List of personalities of the city of Sindelfingen
This list of personalities of the city of Sindelfingen shows the mayors, honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city of Sindelfingen and their districts ( Darmsheim and Maichingen ), as well as other personalities who are connected with Sindelfingen. The list does not claim to be complete.
mayor
The following people were mayors of Sindelfingen:
- 1819–1826: Johann Friedrich Dinkelacker
- 1826–1832: Johann Breuning
- 1832–1849: Christian Immanuel Conz
- 1850–1895: Johann Gottfried Frank
- 1895–1932: Wilhelm Hörmann
- 1932–1945: Karl Pfitzer
- 1945–1946: Werner Häring
- 1946–1977: Arthur Gruber
- 1977–1993: Dieter Burger
- 1993–2001: Joachim Rücker (SPD)
- since 2001: Bernd Vöhringer (CDU). Vöhringer was last re-elected in May 2017.
Honorary citizen
The city of Sindelfingen granted honorary citizenship to the following people who have made a special contribution to the good or reputation of the municipality:
- 1918: Mina Zweigart, co-owner of the Zweigart company
- 1946: Wilhelm Hörmann, mayor
- 1951: Wilhelm Haspel , Director and Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler-Benz
- 1963: Wilhelm Langheck, Director of Daimler-Benz
- 1963: Arthur K. Watson, President of IBM
- 1970: Karl Hummel, councilor and parliamentary group leader
- 1975: Ernst Schäfer , local councilor and member of the state parliament
- 1977: Arthur Gruber , Lord Mayor
In addition, the city of Sindelfingen awards plaques of honor in gold and silver to people who have rendered services to the city. Honors of this kind went to Roger Combrisson (Mayor of the twin town of Corbeil-Essonnes) and Arthur Gruber.
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Sindelfingen (or in a district of what is now the urban area of Sindelfingen):
15th century
- around 1444, Johannes Widmann (in Maichingen), † December 31, 1524 in Pforzheim, personal physician to Duke Eberhard im Bart and Duke Ulrich von Württemberg
- around 1482 Jakob Henrichmann , † June 28, 1561 in Augsburg, humanist, lawyer and clergyman
16th Century
- around 1524, Barbara Breuninger , † August 1609 in Sindelfingen, victim of the persecution of witches in Sindelfingen at the age of 85
18th century
- 1765, November 10, Karl Heinrich von Gros , † November 9, 1840 in Stuttgart, lawyer and university professor in Erlangen
- 1782, April 30, Albert Schott , † June 6, 1861 in Stuttgart, lawyer and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
19th century
- 1806, June 6, Ottmar Schönhuth , † February 6, 1864 in Edelfingen (today Bad Mergentheim), pastor and historian
- 1806, September 25, Wilhelm Friedrich Dinkelacker , † May 25, 1884 in Tuttlingen, member of the Württemberg state parliament
- 1820, November 26th, Friedrich Heise, † July 22nd, 1866 in Cannstatt , comedian
- 1837, December 21, Ferdinand Haug , † June 21, 1925 in Stuttgart, classical archaeologist, school director at the Mannheim high school
20th century
- 1920, May 25, Fritz Held , child psychiatrist and neurologist
- 1921, April 25, Karl Ganzhorn , † August 25, 2014 in Sindelfingen, physicist, founder of the IBM Böblingen laboratory and board member of IBM Germany
- 1926, January 7, Otto Knoch , † November 17, 1993 in Beutelsbach , Catholic theologian , clergyman and exegete
- 1933, March 8, Gert Hummel , † May 15, 2004 in Tbilisi , Protestant theologian and bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Georgia
- 1941, January 30, Horst K. Jandl , Austrian painter
- 1941, April 27, Lutz Ackermann , sculptor
- 1941, June 30, Wolfgang Hermann Körner , writer
- 1943, July 14, Werner Schmidt , banker
- 1947, August 11, Thomas Vogel , † October 20, 2017 in Tübingen, writer and journalist
- 1948, April 6, Friederike Roth , writer
- 1948, November 25th, Günter Müller , business IT specialist
- 1952, September 11th, Harald Braun , diplomat, Vice-President of the UN General Assembly
- 1954, April 25, Erich Klemm , Chairman of the General Works Council and Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG
- 1963, Ursel Fantz , plasma physicist
- 1963, October 16, Günter Bechly , paleontologist and entomologist .
- 1964, September 15, Anne Kolb , ancient historian and university professor
- 1965, Svenja Goltermann , modern historian, mentality researcher
- 1965, February 22nd, Ulrich Michael Heissig - alias Irmgard Knef , cabaret artist - German Cabaret Prize 2004
- 1965, July 26th, Heidrun Gärtner , actress
- 1966, Uwe Spinder, cabaret artist
- 1966, May 24th, Elke Zimmer , politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), member of the state parliament
- 1966, September 22nd, Guido Kühn , media and communication designer, media artist and university professor
- 1966, November 20, Oliver Hasenfratz , † November 14, 2001 in Berlin, actor
- 1967, July 1st, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser , classical philologist
- 1967, August 19, Jörg Baldauf , disabled athlete
- 1968, Monika Henschel, Henschel Quartet (viola)
- 1968, Marlis Petersen , singer
- 1968, January 25th, Petra Schwille , physicist
- 1968, February 14th, Gerd Dörich , racing cyclist
- 1968, October 24th, Bernd Vöhringer , politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Sindelfingen since 2001
- 1968, November 23, Stefan Bayer , economist, university professor
- 1969, Iris Alanyalı , journalist and writer
- 1969, Christoph Henschel, also Henschel Quartet (violin)
- 1970, Harley Krohmer , Director of the Institute for Marketing and Management at the University of Bern
- 1971, March 17, Pia Maier , Member of the Bundestag (PDS)
- 1971, July 3, Pascal Kober , pastor and politician (FDP), member of the Bundestag
- 1976, Claudia Trippel , Professor of Psychology at Kehl University
- 1978, October 11th, Sascha Reinelt , hockey player
- 1983, July 22nd, Marko Kopilas , German-Croatian soccer player
- 1984, Matthias Ebner , politician (Animal Welfare Party)
- 1984, September 1st, Susanne Stadlmüller , figure skater
- 1985, September 14th, Dennis Wilke , handball player
- 1987, Ivana Puljiz , archaeologist
- 1987, April 20, Michael Klauss , soccer player
Other personalities associated with Sindelfingen
The following personalities, who were not born there but worked there, are connected to the city of Sindelfingen and its districts:
- Wilhelm Friedle , operations director of the Daimler-Benz AG Sindelfingen plant until 1935 brought the assembly line to Germany
- Gustl Hohenstein, builder of the ready-to-wear houses and the Sindelfingen exhibition center
- Roland Emmerich , Hollywood director; grew up in Sindelfingen and made his first films in the area
- Paul Nagler , architect; planned around 40 church buildings in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese and beyond
- Eberhard Gabler , ornithologist; Founder and head of the Bird Protection Information Center (VIZ) in Sindelfingen for many years
- Karl-Heinz Reinheimer , † April 23, 2009 in Sindelfingen, longtime city councilor
literature
- Records in the baptismal register of the city of Sindelfingen as well as in the deanery and parish offices.
Web links
Commons : Personalities of Sindelfingen - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Website of the city of Sindelfingen at www.sindelfingen.de