List of personalities of the city of Reutlingen

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This list contains personalities born in Reutlingen as well as those who had their sphere of activity in Reutlingen without having been born there. The third section includes the honorary citizens of the city. The first two sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Reutlingen

Matthäus Alber, copper engraving 1571
Friedrich List
Hermann Kurz
Karl Pflomm
Friedrich Schlotterbeck
Ernst Messerschmid
Claus Kleber
Mellow Mark
Matthias Russ

1285 to 1750

1751 to 1800

1801 to 1850

1851 to 1900

1901 to 1950

From 1951

Personalities who have worked in the place

  • Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807–1887), literary scholar, left-wing Hegelian philosopher and politician, was a member of the republican-democratic wing in the Frankfurt National Assembly for the constituency of Reutlingen / Urach in 1848
  • Gustav Werner (1809–1887), Protestant theologian, founded the "Gustav Werner Foundation for the Brother House", which was later named after him and which has its seat in Reutlingen (since 2004 " BruderhausDiakonie ")
  • Karl Friedrich Eduard Lucas (1816–1882), founder of the school for horticulture, fruit cultivation and pomology .
  • Knud Knudsen (1832–1915), Norwegian pomologist and photographer, made the first photographic city panoramas, partly as stereotypes, during his pomological training in Reutlingen in 1862.
  • Wilhelm Maybach (1846–1929), automobile pioneer, lived in the Bruderhaus in Reutlingen for 13 years and met there a. a. also Gottlieb Daimler for the first time
  • Wilhelm Laage (1868–1930), painter and wood cutter, lived and worked in Betzingen from 1907 and in Reutlingen from 1914 until his death in 1930
  • Elisabeth Zundel (1874–1957), women's rights activist and SPD politician in Reutlingen
  • Oskar Kalbfell (1897–1979), Lord Mayor from September 1946 to November 1973
  • Fritz Wandel (1898–1956), KPD sub-district chairman, councilor in Reutlingen and one of the leaders of the Mössingen general strike in 1933, between 1945 and 1948 third deputy to the mayor and head of the Reutlingen housing office
  • Werner Höll (1898–1984), painter and wood cutter, worked in Reutlingen for a long time
  • Hans Grischkat (1903–1977), orchestra director, choir director, university professor, named after him: the large "Hans Grischkat Library" in the Reutlingen city library
  • Fritz Ketz (1903–1983), painter and graphic artist
  • Eduard Leuze (1906–1973), lawyer and politician (FDP / DVP), member of the Bundestag and Landtag, from 1960 to 1966 Minister of Economics in Baden-Württemberg, had been a lawyer in Reutlingen since 1933
  • Karl Albert Pfänder (1906–1990), wood sculptor and art turner
  • Friedrich Förster (1908–1999), physicist, founder of modern magnetic and magnetic inductive materials testing, founder of the Dr. Friedrich Förster Prize .
  • Gerd Gaiser (1908–1976), writer, lived and died in Reutlingen
  • HAP Grieshaber (1909–1981), visual artist , typographer and wood cutter , lived and worked in Reutlingen and the surrounding area
  • Michael Soeder alias Achim Anderer (1921–2008), doctor and writer, 1960–1976 medical director of the Gustav Werner Foundation in Reutlingen
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler (1928–2011), politician (CDU) and manager (Südmilch boss)
  • Andreas Möckel (1927–2019), education professor; in the 1960s head of the Institute for Special Education (Special Education Department) at the Reutlingen University of Education
  • Willi Betz (1927-2015); Founder of the shipping company named after him, Willi Betz GmbH & Co. KG, with headquarters in Reutlingen
  • Ernst Geprägs (1929–2011), CDU politician and member of the district council in the Reutlingen district
  • Karl Weingärtner (1932–2019), historian and politician (SPD)
  • Hubertus Halbfas (* 1932), Catholic theologian, from 1967 to 1987 professor for Catholic theology and religious education at the Reutlingen University of Education
  • Manfred Oechsle (1934–2006), Lord Mayor from November 1973 to April 1995
  • Paul Ackermann (* 1939), political scientist, from 1972 professor of political science at the Reutlingen University of Education, there from 1976 to 1979 also rector, and from 1989 to 2009 district mayor of the Reutlingen district of Gönningen
  • Erika Schmollinger (* 1941), former table tennis player
  • Hellmut G. Haasis (* 1942), writer and historian
  • Helmut Haussmann (* 1943), politician (FDP / DVP)
  • Stefan Schultes (* 1944), Lord Mayor from April 1995 to April 2003
  • Ernst-Reinhard Beck (* 1945), senior director of studies and politician (CDU)
  • Annemie Renz (1950–2003), social worker and politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
  • Thomas Felder (* 1953), Swabian dialect poet and songwriter
  • Rudolf Hausmann (* 1954), qualified pedagogue, trade union secretary and politician (SPD)
  • Wolfgang Haug (* 1955), anarchist publisher and publicist
  • Peter Stellwag (* 1956), table tennis player at SSV Reutlingen, a. a. German champion in singles (1977, 1980, 1981), Vice European champion in doubles 1978
  • Riedel Diegel (* 1957 in the municipality of Gönningen , which was an independent community when he was born , today a part of Reutlingen), harmonica player, a. a. with the “ Schwobarock ” band Schwoißfuaß , at the World Harmonica Festival in Trossingen in 1989 he won the title “World Champion at the Blues Harmonica ”.
  • Barbara Bosch (* 1958), Lord Mayor from April 2003 to April 2019
  • Beate Müller-Gemmeke (* 1960), politician (Member of the Bundestag, Alliance 90 / The Greens)
  • Jochen Weeber (* 1971), writer
  • Nils Schmid (* 1973), politician (SPD), chairman of the SPD regional association of Baden-Württemberg since 2009, from 2011 to 2016 deputy prime minister, finance and economics minister of Baden-Württemberg
  • Jessica Tatti (* 1981), politician (Die Linke), city councilor in Reutlingen from 2014 to 2017, Member of the Bundestag since 2017
  • Kaas (born 1982), rapper

Honorary citizen

Overview of people who have been granted honorary citizenship by the city (listed according to the date of the award; awards in the Third Reich are excluded ).

Honorary citizen of the former community of Ohmenhausen:

References and comments

  1. ↑ Tagblatt.de , accessed on May 28, 2018