List of personalities of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein
The following overview contains important personalities related to the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein , arranged according to honorary citizens and people who worked in Ludwigshafen. The list does not claim to be complete. Other lists contain people who were born in Ludwigshafen .
Honorary citizen
Ludwigshafen has granted honorary citizenship 27 times , seven of which were declared invalid in 1945. The year numbers indicate the date of the award.
- 1883: Carl Clemm (1836–1899), co-founder of BASF and member of the Reichstag, he was given honorary citizenship by the Friesenheim municipal council and was later taken over by Ludwigshafen
- 1892: August Clemm (1837–1910), co-founder of BASF and member of the Bavarian state parliament
- 1895: Otto von Bismarck , revoked in 1945
- 1924: Karl Stützel (1872–1944), Bavarian Minister of the Interior, honorary citizenship was conferred by Oppau
- 1927: Friedrich Krafft (1857–1936), Lord Mayor
- 1933: Ludwig Siebert , revoked in 1945
- 1933: Paul von Hindenburg , revoked in 1945
- 1933: Adolf Hitler , revoked in 1945
- 1933: Franz Ritter von Epp , revoked in 1945
- 1938: Josef Bürckel , revoked in 1945
- 1938: Wilhelm Frick , revoked in 1945
- 1949: A. Ray Benedict (1885–1974), Mayor of Pasadena
- 1955: Valentin Bauer (1885–1974), Lord Mayor
- 1964: Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1894–1971), member of the Reichstag and Bundestag, Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1965: Carl Wurster (1900–1974), Chairman of the Board of Management of BASF
- 1965: Peter Trupp (1889–1973), alderman
- 1965: Ludwig Husse (1890–1976), Catholic city dean
- 1970: Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), philosopher
- 1975: Wilhelm Hack (1899–1985), art collector, bequeathed his art collection to Ludwigshafen
- 1977: Hans Loschky (1888–1979), pedagogue and local researcher, bequeathed Ludwigshafen his pedagogy collection
- 1983: Herbert Müller (1900–1994), Bavarian and Rhineland-Palatinate member of the state parliament
- 1983: Bernhard Timm (1909–1992), Chairman of the Board of Management of BASF
- 1985: Günther Janson (1919–1999), Mayor
- 1993: Werner Ludwig (1926–2020), Lord Mayor
- 1998: Friedhelm Borggrefe (* 1929), Protestant city dean
- 1998: Erich Ramstetter (* 1925), Catholic city dean
- 2005: Helmut Kohl (1930–2017), Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Federal Chancellor
Ring of Honor of the City of Ludwigshafen
Celebrities who worked in the city
- Eugen von Wrede (1806–1845), District President of the Rhine Palatinate , co-founder of Ludwigshafen
- Gustav Hatzfeld (1851–1930), Police Adviser; built up the city's police force and served as its chief for 34 years.
- Wilhelm Caroli (1895–1942), Catholic priest, victim of National Socialism, died in Dachau concentration camp, 1926–38 pastor of Rheingönheim
- Ernst W. Kunz (1912–1985), painter, artist, lived in Ludwigshafen from 1959 to 1985
- Christoph Jonas (1926–1968), farmer
- Arno Reinfrank (1934-2001), writer
- Hans Pfeifer (1934–2019), clarinetist and music teacher
- Erwin Ditzner (* 1960), drummer
- Julia Neigel (* 1966), singer, composer, lyricist and music producer
- Apache 207 (* 1997), singer, rapper from Ludwigshafen-Gartenstadt
Individual evidence
- ↑ City Archives of the City of Ludwigshafen am Rhein (ed.): History of the City of Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Vol. 2. From the end of the First World War to the present . Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-35-7 , p. 982