List of personalities of the city of Weikersheim

This list of personalities of the city of Weikersheim shows the mayors, honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city of Weikersheim and its districts ( Elpersheim , Haagen , Honsbronn , Laudenbach , Nassau , Neubronn , Queckbronn and Schäftersheim ), as well as other personalities who are connected with Weikersheim. The list does not claim to be complete.

mayor

Mayor Klaus Kornberger (left)

The following people have been mayors of Weikersheim since the end of World War II :

• Wilhelm Laukhuff (1945–1947)
• Albert Ehninger (1947–1956)
• Kurt Hirsch (1956–1982), non-party
• Horst Häfner (1982–1998), Free Voters
• Klaus Kornberger (since 1998), free voter

Honorary citizen

The city of Weikersheim granted honorary citizenship to the following people who have made a special contribution to the good or reputation of the municipality:

• Constantin zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1892–1973), German painter , monument conservator and museum director

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Weikersheim (or in a part of the current urban area of ​​Weikersheim):

16th Century

• Wipert von Finsterlohe († 1503), cathedral capitular in the prince-bishops of Speyer and Würzburg , whose epitaph has been preserved in the Speyer cathedral . Came according to his matrikel entry at the University of Erfurt (1471) from Laudenbach.
• Hans Gerner (1532), mayor of Neubronn

17th century

• Georg Tobias Pistorius (1666–1745), lawyer and historian
• Rafael Levi (1685–1779), mathematician and astronomer
• Christian Ernst Hanßelmann (1699–1776), archivist and archaeologist

18th century

• Roman Hofstetter (1742–1815), Benedictine monk and composer (born in Laudenbach)
• Joseph von Maier , b. as Josef Rosenthal (1797–1873), rabbi in Stuttgart and first Jew ennobled by the King of Württemberg (born in Laudenbach)

19th century

• Leopold Pfeiffer (1821–1881), law professor in Tübingen
• Emil Demmler (1843–1922), born in Schäftersheim, Protestant clergyman
• Heinz Sausele (1862–1938), local poet and lyric poet in Hohenlohe dialect
• Otto Hartmann (1889–1917), fighter pilot in the First World War
• Wilhelm Rudolph (1891–1987), Old Testament scholar and orientalist

20th century

• JoKarl Huber (1902–1996), visual artist (born as Josef Karl Huber in Laudenbach)
• Wilhelm Laukhuff (1903–1981), entrepreneur and local politician
• Franz Bertele (1931–2019), diplomat
• Karl Mündlein (* 1942), poet in Hohenlohe dialect
• Michael Marrak (* 1965), science fiction author

Other personalities associated with Weikersheim

20th century

• Inhabitants of Weikersheim murdered during the Nazi era (1933–1945) are mentioned in the articles of the Jewish communities of Laudenbach and Weikersheim .
• Sabine Bischoff-Wolf (* 1958 as Sabine Bischoff ; † March 6, 2013 in Weikersheim), German foil fencer , German champion and 1984 Olympic champion with the team, worked in Weikersheim as a high school teacher.

Web links

Commons : Personalities of the city of Weikersheim  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the city of Weikersheim at www.weikersheim.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carlheinz Gräter: Hohenloher rarities. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-87407-901-3
2. ^ Obituary in Fränkische Nachrichten of March 11, 2013
3. ↑ Sabine Bischoff in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)