List of personalities of the city of Pappenheim

Coat of arms of the city of Pappenheim

The list of personalities of the city of Pappenheim contains personalities born in Pappenheim , a city in the Central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , as well as those who have a connection to the city, for example because they had their (main) sphere of activity here, without being born there themselves be. All sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Conrad III. von Pappenheim († April 14, 1482), Jägermeister under Duke Wilhelm III. and ducal councilor and Saxon court master
• Henrico Albicastro (* around 1660, † around 1730), Baroque composer
• Johann Alexander Döderlein (* 1675; † 1745), Weißenburg scholar
• Karl Wolfgang Maximilian von Welck (* July 27, 1743; † December 10, 1809), district administrator of Meißen and court councilor of the Electorate of Saxony
• Albert von Pappenheim (July 18, 1777 - July 1, 1860), Bavarian cavalry general, writer and member of parliament
• Georg Jakob Strunz (* December 24, 1781 - May 23, 1852), Bavarian conductor and composer
• Karl Stöber (* 1796; † 1865), German pastor and local poet
• Adelheid von Carolath-Beuthen (March 3, 1797 - April 29, 1849), German author, letter writer and landscape painter
• Johann Christian Wilhelm Dittmar (born April 25, 1801, † January 31, 1877), German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, pastor and politician
• Eduard Metzger (Friedrich Eduard Metzger) (born February 13, 1807; † September 16, 1894) was an architect, painter and professor at the Technical University of Munich. He studied with Friedrich von Gärtner from 1825 to 1828 and, after his death, completed the Siegestor in Munich from 1847 to 1850
• Emma Niendorf (July 12, 1807 - April 7, 1876), German writer.
• Karl Theodor von Pappenheim (born March 17, 1771; † August 26, 1853), Bavarian military master and last ruling imperial count of the county of Pappenheim
• Bertha Kipfmüller (born February 28, 1861 - March 3, 1948), teacher, suffragette, pacifist and private scholar; first woman in Bavaria to become a Dr. phil. received his doctorate
• Ludwig Magnus zu Pappenheim (March 10, 1862 - June 5, 1905), Bavarian captain and politician
• Ferdinand Heuckenkamp (April 10, 1862 - April 9, 1938), Romanist
• Sophie Hoechstetter (born August 15, 1873 - † April 4, 1943), Franconian writer and painter
• Friedrich Köberlein (born October 18, 1885 - † November 30, 1964), SS leader
• Max Gutermuth (born June 16, 1858 - † March 10, 1943), university professor for mechanical engineering
• Gerhard Gollwitzer (born June 7, 1906, † April 13, 1973), 1946–1965 Professor of the State. Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , artist and writer
• Helmut Gollwitzer (born December 29, 1908, † October 17, 1993), Protestant theologian and writer, member of the Confessing Church during the Nazi era , later as a professor at the Free University of Berlin , involved in the 1968 student movement
• Christian Grillenberger (1941–1998), mathematician
• Andreas Trautvetter (born September 21, 1955), German politician (CDU)
• Uwe Streb (born April 17, 1963), speed skater
• Traugott Roser (born August 21, 1964), Protestant theologian, pastor and university professor
• Christine Splitgerber , painter

Personalities who work on site, worked or died

• Emil Johannes Meyer (born July 30, 1885 in Frickenfelden (district of Gunzenhausen ); † October 31, 1949 in Pappenheim), author of important writings on historical calculators and typewriters in two volumes (The Typewriter and Its Development History , 1921, and The Calculator and their development history , 1925)
• Friedrich Köberlein (born October 18, 1885 in Pappenheim-Göhren , † November 30, 1964), German SS leader
• John M. Shalikashvili (* 1936, † 2011), American general and chairman of the United Joint Chiefs; lived from 1945 to 1953 as a stateless refugee in Pappenheim.

Honorary citizen of the city

• Johann Andreas Friedrich Hingkeldey (born March 6, 1812 - † August 25, 1881)
• Friedrich Brebisius († 1896), doctor
• Wilhelm Deisinger (* around 1820; † March 15, 1901)
• Hans Rukwid (born July 9, 1861 - † November 17, 1944), mayor
• Sophie Hoechstetter (born August 15, 1873 - † April 4, 1943), writer
• Bertha Kipfmüller (* February 28, 1861 - March 3, 1948), first woman to become a Dr. phil. received his doctorate
• Wilhelm Kraft (June 2, 1891 - February 9, 1969)
• Georg Nestler (July 1, 1892 - August 15, 1976)
• Hans Navratil (born August 28, 1922), city archivist