List of personalities of the city of Villingen-Schwenningen

This list contains the honorary citizens of Villingen-Schwenningen , personalities who were born in what is now the city area and those who worked in Villingen-Schwenningen but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

Honorary citizen

The city of Villingen-Schwenningen and the two previous cities and former municipalities have granted the following people honorary citizenship:

City of Villingen in the Black Forest

• 1903: Heinrich Osiander, mayor
• 1935: Hermann Schwer, manufacturer
• 1935: Adolf Hitler , Führer and Reich Chancellor ( revoked in 1945 )
• 1935: Robert Wagner , Reich Governor of Baden ( revoked in 1945 )
• 1938: Johanna Schwer, factory owner
• 1958: Alban Dold , Benedictine, liturgical scholar, palaeographer and palimpsest researcher
• 1967: Max Weinmann, Honorary Dean
• 1971: Karl Brachat , retired high school supervisor D.

City of Schwenningen am Neckar

• 1880: Karl Hähnle, doctor
• 1900: Robert von Gaupp , State Councilor
• 1903: Paul Schmid, pastor and local researcher
• 1907: Christian Mauthe, Councilor of Commerce
• 1912: David Würth, Stadtschultheiß
• 1926: Richard Bürk , Councilor of Commerce
• 1927: Jakob Kienzle , Privy Councilor of Commerce
• 1928: Johannes Kohler
• 1947: Mathias Fleig, city councilor
• 1950: Fritz Mauthe , local councilor
• 1952: Karl-Walter Jauch , surgeon
• 1953: Christian Link, manufacturer
• 1954: Hermann Rupp, main subject teacher and local researcher
• 1961: Hans Kohler, Lord Mayor
• 1964: Erhard Schrenk, city councilor

Marbach municipality

• 1953: Karl Kern, manufacturer
• 1967: Paul Riegger, director
• 1971: Karl Stetter, Vice President
• 1973: Friedrich Hirt, mayor

Obereschach community

• 1928: Karl Kammerer, chamber singer
• 1958: Oskar Joos, senior teacher

Weigheim community

• 1956: Josef Hauser, manufacturer
• 1960: Josef Gawatz, pastor
• 1966: Alfons Käfer, mayor

Weilersbach community

• 1934: Wilhelm Becker, pastor
• 1968: Engelbert Schuler, mayor
• 1974: Heinrich Schubnell, pastor

City of Villingen-Schwenningen

• 1972: Severin Kern (1900–1986), Lord Mayor of Villingen
• 1998: Ewald Merkle (1924–2013), city councilor, founder of the “Neue Heimat” building cooperative, holder of the Staufer medal
• 2005: Erwin Teufel (* 1939), former Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg
• 2007: the couple Liselotte and Gerhard Gebauer (1926–2017); she founder of the local association of Lebenshilfe , he former mayor

Personalities born in Villingen-Schwenningen

Until 1800

• Matthäus Hummel (1425–1477), founding rector of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Georg Pictorius (around 1500 - 1569), doctor and mystical-magical author of the Renaissance
• Anton Joseph Schupp (1664–1729), sculptor
• Ulrich Bürgi (1671–1739), Benedictine and abbot
• Joseph Ignaz Schilling (1702–1773), painter and theater painter
• Trudpert Neugart (1742–1825), professor of oriental languages, court chaplain and monastery archivist
• Berthold Rottler (1748–1826), prince abbot of the St. Blasien monastery
• Philipp Jakob Nabholz (1782–1842), Benedictine monk, seminar leader and reform pedagogue

1801 to 1900

• Wilhelm Dürr the Elder (1815–1890), painter
• Johannes Bürk (1819–1872), inventor, entrepreneur and politician
• Lukas Engesser (1820–1880), architect
• Friedrich Mauthe (1822–1884), entrepreneur and watch manufacturer
• Carl Reutti (1830–1895), Großh. Karlsruhe court notary, entomologist
• Christian Mauthe (1845–1909), watch manufacturer, honorary citizen and councilor of commerce
• Richard Bürk (1851–1934), inventor, entrepreneur and politician
• Carl Kornhas (1857–1931), ceramicist
• Jakob Kienzle (1859–1935), watch manufacturer
• Ernst Georg Kurz (1859–1937), general practitioner in Bonndorf in the Black Forest, spa doctor in Bad Dürrheim, district doctor, district doctor in Wolfach and Donaueschingen, from 1899 district doctor and social hygienist as well as forensic doctor in Heidelberg
• Karl Haag (1860–1946), pedagogue and linguist
• Carl Holly (1870 in Ober-Eschach - after 1900), theater actor and opera singer
• Josef Kaiser (1874–1940), entrepreneur, watch manufacturer
• Wilhelm Wirthle (1874–1960), postal worker and politician
• Fritz Mauthe (1875–1951), entrepreneur and politician
• Alban Dold (1882–1960), Benedictine, liturgical scholar, palaeographer and palimpsest researcher
• Max Schlenker (1883–1967), managing director of the Langnam Association
• August Reitz (1885–1969), German trade unionist
• Erwin Mehne (1889–1953), art locksmith, entrepreneur
• Fritz Kaiser (1891–1974), painter
• Richard Benzing (1892–1947), doctor and holder of the NSDAP's Golden Medal of Honor
• Waldemar Flaig (1892–1932), painter
• Hans Kohler (1893–1962), physician, member of the state parliament
• Richard Haizmann (1895–1963), painter, sculptor, ceramist and wood cutter

1901 to 1950

• Joseph Benjamin Grüninger (1901–1963), bell founder, Grüninger bell foundry
• Ewald Jauch (1902–1946), SS Oberscharführer
• Erwin Trippel (1906–1979), Baden District Administrator
• Eugen Zimmermann (1907–1990), painter and art teacher
• Wilfried Acker (1908–1979), communist politician (KPD, DKP), member of the state parliament for Württemberg-Hohenzollern
• Hans-Georg Müller-Hanssen (1908–1998), painter and graphic artist
• Walter Vosseler (1908–1981), communist and Spain fighter
• Johannes Benzing (1913–2001), Turkologist and diplomat
• Wilhelm Maier (1913–1964), physicist and university professor
• Heinz Haller (1914–2004), economist and State Secretary
• Alfred Lutz (1919–2013), graphic designer and university professor as well as prorector of the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
• Martin Barner (* 1921), mathematician
• Gerd Jauch (1924–2007), television presenter and television journalist
• Heinz Laufer (1925–2010), athlete and local politician
• Ferdinand Maier (1925–2014), prehistoric archaeologist
• Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer (1927-2004), music producer
• Kurt Leichtweiß (1927–2013), mathematician
• Heiner Flaig (* 1928), writer
• Eduard Hauser (1928–2010), born in Weigheim, member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament
• Werner Dürrson (1932–2008), writer
• Gerson Fehrenbach (1932-2004), sculptor
• Heinz Pfeiffer (1932–2015), artistic cyclist and national coach
• Trixini , actually Hansjörg Kindler (1933–2015), theologian, magician: magician with the blue stone
• Gunter Huonker (* 1937), politician (SPD)
• Wolf-Dieter Narr (1937–2019), political scientist
• Anton Pfeifer (* 1937), politician (CDU)
• Günter Schmid (* 1937), chemist
• Doris Fuchs-Brause (* 1938), American gymnast
• Joachim Hirsch (* 1938), political scientist
• Tilmann Moser (* 1938), psychoanalyst, body psychotherapist and author
• Werner Beiter (1939–2014), designer, toolmaker and inventor
• Hans Peter Reuter (* 1942), artist
• Volker Michels (* 1943), editor of the Nobel Prize for Literature Hermann Hesse
• Hartmann von der Tann (* 1943), radio and television journalist
• Ute Luig (* 1944), ethnologist
• Dieter Jauch (* 1947), zoologist, director of Wilhelma 1989–2013
• Rainer Baumann (1949–2007), guitarist, composer and lyricist
• Renate Eppler-Esenwein (* 1950), artist, book author, art teacher

1951 to 1975

• Heinrich Tiemann (* 1951), civil servant
• Jürgen Schützinger (* 1953), politician (NPD)
• Marion Schwarzwälder (* 1954), musician and writer
• Horst Ludwig Meyer (1956–1999), alleged member of the Red Army Faction (RAF)
• Udo Becker (* 1957), professor
• Martin Alfons Heine (1957–2014), painter and performance artist
• Veit Heinichen (* 1957), writer
• Hanns-Georg Rodek (* 1957), journalist and film critic
• Wieland Kiess (* 1958), pediatrician and university professor
• Ingo Winkelmann (* 1958), diplomat
• Gundolf Köhler (1959–1980), right-wing extremist
• Tim Lienhard (* 1960), television journalist, reporter and author and producer
• Andreas K. Engel (* 1961), brain researcher
• Marco Baldi (* 1962), basketball player
• Heike Schmoll (* 1962), journalist
• Frank Würthner (* 1964), chemist
• Uwe Geiselmann (* 1965), ice hockey player
• Boris Grundl (* 1965), non-fiction author, management trainer and wheelchair athlete
• Günter Jauch (* 1965), fencer
• Anke Laufer (* 1965), writer
• Nina Jäckle (* 1966), writer and filmmaker
• Kai Wiedenhöfer (* 1966), photojournalist
• Armin Biere (* 1967), computer scientist
• Matthias Mink (* 1967), soccer player and coach
• Beate Bischler (* 1968), judoka
• Volker Reinhardt (* 1968), educational and political scientist
• Robert Prosinečki (* 1969), Croatian football player and coach
• Alexander Rieckhoff (* 1969), crime novel writer and journalist
• Stefan Ummenhofer (* 1969), author and journalist
• Dieter Braun (* 1970), physicist and university professor
• Klaus Schmeh (* 1970), computer scientist and non-fiction author
• Andrea Zietzschmann (* 1970), cultural manager
• Anke Greifeneder (* 1972), author
• Michelle (born 1972), singer
• Markus Conrad (* 1973), politician (CDU)
• Tobias Hack (* 1973), Catholic theologian
• Rosa Maria Paz (* 1973), Spanish actress
• Katrin Vernau (* 1973), economist
• Thorsten Schmitt (* 1975), Nordic combined athlete

From 1976

• Florian Rexer (* 1976), actor, director and festival director
• Timo Joh. Mayer (* 1977), filmmaker
• Frank-Thorsten Moll (* 1977), art historian and art scholar
• Andreas Renz (* 1977), ice hockey player
• Dania König (* 1978), musician, songwriter and singer
• Oliver Roggisch (* 1978), handball player
• Martin Schmitt (* 1978), ski jumper
• Marco Steffens (* 1978), Lord Mayor of Offenburg
• Andreas Lang (* 1979), curler
• Sarah Meyer-Dietrich (* 1980), writer
• Felix K. Maier (* 1981), ancient historian and classical philologist
• Dennis Seidenberg (* 1981), ice hockey player
• Andreas Anton (* 1983), sociologist
• Ivana Brkljačić (* 1983), Croatian hammer thrower
• Tobias Sauter (* 1983), marathon runner
• Jochen Schöps (* 1983), volleyball player
• Mirko Anastasov (* 1984), basketball player
• Johannes Hauer (* 1984), actor
• Marco Caligiuri (* 1984), German-Italian soccer player
• Matthias Schwierz (* 1984), inline speed skater and speed skater
• Yannic Seidenberg (* 1984), ice hockey player
• Nico Graf (* 1985), racing cyclist
• Thomas Ower (* 1985), ice hockey goalkeeper
• Adem Sarı (* 1985), Turkish soccer player
• Marco Schütz (* 1985), ice hockey player
• Sabrina Weckerlin (* 1986), singer and musical performer
• Juliane Maier (* 1987), soccer player
• Daniel Caligiuri (* 1988), German-Italian soccer player
• Haze (born 1989), rapper
• Daniel Keilwitz (* 1989), automobile racing driver
• Fabian Kohl (* 1989), volleyball player
• Ralf Matzka (* 1989), racing cyclist
• Florian Rudy (* 1989), soccer player
• Sebastian Rudy (* 1990), football player
• Tobias Hermann (* 1991), biathlete
• Dennis Steinhauer (* 1991), ice hockey player
• Felix Bick (* 1992), ice hockey goalkeeper
• Vincent Schlenker (* 1992), ice hockey player
• Christian Günter (* 1993), soccer player
• Jacqueline Janzen (* 1993), ice hockey player
• Domenic Weinstein (* 1994), racing cyclist
• Kemal Ademi (* 1996), Swiss football player
• Patrick Haller (* 1997), cyclist

Well-known residents of Villingen-Schwenningen

• Remigius Mans († 1513), Landsknecht
• Hans Kraut (around 1532 - after 1596), Kunsthafner
• Anton Berin (1575–1624), painter
• Hans Amann (around 1555 - around 1626), sculptor
• Joseph Anton Hops (1720–1761), sculptor
• Franz Anton Schmider (1817–1891), "Count Magga"

Other personalities

• Hans von Rechberg (around 1410 - 1464), knight and feud entrepreneur; died and buried in Villingen
• Johannes Pauli (around 1455 - 1530/33), Franciscan and reading master in Villingen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Artelt : Ernst Georg Short 1859-1937. [ Lecture given on October 1, 1963 at the annual meeting of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology e. V. in Schaffhausen and dedicated to my teacher Paul Diepgen on his upcoming 85th birthday on November 24, 1963. ] Senckenberg Institute for the History of Medicine at the University, Frankfurt am Main 1963.