknecht
Hermann Levi

1841 to 1860

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner

1861 to 1880

Ernst Friedberger

1881 to 1900

Walter Dornberger

20th century

1901 to 1920

Helmut Roloff
Albert Osswald (left) with Federal President Walter Scheel

1921 to 1940

Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

1941 to 1960

Georg Meier
Volker Bouffier
Stefan Bellof
Harald Lesch

1961 to 1980

Lucia Puttrich
Andreas Karczewski
Andreas Eikenroth
Justus Köhncke
Andreas Türck
Jesko Friedrich
Verena Araghi

1981 to 2000

Jan Benzien
Jonathan Koch

Personalities who have worked in the city

X-ray monument in the south facility
  • Johann Wilhelm Baumer (1719–1788), was professor of medicine at the University of Giessen from 1764, where he was both mountain ridge and rural physicist. In 1777 he became a full professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the Faculty of Economics in Giessen.
  • Renatus Karl von Senckenberg (1751–1800), private scholar, donor of an important foundation for the Giessen University
  • August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome (1753-1833), camera scientist and statistician at the University of Giessen (1787-1830)
  • Wilhelm Balser (1780–1846), doctor
  • Ludwig Wilhelm Zimmermann (1780–1825), chemist, mineralogist and university professor
  • Johann Christian Hundeshagen (1783–1834), forest scientist
  • Ferdinand von Ritgen (1787–1867), medical professor, gynecologist and founder of one of the first nine German obstetric schools
  • Carl Justus Heyer (1797-1856), forest scientist
  • Friedrich Münch (1799–1881), founded the Giessen Emigration Society in 1833 with Paul Follen
  • Wilhelm Curtmann (1802–1871), educator, went to school and university in Giessen, was a teacher there and died in Giessen
  • Justus Liebig (1803–1873), chemist and namesake of the University of Giessen
  • Heinrich Buff (1805–1878), physicist and chemist at the University of Giessen
  • Hugo von Ritgen (1811–1889), professor of architecture and restorer of the Wartburg and the Gleiberg
  • Georg Büchner (1813–1837), German revolutionary, writer and scientist, lived and studied for several years in Giessen, author of the Hessischer Landbote
  • Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), chemist, from 1845 to 1850 (with interruption) in Giessen
  • Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923), physicist and first Nobel Prize winner, was buried in the old cemetery in Giessen at his own request
  • Wilhelm Sievers (1860–1921), geographer, professor and rector at the University of Giessen
  • Philipp Scheidemann (1865–1939), 1895–1905 editor at the social democratic newspaper in Giessen
  • Alfred Kaufmann (1868–1946), German pastor and orientalist, founder of the Kaufmann-Will circle
  • Albert Jesionek (1870–1935), dermatologist and university professor, director of the Gießen Dermatology Clinic
  • Albin Mann (1883–1960), Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of Giessen
  • Robert Feulgen (1884–1955), medical doctor, pioneer of DNA research
  • Friedrich Kellner (1885–1970), manager at the Laubach district court and district auditor at the Giessen regional court. The Justus Liebig University Giessen wants to publish Kellner's diaries.
  • Georg Haas (1886–1971), physician, performed the first hemodialysis in humans
  • Heinrich Backhaus (1888–1943), NSDAP district leader of Wetterau since 1937
  • Lotte Bingmann-Droese (1902–1963), German painter
  • Illa Andreae (1902–1992), German writer
  • Ria Deeg (1907-2000), resistance fighter against National Socialism and City Councilor of Giessen (KPD)
  • Karl Zeiß (1912–1994), theologian; became known as the "Olympic minister"
  • Dietrich von Denffer (1914–2007), director and designer of the Botanical Garden from 1951 to 1976, builder of the Botanical Institute (today the Hermann Hoffmann Academy)
  • Horst-Eberhard Richter (1923–2011), professor of psychosomatics, psychoanalyst and co-founder of the IPPNW
  • Gideon Schüler (1925–2017), bookseller, publisher, gallery owner and poet
  • Hans Müller-Braunschweig (1926–2014), professor of psychosomatics, psychoanalyst
  • Joachim Werner Dudeck (1932–2010), doctor and medical IT specialist , founder of HL7 user group Germany
  • Herbert Kaufmann (* 1941), ophthalmologist and strabologist, director of the University Eye Clinic at the Justus Liebig University
  • Brun-Otto Bryde (* 1943), judge at the Federal Constitutional Court since 2001, professor of public law at the Justus Liebig University
  • Nando Belardi (* 1946), em. University Professor of Social Pedagogy; studied and obtained his doctorate in Gießen in 1973
  • Hans Michalski (* 1948), track and field athlete, started for LAZ Giessen
  • Charly Weller (* 1951), film director and author; numerous national and international awards
  • Kevin Nash (born 1959), American wrestler and actor. Before and during his army time in the Gießen barracks, Nash played basketball for what was then MTV 1846 Gießen.

Personalities from the University of Giessen

Individual evidence