List of personalities of the city of Künzelsau

This list of personalities of the city of Künzelsau shows the mayors, honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city of Künzelsau and its districts ( Amrichshausen , Belsenberg , Gaisbach , Garnberg , Kocherstetten , Laßbach , Morsbach , Nagelsberg , Nitzenhausen and Steinbach ), as well as other personalities who are with Künzelsau are connected. The list does not claim to be complete.

mayor

The following people were mayors and mayors of Künzelsau:

• 1782–1812: Georg Friedrich Fischer
• 1812–1848: Johann Heinrich Glock
• 1849–1880: Wilhelm Neunhöffer
• 1880–1881: Gustav Marquardt
• 1881–1884: Wilhelm Kohler
• 1885–1919: Karl Roeder
• 1919–1926: Johannes Broß
• 1926–1945: Georg Pflüger
• 1945–1946: Lorenz Burkert
• 1947–1954: Richard Dilger
• 1954–1986: Herbert Frenz
• 1986-2010: Volker Lenz
• Since 2010: Stefan Neumann

Honorary citizen

The city of Künzelsau granted honorary citizenship to the following people who have made a special contribution to the good or reputation of the municipality:

• Ferdinand Beck (1842–1912), lathe operator, bookseller
• Albert Berner (* 1935), wholesaler, former head of the Berner Group
• Ursula Berner
• Herbert Frenz (1922–2000), mayor
• Alexander Gerst (* 1976), geophysicist and ESA astronaut
• Friedrich Haag (1878–1976), saddler, mayor
• Karl Roeder (1852–1932), mayor, member of the state parliament
• Ernst Schmid (1858-1949), founder of Maggi -Werke
• Otto Uebele (1876–1956), businessman, largest coffee exporter in the world between the two world wars
• Bernhard Vesenmayer (1910–1995), District Administrator of the Künzelsau district
• Georg Wagner (1885–1972), geologist, professor
• Carmen Würth (* 1937)
• Reinhold Würth (* 1935), wholesaler, former head of the Würth Group
• Heinz Ziehl (1917–2002), manufacturer ( Ziehl-Abegg )

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Künzelsau (or in a district of today's urban area of ​​Künzelsau):

16.-18. century

• Job Gast (* 1500 or 1502; † 1544), cleric, "amoenissimi ingenis homo, literis et pietate clarus"
• Augustin Faust (born October 13, 1659; † 1742), Walker, author of the "Chronik aus Künzelsau" (1678–1741)
• Johann Heinrich Schüle (1720–1811), calico manufacturer, inventor
• Georg Ferdinand Forstner von Dambenoy (Dambenois) , (1764–1837), gentleman on Garnberg, agricultural pioneer
• Gebhard von Mehring (1798–1890), Protestant theologian from Württemberg

19th century

• Karl Hirzel (1808–1874), classical philologist
• Adolf Hirzel (1809–1898), politician, member of the state parliament
• Karl von Fischer (1811–1868), Württemberg Lieutenant General
• Carl zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1820–1890), registrar, member of the Reichstag
• August Beyer (1834–1899), master builder at Ulm Minster
• Karoline Breitinger (1851–1932), first female doctor in Württemberg, champion of women's emancipation
• Wilhelm Schmid (1859–1951), classical philologist
• Georg Albrecht (1881–1964), teacher, historian, from 1929 to 1934 head of the Heilbronn City Archives
• Wilhelm Lochstampfer (1881–1970), architect and university professor
• Georg Wagner (1885–1972), geologist
• Ludwig Merker (1894–1964), military
• Hans Emil Braun , called Braun-Kirchberg (1887–1971), painter and etcher
• Ludwig Löhlein (1898–1967), brick manufacturer, helped to protect Künzelsau from attacks shortly before the end of the Second World War

20th century

• Clara Rupp (1901–1961), teacher, freedom fighter, survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp
• Leo Wissmann (1905–1989), manufacturer, honorary citizen of Jerusalem
• Edo Leitner (1907–1991), graphic artist, persecuted by the Nazi regime
• Walter Häussermann (1914–2010), electrical engineer, space researcher in the Wernher von Brauns team
• Heinrich Abendschein (1920–1999), agricultural scientist, member of the state parliament
• Albert Berner (* 1935), wholesaler, founder of Berner SE
• Hans Wall (1942–2019), entrepreneur, founder of Wall AG
• Reinhard Wolf (* 1950), geographer, nature and monument conservationist, non-fiction author
• Eberhard Gienger (* 1951), gymnast and politician (CDU)
• Eva-Maria Hofmann (* 1951), actress
• Alexander Spreng (* 1972), singer and comics scenario
• Alexander Gerst (* 1976), geophysicist and ESA astronaut
• Esther Mauersberger (1987), photographer
• Kevin Conrad (* 1990), soccer player

Other people connected with Künzelsau

17th-19th century

• Artist family Sommer , 17. – 19. Century
• Bell founders Lösch family , 18. – 19. Century

20th century

• During the Nazi era murdered inhabitants (1933-1945): The 22 during the period of National Socialism murdered from 1933 to 1945 inhabitants of the Jewish community Künzelsau

literature

• Files of the episcopal archive in Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
• Files of the General State Archives in Karlsruhe.
• Records in the baptismal register of the city of Künzelsau as well as in the deanery and parish offices.

Web links

• Website of the city of Künzelsau at www.kuenzelsau.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Künzelsau: Main statutes of the city of Künzelsau (PDF) §13 districts
2. ↑ Jürgen Hermann Rauser, Künzelsauer Heimatbuch. First book: City history. Künzelsau 1981. Page 450
3. ^ Rudolf Schlauch: Hohenlohe Franken: Landscape, History, Culture, Art , Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg 1964 pp. 379–382, there p. 382.
4. ^ Rudolf hose: Hohenlohe Franconia: landscape, history, culture, art , Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg 1964 pp. 382–384.
5. ↑ Künzelsauer Chronik 1678–1741 by Augustin Faust. Edited by the Historical Association for Württemberg Franconia. Künzelsau 1960