List of personalities of the city of Mosbach
This list of personalities of the city of Mosbach shows the mayors, honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city of Mosbach and its districts ( Diedesheim , Lohrbach , Neckarelz , Reichenbuch and Sattelbach ), as well as other personalities who are connected with Mosbach. The list does not claim to be complete.
mayor
At the head of the city is the mayor, mayor since July 1, 1976, who is directly elected by the population for eight years. His permanent representative is the “First Alderman” with the official title “Mayor”. The following people were mayors of Mosbach:
- 1866–1882: Georg Adam Wolf
- 1882–1889: August Strauss
- 1890–1891: Ludwig Lempp
- 1892–1901: August Strauss
- 1902–1924: Jakob Renz
- 1924–1933: Eugen Boulanger
- 1933–1938: Theophil Lang
- 1938–1941: Fred Himmel
- 1941–1942: Anton Rheindl
- 1942-1945: Arthur Muser
- 1945–1954: Wilhelm Schwarz (CDU)
- 1954–1974: Werner Tarun (Free Voters)
- 1974–1985: Fritz Baier (CDU)
- 1985–1990: Fritz Raff
- 1990–2006: Gerhard Lauth
- since 2006: Michael Jann (CDU)
Honorary citizen
The city of Mosbach and the communities that are now part of Mosbach have granted the following persons, who have made a special contribution to the good or reputation of the community, the right of honorary citizenship:
- 1909: Eduard Schifferdecker , brewery owner
- 1909: Friedrich Lück, building advisor
- 1923: Leopold Löwenstein , rabbi and historian
- 1923: Christoph Gänzler
- 1931: Jakob Renz , mayor
- 1931: Peter Fiedler
- 1945: Eugen Boulanger , Mayor
- 1953: Wilhelm Kapferer
- 1957: Wilhelm Schwarz , mayor
- 1960: Albert Schneider (Sattelbach)
- 1965: Leonhard Mezler (Lohrbach)
- 1972: Josef Krämer , cath. Priest, dean, member of the state parliament
- 1972: Ernst Brüche , physicist
- 1973: Friedrich Liebig (Neckarelz)
- 1975: Heinrich Weber (Neckarelz)
- 1975: Wilhelm Weißbrod (Neckarelz)
- 1980: Curt W. Baumann
- 1983: Erich Weiler, founding and honorary chairman of the Free Voters Germany
- 1991: Franz-Heinrich Dörzenbach
- 1992: Hermann Backfisch, Mayor of Reichenbuch
- 1993: Fritz Baier , Lord Mayor
- 2010: Karlheinz Schmidt, local council and district council
After the honorary citizenship, the "Pfalzgraf-Otto-Plakette" is the second highest award in the city. By 2008, 34 personalities had been awarded the Pfalzgraf-Otto plaque.
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Mosbach (or in a district of today's urban area of Mosbach):
14th Century
- Otto I von Pfalz-Mosbach (1390–1461), Count Palatinate, raised Mosbach to his residence, temporarily regent of the Electoral Palatinate on behalf of his brother, Elector Ludwig III. , Educator of Elector Ludwig IV.
16th Century
- Quirinus Reuter (1558–1613), Reformed theologian
- Nicolaus Cisnerus (1529–1583), lawyer , rector of the University of Heidelberg , assessor at the Reich Chamber of Commerce , in 1959 the secondary school was named after him
- Johannes Cisnerus , (before 1581–1620), hospital preacher in Heidelberg
17th century
- Sylvester Samuel Anhorn von Hartwiss (1659–1736), physician, member of the council and city physician of St. Gallen
18th century
- Wilhelm Stern (1792–1873), educator, seminar director and friend of Pestalozzis
19th century
- Johann Philipp Schifferdecker (1811–1887), brewer , founder of the "Portland-Cement-Werk, Heidelberg, Schifferdecker & Sons" (today HeidelbergCement )
- Josef Altmann (1818–1874), spiritual member of the Upper Council of the Israelites of Baden and rabbi
- August Roth (1823–1889), forester
- Adolf Buchenberger (1848–1904), Minister of Finance of Baden
- Gustav Habermehl (1860–1931), born in Lohrbach, member of the Baden state parliament
- Heinrich Hebting (1865–1933), lawyer, Baden state commissioner
- Richard Nutzinger (1867–1950), Protestant theologian, folklorist and family historian
- Fritz Heinsheimer (1897–1958), expressionist, later realistic painter, who was ostracized during the Nazi era
- Ernestine Thren (1899–1981), grew up in the Diedesheim district, was a nurse in the Stalingrad pocket during World War II , and was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal for her services during a smallpox epidemic in 1958 in Heidelberg and the surrounding area.
20th century
- Emil Alfeld (1900–1961), inventor and singing farmer, born in the Neckarelz district
- Heinrich Bender (1902–1943), rugby and rowing athlete, born in the Lohrbach district
- Julius Held (1905–2002), art historian
- Rhabanus Erbacher (* 1937), Roman Catholic theologian and musician
- Martin Grüber (* 1937), local politician, former Lord Mayor of Offenburg
- Klaus Michael Grüber (1941–2008), theater and opera director, born in the Neckarelz district
- Michael Wollenschläger (1946–2008), professor of labor and social law
- Hans Günter Brauch (* 1947), political scientist
- Werner Pokorny (* 1949), sculptor
- Heiko Pippig (* 1951), painter
- Michael Zittel (* 1951), actor
- Bernd Förster (* 1956), national soccer player .
- Karlheinz Förster (* 1958), national soccer player
- Claudius Josef Eckert (* 1969), Abbot of St. Bonifaz and Andechs
- Joachim Stadler (* 1970), soccer player with 130 first division appearances
- Oliver Caruso (* 1974), world weightlifting champion and Olympic bronze medalist
- Elissa Huber (* 1987), opera singer
- Yannick Mayer (* 1991), racing cyclist
- Nico Müller (* 1993), weightlifter
- Judith Steinert (* 1995), soccer player
- Dennis Geiger (* 1998), soccer player
Other persons connected with the city of Mosbach
16th Century
- Gerhard Eobanus Geldenhauer (1537–1614), Protestant theologian , pastor of Neckarelz
- Johannes Posthius (1537–1597), poet and doctor
- Johann Philipp von Hohensax (1550–1596), councilor, governor and chief magistrate in Mosbach
17th century
- Bartholomäus Anhorn the Younger (1616–1700), Evangelical Reformed pastor and historian, 1649–1660 in Mosbach
- Johann Michael Speicher (1649–1724), from 1699 Amstschultheiß in Mosbach, patron of the Franciscan monastery
18th century
- Auguste Pattberg (1769–1850), poet, was associated with the Neckarelz district
- Alexander von Dusch (1789–1876), statesman from Baden , formerly a legal intern in Mosbach
19th century
- Adolf Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein (1842–1912), Foreign Minister of the German Empire, formerly a public prosecutor in Mosbach
- Augusta Bender (1846–1924), teacher , (native) writer
- Walter Lilie (1876–1924), drawing teacher in Mosbach
- Franz Roser (1882–1945), Catholic parish priest from 1915 until his death
- Friedrich Ludwig Scharf (1884–1965), uniform draftsman, in Mosbach from around 1945
- Theodor von Sponeck (1896–1982), student in Mosbach, lieutenant general in the Wehrmacht
- Alfons Beil (1896–1997), priest and author , formerly vicar in Mosbach
- Ernestine Thren (1899–1981), who was a nurse in the Stalingrad pocket during World War II and who won the Florence Nightingale Medal for her services during a smallpox epidemic in Heidelberg and the surrounding area in 1958, was in contact with the Neckarelz district
20th century
- Ernst Brüche (1900–1985), physicist and pioneer of electron optics
- Max Güde (1902–1984), lawyer , CDU politician, former public prosecutor in Mosbach
- Hans Riehm (1902–1984), agricultural chemist and soil scientist
- Heinz Lieberich (1905–1999), legal historian
- Ernst Ditton (1912–1977), District Administrator in Mosbach 1954–72
- Helmut Schreyer (1912–1984), computer pioneer , Konrad Zuses employee
- Oskar Saier (1932–2008), Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Freiburg , formerly chaplain in Mosbach
- Fanny Morweiser (1940-2014), crime writer
- Fritz Raff (1948–2011), director of the Saarländischer Rundfunk , 1985–1990 Lord Mayor of Mosbach
- Rudolf Landauer (* 1948), journalist, winner of the Baden-Württemberg Archeology Prize 2008
- Georg Gänswein (* 1956), private secretary of Pope Benedict XVI. , formerly a deacon in the parish of St. Maria in the districts of Neckarelz and Diedesheim
Badener of the year
On July 26, 2006 , Mayor Gerhard Lauth , who was then from Württemberg , received the Badener of the Year 2006 award from the federal freedom instead of Baden-Württemberg from its president Ingrid Müller on behalf of all Mosbach residents. The reason for this award, which connects the Mosbachers from the Electoral Palatinate and only for 200 years from Baden with award winners such as Regina Halmich , Winfried Schäfer or Edmund Becker , was a hit parade of the SWR in which the Mosbachers (as the only citizens of Baden) did the Badnerlied voted first, while Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin was voted first in the whole of Baden-Württemberg .
literature
- Files of the General State Archives in Karlsruhe.
- Records in the baptismal register of the city of Mosbach as well as in the deanery and parish offices.
Web links
- Website of the city of Mosbach at www.mosbach.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Werner Messner: Two Mosbach honorary citizens . In: Unser Land , Heidelberg 1994, pp. 120–121.
- ↑ Master carpenter is new honorary citizen. Heilbronner Voice , May 26, 2010, accessed on May 29, 2010 .