List of personalities of the city of Niederstetten

This list of personalities of the city of Niederstetten shows the mayors, honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city of Niederstetten and their districts ( Niederstetten with the hamlets of Eichhof , Ermershausen and Sichertshausen, the house and castle of Haltebergstetten , the farmstead Rehhof and the houses Dreischwingen and Neuweiler, Adolzhausen , Herrenzimmern with the farm Lower mill, Algetshausen with the hamlet Weilerhof, the homestead Höllhof and the houses Fuggermühle, Reutalsmühle and Stegmühle, Pfitzingen , Rinderfeld with the hamlets Dunzendorf and Streichental, trunk Hausen , Vorbachzimmern , wormwood Hausen with the hamlet Ebertsbronn, Wildlife Bach with the hamlets Hachtel , Heimberg and Wolkersfelden, Höllhof and Schönhof and the Landturm residential area), as well as other personalities associated with Niederstetten. The list does not claim to be complete.

mayor

The following people were mayors of Niederstetten:

• (?) - 1876: City schoolboy Wilhelm Kohler
• 1876–1887: Stadtschultheiß Müller
• 1887– (?): Stadtschultheiß Ebert
• (?) - 1937: Jakob Schroth
• 1937–1945: Karl Weber
• 1945–1947: Huss
• 1948: Wollinger
• 1948–1970: Karl Weber
• 1970–2002: Kurt Finkenberger
• 2002–2018: Rüdiger Zibold
• Since 2018: Heike Naber, from May 2, 2018

Honorary citizen

The city of Niederstetten granted honorary citizenship to the following people who have made a special contribution to the well-being or reputation of the municipality:

• Wilhelm Bernheim, factory owner ("owner of a top store in St. Gallen"), revoked honorary citizenship in 1933
• Kraushaar, railway official, co-founder of the local NSDAP group. Honorary Citizen 1933
• Kurt Finkenberger (* 1940), former mayor of Niederstetten
• Gottlob Haag (1926–2008), Hohenloher dialect poet
• Albert Sammt (1889–1982), commander of the airship Zeppelin II
• Jakob Schroth (1886–1977), former mayor of Niederstetten. Honorary citizenship on 70th birthday (1956)
• Carl Weber, former mayor of Niederstetten

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Niederstetten (or in a district of today's urban area of ​​Niederstetten):

18th century

• 1770, November 8, Friedrich Witt † January 3, 1836, conductor and composer
• 1798, August 13, Gottlieb Weissmann , † December 22, 1859 in Stuttgart, fossil collector and pharmacist

19th century

• 1843, May 28, Jakob Stern , † April 1, 1911 in Stuttgart, rabbi and politician (SPD), writer
• 1855, February 21, Christian Speyer , † October 5, 1929 in Stuttgart, painter, born in Vorbachzimmer
• 1864, October 26, Gebhard Mehring , † October 10, 1931 in Stuttgart, Württemberg regional historian
• 1865, May 9, Leonhard Bauer † November 19, 1964 in Shamlan , missionary teacher at the Syrian orphanage in Jerusalem and pioneer of Arabic dialectology
• 1873, February 21, Walther Bacmeister , † June 14, 1966 in Stuttgart, chief public prosecutor in Stuttgart and ornithologist
• 1874, August 20, Johann Klein , † May 22, 1956 in Bad Mergentheim, born in Vorbachzimmer, farmer and member of parliament
• 1885, August 30, Gottlob Dill , † January 30, 1968 in Stuttgart, lawyer, Württemberg ministerial official and SS-Oberführer

20th century

• 1926, Gottlob Haag , † 2008, poet ( Hohenlohe dialect literature), was born in Wildentierbach
• 1929, September 13th, Günther Busch , † 1995, editor for edition suhrkamp , was born in Wermutshausen
• 1946, September 21, Hartmut Schmidt , composer
• 1954, December 6th Angela Keppler , German sociologist and university professor

Other persons connected with Niederstetten

19. – 20. century

• Hermann Umfrid (* 1892; † 1934 in Niederstetten), pastor in Niederstetten, who resisted National Socialism
• Franz Künstler (* 1900; † 2008), last veteran of the Austro-Hungarian Army who fought in the First World War
• Gertrud Zelinsky (* 1937), writer
• During the Nazi era murdered inhabitants (1933-1945): The ending of the period of National Socialism 1933-1945 murdered people of Niederstetten be in the article of Niederstetten Jewish community mentioned.
• Günther Emig (* 1953), until 2018 director of the Kleist Sembdner archive in Heilbronn
• Hans Gerhard Höller (* 1965), non-fiction author

literature

• Max Stern: Homeland book of the municipality Niederstetten with the sub-municipalities Ermershausen and Sichertshausen. Knenlein, Niederstetten 1930.
• Walter Krüger (Red.): 650 years of the city of Niederstetten. City of Niederstetten, Niederstetten 1991 (= publications on local history and local history in Württembergisch Franconia. 4).

Web links

Commons : Personalities of the city of Niederstetten  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the city of Niederstetten at www.niederstetten.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franconian news: Niederstetten. A bang at the end of the citizens' meeting. The incumbent will not run for a third term in the mayoral election in Niederstetten next spring. Rüdiger Zibold is no longer running . July 7, 2017. Online at www.fnweb.de. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
2. ↑ Sebastian Mayer: Mayoral election 2018 - City of Niederstetten . ( Niederstetten.de [accessed on February 6, 2018]).
3. ↑ Bruno Stern: It was like that. The life and fate of a Jewish emigrant. An autobiography. Sigmaringen 1985, pp. 6, 37, 60
4. ↑ Bruno Stern: It was like that. The life and fate of a Jewish emigrant. An autobiography. Sigmaringen 1985, p. 60
5. ↑ Niederstetten's honorary citizen Albert Sammt. Zeppelin captain was unique. In: Hohenloher Tageblatt. April 24, 2014.
6. ^ Correction of the name Carl Weber after 650 years in Niederstetten (see literature); Mention of the honorary citizen Finkenberger in awarding the badge of honor of the state of Baden-Württemberg to Walter Krüger and Wolfgang Dornberger ( memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on Niederstetten.de