List of personalities of the city of Schwäbisch Hall
The following people were born in Schwäbisch Hall or worked there. This list does not take into account whether they later had their sphere of activity in Schwäbisch Hall. The list does not claim to be complete.
Georg Friedrich Seufferheld (1613–1686), councilor and town master of Schwäbisch Hall
Honorary citizen
The city of Schwäbisch Hall has granted the following people honorary citizenship:
- 1874: Adolf von Daniel (1816–1893), senior bailiff, councilor
- 1877: Wilhelm Ludwig Wullen (1806–1890), Protestant dean
- 1899: Friedrich Helber (1829–1909), Stadtschultheiß
- 1901: Wilhelm Freiherr von Hügel (1828–1908), Oberforstrat
- 1924: Georg Fehleisen (1855–1934), teacher
- 1935: Max Kade (1882–1967), manufacturer
- 1951: Emil Schmidt sen. (1871–1959), master fitter
- 1971: Rudolf Popp (1892–1972), landowner
- 1972: Wilhelm Dürr (1887–1979), doctor
- 1993: Wilhelm Pfeifer (1913–1999), lawyer, CDU local politician (returned in 1994 because of his Nazi past)
- 2015: Erhard Eppler (1926–2019), politician (SPD)
- 2015: Reinhold Würth (* 1935), entrepreneur
Personalities born in Schwäbisch Hall
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- Hartmut Abendschein (* 1969), German-Swiss writer, editor and publisher
B.
- Thilo Baum (* 1970), journalist and author
- Veit Baumhauer (16th century), German sculptor
- Johann Balthasar Beyschlag (1669–1717), theologian and hymn composer
- Hartmut Binder (* 1937), Germanist
- Ludwig Friedrich von Böltz (1818–1908), Oberamtmann of Württemberg
- Christoph Bossert (* 1957), German organist and music teacher
- Louis Braun (1836–1916), art professor and important history painter in Munich
- Johannes Brenz the Younger (1539–1596), Lutheran theologian
- August Eduard Bruckmann (1810–1884), architect
- Josef Büchelmeier (* 1948), local politician (SPD), Mayor of Friedrichshafen from 2001 to 2009
- Friedrich Bullinger (* 1953), politician (FDP / DVP), member of the state parliament
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- Rudolf Decker (* 1934), politician, MdL Baden-Württemberg
- Wolfgang Deutsch (1925–2015), art historian
- Julius Dürr (1856–1925), classical philologist and high school teacher
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- Kerstin Fahr (* 1980s), flautist and violinist
- Georg Fehleisen (1893–1936), architect
- Joseph Feyerabend (1493–1543), dean and provost
- Markus L. Frank (* 1969), musician and conductor
- Walter Frenz (* 1965), lawyer and university professor
- Karl Frik (1878–1944), radiologist
- Paul Fritz (1892–1969), politician, 1933 mayor of Oberndorf am Neckar, 1944 of Rottweil
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- Siegfried Gehrke (* 1965), American football player and coach
- Nils Gessinger (* 1964), jazz and soul musician, composer, producer and big band leader
- Carl Christian Friedrich Glenck (1779–1845), salinist and drilling specialist
- Ali Gökdemir (* 1991), German-Azerbaijani football player
- Wolfgang Gönnenwein (1933–2015), conductor, music teacher and politician
- Friedrich David Gräter (1768–1830), Germanist and founder of scientific Nordic studies in Germany
- Heinz Groh (1882 – after 1927), architect
- Georg Peter Groß (1782–1858), painter and draftsman
- Karl Adolf Gross (1892–1955), Protestant theologian and writer (imprisoned in the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps)
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- Johann Lorenz Haf (1737–1802), wood cutter
- Hans Hagdorn (* 1949), teacher, fossil collector and paleontologist
- Friedrich Heinrich Hager (1815–1881), city scholar and member of the state parliament
- Heiko Hammel (* 1988), racing car driver
- Hans Hege (* 1946), lawyer, director of the Berlin-Brandenburg media authority
- Ulrich Henn (1925–2014), sculptor
- Heiko Hentrich (* 1976), biologist, specialist in flower biology and pharmacognosy
- Joachim Herrmann (* 1956), managing director of the Sparkassenverband Baden-Württemberg
- Conrad Heyden (around 1385–1444), town clerk and author of the Klagspiegel
- Hermann Hoerlin (1903–1983), mountaineer and physicist
- Michael Hofbauer (* 1961), art historian and designer
- Melchior Hofmann (around 1500–1543), Anabaptist leader
- Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1935–2004), from 1960 to 2004 head of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
- Hans Hornung (1926–2014), historian, librarian and university professor
- Karl Friedrich von Hufnagel (1788–1848), legal scholar and politician
J
- Wolfgang Jaeger (1917–1995), ophthalmologist and President of the German Ophthalmological Society
- Eugen Jaekle (1870–1936), Lord Mayor and honorary citizen of Heidenheim an der Brenz
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- Isolde Karle (* 1963), Protestant theologian and university professor
- Johann Jakob Kern (1625–1668), sculptor, son of Leonhard Kern
- Ernst Klenk (1905–1996), viticulture technician, director of the Weinsberg viticulture school
- Wolfgang Knoll (* 1949), biophysicist
- Jonas Koch (* 1993), cyclist
- Michael Krebs (* 1974), cabaret artist, presenter and entertainer
- Theodor Kreeb (1882–1954), senior administrator and district administrator in Württemberg
- Alexander "Sandi" Kuhn (* 1981), jazz musician
- Otto Ludwig Kunz (1904–1985), painter, designer and architect
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- Torben Laidig (* 1994), athlete, pole vaulter
- Robert Leicht (1849–1921), brewery owner
- Schenk Konrad von Limpurg (before 1249 – after 1286), minstrel, probably born at Limpurg Castle near Schwäbisch Hall
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- Friedrich Franz Mayer (1816–1870), lawyer, senior bailiff, State Councilor in the Kingdom of Württemberg
- Johann David Mayer (1636–1696), composer, music editor and councilor
- Sven van Meegen (* 1976), Catholic clergyman, theologian and university professor
- Johann Christof Merck (before 1695 – after 1725), painter
- Johannes von Merz (1857–1929), Protestant theologian and church president of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg
- Ulrich Müller (* 1944), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament, environment and transport minister, minister in the state ministry
- Walter Müller (* 1943), doctor and politician (SPD)
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- Gerd Nefzer (* 1965), special effects specialist
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- Carl Obenland (1908–2008), landscape and portrait painter
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- Michel Roeder (* 1971), architect and university professor
- Wolfgang Roth (* 1941), politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag
- Joachim Rücker (* 1951), diplomat, special envoy of the UN Secretary General and head of UNMIK
- Otto Ruff (1871–1939), chemist
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- Marco Sailer (* 1985), soccer player
- Heinrich Schmieder (1970–2010), actor
- Mario Schmidgall (* 1998), volleyball player
- Werner Schmidt-Hieber (1944–2011), lawyer and politician (FDP), Lord Mayor of Waiblingen
- Manfred Schoch (* 1955), trade unionist (IG Metall)
- Thomas Schweicker (1541–1602), armless art writer
- Eva Schweikart (* 1959), translator
- Ulrike Schweikert (* 1966), writer
- Gustav Sixt (1856–1904), teacher, scholar and archaeologist
- Johann Ulrich Steigleder (1593–1635), composer and organist
- Udo Stein (* 1983), member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg
- Stefan Streich (* 1961), composer
- Reinhold Strenger (1903 - after 1966), archaeologist and administrative officer
- Wilfried Sturm (* 1958), Protestant theologian and professor
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- Conradin Walther (also Konradin Walther ; 1846–1910), architect
- Paul Wanner (1895–1990), writer
- Tobias Weis (* 1985), soccer player
- Erasmus Widmann (1572–1634), composer
- Dieter Wieland (* 1936), theater and decoration painter
- Friedrich von Württemberg (1808–1870), Württemberg general, father of King Wilhelm II of Württemberg
Other personalities
The following people were not born in Schwäbisch Hall, but worked there or have other close connections to the city:
- Johannes Adler (around 1474–1518) (alias Gentner, Doleatoris, Aquila, Halietus), law professor in Tübingen, citizenship of Hall since 1508
- Johannes Brenz (1499–1570), reformer and Protestant theologian
- Sem Schlör († 1597), sculptor, resident of Hall since 1563
- Leonhard Kern (1588–1662), sculptor, in Hall since 1620
- Johann Samuel Welter (1650–1720), composer
- Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), romantic poet
- Eduard Herdtle (1821–1878), draftsman, sculptor and painter, was a drawing teacher in Schwäbisch Hall from 1847 to 1867
- Christian Mergenthaler (1884–1980), politician (NSDAP), member of the Württemberg state parliament, the Reichstag as well as the Württemberg prime minister, minister of education and convicted "main culprit"
- Gerhard Storz (1898–1983), writer, politician (CDU) and Minister of Education for the State of Baden-Württemberg
- Hermann Müller (1913–1991), politician (FDP) and finance minister of Baden-Württemberg
- August Häfner (1912–1999), Nazi criminal
- Paul Swiridoff (1914–2002), photographer, essayist, publicist, founder of the publishing house
- Alfred Leikam (1915–1992), notary and resistance fighter; 2002 posthumously Righteous Among the Nations
- Erhard Eppler (1926–2019), Federal Minister, Politician (SPD)
- Herbert Malecha (1927–2011), high school professor and writer
- Oliver Storz (1929–2011), director, screenwriter and writer
- Walter Döring (* 1954), politician (FDP) and former Minister of Economics of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- Veronica Solzin (* 1956), German painter
- Tatjana Kruse (* 1960), German writer
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