List of personalities of the city of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate

The following list shows personalities who are closely connected with the city of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate .

Honorary citizen

The following people were or are honorary citizens of the city of Neumarkt (selection):

• Franz Seraph Schweninger (1816–1891), medical officer of the Neumarkt district court
• Joseph Weißenfeld (Mayor and Member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies)
• Arnold Graf (retired mayor)
• Herbert Fischer ( former member of the Bavarian State Parliament and long-time speaker)
• Emil Silberhorn (former mayor)
• Leokadia and Johann Donauer (founders of the Donauer Foundation, which financed the Heubrücke kindergarten and an expansion of the clinic, among other things)
• Kaspar Hirschbeck (former pastor retired from St. Johannes, promoter of church art and culture in the city)
• Willi Gebhard (former mayor)
• Alois Karl (Member of the Bundestag and Former Mayor)
• Monsignor Richard Distler (former pastor of the court church "To Our Lady" and dean of the Neumarkt deanery)
• Ernst-Herbert Pfleiderer (entrepreneur and art patron)

It is repeatedly mentioned that the city administration does not distance itself from the award of honorary citizenship to Adolf Hitler in the Third Reich, or that it officially revokes it again. This reluctance is justified by the fact that honorary citizenship in Bavaria automatically expires with death.

sons and daughters of the town

Christopher III. from Denmark

The list contains a chronological overview of important personalities who were born in today's Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate. It is irrelevant whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Neumarkt. Many moved away after their birth and became known elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

• Christopher III. (1416–1448), King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
• Otto II von Pfalz-Neumarkt (1435–1499), Count Palatine, bride and groom at the “Landshut Wedding”, astronomer and mathematician
• Hans Pötzlinger (around 1535–1603), Renaissance sculptor
• Hartmann Schopper (1542 – after 1595), humanistic poet
• Caspar Schoppe (1576–1649), Counter Reformation publicist
• Johann Conrad Rhumel (1597–1661) , Doctor of Medicinal Art, Feldscher and physician in Nuremberg
• Johann Pharamund Rhumel , (around 1598 – after 1638), doctor, mathematician and alchemist
• Albert Hausner (1647–1710), abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Waldsassen
• Wolfgang Martin Gabriel von Fischer (1676–1740), doctor and alchemist
• Johann Joseph Ildephons Michl (1708–1770), composer, cathedral music director, violinist
• Egid Löwenkron Barthscherer (Bartscherer) (1730–1799), abbot (religious name Aegidius), professor of philosophy and theology
• Joseph Willibald Michl (1745–1816), composer, double bass player, music publisher Online Online RISM
• Veit Jung , the so-called "Torschmied", saved the city from destruction by Austrian troops (see also sagas and legends, heroes )
• Eugen Pausch (1758–1838), church musician, composer and religious
• Martin Schrettinger (1772–1851), library scientist
• Michael Glossner (1837–1909), Catholic theologian, Subregens in Regensburg, representative of neo-scholasticism
• Joseph Goldschmidt (1841–1896), entrepreneur and co-founder of Express-Fahrradwerke AG, the first bicycle factory on the European continent
• Lorenz Hiltner (1862–1923), agricultural scientist and director of the Royal Bavarian Agricultural Botanical Institute
• Dietrich Eckart (1868–1923), poet, idea generator of Adolf Hitler, editor of the Völkischer Beobachter
• Max Feldbauer (1869–1948), painter
• Wilhelm Kirchbauer (1875–1936), architect
• Ernst Hierl (1880–1981), social democrat, expressionist writer and reform pedagogue.
• Johann Baptist Kurz (1881–1968), Catholic priest, local researcher on Wolfram von Eschenbach and canon canon in Regensburg, honorary citizen of Wolframs-Eschenbach
• Albert Reich (1881–1942), painter
• August Rinaldi (1883–1962), film architect
• Michael Rackl (1883–1948), Bishop of Eichstätt
• Käthe Dorsch (1890–1957), actress
• Gerhard Scherer (1892–1944), monk
• Ludwig Ott (1906–1985), Catholic theology professor, dogmatist and Medievalist
• Theo Betz (1907–1996), retired Lord Mayor D., promoter of reconstruction, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
• Martin Albert (1909–1991), politician, former member of the Bavarian State Parliament
• Kurt Romstöck (1925–2017), Lord Mayor of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate
• Franz Xaver Gärtner (1925–1989), architect
• Margret Hölle (* 1927), poet
• Adolf Beck (1938–2009), politician, former member of the Bavarian State Parliament
• Alfons Dürr (* 1938), painter
• Herbert Fischer (1940–2019), city councilor and speaker and 1990–2008 member of the Bavarian State Parliament
• Hans G. Huber (1942–2014), entrepreneur, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• Alois Karl (* 1950), retired Lord Mayor D., Member of the Bundestag since 2005
• Karl-Heinz Radschinsky (* 1953), weightlifter
• Rudolf Hierl (* 1958), architect
• Mark Bender (* 1959), singer, songwriter and music producer
• Harry Meyer (* 1960), painter
• Peter-Maria Anselstetter (* 1961), actor and director, artistic director of the Theater Courage in Essen
• Lizzy Aumeier (* 1964), music cabaret artist and double bass player
• Stefan Körner (* 1968), politician (PIRATES)
• Birgit Lutz (* 1974), writer and expedition leader
• Marius Schwemmer (* 1977), church musician
• Oğuz Yılmaz (* 1991), member of the comedy trio Y-Titty
• Carina Dengler (* 1994), actress and singer

Other personalities associated with the city

• Eppelein von Gailingen (around 1320-1381), a Franconian robber baron, was executed by the wheel on May 15, 1381 in Neumarkt . The costs incurred at that time for the execution were not paid until 1998 on the occasion of the state horticultural show in Neumarkt by the city of Nuremberg with symbolic chocolate thalers
• Johann von Pfalz-Neumarkt (1383–1443), Count Palatine in Neumarkt, important architect of the city, fought several times against the Hussites
• Friedrich II of the Palatinate (1482–1556), Count Palatinate in Neumarkt and later Elector Palatinate, built the Count Palatine Palace in its present form
• Wolfgang von der Pfalz (1494–1558), governor of the Upper Palatinate
• Michael Ostendorfer (1490 or 1494–1559), painter and draftsman, court painter under Count Palatine Friedrich II.
• Dorothea von der Pfalz (1520–1580), Electress and wife of Frederick II, resisted the Reformation until her death
• Johann Conrad Rhumel (1574–1630) , doctor of medicine, physician and neo-Latin poet
• Christian von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein (1627–1675), governor in Neumarkt and member of the Fruit Bringing Society
• Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer (1845–1896), founded the Pfleiderer company in 1894 , which took over a sawmill in Neumarkt in 1919 and moved the management of the group here in 1944
• Anna Stephan, at the age of 111 (1892–2003) one of the oldest women in Germany
• Fritz Weithas (1921–2007), founder of the Fritz Weithas observatory on Mariahilfberg, holder of the Cross of Merit on ribbon
• Ludwig von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1901–1978), lord of the castle in Woffenbach from 1937 to 1950, second mayor of Woffenbach from 1956 to 1964, honorary citizen of Neumarkt
• Lothar Fischer (1933–2004), grew up in Neumarkt, an important post-war sculptor, co-founder of the artist group Spur
• Prelate Christoph Kühn (* 1963), formerly chaplain in the parish of St. Johannes, member of the diplomatic corps of the Vatican at various positions , a. a. in Rome and Vienna, since September 1, 2012 cathedral chapter in the diocese of Eichstätt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ prmeier: neumarktonline.de - Internet newspaper for Neumarkt. Retrieved June 12, 2017 . 
2. ↑ prmeier: neumarktonline.de - Internet newspaper for Neumarkt. Retrieved June 12, 2017 . 
3. ↑ prmeier: neumarktonline.de - Internet newspaper for Neumarkt. Retrieved November 28, 2017 . 
4. ↑ prmeier: neumarktonline.de - Internet newspaper for Neumarkt. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .