List of personalities of the city of Merano

The following list contains the personalities born and temporarily living in the city of Merano ( South Tyrol ), listed chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

sons and daughters of the town

To 1900

• Ambrosius Gander (bl. Around 1450), late Gothic painter
• Johann Baptista Ruffini (1672–1749), important salt merchant in Bavaria
• Johann Baptista Lauggas (1708–1768), Rococo sculptor
• Justinian Ladurner (1808–1874), historian
• Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle (1825–1892), Germanist and writer
• Josef Zingerle (1831–1891), theologian and orientalist
• Dismas Kuhn (1834–1894), physician, personal physician to Archduke Ferdinand IV.
• Alois Goldbacher (1837–1924), classical philologist
• Franz Innerhofer (1847–1918), physician and patron
• Hermann von Tappeiner (1847–1927), physician and pharmacologist in Munich
• Karl Wolf (1848–1912), theater director and writer
• Leo Putz (1869–1940), Tyrolean painter
• Robert Duke of Württemberg (1873–1947), German officer, prince of the royal house of Württemberg
• Richard Steidle (1881–1940), Austrian lawyer and politician
• Wladimir Ernst Graf zu Münster von Derneburg (1886–1954), German lieutenant colonel, landowner and farmer
• Oswald Menghin (1888–1973), university professor, prehistoric, minister of education
• Adalbert von Neipperg (1890–1948), Benedictine in Beuron, Abbot of Neuburg near Heidelberg
• Carl von Braitenberg (1892–1984), politician
• Elfriede Hengstenberg (1892–1992), educator
• Karl Ludwig Honeck (1893–1984), horticultural engineer
• Franz Santifaller (1894–1953), sculptor
• Karl Erckert (1894–1955), former South Tyrolean governor
• Rudolf Hengstenberg (1894–1974), painter
• Ludwig Bemelmans (1898–1962), writer and illustrator

From 1901

• Paul F. De Gara (1902-1991), American allergist
• Friedrich Bär (1908–1992), Austro-German chemist, physician and university professor
• Johannes-Ernst Köhler (1910–1990), German organist, cantor and university professor
• Theodor Piffl-Perčević (1911–1994), Austrian lawyer and politician
• Anton Frühauf (1914–1999), jeweler, painter
• Silvius Magnago (1914–2010), former governor of South Tyrol, father of the autonomy of South Tyrol
• Ernst Bär (1919–1985), engineer and director of the Bregenz Festival
• Theodora Diehl (1921–2017), German actress, artist and author
• Bargil Pixner (1921-2002), Benedictine monk
• Erich Keber (1926–2016), sculptor
• Walter Konrad (* 1928), German athlete and Olympic participant
• Oswald Oberhuber (1931–2020), Austrian painter, sculptor and graphic artist
• Joseph Zoderer (* 1935), writer
• Walter Baldessarini (* 1936), painter
• Franco D'Andrea (* 1941), jazz musician
• Frida Parmeggiani (* 1946), costume designer
• Siegfried de Rachewiltz (* 1947), historian
• Anita Pichler (1948–1997), writer
• Werner Masten (* 1950), author and director
• Ulrike Kindl (* 1951), folklorist
• Cuno Tarfusser (* 1954), lawyer, judge at the ICC
• Gloria Guida (* 1955), Italian-speaking actress
• Sepp Mall (* 1955), writer
• Rudolf Stingel (* 1956), painter
• Paolo Renner (* 1958), Roman Catholic theologian
• Norberto Oberburger (* 1960), former Italian weightlifter and Olympic champion
• Sabine Gruber (* 1963), German-speaking writer
• Christoph Kaserer (* 1963), business economist
• Günther Steiner (* 1965), Formula 1 team boss
• Paolo Valente (* 1966), writer
• Günther Dissertori (* 1969), physicist
• Seppl Lamprecht (1969–2010), politician
• Toni Bernhart (* 1971), Germanist and writer
• Armin Zöggeler (* 1974), luge rider
• Sabine Eschgfäller (* 1976), writer
• Ingemar Gruber (* 1977), ice hockey player, national player
• Armin Mair (* 1977), natural track luge, world champion
• David Mair (* 1980), natural track luge, world champion
• Luca Ansoldi (* 1982), ice hockey player, national player
• Christian Borgatello (* 1982), ice hockey player, national player
• Werner Heel (* 1982), ski racer
• Andreas Lutz (* 1986), ice hockey player
• Stefanie Egger (* 1987), handball player
• Kevin Gruber (* 1995), ice hockey player
• Daniel Grassl (* 2002), figure skater

Personalities associated with the city

Arrival of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Meran, 1900
(Ferdinand Behrens)

• Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer (1777–1860), later Prince-Bishop of Trient and beatified in 1995, worked from 1819 to 1826 as dean in Merano
• Albert Knoll (1796–1863), Capuchin and theologian, pastor, preacher and teacher in Merano
• Beda Weber (1798–1858), writer and theologian
• Emma Hellenstainer (1817–1904), pioneer of Tyrolean tourism
• Anton Ascher (1820–1884), stage actor
• Christoph Hartung von Hartungen (1849–1917), doctor and founder of the Dr. v. Hartungen
• John L. Stoddard (1850-1931), American travel writer
• Theodor Christomannos (1854–1911), politician and tourism pioneer
• Marie Anatour (1856–1929), stage actress
• Friedrich Christian von Deuster (1861–1945), German landowner and politician, Deuster acquired large estates around Merano, including the Trauttmansdorff Castle
• Ferdinand Behrens (1862–1925), so-called city portrait painter
• Adolf Altmann (1879–1944), rabbi in Merano and field rabbi in the Austrian army from 1915 to 1918
• Richard Steidle (1881–1940), lawyer and leader of the Tyrolean Home Guard
• Robert Du Parc (1889–1979), painter
• Gilbert Gravina (1890–1972), Italian-German musician, conductor
• Franz Lenhart (1898–1992), Austrian-Italian commercial artist and painter
• Natalja Pravossudowitsch (1899–1988), Russian composer
• Karl Margraf (1912–2004), singer, impresario, born in Ansbach / Bavaria
• Max Tosi (1913–1988), Ladin poet
• Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917–2010), Irish-American philosopher, communication scientist
• Peter Hölzl (1920–2010), teacher, musician
• Peter Fellin (1920–1999), painter
• Egmont Jenny (1924–2010), doctor, member of the South Tyrolean state parliament several times
• Eugenio A. Beltrami (1930–1995), inventor and motorcycle racer
• Anselmo Gouthier (1933–2015), top functionary and member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Italy
• Franco Marini (1935–2014), actor and director
• Orenzo "Enzino" Leuzzi (1938–1993), musician
• Arnaldo Di Benedetto (* 1940), university lecturer, literary critic; Born in Mals, went to school in Merano
• Leopold Steurer (* 1946), historian
• Rudolf Ladurner (1951–2019), director, theater manager
• Ferdinand Gamper (1957–1996), serial killer
• Ulrich Egger (* 1959), artist
• Alessandro Banda (* 1963), writer
• Marcello Fera (* 1966), musician, composer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kulturstiftung Libertas per Veritatem: RAI portrait: Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer beatification by Pope John Paul II in Trento (from 0:01:57) on YouTube , August 21, 2020, accessed on August 23, 2020.