List of personalities of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd

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Coat of arms of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd This list contains personalities such as honorary citizens, sons and daughters as well as well-known residents of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd from Baden-Württemberg.
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Honorary citizen

Schwäbisch Gmünd has granted honorary citizenship to the following people :

Before 1945

From 1945

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Schwäbisch Gmünd. Whether they later had their sphere of activity in Schwäbisch Gmünd is not taken into account in this list, which incidentally does not claim to be complete.

Until 1800

1801 to 1850

1851 to 1900

1901 to 1950

From 1951

Other personalities

People who live or have lived in Schwäbisch Gmünd and who achieved important things on site or from this place without being born here.

To 1900

  • Heinrich Parler the Elder (around 1300–1370), master builder at Gmünder Münster
  • Melchizedech Haas (–1617), priest, was executed as a devil priest in a witch trial
  • Balthasar Küchler (1571–1641), painter
  • Franz Xaver Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1721–1787), provost at Gmünder Stift, auxiliary bishop in Augsburg
  • Johann Michael Keller the Younger (1721–1794), city architect
  • Franz Joseph Bergmüller (1733–1796), cabinet maker, lived temporarily in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Georg Strobel (1735–1792), portrait painter of the Baroque, worked in Schwäbisch Gmünd a. a. also at the drawing school
  • Johann Jakob Mettenleiter (1750–1825), painter, draftsman and etcher, trained in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Johann Christof Haas (1753–1829), painter, died in the poor house of St. Katharina
  • Johann Sebald Baumeister (1775–1829), miniature painter and draftsman, drawing teacher in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Franz Joseph Werfer (1778–1823), author of the medical topography of the imperial city of Gmünd
  • Karl Wilhelm Heinrich Binder (1783–1852), chief magistrate in Gmünd
  • Josef Epple (1789–1846), Swabian dialect poet and school teacher
  • Johannes Buhl (1804–1882), businessman, gymnastics pioneer and fire department pioneer
  • Hermann Bauer (1833–1919), engraver, goldsmith and silversmith, founder of a company and museum, co-founder of a technical school and painter
  • Bernhard Kaißer (1834–1918), teacher and author
  • Johann Nepomuk Miller (1838–1883), senior clerk in the Gmünd Oberamt, member of the Gmünd district in the Württemberg estates
  • Karl Mauch (1837–1875), Africa explorer, studied pedagogy at the Catholic teachers' college from 1854–1856
  • Bruno Klaus (1848–1915), Gmünder local history researcher
  • Engelbert Mager (1849–1926), teacher and author, taught at the Catholic teachers' college
  • Otto Gittinger (1861–1939), Swabian dialect poet, Protestant pastor in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Moritz Johner (1868–1931), Roman Catholic priest and historian, temporarily active in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Hermann Bäuerle (1869–1936), Roman Catholic clergyman, church musician and headmaster
  • Rudolf Weser (1869–1942), pastor and local researcher
  • Emil Niethammer (1869–1956), lawyer, member of the state parliament and in 1946 the first senior president of the Württemberg state parliament (CDU), at times local judge in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Wilhelm Schussen (1874–1956), writer, teacher in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Karl Alfred von Gemmingen (1877–1962), Chamberlain to the royal Württemberg and secret legation councilor, last lived in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Walter Otto Klein (1877–1952), local history researcher and long-time rector of the local college and honorary citizen of the city
  • Karl Lüllig (1877 - 1946) was Lord Mayor of SG from 1923 to 1934
  • Heinrich Nonner (1878–1970), football pioneer and co-founder of the DFB , functionary at Normannia Gmünd
  • Albert Feifel (1881–1958), architect in Gmünd
  • Paul Kühnle (1885–1970), national soccer player, head of the State Surveying Office in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Albert Deibele (1889–1972), Gmünd city archivist, local history researcher, poet and senior teacher at the teachers' college
  • Otto Ernst Schweizer (1890–1965), architect, was city planning officer in Schwäbisch Gmünd from 1921 to 1925
  • Erwin Rommel (1891–1944), army officer, graduated from high school in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Walter Flemming (1896–1977), metal designer, goldsmith, sculptor and restorer, studied in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Yvonne Pagniez (1896–1981), French writer and resistance fighter, imprisoned in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Anni Geiger-Hof (1897–1995), writer, in “protective custody” in Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1933
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Spahr (1900–1945), designer and manufacturer of silver covering goods (on porcelain and glass; today called silver overlay )

After 1900

  • Franz Reinisch (1903–1942), Catholic Pallottine priest and opponent of Hitler, murdered in Brandenburg-Görden ; temporary pastor in Rechberg
  • Walter Lochmüller (1905–1992), director of the higher technical school and chairman of the local art association
  • Karl Mocker (1905–1996), politician, was a lawyer in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Lina Haag (1907–2012) was imprisoned in the Gotteszell women's concentration camp, among other places
  • Franz Czisch ( 1908-1956 ) was a lawyer, businessman and Lord Mayor of Schwäbisch Gmünd (1946-1948)
  • Herta Graf (1911–1996), writer, lived from 1958 to 1989 in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Gebhard Luiz (1913–2013), Catholic clergyman, was a prison chaplain, pastor and dean in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Ewald Bucher (1914–1991), Federal Minister, attended school in Schwäbisch Gmünd and was a lawyer there
  • Hans Böhringer (1915–1987), theologian, musicologist and psychotherapist, from 1945 to 1947 pastor in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Johannes Riede (1916–1997), theologian, university professor and rector of the local PH, the city's Johannes-Riede-Weg is named after him
  • Alfred Lutz (1919–2013), graphic artist, university professor, chairman of the Gmünder Kunstverein and holder of the city's citizen medal
  • Peter Ustinov (1921-2004), British actor and writer, baptized in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Karl Kühnle (1923–2003), President of the New Apostolic Church in Württemberg, who lives in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Hermann Kissling (1925–2018), art historian with Schwäbisch Gmünd as his main field of activity
  • Sieger Köder (1925–2015), Catholic priest and artist, studied in Schwäbisch Gmünd from 1946–1947
  • Rudolf Sauter (1925–2013), educationalist and dialect poet, lived and taught in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Hansludwig Scheffold (1926–1969), mayor of Schwäbisch Gmünd who died in office
  • Carlo Pedersoli ( Bud Spencer ; 1929-2016), Italian film and television actor, v. a. by Bud Spencer Bad and the naming of the Gmünder Einhorn-Tunnel
  • Nelly Däs (* 1930), Russian-German writer, lived in Schwäbisch Gmünd from 1945 to 1951
  • Theo Sommer (* 1930), former editor of “ Die Zeit ”, from 1952 to 1955 local editor of the Rems newspaper
  • Eckhart Dietz (1933–2019), sculptor
  • Günter Altner (1936–2011), biologist and Protestant theologian, from 1971 to 1973 full professor at the University of Education
  • Josef Überall (1936–2008), artist and object artist , studied in Schwäbisch Gmünd and lived in Schwäbisch Gmünd from the late 1970s until his death
  • Walter Giers (1937–2016), light, sound and media artist
  • Ewald Liska (1937–2017), co-founder and artistic director of the European Church Music Festival
  • Hans Kloss (1938–2018), painter and graphic artist, created circular pictures for the Gmünd Panorama Museum and other works
  • Reinhard Kuhnert (* 1939), Rector of the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education 1978–1990, CDU City Councilor 1989–2014, President of the DRK District Association 1989–2013
  • Gudrun Ensslin (1940–1977), co-founder and member of the Red Army faction , studied at the PH Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Hans Ulrich Nuber (1940–2014), provincial Roman archaeologist, grew up in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Jörg F. Zimmermann (* 1940), glass artist, trained and studied in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Günter Ogger (* 1941), business journalist, completed his professional training in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Hans-Jürgen Albers (* 1943), long-time rector of the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education
  • Klaus Jürgen Herrmann (1947–2016), historian and Gmünd city archivist
  • Tina Stroheker (* 1948), writer, teacher in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Wilhelm Dangelmaier (* 1949), engineer and holder of the chair for business informatics at the University of Paderborn, grew up in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Vincent Klink (* 1949), master chef, television chef and editor of the magazine “ Chief Own Cooker”
  • Wolfgang Leidig (* 1954), politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Sigrid Klebba (* 1955), State Secretary in the Berlin Senate Department for Education, Youth and Science, grew up in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Reinhard Winter (* 1958), educator and gender researcher, grew up in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Lutz Dombrowski (* 1959), Olympic champion, trainer in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Edgar Mann (* 1961), composer and pianist, went to school in Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Thomas Haller (* 1966), former district cantor and conductor in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Protestant church music director
  • Klaus Michael Rückert (* 1967), politician (CDU), candidate for the Gmünd Lord Mayor election 2001
  • Tarmo Vaask (* 1967), conductor, from 2002 to 2007 director of the Philharmonie Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • Frank Schäffler (* 1968), politician (FDP), member of the Bundestag
  • Fereshta Ludin (* 1972), educator who became known through the headscarf judgment
  • Kevin Horlacher (* 1989), ski jumper, starts for SC Degenfeld
  • Thomas Tauporn (* 1991), climbs as a sport and competition climber for the Schwäbisch Gmünd section of the German Alpine Club (DAV)
  • Anna Rupprecht (* 1996), ski jumper, lives in Schwäbisch Gmünd and starts for SC Degenfeld

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfons Baur will no longer be included in the list of Gmünder honorary citizens , article from October 23, 2013 on remszeitung.de.
  2. ↑ Rare and high distinction: honorary citizenship of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd for Albert Scherrenbacher , article from March 6, 2020 on remszeitung.de