List of personalities of the city of Pforzheim

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Coat of arms of the city of Pforzheim

This list contains the honorary citizens of the city of Pforzheim as well as personalities born in today's city area. The last section is sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Honorary citizen of Pforzheim

The following - not exhaustive - overview contains people who have received honorary citizenship from the city of Pforzheim. The list is based on the date of the award.

Winner of the ring of honor of the city of Pforzheim

Personalities born in Pforzheim

Until 1850

1851 to 1900

1901 to 1925

1926 to 1950

1951 to 1975

1976 to 2000

From 2001 onwards

Other personalities connected with Pforzheim

  • Konrad Pellikan , also Conrad Kürschner (1478–1556), Swiss theologian and scholar, as Guardian from 1511 to 1514 in Pforzheim
  • Ferdinand Oechsle (1774–1852), mechanic, goldsmith and inventor; among other things developed the Oechslesche Mostwaage, which measures the sugar content in the must in ° Oechsle
  • Emil Salm (1878–1938), sculptor, worked and died in Pforzheim.
  • Willi Max Scheid (1889–1932), architect, commercial artist and university professor at the Badische Kunstgewerbeschule Pforzheim
  • Else Bach (1899–1951), sculptor, worked and died in Pforzheim.
  • Richard Angst (1905–1984), Swiss mountaineer, skier and cameraman; grew up in Pforzheim, where his mother came from, where he attended elementary school and then a commercial school.
  • Emil Kiesel (1910–1990), Catholic priest and opponent of National Socialism
  • Käthe Erler , b. Wiegand (1912–2006), 1965–87 city councilor in Pforzheim, from 1938 married to Fritz Erler
  • Fritz Erler (1913–1967), politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag; lived with his family at Friedensstrasse 8 from 1953
  • Bernhard Jablonski (* 1924), designer, sculptor and photographer; Rector of the FH 1976–85, founder of transportation design
  • Harald Dietl (* 1933), actor; Grew up as the son of a paper manufacturer in Pforzheim
  • Hugo Leicht (1934–2000), politician (CDU); Teacher in Pforzheim, 1971/72 local council in Pforzheim, 1972–96 MdL in Baden-Württemberg; lived last and died in Pforzheim
  • Siegbert Frank (1939–1998), local politician (CDU); 1986–98 First Mayor of Pforzheim
  • Lutz Stavenhagen (1940–1992), politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag; lived last and died in Pforzheim
  • Christine Stavenhagen , b. Hofmann († 2015), 1989–2015 councilor in Pforzheim, from 1965 married to Lutz Stavenhagen
  • Eberhard Feik (1943–1994), actor and director; worked at the Pforzheimer Theater
  • Klaus Spürkel (1948–2016), actor; his mother came from Pforzheim; he started school here in 1954 and later attended the Kepler and Hebel high schools
  • Marieluise Beck , formerly Beck-Oberdorf (* 1952), politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ), Member of the Bundestag; she was a teacher at the Konrad-Adenauer-Realschule
  • Roland Härdtner (* 1964), percussionist with the Badische Philharmonie Pforzheim
  • Bastian Rosenau (* 1980), politician and since 2018 District Administrator of the Enzkreis

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theodor Scheidt (1887–1976) on pforzheim.de
  2. ↑ www.pfenz.de