List of personalities of the city of Gunzenhausen
The list of personalities of the city of Gunzenhausen contains personalities born in Gunzenhausen as well as those who have a connection to the city because, for example, they had their (main) sphere of activity here without being born there themselves. All sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.
sons and daughters of the town
To 1900
- Johann Agricola (around 1496 - 1570), medic
- Andreas Osiander (1498–1552), theologian and reformer
- Adam Neuser (around 1530–1576), theologian
- Simon Marius (1573-1625), astronomer
- Johann Heinrich Boeckler (1611–1672), German polyhistor
- Georg Andreas Böckler (around 1617 - 1687), German architect, inventor and author
- Carl Friedrich von Zocha (1683–1749), Minister of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
- Johann Georg Gesner (1729–1779), teacher and librarian
- Johann Christoph Zenker (1738–1799), poet, theologian
- Gustav Hohbach (1803–1850), poet and lawyer
- Friedrich Mayer (1804–1857), historian
- Aaron Bär Grünbaum (1812-1893), rabbi and author
- Ferdinand Regelsberger (1831–1911), civil lawyer
- August Richter (1831–1907), German-American real estate agent and politician
- Ludwig von Ammon (1850–1922), geologist and paleontologist
- Leonhard Blum (1857–1933), architect and painter
- Hermann Bezzel (1861–1917), Rector of the Neuendettelsau Deaconess Institution
- Georg Kleemann (1863–1932), born in Oberwurmbach, jewelry designer, painter and professor
- Friedrich Walz (1874–1952), Bavarian politician
- Xaver Mayer (1881–1942), mechanical engineer, manager of the energy industry and local politician
- Wilhelm Stählin (1883–1975), Lutheran theologian and bishop
- Fritz Linnert (1885–1949), politician (FDP)
- Ernst Martin, pseudonym of Emil Johannes Meyer (1885–1949), writer on historical calculators and typewriters
- Karl Minnameyer (1891–1973), politician (NSDAP) and SA leader
- Otto Willi Gail (1896–1956), science journalist and writer
From 1901
- Ludwig Eberlein (1902–1979), journalist
- Ludwig Weninger (1904–1945), painter
- Wilhelm Deinhardt (1904–1938), church historian, university professor, theologian
- Hermann Wenninger (1907–1986), director
- Hans Strohm (1908–1998), classical philologist
- Karl Richard Ganzer (1909–1943), anti-Semitic historian during the Nazi era
- Willi Heyn (1910– ??), obstacle runner
- Karl Rettlinger (1913–1990), Sturmbannführer of the SS
- Paulus Heinz (1914–1995), abbot of the Plankstetten monastery
- Karl Eiden (1917–1987), Lieutenant in the Wehrmacht
- Siegfried Haussühl (1927–2014), mineralogist and crystallographer
- Gerhart Hunger (1930–2012), auditor and politician
- Hermann Weiß (1932–2015), historian and author
- Edgar M. Böhlke (* 1940), actor and university professor for the performing arts
- Thomas Jean Lehner (* 1944), journalist
- Ursula Koch (* 1944), writer
- Henryk Józef Nowacki (* 1946), Roman Catholic Archbishop and Vatican diplomat
- Günter Heimbeck (* 1946), mathematician
- Gerhard Friedrich (* 1948)
- Maximilian Kerner (1949–2005), dialect poet and songwriter
- Thomas Medicus (* 1953), writer
- Werner Thiede (* 1955), pastor and publicist
- Christa Naaß (* 1955), politician
- Nikolaus von Bomhard (* 1956), manager
- Martina Borger (* 1956), writer
- Veit Neumann (* 1969), theologian and university professor
- Melissa C. Feurer (* 1990), author
- Anja Mäderer (* 1991), author
Year of birth unknown:
- Andrea Müller , moderator
Working in Gunzenhausen
- Eppelein von Gailingen (1320-1381) stayed at his estate in Wald
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (1712–1757), Margrave of Ansbach
- Friedrich August Valentin Voit of Salzburg (1734–1798), royal Prussian officer
- Heinrich Stephani (1761–1850), theologian and educator; Dean in Gunzenhausen
- August Bomhard (1787–1869), pastor in Laubenzedel from 1815
- Adolf von Stählin (1823–1897), from 1849 vicar in Aha
- Ludwig Keller (1839–1911), lawyer and politician
- Ignaz Bing (1840–1918), German industrialist, secret councilor and cave explorer
- Heinrich Eidam (1849–1934), chief medical officer and Limes researcher
- Oskar Bezzel (1870–1941), Bavarian officer and historian
- Wilhelm Funk (1870–1947), musician
- Georg Bachmann (1885–1971), farmer and politician
- Heinrich Marzell (1885–1970), botanist, was a teacher in Gunzenhausen
- Johann Appler (1892–1978), member of the Reichstag; Mayor of Gunzenhausen during the National Socialism
- Friedrich Candidus (1904–1986), teacher in Laubenzedel
- JD Salinger (1919-2010), American writer; was employed after the Second World War as an employee of the US intelligence service in Gunzenhausen
- Ernst Lechner (1925–2013), former member of the state parliament and vice-president of the Bavarian state parliament
- Rudolf Bachmann (1925–1998), German politician
- Josef Wohlmuth (* 1938), theologian, was a chaplain in Gunzenhausen
- Ingo Friedrich (* 1942), Vice President of the European Parliament ; lives in Gunzenhausen
- Johann Schrenk (* 1948), writer and bookseller
- Hans-Georg von der Marwitz (* 1961), politician
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gunzenhausen's secret hero , article on faz.de.