List of personalities of the city of Nürtingen

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Coat of arms of the city of Nürtingen

This list includes

  • personalities born in Nürtingen ,
  • People who had their sphere of activity in Nürtingen without being born there and
  • the honorary citizens of the city of Nürtingen

The first two sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Nürtingen

To 1900

  • Heinrich Schmid

  • Eberhard Christoph Canz

  • Christian Friedrich Duttenhofer

  • Karl August Friedrich von Duttenhofer

  • Johann Gottlieb von Süßkind

  • Carl Heinrich Ludwig Hoffmann

  • Albert Schaeffle

  • Gustav Siegle

  • Robert Wiedersheim

From 1901

Personalities who have worked or are working in Nürtingen

  • Sabina of Bavaria

  • Anna Maria of Brandenburg-Ansbach

  • Ursula von Pfalz-Veldenz-Lützelstein

  • Wilhelm Schickard

Famous people who have spent part of their life in Nürtingen without being born here:

  • Friedrich Holderlin

  • Friedrich Schelling

  • Eduard Mörike

  • Gustav von Rümelin

  • Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), poet; As the stepson of the mayor of Nürtingen, Johann Christoph Gock, spent his childhood and youth in Nürtingen and attended the Nürtingen Latin School .
  • Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854), philosopher; attended the Latin school in Nürtingen.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Fischer (1779–1836) was senior bailiff in Nürtingen from 1824 to 1836 and member of the state parliament from 1819 to 1825.
  • Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), poet and pastor; worked as a vicar in various positions in the area around Nürtingen and lived in the city for some time.
  • Gustav von Rümelin (1815–1889), educator and politician, rector of the Nürtingen Latin School, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, Chancellor of the University of Tübingen, member of the state parliament
  • Adam Friedrich Gabler (1834–1915), building contractor, member of the state parliament from 1889 to 1906.
  • Julius Kornbeck (1839–1920), professor, German landscape painter; lived and worked from 1887 to 1920 in his little castle in Nürtingen-Oberensingen.
  • Albert von Melchior (1844–1913), manufacturer from Württemberg
  • Gottlob Eitle (1854–1881), German preceptor administrator, teacher and socialist publicist
  • Hermann Planck (1869–1913), German district notary and socialist publicist
  • Jakob Kocher (1871–1944), teacher, local history researcher, folder of documents of the city, author of an important historical work of the city.
  • Anna Haag (1888–1982), writer, pacifist, politician and women's rights activist. She lived in Nürtingen for several years.
  • Max Rehm (1896–1992), lawyer and historian, he lived and died in Nürtingen
  • Johannes Knecht (1904–1990) was the founding director (1949–1967) of the Higher Agricultural School / Engineering School Nürtingen, which has since developed into the HfWU University of Applied Sciences .
  • Ottomar Domnick (1907–1989), doctor, art collector and director; founded the Domnick art collection on the Oberensinger Höhe.
  • Otto Kübler (1907–1992), local painter and animal painter, lived in Nürtingen for 50 years.
  • Ingo Herzog (1913–1980), 1956–1978 editor-in-chief of the Nürtinger Zeitung
  • Walter Staffa (1917–2011), a functionary for expellees, was a parliamentary group leader in a free electorate in the Nürtingen city council.
  • Hans Binder (1924–2005), secondary school teacher and cave explorer, cultural advisor
  • Klaus Harpprecht (1927–2016), German journalist and book author
  • Hans-Otto Schwarz (1929–2011), member of the state parliament, Minister of Economics of Baden-Württemberg; lived in Nürtingen-Oberensingen for many years.
  • Alexander Pflum (1930–2012), football player, innkeeper and local politician
  • Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder (1933–2015), politician (CDU) and sports functionary; began his professional career as a consultant at the Nürtingen district office.
  • Peter Härtling (1933–2017), writer; spent his youth in Nürtingen and attended grammar school here; since October 2004 tenth honorary citizen.
  • Rolf Kosiek (* 1934), publicist, politician ( NPD ), multifunctional right-wing scene
  • Egon Eigenhaler (* 1938 in Plochingen), commercial artist, politician (Republican), 1996–2001 member of the state parliament, lives in Nürtingen
  • Ulrich Brixner (1941–2009), manager in the cooperative financial network; spent his childhood and youth in Nürtingen.
  • Herbert Henzler (* 1941), economics professor and management consultant; spent his childhood and school days in Neckarhausen.
  • Gerhard Knecht (1942–2020), agricultural economist, university professor and prorector at the HfWU
  • Helmut Rau (* 1950), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament, was Minister of Education from October 2005 to February 2010 and then Minister in the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg until May 2011 ; grew up in Nürtingen and graduated from the Max-Planck-Gymnasium .
  • Otmar Heirich (* 1951), Lord Mayor from 2003 to 2019
  • Martin Umbach (* 1956), actor and voice actor; spent his childhood in Nürtingen.
  • Herbert Briem (* 1957) is a former German soccer player and coach. He lives in Nürtingen.
  • Harald Schmidt (* 1957), cabaret artist, actor and television entertainer; spent childhood and youth in Nürtingen, attended the Nürtingen Hölderlin-Gymnasium and was organist in the Catholic parish of Nürtingen-Frickenhausen.
  • Guido Wolf (* 1961), lawyer and politician (CDU), President of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg, CDU top candidate for the state elections in 2016. From 1996 to 2002 first mayor of the city of Nürtingen.
  • Nils Schmid (born July 11, 1973 in Trier), lawyer and politician (SPD), Minister of Finance and Economy, Deputy Prime Minister. He grew up in Nürtingen.
  • Wolff-Christoph Fuss (* 1976), football commentator, spent childhood and youth in Nürtingen, attended the Nürtingen Hölderlin-Gymnasium
  • Hosam el Miniawy (* 1976), FDP politician, lives in Nürtingen
  • Stefan Schumacher (* 1981), racing cyclist, third in the 2007 World Championship, two-time stage winner in the 2008 Tour de France . He lives in Nürtingen.

The honorary citizens of Nürtingen

The honorary citizenship is the highest municipal award of the city of Nürtingen . So far ten people have been made honorary citizens. Awards in the Third Reich are excluded .

Note: The listing is done chronologically according to the date of award.

Theodor Eisenlohr
Fritz Ruoff
Peter Härtling
  1. Theodor Eisenlohr (born April 30, 1805 in Herrenberg; † August 31, 1869 in Zurich)
    Rector of the teachers' college
    Awarded in 1868
  2. Matthäus Baur
    City school hot
    Awarded in 1930
  3. Hermann Weilenmann
    mayor
    Awarded in 1948
  4. Robert Reiner
    Industrialist in the USA
    Awarded in 1949
  5. August Pfänder
    mayor
    Awarded in 1959
  6. Paul Jordery
    Mayor of the twin town Oullins
    Awarded in 1966
  7. Walter Rauch
    Factory owner, co-founder of Metabo
    Awarded 1970
  8. Karl Gonser (* 1914 in Tailfingen, † 1991 in Nürtingen)
    Lord Mayor
    Awarded in 1979
  9. Fritz Ruoff (born December 31, 1906 in Nürtingen; † October 5, 1986 ibid)
    Painter and sculptor
    Awarded in 1986
  10. Peter Härtling (born November 13, 1933 in Chemnitz; † July 10, 2017 in Rüsselsheim)
    Writer and journalist
    Awarded in 2004