List of personalities of the city of Nördlingen

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The soccer player Gerd Müller grew up in this house on Bergerstrasse.

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who worked in Nördlingen

Paracelsus
  • Nikolaus Rumel , pharmacist in Nördlingen from 1444 to 1449, author of the city's first medicine tax
  • Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514), author of Schedel's world chronicle , practiced as a doctor in Nördlingen
  • Bartholomäus Metlinger (* unknown in Augsburg, † around 1491), city doctor in Nördlingen
  • Ulrich Tengler (* around 1447; † after 1511), Nördlinger town clerk, later Landvogt in Höchstädt (Danube), author of the lay mirror
  • Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493–1541), doctor, alchemist, mystic, lay theologian and philosopher, spent 1529/1530 in Nördlingen and wrote several works here
  • Kaspar Löner (1493–1546), composer and reformer
  • Theobald Billicanus (1493–1554), theologian and reformer
  • Hans Schäufelin (also Schäufelein, Schäuffelein, Scheifelen, Scheuflin) (* around 1480/1485; † around 1538 or 1540), painter, graphic artist, especially wood cutter and book illustrator of the Dürer period
  • Hieronymus Wolf (1516–1580), humanist and philologist
  • Maria Holl (1549–1634), withstood torture in the notorious witch trials, upset the “infallibility” of the accusers and initiated the end of the witch trials
  • Wilhelm Friedrich Lutz (1551–1597), superintendent and early critic of the witch trials
  • Lukas Schultes (around 1593 - 1634), printer, newspaper editor and publisher
  • Paul Prescher (1628–1695), organ builder
  • Johann Caspar Schiller (1723–1796), officer and court gardener of the Duke of Württemberg, father of Friedrich Schiller , lived in Nördlingen from 1743–1745
  • Wilhelm Ludwig Wekhrlin (1739–1792), journalist and writer of the Enlightenment
  • Karl Ludwig von Knebel (1744–1834), translator and poet
  • Christoph Nopitsch (1758–1824), composer, city cantor
  • Johann Philipp Beck (1766–1840), chief preacher and teacher
  • Wilhelm Hauff (1802–1827), writer
  • Johann Matthias von Meyer (1814–1882), clergyman and senior consistorial president of the regional church in Bavaria, was city pastor and sub-rector of the Latin school of Nördlingen
  • Karl Brater (1819–1869), editor and politician
  • Ludwig Müller (1831–1910), teacher at the Latin school, head of the city library (from 1864) and the city archive (from 1867); Appointed to the State and University Library of Strasbourg in 1872
  • Friedrich Völklein (1880–1960), Bavarian local poet
  • Ernst Niekisch (1889–1967), socialist politician and writer, grew up in Nördlingen
  • Gustav Wulz (1899–1981), Nördlinger city archivist from 1932 to 1964
  • Karl Schlierf (1902–1990), painter
  • Fritz Hopf (1907–1999), entrepreneur, patron and founder
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger (* 1929), writer, went to school in Nördlingen and graduated from high school here
  • Dieter Adler (* 1936), sports journalist
  • Michael Maximilian Scherbaum (* 1937), master stonemason at the St. Georgs Bauhütte
  • Franz Greno (* 1948), printer and publisher
  • Ursula Kocher (* 1968), Germanist and university professor, went to school in Nördlingen and graduated from high school here

The “Golden Book” of the city of Nördlingen

Entries in the "Golden Book"
date Surname occasion
2005
June 20, 2005 Beate Merk, Minister of State for Justice 125th anniversary of the foundation of the Löpsingen volunteer fire brigade
2006
February 16, 2006 Oleg Popov Own 75th birthday on the anniversary tour with the Great Russian State Circus
April 9, 2006 Wilhelm Baierl Awarded the letter of honor from the city of Nördlingen.
April 23, 2006 Lieselotte Hopf Presentation of the Golden Citizen Medal
April 28, 2006 Alois Glück, President of the State Parliament Visit to Nördlingen
April 28, 2006 Paul Kling Farewell as Lord Mayor
May 12, 2006 Ernst Openner, regional bishop 30th anniversary of the Rieser Kulturtage association
May 12, 2006 Walter Mixa, bishop 30th anniversary of the Rieser Kulturtage association
May 21, 2006 Albert Lanzinner Awarded the letter of honor from the city of Nördlingen
May 29, 2006 Erwin Huber, Minister of State 50th anniversary of the St. Michael Löpsingen shooting club
July 27, 2006 Werner Schnappauf, Minister of State Visit to Nördlingen
July 27, 2006 Otmar Bernhard, State Secretary Visit to Nördlingen
17th September 2006 Paul Kling, Former Mayor, and his wife Helmi Awarded honorary citizenship to Paul Kling
December 17, 2006 Friedrun Meyer Awarded the Christel DeHaan Social Prize
2007
March 23, 2007 Peter Frank, Minister of State Great farmers day
March 23, 2007 Thomas Goppel, Minister of State Invitation from the Anton Jaumann Foundation
September 16, 2007 Barbara Stamm, 1st Vice President of the Bavarian State Parliament "Historic City Wall Festival".
October 17, 2007 Michael Scherbaum Awarded the letter of honor from the city of Nördlingen
2008
February 28, 2008 Chang Junhui, Counselor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China Visit to the Technology Center West Bavaria
March 7, 2008 Joachim Herrmann , Minister of State for the Interior Awarding of the Rieser Heimatpreis 2008 by Raiffeisen-Volksbank Ries eG
April 17, 2008 Dagmar Wöhrl, Parliamentary State Secretary Visit to the Technologie Centrum Westbayern
June 8, 2008 Sigmund Böckh Presentation of the Golden Citizen Medal
July 13, 2008 Hans Wiedemann Presentation of the Golden Citizen Medal
July 19, 2008 Gerd Müller Naming of the Gerd Müller Stadium in the Rieser Sportpark
July 19, 2008 Soccer Bundesliga team of FC Bayern Munich Naming of the Gerd Müller Stadium
August 8, 2008 Günther Beckstein, Prime Minister Invitation to the company SPN Schwaben Präzision Fritz Hopf GmbH
September 8, 2008 Representative of the Diakonisches Werk Donau-Ries and the Caritas Association Donau-Ries Awarded the Christel DeHaan Social Prize
October 26, 2008 Gertraud Kemmeter Awarded the letter of honor from the city of Nördlingen
October 26, 2008 Upper town of Olomouc (Olomouc) in the Czech Republic Conclusion of a town twinning
2009
January 25, 2009 Manfred Sperrle Awarded the letter of honor from the city of Nördlingen
February 1, 2009 Helmut Beyschlag Presentation of the Golden Citizen Medal
March 3, 2009 Joachim Kaiser, critic for music, literature and theater Visit to Joachim Kaiser in the Meyer's Keller restaurant
March 9, 2009 Michael Grabow, regional bishop Visit to Nördlingen
April 15, 2009 Horst Köhler , Federal President, and Eva Luise Köhler Visit to Nördlingen
July 6, 2009 Oliver Kahn As part of the “I can do it” tour in the Maria Stern secondary school
July 27, 2009 Christine Haderthauer, Minister of State Opening of the 3rd Bavarian Special Olympics
July 27, 2009 S. k. H. Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Manfred Schnelldorfer and Klaus Wolfermann, special envoy Opening of the 3rd Bavarian Special Olympics
October 22, 2009 Holger Raasch, retired German Consul General D. Handover of the “German Canadian Congress 2009 Heritage Awards” to Aksel Rinck
October 29, 2009 Markus Söder, Minister of State Visit to the annual meeting of official nature conservation in Bavaria
November 29, 2009 Gerhard Martin Awarded the letter of honor from the city of Nördlingen
2010
January 12, 2010 Maria Furtwängler Stay in Nördlingen on the occasion of the shooting of the film Vom Glück just a shadow
June 6, 2010 Jean-Claude Zicola Awarding of the letter of honor to the mayor of Riom on the occasion of the 40-year city partnership
June 7, 2010 Martin Zeil , Minister of State Visit of the State Minister for Technology at the TCW in Nördlingen
June 26, 2010 Ernst Messerschmid and Stanley Love Visit of the two astronauts in the Ries crater museum
June 26, 2010 Dieter Stöffler , Wolf-Uwe Reimold, Gerhard Haszprunar , District Assembly President Jürgen

Reichert, District Administrator Stefan Rößle

20th anniversary of the Rieskrater Museum
September 19, 2010 Hans Dieter Beck Visit of the patron and honorary citizen on the occasion of the 10th Historical City Wall Festival
17th October 2010 Waltraud Eberhardt Awarded the Christel DeHaan Social Prize
December 12, 2010 Rudolf Beck Awarded the letter of honor from the city of Nördlingen
2011
November 1, 2011 Markus Söder , Minister of State Lecture on Reformation Day in St. George's Church in Nördlingen
2012
June 30, 2012 Tony Tan Keng Yam , President of Singapore During his visit to the Federal Republic of Germany
19th October 2012 Annette Schavan , politician During a visit to the Technologie Centrum Westbayern
2013
11th March 2013 Franz Josef Pschierer , State Secretary Event in the Hermann-Keßler-Halle
19th July 2013 H. Julian Gordy , Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the USA Visit to the church district of Augsburg and Swabia
August 30, 2013 Dai Jiqiang , Chinese Consul for Education and Science Visit Nördlingen and the Ries
August 30, 2013 To Wan Ying , Chinese Consul General of Munich Visit Nördlingen and the Ries
20th November 2013 Heinrich Bedford-Strohm , regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria Event for the Day of Repentance and Prayer

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Wegner: Rumel, Nikolaus. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1276.
  2. ^ Adolf Haas: Wilhelm Hauff's relations with Nördlingen and the Ries. In: 25th year book of the Historical Association for Nördlingen and the Ries 1971. Nördlingen 1971, p. 92 ff.
  3. ↑ Annual reports of the city of Nördlingen