List of personalities of the city of Ingolstadt

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Ingolstadt coat of arms

This list includes personalities related to the city of Ingolstadt :

Honorary citizen

sons and daughters of the town

The following overview contains important personalities who were born in Ingolstadt, listed chronologically according to the year of birth. It is irrelevant whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Ingolstadt. The list does not claim to be complete.

To 1900

Philipp Apian
Adam Weishaupt
  • Caspar Schober (* 1504; † November 20, 1532 in Speyer), Professor of Law at the University of Ingolstadt and judge at the Imperial Court of Speyer
  • Philipp Apian (born September 14, 1531; † November 14, 1589 in Tübingen), mathematician and cartographer of the Bavarian land tables . At the age of 21 he received a professorship at the University of Ingolstadt
  • Michael Tonsor (* around 1540; † around 1605 in Ingolstadt), student of Orlando di Lasso and himself an important composer and organist
  • Franz Mezger (born October 25, 1632 in Ingolstadt; † December 11, 1701 in Salzburg), Benedictine priest, philosopher, historian and university professor.
  • Balthasar König (born June 18, 1684 - † December 16, 1756 in Menden), organ builder
  • Anton Chlingensperg auf Berg (* 1685; † 1755), legal scholar
  • Ludwig Fronhofer (* 1746; † 1800 in Munich), secondary school teacher, court secretary and member of the Academy of Sciences
  • Adam Weishaupt (born February 6, 1748, † November 18, 1830 in Gotha), professor at the University of Ingolstadt and founder of the Bavarian Order of Illuminati
  • Anton Maria Kobolt (born November 16, 1752, † November 28, 1826 in Altötting), Roman Catholic clergyman and historian
  • Johann von Fleischmann (March 24, 1771; † December 27, 1853 in Munich), Royal Bavarian Major General
  • Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld (November 16, 1778 - October 14, 1843 in Heinersreuth), Bavarian Minister of Finance
  • Jakob von Ermarth (born October 26, 1790; † April 3, 1865 in Augsburg), royal Bavarian lieutenant general and commander of the infantry body regiment
  • Karl Emil von Schafhäutl (born February 16, 1803; † February 25, 1890 in Munich), physicist, geologist and music theorist
  • Otto Leichtenstern (born October 14, 1845; † February 23, 1900 in Cologne), internist and chief physician in Cologne
  • Leo Samberger (born August 14, 1861; † April 8, 1949 in Munich or Geitau ), portrait painter and saint painter.
  • Pauline Strauss-de Ahna (February 4, 1863 - May 13, 1950), soprano and wife of the composer Richard Strauss
  • Fritz Ehrler (born March 6, 1871, † October 19, 1944 in Wiesbaden), trade union official and social democratic politician
  • Anton Hößlinger (born January 11, 1875 - December 21, 1959), inventor of the Ingo number for the evaluation of chess players
  • Caspar König (born November 15, 1675 - † July 9, 1765 in Ingolstadt), organ builder
  • Ludwig Binder (born May 26, 1881; † September 12, 1958 in Dresden), electrical engineer and university professor
  • Karl Flierl (born June 21, 1886 in Ingolstadt; † August 3, 1967 in Munich), hydraulic engineer
  • Anton Kürmaier (born March 28, 1890; † September 24, 1943 in Munich), painter and porcelain painter
  • Adolf von Tutschek (* May 16, 1891 - March 15, 1918), fighter pilot in World War I and holder of the Military Max Joseph Order and the Pour le Mérite
  • Hermann Ziegenspeck (born August 28, 1891, † June 20, 1959 in Augsburg), pharmacist and botanist
  • Paul Dubotzki (October 1891 - October 13, 1969), photographer and businessman
  • Otto Pretzl (March 20, 1893 - October 28, 1941), orientalist
  • Karl Krüger (born October 13, 1896; August 12, 1973 in Berlin-Gatow), German choir director
  • Joseph Berchtold (* March 6, 1897; † August 23, 1962), first " Reichsführer SS " and member of the Reichstag
  • Charlotte von Kirschbaum (born June 25, 1899 - † July 24, 1975), theologian and partner of Karl Barth
  • Rudolf Hartmann (born October 11, 1900 - † August 26, 1988 in Munich), opera director and artistic director

1901 to 1950

Horst Seehofer
  • Marie Fleißer (born November 23, 1901 † February 2, 1974), writer, whose best-known works Pioneers in Ingolstadt counts
  • Joseph Schröffer (born February 20, 1903; † September 7, 1983 in Nuremberg), Bishop of Eichstätt from 1948 to 1967
  • Jakob Kraus (born December 25, 1904, † January 27, 1943 in Stuttgart), resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Marianne Brandt (born August 15, 1908, † January 29, 1995 in Munich), actress
  • Josef Elfinger (born March 23, 1911; † 1988), architect
  • Heinrich Welker (born September 9, 1912; † December 25, 1981 in Erlangen) Professor of Physics at the University of Munich and discoverer of the semiconductor properties of III-V compounds
  • Josef Priller (born July 27, 1915; † May 20, 1961 in Böbing), fighter pilot in World War II
  • Ernst Schnerr (born March 20, 1921 - † February 27, 2019), lawyer
  • Salama Inge Heinrichs (* 1922; † November 10, 2015 in Munich), therapist
  • Hertha Maier (born April 13, 1922 - † October 2, 1967 in Ingolstadt), table tennis player
  • Walter Heynowski (born November 20, 1927), documentary and propaganda film director in the GDR
  • Heinz Dollinger (born June 30, 1929; † November 18, 2011 in Graefelfing), historian
  • Franz Happernagl (born December 25, 1929), sprinter
  • Theodor Straub (born March 12, 1930), historian on city history
  • Michael Heltau (born July 5, 1933), singer, actor and entertainer
  • Peter Schnell (born December 9, 1935), member of the state parliament from 1966 to 1972, Lord Mayor from 1972 to 2002, honorary citizen
  • Hubert Weinzierl (born December 3, 1935), conservationist and president of the German Nature Conservation Association
  • Heimo Liebl (born April 23, 1937), Protestant pastor, member of the Bavarian Senate
  • Ludwig Mödl (born March 20, 1938), Catholic theologian and professor at various universities
  • Hermann Regensburger (born July 9, 1940), politician of the ( CSU ) and Bavarian State Secretary for the Interior, as well as long-term member of the Bavarian state parliament
  • Manfred Schuhmann (* 1942), grammar school teacher, member of the state parliament and since 2004 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Ingolstadt city council
  • Hans Büttner (born October 18, 1944; † September 18, 2004 in Berlin), Ingolstadt DGB chairman and member of the Bundestag (SPD) from 1990 to 2004
  • Franz Götz (born September 16, 1945), MP for the SPD in the Bavarian State Parliament from 1978 to 2003 and since 2008 with the Free Voters
  • Carl-Ludwig Reichert , presenter at Bayern 2, member of various bands, especially Sparifankal
  • Stella Mooney (born October 17, 1947), actress
  • Ilse Hofmann (born January 3, 1949), film and television director
  • Horst Seehofer (born July 4, 1949), politician (CSU)
  • Kurt Mehlhorn (born August 29, 1949) computer scientist
  • Adolf Bittschi Mayer (born December 1, 1950), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Sucre (Bolivia)

From 1951

Markus Kavka

Well-known people related to the city

Wilhelm IV issued the Purity Law in Ingolstadt in 1516
Christoph Scheiner discovered sunspots in Ingolstadt in 1611.
Johann Simon Mayr

In addition, work and have worked in Ingolstadt:

  • Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522)
    was a philosopher, humanist and the first German Hebrew scholar (“De verbo mirifico” from 1494 and “De arte cabbalistica” from 1517). In 1520 he took over a professorship for Greek and Hebrew at the University of Ingolstadt.
  • Johann Georg Faust (Faust) (1480–1541)
    was, according to a council minutes from 1523, expelled by the city's magistrate “that he consumed his penny elsewhere”.
  • Johannes Eck (1486–1543)
    was a professor at the University of Ingolstadt and is considered to be Luther's greatest opponent, where he published several pamphlets against Luther in Ingolstadt.
  • Wilhelm IV of Bavaria (1493–1550)
    issued the Bavarian Purity Law in Ingolstadt on April 23, 1516 .
  • Peter Apian (1495–1552)
    was a cartographer, astronomer and polymath at the high school.
  • Paul Hoffaeus (around 1525–1608)
    was rector of the Jesuit college.
  • Jakob Rem (1546–1618)
    was a Catholic priest , Jesuit and youth minister. He founded the Marian Congregations in Germany and the devotion to the Mother Thrice Admirable .
  • Christoph Gewold (1556–1621), lawyer and historian,
    historian and lawyer, attended university from 1581 and lived in Ingolstadt, wrote historical and political writings for Duke Maximilian and held various positions at the Duke's court
  • Johann t'Serclaes von Tilly (1559-1632)
    was a general during the Thirty Years War and died in 1632 in the so-called Tilly House after an injury in the battle of Rain am Lech .
  • Christoph Scheiner (1573–1650)
    received the chair of mathematics at the University of Ingolstadt in 1610 and discovered the sunspots from the tower of the Holy Cross Church in Ingolstadt on the morning of March 21 and again in October 1611 together with his student Father Johann Baptist Cysat .
  • Sebastian Pollinger († 1590)
    came to the     pastor's post at the Liebfrauenmünster after studying theology in Ingolstadt, later he became auxiliary bishop in Würzburg and the university rector there.
  • Gustav II. Adolf , King of Sweden (1594–1632)
    besieged Ingolstadt at the same time, with his horse being fatally hit during an exploratory ride and then brought into town and stuffed. It is now on display in the city museum and is probably the oldest specimen in the world.
  • Franz von Mercy (1597–1645)
    was Imperial and Bavarian General Field Marshal and Governor of Ingolstadt, and from 1643 Commander in Chief of the Imperial Bavarian Army in the Thirty Years' War.
  • Georg Heser (1609–1676)
    was a Jesuit, taught at the local college and was a preacher in Ingolstadt for 13 years.
  • Johann Adam von Ickstatt (17021776)
    was director and professor at the high school, school reformer and founder of the Bavarian secondary school system
  • Johann Nepomuk Mederer (1734–1808)
    was the parish priest of St. Moritz and the rector of the high school, and wrote a chronicle about the university.
  • Johann Simon Mayr (1763–1845)
    worked as a composer in Ingolstadt from 1773 to 1787.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)
    , as French First Consul 1800/1801, saw to it that the old fortress of Ingolstadt was razed and, as Emperor of the French, spent a night in the New Palace during the Fifth Coalition War on the way from France to the South German theater of war in 1809 .
  • Leo von Klenze (1784–1864)
    , as one of the builders of the classicist fortifications in Ingolstadt, ensured architectural design and craftsmanship of lasting value.
  • King Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786–1868) then expanded
    Ingolstadt into the main Bavarian fortress .
  • Adolf Scherzer (1815–1864)
    wrote the Bavarian Parade March as a military musician and composer in Ingolstadt around 1850 .
  • August Horch (1868–1951) played a
    key role in the founding of Auto Union in Ingolstadt in 1948.
  • Ludwig Liebl (1874–1940)
    was a medical adviser , old fighter of the NSDAP , founding chairman of the Nazi medical association and publisher of the National Socialist Danube messenger .
  • Josef Listl (1893–1970)
    was Lord Mayor from 1932 to 1945 and from 1952 to 1962 (NSDAP / CSU) and in 1965 became an honorary citizen.
  • Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945)
    was the son of Gebhardt Himmler, the director of the Reuchlin-Gymnasium, and began an internship in Oberhaunstadt .
  • Hermann Paul Müller (1909–1975)
    was a successful Auto Union, DKW and NSU racing driver.
  • Wilhelm Reissmüller (1911–1993)
    was Liebl's son-in-law, editor of the Donaukurier and in 1976 became an honorary citizen.
  • Traudl Brunnquell (1919–2010), designer
  • Fritz Böhm (1920–2013)
    was Chairman of the Works Council of Audi AG and, for the SPD, a member of the Bavarian State Parliament and the Bundestag and is an honorary citizen of the city.
  • Klaas Carel Faber (1922–2012)
    committed war crimes as a Dutch member of the Waffen-SS and lived in Ingolstadt after the Second World War.
  • Emilie Böck (1932–2002)
    published numerous sagas and legends of the Ingolstadt region as an author and folklore researcher.
  • Franz Beckenbauer (* 1945)
    spent part of his youth at the Jesuit boys' boarding     school in Ingolstadt.
  • Albert Schmidt (* 1951)
    Member of the Bundestag (1994–2005) ( Alliance 90 / The Greens ).
  • Hans Joachim Werner (* 1952)
    was a member of the state parliament and is the city council for the SPD.
  • Matthias Müller (* 1953)
    is a manager and was CEO of Volkswagen AG until 2018. He grew up in Ingolstadt and worked for Audi AG for a long time.
  • Hans-Peter Ferner (* 1956)
    is a track and field athlete and won numerous medals during his time at MTV Ingolstadt . Among other things, he was 800 m European champion in Athens in 1982, a World Cup participant in Helsinki in 1983 and an Olympic participant in Los Angeles in 1984.
  • Michaela Schabinger (* 1961)
    trained as a track and field athlete at MTV Ingolstadt and competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games.
  • Christine Haderthauer (* 1962)
    is a lawyer in Ingolstadt, was a member of the state parliament and minister of state (CSU)
  • the comedian duo John Friedmann and Florian Simbeck (both * 1971 and known as Erkan and Stefan )
    met in Ingolstadt.
  • Rupert Stadler (* 1963)
    was CEO of Audi AG from 2007 to 2018
  • Bajram Nebihi (* 1988)
    is a football player. He grew up in Ingolstadt and played a. a. later in the second Bundesliga for Union Berlin.
  • Tarık Çamdal (* 1991)
    is a Turkish national soccer player. He grew up in Ingolstadt and played for Ingolstadt Türkgücü and MTV Ingolstadt in his youth.

In addition to the professors listed, numerous other professors worked at the University of Ingolstadt. The category: University teachers (Ingolstadt) provides an overview .