List of personalities of the city of Offenburg

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This list of personalities of the city of Offenburg gathers the honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city as well as other personalities who lived and worked in the Baden city ​​of Offenburg . It does not claim to be complete.

Honorary citizen

The city of Offenburg has granted the following people honorary citizenship (year of the award):

  • 1836: Franz Kern, senior bailiff
  • 1836: Franz Anton Freiherr von Neveu , chief forest master
  • 1847: Franz Brückner, finance advisor and domain administrator
  • 1853: Karl Ruppert, post counselor and chief engineer
  • 1953: André Friedrich, sculptor
  • 1862: Franz Freiherr von Roggenbach , Prime Minister
  • 1928: Fritz Hermann, Lord Mayor
  • 1928: Georg Monsch , city councilor
  • 1951: Josef Holler , Lord Mayor from 1921 to 1934
  • 1963: Franz Burda , publisher
  • 1969: Aimé Welter, Mayor of Lons-le-Saunier
  • 1969: René Feit, gym. Professor in Lons-le-Saunier
  • 1976: Karl Heitz (1900–1977), Lord Mayor from 1948 to 1975
  • 1977: Eugen End, Mayor
  • 1979: Henri Auger, Mayor of Lons-le-Saunier
  • 1989: Aenne Burda , publisher
  • 2000: Hubert Burda , publisher

Honorary citizenships that were awarded during the Nazi era are not listed in the city's official list of honorary citizens. These are the following people: Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , Reich Chancellor and NSDAP leader Adolf Hitler , the Baden Gauleiter Robert Wagner , the Offenburg NSDAP founder and Baden culture and justice minister Otto Wacker , the Baden interior minister and SS brigade leader Karl Pflaumer as well the Baden Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Economics Walter Köhler .

sons and daughters of the town

Until 1850

  • 1480, Paul Volz, † 1544 in Strasbourg, chronicler of the Schuttern monastery , abbot of the Hugshofen monastery until 1526, humanist
  • around 1487, Wolfgang Dachstein , † March 7, 1553 in Strasbourg, organist, composer and lyricist
  • 1573, Agnes Gotter (Gotter Neß / Nes), † 1654/55, who did not confess in a witch trial in 1629 despite torture. In 1951 the Gotter-Nes-Weg in Offenburg was named after her.
  • 1723, March 11, Franz Gabriel Fiessinger , † February 2, 1807 in London, engraver
  • 1735, April 23, Ildefons Haas , † May 30, 1791 in Ettenheimmünster, Benedictine monk, church musician and composer
  • 1768, August 27, Joseph Vitus Burg , † May 22, 1833, Bishop of Mainz
  • 1779, August 1st in the Bohlsbach district, Lorenz Oken ; † August 11, 1851 in Zurich, important natural scientist and founding rector of the University of Zurich
  • 1784, March 20, Alexander von Wulffen ; † February 21, 1861 in Potsdam, Prussian lieutenant general and member of the manor house
  • 1790, December 19, Joseph Anton Billet , Offenburg, salt merchant, mayor, builder of Villa Billet, † January 22, 1862
  • 1810, November 16, Gustav Rée , † August 7, 1869 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden politician; The Gustav-Rée facility in Offenburg is named after him
  • 1816, April 1, Albert Bürklin , † July 8, 1890 in Karlsruhe, master builder, engineer and writer and member of the state parliament
  • 1823, April 18, Franz Volk , † June 1, 1890, revolutionary, doctor, historian, mayor; the Franz-Volk-Straße in Offenburg was named after him
  • 1824, April 7, Karl Schaible , † November 21, 1899 in Heidelberg, doctor, revolutionary, linguist and writer
  • 1838, September 22nd in Windschläg, Carl Jutz , † August 7th, 1869 in Koblenz-Pfaffendorf, German animal painter
  • 1845, November 5 in Bohlsbach, Theodor Wacker , † November 9, 1921 in Freiburg, clergyman and politician
  • 1847, August 26, Georg Monsch , † February 23, 1934, politician (SPD), honorary citizen; Offenburg's largest elementary, secondary and technical secondary school is named after him
  • 1849, January 11, Joseph Belli , writer, † August 19, 1927 in Gengenbach
  • 1849, March 9, Josef Kohler , † August 3, 1919 in Charlottenburg, universal lawyer and writer

1851-1900

  • 1854, February 9, Adolf Geck , † April 13, 1942, first Social Democrat in the Presidium of the Second Chamber of Baden and member of the Reichstag; after it was Adolf Dude street named in Offenburg
  • 1855, June 29, Emil Nussbaum , † August 20, 1936 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden Oberamtmann and Privy Councilor
  • 1859, October 18, Friedrich August Haselwander , † March 14, 1932 in Offenburg, engineer
  • 1864, August 28, Franz Karl Bühler , † 1940 in Grafeneck, blacksmith and painter
  • 1866, October 6, Karl Baur , † November 15, 1937 in Freiburg, Oberamtmann of Baden
  • 1867, August 8, Oskar Geck , † May 28, 1928 in Mannheim, journalist and politician (SPD)
  • 1868, April 8, Anton Fendrich , † January 6, 1949 in Freiburg im Breisgau, writer and politician (SPD)
  • 1872, August 11, Otto Vittali , † March 25, 1959, painter and glass painter
  • 1878, May 13, Adolf Basler , † January 21, 1945 in Görlitz, physician and university professor
  • 1880, February 21, Franz Knapp , † June 28, 1973 in Konstanz, administrative lawyer, politician and Lord Mayor of Konstanz
  • 1883, May 16, Otto Gruber , † January 24, 1957 in Aachen, architect and rector of the RWTH Aachen
  • 1888, June 19, Emil Sutor , † August 13, 1974 in Karlsruhe, sculptor and sculptor
  • 1892, February 8, Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß , † January 13, 1974 in Huppert, psychologist and racial theorist, honored as Righteous Among the Nations ; After his involvement in National Socialism became known, the honor was withdrawn in 1996.
  • 1892, November 1, Heinrich Reinle , † April 9, 1945 in Sinsheim, President of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court during the National Socialist era
  • 1895, September 6, Tell Geck , † October 3, 1986 in Stuttgart, painter and musician
  • 1896, January 1, Hermann Schilli , † August 28, 1981 in Freiburg im Breisgau, founder and museum director of the Black Forest open-air museum Vogtsbauernhof
  • 1896, January 24, Theodor von Sponeck , † June 13, 1982 in Heidenheim an der Brenz, officer and lieutenant general in World War II
  • 1896, February 14, Richard-Eugen Dörr , † August 11, 1975 in Mölln, engineer, chemist and industrialist
  • 1897, November 25, Karl Seckinger , † December 23, 1978 in Karlsruhe, sculptor
  • 1899, August 6, Otto Wacker , † February 14, 1940 in Karlsruhe, Minister of Education in Baden, member of the Reichstag and SS-Oberführer
  • 1900, January 17, Karl Heitz , † July 8, 1977 in Offenburg, Lord Mayor of the City of Offenburg

1901-1950

  • 1903, August 2, Gretel Haas-Gerber , † January 20, 1998 in Offenburg, painter
  • 1905, June 12, Alfred Tritschler † December 31, 1970 in Offenberg, photographer
  • 1905, September 26, Camill Wurz , † February 9, 1986 in Ottersweier, German CDU politician (including President of the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament)
  • 1906, February 24, Lorenz Huber , † October 6, 1989 in Karlsruhe, football player
  • 1906, August 29, Hans Meier-Welcker , † January 1, 1983 in Freiburg im Breisgau, military historian
  • 1909, July 28, Aenne Burda , † November 3, 2005 in Offenburg, German publisher of magazines
  • 1911, August 18, Hugo Hauser , † June 9, 1980 in Sasbach, Baden judge and German politician (CDU)
  • 1913, Arthur Klemt , † 1985 in Olching, inventor and tape recorder manufacturer
  • 1913, August 12, Waldemar Zipperer , † July 2011, entrepreneur
  • 1915, May 1, Hanns Martin Schleyer , † October 18, 1977 near Mulhouse, France, manager and economic functionary
  • 1919, October 8, Hans Frank , † August 7, 2001, mayor of Furtwangen, member of the state parliament
  • 1921, May 2, Gerold Benz , † July 23, 1987 in Karlsruhe, journalist and politician (CDU)
  • 1922, March 28, Alfons von Deschwanden , † August 30, 2015 in Offenburg, entrepreneur
  • 1926, September 18, Esther Cohn , † October 18, 1944 murdered in Auschwitz, victim of the extermination of Jews under National Socialism
  • 1927, October 16, Max Bollwage , graphic designer, typesetter, calligrapher, stamp artist, teacher and author
  • 1932, May 24, Franz Burda junior , † January 17, 2017 in Offenburg, entrepreneur
  • 1933, October 31, Dieter Pröttel , television show and film director
  • 1937, Heidrun Kaupen-Haas , medical sociologist, university professor
  • 1937, January 28, Helmut F. Spinner , philosopher, scientific theorist and sociologist
  • 1940, November 12th, Jürgen Todenhöfer , politician (CDU), author and manager
  • 1943, October 29th, Michael Bouteiller , former mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
  • 1946, July 6, Jürgen Stemmler , † January 5, 1998 in Chur / CH, national hockey player
  • 1948, January 16, Karin Rutz-Gießelmann , fencer
  • 1948, July 16, Angelica Schwall-Düren , politician (SPD)
  • 1949, October 8th, Bernd Konprecht senior, multiple fistball world champion, holder of the silver laurel leaf

From 1951

Other personalities

  • Franz-Ludwig Mersy (1785–1843) was a Catholic priest and theologian; liberal church reformer ("Offenburg Script", 1832)
  • Maximilian Werner (1815–1875) was a Baden politician; convinced democrat, was one of the pioneers of the revolution in Baden; active as a lawyer in Offenburg
  • Carl Frowin Mayer (1827-1919) was a mayor, district secretary, local history researcher and collector; he headed the Museum of Natural History and Ethnology (today: Museum im Ritterhaus) in Offenburg.
  • Julius Grimm (1842–1906) was a photographer and astronomer based in Offenburg.
  • Franz Joseph Simmler (1846–1926), painter, sculptor and altar builder, ran his workshop in Offenburg, which was later taken over by the Moroder brothers
  • Oskar Muser (1850–1935) was a German lawyer and politician; he was a member of the Baden National Assembly and the Baden Assembly of Estates. In Offenburg, Oskar-Muser-Strasse was named after him.
  • Reinhold Fritzsche (1851–1929) was a politician (SPD); second social democrat in Offenburg city council (1903-12)
  • Lothar von Seebach (1853-1930) was a painter (monograph and catalog raisonné by Brigitte Wilke 2003; "The Upper Rhine Impressionist").
  • Fidelius Henselmann (1857–1931) was a German painter; Has worked as a church and art painter in Offenburg since around 1880
  • Josef Holler (1881–1959) was a German lawyer; 1921–34 Lord Mayor of Offenburg, honorary citizen (1951)
  • Alfred Broß (1897–1969) was a German railway official and politician (BCSV, CDU); 1947–52 member of the Baden state parliament
  • Franz Burda (1903–1986) was a German publisher and founder of the Burda publishing house.
  • Otto Kumm (1909–2004), SS brigade leader and war criminal; After the war he worked as a typesetter and technical manager at a local publishing house
  • Elimar Precht (1912–1969), SS-Hauptsturmführer and camp dentist in concentration camps; after the end of the war he was a school dentist in Offenburg
  • Horst Borkowski (1921–2012) was a Baptist clergyman and founder of the Missionary Actions in South America (MASA). He spent his twilight years in Offenburg.
  • Christa Reetz (1922–2009) was an environmentalist and politician from Alliance 90 / The Greens; 1980 first “green” member of the Offenburg municipal council
  • Walter Pfeiffer (1927-2014) was a football player (including Offenburg FV), city councilor and Offenburg "sorcerer".
  • Eva Mendelsson (* 1931), contemporary witness of the persecution of the Jews under National Socialism
  • Frieder Burda (1936–2019) was a German art collector; Son of Franz and Aenne Burda, grew up in Offenburg
  • Harald B. Schäfer (1938–2013) was a German SPD politician; last lived in Offenburg
  • Hubert Burda (* 1940) is a German art historian and publisher, owner of Hubert Burda Media; Honorary citizen of Offenburg
  • Frumentia Maier (* 1940) is a Catholic nun, social pedagogue and psychologist; Founder and head of the Offenburg mother-child facility "House of Life"
  • Wolfgang Schäuble (* 1942), President of the German Bundestag
  • Johnny Hallyday (1943-2017), French singer, songwriter and actor; 1964–65 served in the 43rd Marine Infantry Regiment, a unit of the French army stationed in Offenburg at the time
  • Jürgen E. Schrempp (* 1944) was Chairman of the Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler until the end of 2005. Schrempp studied at the engineering school in Offenburg.
  • Edith Schreiner (* 1957), local politician; from 2002 to 2018 mayor of the city of Offenburg
  • Marion Kiechle (* 1960), professor of gynecology at the Technical University of Munich and former Bavarian State Minister for Science and Art in the first Söder cabinet ; grew up in Offenburg and attended the girls' high school there, Kloster Unserer Lieben Frau
  • Christina Obergföll (* 1981) is a javelin thrower, world champion and multiple German champion; starts for the LG Offenburg
  • Johannes Vetter (* 1993), javelin thrower, world champion 2017; starts for the LG Offenburg
  • Mike Singer (* 2000), pop singer and songwriter; grew up in Offenburg