List of personalities of the city of Rottweil

The list of personalities of the city of Rottweil contains honorary citizens as well as sons and daughters of the city, as well as important personalities who worked in Rottweil .

Honorary citizen

• Edwin Glückher, City School Hot
• Monsignor Karl Ochs, minister pastor
• Ulrich Regelmann, Lord Mayor
• Erich Hauser (1930–2004), sculptor and graphic artist; lived in Rottweil since 1970.

sons and daughters of the town

To 1900

• Konrad Justinger (before 1370 - 1438), town clerk and chronicler of Bern
• Konrad Witz (around 1400 - around 1446), painter
• Conrad Rötlin (around 1460 - after 1519), sculptor
• Valerius Anshelm (1475–1546 / 47), Swiss chronicler
• Melchior Volmar (1497-1560), humanist
• Johannes Spreter (before 1490 - around 1549), reformer
• Simon Humpeller († 1641), stonemason, sculptor and master builder in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
• Hieronymus II. Lindau OSB (1657–1719), 22nd abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Ochsenhausen
• Johann Baptist Dannegger (1682–1760), abbot of the Kreuzlingen monastery (1725–1760)
• Dominikus Mayer (1752–1823), last abbot of the Augustinian canons of Beuron (1790–1802)
• Johann Baptist von Hofer (1759–1838), lawyer and politician
• Bartholomä Herder (1774–1839), publisher
• Johann Georg Herbst (1787–1836), professor for oriental languages ​​at the University of Tübingen
• Fidel von Baur-Breitenfeld (1805–1882), Minister of War of Württemberg, Member of Parliament
• Maximilian von Kern (1813–1887), President of the State Court
• Germain Burkardt (1821–1890), member of the Reichstag
• Max Seifriz (1827–1885) court conductor of Prince Constantin von Hechingen
• Otto von Alberti (1834–1904), heraldist, historian and lawyer
• Franz Xaver von Linsenmann (1835–1898), Bishop of Rottenburg
• August Müller (1836–1885), painter of the Munich School
• Franz Xaver Wernz (1842–1914), 25th General of the Societas Jesu
• Max Duttenhofer (1843–1903), entrepreneur
• Fritz Rauch (1867–1916), pharmacist and botanist
• Hermann Etter (1870–1934), doctor, member of the Württemberg state parliament
• Kurt Eberhard (1874–1947), major general and SS leader
• Luise Rist (1877–1955), politician, member of the Württemberg state parliament from 1919 to 1933
• Eugen Haller (1882–1971), watchmaker and member of the state parliament
• Ernst Iros (1885–1953), actually Julius Rosenstiel, film producer and film theorist (standard work "Wesen und Dramaturgie des Films")
• Robert Barth (1886–1959), lawyer
• Fritz Schellhorn (1888–1982), diplomat, consul in Romania (1934–1944); campaigned to save Jews in World War II
• Wilhelm Heinzelmann (1892–1968), politician, member of the state parliament
• Franz Mederle (1893–1955), lawyer, first mayor of Rottweil after the Second World War
• Friedrich Erhard Haag (1896–1945), race hygienist and university professor during the Nazi era

1901 to 1950

• Eugen Heinrich Fischer (1909–1984), Catholic theologian, university professor
• Egon Rieble (1925–2016), art historian and dialect poet
• Niels Gormsen (1927–2018), architect and politician
• Hermann Schäfer (1927–2009), composer, music teacher and scholar
• Karl-Heinz Weis (* 1927), medical doctor, professor of anesthesiology and art historian
• Fritz Dieterlen (1929-2017), mammal loge
• Kurt Bantle (* 1933), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament
• Ekkehard Lindner (* 1934), chemist and university professor
• Gernot Feifel (1935–2019), professor of surgery
• Jörg Leist (* 1935), local politician and Lord Mayor of Wangen im Allgäu (1968–2001)
• Sigrid Peyerimhoff (* 1937), chemist
• Peter Dussmann (1938–2013), entrepreneur (PEDUS)
• Paul Schobel (* 1939), Roman Catholic priest, journalist and founder of company pastoral care
• Erwin Teufel (* 1939), politician (CDU) and former Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg
• Lothar Schäffner (* 1943), educational scientist
• Stephan Schlenker (* 1944), Bremen politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
• Rüdiger Safranski (* 1945), writer
• Klaus Knubben (1947–2016), cathedral cantor at Limburg Cathedral and long-time director of the Limburg Cathedral Boys' Choir
• Thomas Engeser (* 1948), 2001–2009 Lord Mayor of Rottweil
• Hansjörg Hemminger (* 1948), psychologist
• Rita Haller-Haid (* 1950), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament
• Heinz-Martin Süß (* 1950), psychologist

From 1951

• Matthias Hölle (* 1951), opera singer (bass)
• Werner Mezger (* 1951), Germanist and folklorist
• Jens Prüss (* 1954), author and journalist
• Hans-Heinrich Schmid (1954–2018), non-fiction author and expert on the history of the watch industry
• Eckart Altenmüller (* 1955), doctor and musician
• Anne Haigis (* 1955), musician and singer
• Jürgen Knubben (* 1955), sculptor
• Sigrid Meierhofer (* 1955), SPD politician, 1st Mayor of Garmisch-Partenkirchen
• Rüdiger Görner (* 1957), literary scholar
• Wolfgang Stryi (1957–2005), bass and double bass clarinetist, tenor saxophonist and permanent member of the Ensemble Modern
• Bernd Marquart (* 1958), jazz musician
• Katharina Mayer (* 1958), photographer and video artist
• Edwin Ernst Weber (* 1958), historian and archivist
• Michael Munding (* 1959), artist
• Thomas Gloning (* 1960), Germanist
• Joachim Walter (* 1960), politician (CDU); since 2003 district administrator of the Tübingen district
• Heinrich Del Core (* 1961), cabaret artist and comedy magician
• Ulrike Kessl (* 1962), object and installation artist
• Rebecca Michéle , actually Ursula Schreiber (* 1963), writer
• Christof Rapp (* 1964), philosopher
• Ulrich Derad (* 1965), handball player and manager
• Ralf Broß (* 1966), Lord Mayor of Rottweil since July 2, 2009
• Bernd Luz (* 1966), visual artist and communication designer
• Silke-Beate Knoll (* 1967), sprinter
• Tobias Kammerer (* 1968), painter and sculptor
• Ralf Brand (* 1971), sports psychologist, university lecturer and basketball referee
• Aleksandar Jovanovic (* 1971), actor
• Hans Hafner (* 1972), composer and sound designer
• Stefan Teufel (* 1972), politician (CDU), since 2006 Member of the State Baden-Württemberg
• Andreas Schwab (* 1973), politician (CDU) and MEP
• Peter Federolf (* 1974), physicist and biomechanic
• Johannes Erath (* 1975), opera director
• Verena Boos (* 1977), writer
• Frank Ettwein (* 1977), handball player
• Simone Hauswald (* 1979), biathlete
• Markus Fuchs (* 1980), soccer player
• Magnus Mehl (* 1980), jazz musician
• Christoph Burkard (* 1983), swimmer and gold medalist at the 2004 Paralympic Games
• Wolfgang Strobel (* 1983), handball player
• Ferenc Mehl (* 1984), jazz musician
• Martin Strobel (* 1986), handball player
• Maximiliane Rall (* 1993), soccer player
• Celin Stöhr (* 1993), volleyball player
• Joshua Kimmich (* 1995), soccer player
• Tim Stöhr (* 1996), volleyball player

Other personalities

• Friedrich von Alberti (1795–1878), geologist; lived and worked in Rottweil for a long time
• Lorenz Bock (1883–1948), lawyer and politician, President of Württemberg-Hohenzollern
• Josef Bücheler (* 1936), postmodern visual artist; lives and works in Rottweil
• Erhard Eppler (1926–2019), Federal Minister, 1976–1982 Member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Rottweil
• Winfried Hecht (* 1941), historian, city archivist and museum director in Rottweil from 1968 to 2011
• Bruno Heck (1917–1989), Federal Minister and Secretary General of the CDU; was a student and later a teacher in Rottweil
• Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904–1988), Federal Chancellor 1966–1969; attended the teachers' seminar in Rottweil
• Dieter Kleinmann (* 1953 in Stuttgart), FDP politician
• Luan Krasniqi (* 1971), boxer of Kosovar Albanian origin; lives in Rottweil-Bühlingen
• Robert Kudielka (* 1945), art historian; went to school in Rottweil
• Horst Lettenmayer , actor (eyes and legs of the Tatort opening credits)
• Egbert-Hans Müller (* 1929 Bunzlau / Silesia), writer (pseudonym Reinhard Gröper); attended high school in Rottweil from 1943 to 1945
• Hans Helmut Prinzler (* 1938), film historian; went to school in Rottweil
• David Rötlin († after 1564), painter and cartographer; was a town painter in Rottweil
• Klaus-Dieter Sieloff (1942–2011), national soccer player; 1954–1959 FV 08 Rottweil
• Werner Spies (* 1937), art critic, former director of the Center Beaubourg in Paris; went to school in Rottweil
• Augustin Steinhäuser (1781–1849), member of the state estates, mayor and chief magistrate in Rottweil
• Bernd Tauber (* 1950 in Göppingen), actor (including in Lindenstrasse and Das Boot ) at the Rottweil theater