List of personalities of the city of Wetzlar

This list includes personalities with a connection to the city of Wetzlar and sons and daughters of this city. The members of the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar are only listed here arbitrarily, for more see under Personnel of the court .

Personalities

Until 1600

• The Konradin Gebhard , Count in the Wetterau and from 904 Duke of Lorraine dux regni quod a multis Hlotharii dicitur ("Duke of the kingdom, which is called by many that Lothar", is meant the Lotharii Regnum , the later Lorraine) left 897 a Salvator church (Erlöserkirche) consecrated in place of a previous church on the later Domberg , he donated the monastery of St. Maria in Wetzlar in 914/915 , where he was buried.
• Gebhard's sons Hermann I , a later Duke of Swabia , and Udo I , Count in the Wetterau , founded the Marienstiftes ( Wetzlar Cathedral ), a collegiate monastery , at the beginning of the 10th century .
• Gertrud (1227–1297) daughter of Elisabeth and Ludwig von Thuringia. She was only born after the death of her father and grew up from the age of two in the Premonstratensian monastery in Altenberg near Wetzlar . At the age of 21 she became the third master of the monastery and its abbess from 1248 to 1297. Like her mother, she helped the poor and cared for the sick in order to serve Jesus Christ. Pope Clement VI she beatified in 1348 .
• Dietrich Holzschuh alias Tile Kolup , the false emperor Friedrich II. † 1285. When King Rudolf and the Archbishop of Cologne moved with their armies to Wetzlar, the Wetzlar people delivered Tile Kolup to the rightful king. Under the torture , he revealed his real name. He was condemned as a magician, heretic, and blasphemer. The king had him executed or burned (at the stake?) The next day, July 7, 1285 in Wetzlar.
• Count Adolf von Nassau (* before 1250; † July 2, 1298 near Göllheim ) appointed castle captain at the imperial castle Kalsmunt in Wetzlar by King Rudolf von Habsburg . Adolf kept the office until he was elected King of the Roman-German Empire . As early as 1292 he transferred the office of castle captain to Gottfried von Merenberg .
• Catherine Countess of Nassau occupied 1289 - April 29, 1304, nun. (Father: Nassau, Heinrich II. Count of, recorded 1198–1247, mother: Nassau, Mathilde Countess of, † after 1247). From 1298 to 1304 Katharina von Nassau was master, abbess of the monastery Altenberg near Wetzlar.
• Robin Graf zu Sayn and Hachenburg, named 1318–1373, 1330 provost of Wetzlar, canon in Cologne
• Gerhard Richwin, councilor, citizen and woolen weaver in Wetzlar (* ≈1320)
• Johannes Heintzenberger (born August 21, 1531 in Wetzlar; † February 3, 1581 in Marburg) was a Hessian chancellor and councilor
• Franz Kessler (* around 1580 in Wetzlar; † around 1650 in Danzig ), inventor, alchemist, painter and scholar. He often called himself "Conterfaiter von Wetzlar" - that is, portraitist of Wetzlar.

17th century

• Johann Philipp Chelius (* 1610 in Ober-Widdersheim; † 1683 Wetzlar), lawyer , town clerk and chronicler in Wetzlar.
• Count Franz Adolf Dietrich von Ingelheim (* 1659 in Aschaffenburg ; † September 15, 1742 in Wetzlar), known as Echter von und zu Mespelbrunn, was an imperial chamber judge from 1730 to 1742. After studying law at the University of Mainz , he worked in the administration of Erfurt , then became Hofrat von Kurmainz and in 1682 a member of the Privy Council of the Viztum Rheingau . In 1698 he became President of the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar, from which he was suspended in 1703 after a dispute with his official colleague Solms-Laubach . In 1711 he was reinstated and from 1730 to 1742 he was a judge of the Reich Chamber of Commerce.
• Franz Callenbach (born January 10, 1663 in Dittwar near Tauberbischofsheim , † February 3, 1743 in Bamberg ) was a Jesuit author of SJ satirical school dramas of the Baroque period . 1694 and 1703–1721 educator and founder of a school for the children of the Catholic members of the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar. Here he recorded the devastating conditions at the Reich Chamber of Commerce at the time, which provided him with plenty of material for his eight satirical comedies.
• Georg Melchior von Ludolf (born March 2, 1667 in Erfurt; † February 1, 1740 in Wetzlar), assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice and legal writer
• Johann Melchior Kraft (born June 11, 1673 in Wetzlar; † July 22, 1751 in Schleswig (city)?) Lutheran theologian .
• Barthold Heinrich Brockes (also: Bertold Hinrich Brockes) (born September 22, 1680 in Hamburg , † January 16, 1747 in Hamburg) was an important German writer of the Baroque and early Enlightenment and a patrician of Hamburg . In 1702 started a six-month internship at the local RKG.
• Christian Albert Anton von Merle (born May 22, 1693 in Wetzlar; † March 2, 1765 in Worms ) was auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Worms and titular bishop of Sinope from 1734 to 1765 .
• Johann Jacob von Zwierlein (born February 9, 1699 in Worms; † June 21, 1772 Wetzlar), lawyer at the Reich Chamber of Commerce

18th century

• Hohenlohe, Karl Philipp Franz von (* 1702 Wanfried; † 1763 Wetzlar), (1744) Prince of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, Reich Chamberlain in Wetzlar.
• Heinrich Ernst August, Count zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and Hohenstein (* December 25, 1715, † May 19, 1792), Protestant, lived in Wetzlar.
• Leonhard Heinrich Ludwig Georg von Canngießer (born May 22, 1716 in Wetzlar, † May 29, 1772 in Kassel), statesman.
• Johann Friedrich Meckel (born July 31, 1724 in Wetzlar, † September 18, 1774 in Berlin ) was a German medic. In 1753, Meckel became professor of anatomy and midwifery in Berlin, and he was also a royal personal surgeon.
• Carl Georg August von Oppel (born March 11, 1725 in Wetzlar, † January 3, 1760 in Montbéliard ); Chancellor in Gotha , later governor of the County of Mömpelgard in Württemberg
• Prince Karl Egon zu Fürstenberg-Stühlingen (* 1729, † 1786) until 1772 I. Imperial visitation commissioner at the RKG in Wetzlar
• Franz Ludwig von Erthal , Prince Bishop of Wurzburg and Bamberg (* September 16, 1730 to Lohr, † 16 February 1795 in Würzburg) was in Vienna the Emperor Joseph II. Known and by the same succession of secret Imperial Council, Visitor of the Imperial Chamber at Wetzlar ( 1767–1776) and appointed imperial commissioner at the Reichstag in Regensburg .
• Johann Siegmund von Oppel (born October 2, 1730 in Wetzlar, † February 25, 1798 in Weimar ), director of the Saxony-Weimar landscape treasury and real secret council .
• Imperial Vice Chancellor Prince Franz de Paula Gundaccar I (* 1731; † 1807), who was Ambassador to Spain from 1767 to 1770 and Imperial Vice Chancellor from 1788 to 1806 . From 1772 he was the first Imperial Visitations Commissioner at the RKG in Wetzlar.
• Baroness Maria Dorothea von Albini (* 1734; † 1807 in Wetzlar) born. Von Requile, appraisal judge, was a great benefactress of the poor. After her death, she bequeathed her entire fortune (around 300,000 guilders at the time) to an institute for the poor in Wetzlar.
• the barons of Zwierlein have been important lawyers at the RKG for two generations since 1736.
• Christian Jacob Freiherr von Zwierlein (born December 4, 1737 in Wetzlar, † August 10, 1793 in Langsdorf) lawyer and procurator at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar
• Constantin von Neurath (Johann Friedrich Albert) Constantin Neurath, from 1791 von Neurath (born May 17, 1739 in Alsfeld , † October 30, 1816 in Rastatt ) was a German lawyer and Reich Chamber Court assessor in Wetzlar. He brought up Friedrich Carl von Savigny, who was orphaned at an early age, as a guardian in Wetzlar.
• Johann Christian Kestner (born August 28, 1741 in Hanover ; † May 24, 1800 in Lüneburg on a business trip) was a German lawyer and archivist , famous above all as the husband of Werther's Lotte Charlotte Buff . As a young Hanoverian legation secretary from 1767 to 1773 at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar, Kestner met Charlotte Buff, the daughter of the bailiff at the Teutonic Order Court there, and became engaged to her. He later became royal British-Hanoverian court advisor and vice archivist in Hanover. The young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was also an intern at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar in 1772, became friends with both of them.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (born September 3, 1746 in Gotha; † March 18, 1797 ibid), poet, accompanied Baron v. Gemmingen as legation secretary to Wetzlar. From 1770 to 1774 he went back to Wetzlar as legation secretary, where he communicated with Goethe, Jerusalem and others.
• Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem , "archetype of Goethe's Werther" (born March 21, 1747 Braunschweig , † (suicide) October 30, 1772, Wetzlar) legation secretary of Brunswick envoy Councilor Johann Jakob von Höfler (1714-1781) at the RCT in Wetzlar
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (born August 28, 1749 in Frankfurt am Main as Johann Wolfgang Goethe; † March 22, 1832 in Weimar). Probably the most famous personality in Wetzlar's history, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe worked as a lawyer at the Imperial Court of Justice in 1772. Under the impression of his love for Charlotte Buff from Wetzlar and the suicide of Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem , Goethe made the city known worldwide with his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .
• Karl August von Hardenberg , later Prince von Hardenberg (born May 31, 1750, † November 26, 1822), at the RKG in Wetzlar
• Ulmenstein, Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht von Freyherr (born October 30 in Wetzlar, † January 27, 1826 in Wezlar) lawyer, assessor, a. a. Princely Nassau-Weilburg government council, history and topographical description of the city of Wetzlar.
• Charlotte Sophie Henriette Buff (born January 11, 1753 in Wetzlar; † January 16, 1828 in Hanover), she married the Hanoverian legation secretary Johann Christian Kestner on April 4, 1773 , who had already been active as a chamber court secretary at the Reich Chamber Court in Wetzlar since 1767. Charlotte is Werther's Lotte from Goethe's Werther's suffering .
• Jacob Adam Abel (born June 3, 1754 in Wetzlar; † October 2, 1824 there), lawyer at the Imperial Court of Justice and professor at the law school
• Philipp Joseph Hinner (born February 18, 1755 in Wetzlar, † April 3, 1784 in Versailles , France), composer; Harp teacher of the French Queen Marie Antoinette ; "Musicien ordinaire du Roy et de la chambre de la Reine" at the French royal court in Versailles; Father of Laure de Berny .
• Otto Heinrich von Gemmingen-Hornberg (born November 5, 1755 in Heilbronn , † March 3, 1836 in Heidelberg ), Enlightenment writer, spent his childhood in Wetzlar
• Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom Stein (born October 25, 1757 in Nassau ; † June 29, 1831 in Cappenberg , Westphalia ) was a Prussian statesman and reformer, who worked at the RKG in Wetzlar in 1777
• Joseph Philipp Graf zu Spaur and Flavon zu Winkhl and Laudeck, 1757–1796 Reich Chamber Court Assessor in Wetzlar.
• Johann Peter von Feuerbach (born August 1, 1761 in Wetzlar; † January 18, 1825 in Stuttgart), real ministerial director in the Department of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Württemberg.
• Friedrich Christian Reinermann (born October 5, 1764 in Wetzlar; † February 7, 1835 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German landscape painter who worked in Wetzlar . In 1812, the sovereign Karl Theodor von Dalberg appointed him professor of fine arts . In 1818 Reinermann got a job as a teacher at the art school in Frankfurt am Main. In the same year presented Friedrich Wilhelm III. from Prussia Reinermann a gift of honor in recognition of his artistry.
• Lazare Hoche Napoleonic general in command (born June 25, 1768 in the Montreuil quarter near Versailles , † September 19, 1797, Wetzlar)
• Heinrich Alois von Reigersberg (born January 30, 1770 in Würzburg, † November 4, 1865 in Munich) was President of the Reich Chamber of Commerce from 1797 to 1803. From October 3, 1803 until the Reich Chamber Court was dissolved on August 6, 1806, the Reich Chamber Judge was the last to attend the highest judicial office in the Old Reich. 
• Hieronymus Karl second count of Colloredo-Mansfeld (general) (born March 30, 1775 in Wetzlar; † July 23, 1822 in Vienna). He was the son of the Reich Vice Chancellor Prince Franz de Paula Gundaccar I. Hieronymus von Colloredo-Mannsfeld later worked at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar.
• Georg Wilhelm von Hofmann (born December 24, 1777 in Wetzlar, † November 30, 1860 in Neuwied), Prussian general of the infantry
• Friedrich Carl von Savigny [ ˌsaviɲˈi ] (* February 21, 1779 in Frankfurt am Main; † October 25, 1861 in Berlin ) grew up in Wetzlar with his guardian Constantin von Neurath and attended grammar school there. He is a German legal scholar and crown syndicate . He founded the historical school of law .
• Konrad Dietz (born January 2, 1780 in Wetzlar; † July 24, 1866 in Gießen), Hessian judge and conservative politician
• Franz Joseph Konstantin Schömann (born May 23, 1782 in Wetzlar, † December 2, 1813 in Jena) was a German legal scholar
• Egid von Löhr (born March 17, 1784 in Wetzlar; † March 6, 1851 in Gießen), professor at the Wetzlar School of Law and the University of Gießen
• Paul Wigand (born August 10, 1786 in Kassel , † January 4, 1866 in Wetzlar) was a German lawyer and legal historian
• Julius Constantijn Rijk (born January 13, 1787, Wetzlar; † May 2, 1854, The Hague ), governor of Suriname
• Franz Ferdinand Michael Stickel (born March 17, 1787 in Wetzlar; † September 21, 1848 in Wetzlar), lawyer at the Imperial Court of Justice and professor at the Wetzlar School of Law
• Carl August von Abel (* 1788 in Wetzlar, † September 3, 1859 in Munich ); later Bavarian Prime Minister under King Ludwig I (Bavaria) .
• Christoph Flach (born July 26, 1789 in Wetzlar; † September 24, 1861), President of the Wiesbaden Court of Appeal .
• Ferdinand Walter (born November 30, 1794 in Wetzlar; † December 13, 1879 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and member of the Prussian National Assembly in 1848.
• Karl Graf zu Spaur und Flavon (born January 4, 1794 in Wetzlar, † October 26, 1854 in Florence ), royal Bavarian envoy to the Holy See , savior of Pope Pius IX.
• Karl Maria von Aretin (born July 4, 1796 in Wetzlar, † April 29, 1868 in Berlin), historical researcher fought in the wars of freedom 1813-15. Real Privy Councilor since 1851, he was appointed a lifelong member of the Imperial Council in 1859.
• Johann Friedrich Frech (born March 21, 1796 in Wetzlar; † March 24, 1881 in Berlin), judge, politician, member of the Prussian mansion
• Carl Christian Wilhelm Sartorius (born August 31, 1796 in Gundershausen near Darmstadt ; † January 16, 1872 Hacienda del Mirador, State of Veracruz , Mexico ), a German theologian , educator and writer. From 1819 worked as a teacher at the grammar school in Wetzlar.
• Franz Xaver Albert Christoph Leonhard Ritter von Vahlkampf (born June 3, 1799 Wetzlar, † January 31, 1858 Frankfurt am Main), Catholic lawyer, Minister of State, Minister-Resident .

19th century

• Karl Theodor Friedrich Freiherr von Linden (born November 30, 1801 in Wetzlar, † January 18, 1870 in Ludwigsburg ), District President of the Württemberg Neckar District .
• Eduard Werle (* 1801 Wetzlar; † June 6, 1884 Reims ) cellar master and manager of the Clicquot champagne house , mayor of Reims.
• Joseph von Linden (born June 7, 1804 in Wetzlar; † May 31, 1895 in Hebsack near Freiburg im Breisgau ), Württemberg interior minister and member of parliament, founder of the Lindemuseum in Stuttgart.
• Ludwig Erk (born January 6, 1807 in Wetzlar), was a music teacher and composer, publisher, among other things, of the collection of German folk songs with their singing styles , the German song library and from Achim von Arnim's literary estate of the fourth part of Des Knaben Wunderhorn . He died in Berlin on November 25, 1883.
• Rudolf Baumbach (born April 19, 1807 in Berlin , † January 4, 1885 in Wetzlar), was a master builder and director of the building trade schools in Idstein and Wetzlar.
• Constantin Franz von Neurath (born April 22, 1807 in Wetzlar; † September 8, 1876 in Leinfelderhof), Württemberg lawyer and foreign minister .
• Julius Budge (born September 11, 1811 in Wetzlar; † July 14, 1888 in Greifswald) medical doctor, studied in Marburg , Würzburg and Berlin since 1828 and lived as a doctor in Wetzlar. His work related in particular to the nervous connection between parts of the brain and urinary and sexual organs as well as to the origin of the sympathetic nerve from the spinal cord and was epoch-making in this regard. He also discovered the biliary capillaries .
• Karl Albert Christoph Heinrich von Kamptz (born September 16, 1769 in Schwerin Mecklenburg , † November 3, 1849 in Berlin), Prussian. Statesman, studied at Göttingen and in 1790 joined the Mecklenburg-Strelitz service as an assessor in the law firm . In 1804 the King of Prussia appointed him Reich Chamber Court Assessor in Wetzlar (until 1809).
• Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Herbst (born November 8, 1825 in Wetzlar, † December 20, 1882 in Halle (Saale) ), German pedagogue, philologist, lexicographer and historian
• Carl Friedrich Deiker (* 1836 in Wetzlar; † 1892 in Düsseldorf ) and his brother Johannes Deiker (* May 27, 1822 in Wetzlar; † May 23, 1895 in Düsseldorf) were well-known German painters .
• Gustav Adolph von Lauer (born October 10, 1808 in Wetzlar; † April 8, 1889 in Berlin ), Prussian general staff doctor , personal physician to Kaiser Wilhelm I. For his services to the improvement of the military medical system, he received honorary citizenship of his hometown in 1885 .
• Friedrich Bertram Sixt von Armin (born November 27, 1851 in Wetzlar, † September 30, 1936 in Magdeburg ) was a German general . He received the Order of the Black Eagle and the Oak Leaves for the Pour le Mérite for his achievements . He was an honorary citizen of Wetzlar.
• Carl Kellner (company founder) (born March 26, 1826 in Hirzenhain ; † May 13, 1855 in Wetzlar), optician and precision mechanic (microscopes).
• Christian Kremp (born February 1, 1843 in Ennerich (today a district of Runkel an der Lahn); † January 21, 1920 in Wetzlar) was one of the pioneers of Wetzlar's optical and precision engineering industry.
• August Bebel (born February 22, 1840 in Cologne-Deutz; † August 13, 1913 in Passugg , Switzerland ) was a leader of the labor movement and socialist politician and co-founder of the SPD . He spent his youth in Wetzlar and learned the woodworking trade here.
• Wilhelm Molly (* 1838 in Wetzlar; † 1919 in Neu-Moresnet) was a German general practitioner and Esperanto promoter.
• Karl Knortz (born August 28, 1841 in Garbenheim / Wetzlar; † July 27, 1918 in North Tarrytown, USA) German-American writer , emigrated to America in 1863 and devoted himself to teaching here, in which he moved to Detroit in 1866-68 Michigan , then to Oshkosh in Wisconsin until 1871 , later in Cincinnati for the German language and literature. As editor of the "German Pioneer" in Cincinnati, the "Indiana Deutsche Zeitung" in Indianapolis ; Publications among others: "Fairy tales and legends of the North American Indians", "American sketches", "Epigrams", "Longfellow, literary historical study" etc.
• Moritz Hensoldt (born November 11, 1821 in Lindenau , Thuringia , † October 10, 1903 in Wetzlar), manufacturer in the optical and precision engineering industry (microscopes, telescopes).
• Friedrich Back (born June 1860 in Wetzlar; † March 1932 in Darmstadt), art historian and museum director in Darmstadt.
• Oskar Barnack (born November 1, 1879 in Lynow, Nuthe-Urstromtal; † January 16, 1936 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German precision mechanic. Between 1913 and 1914, as head of development at the Leitz company in Wetzlar , he developed the first 35mm camera, the first Leica ( Leitz Camera).
• Ernst Leitz I (born April 26, 1843 in Sulzburg; † September 12, 1920 in Solothurn, Switzerland), Wetzlar factory owner, opt. and feinmech. Industry (microscopes, cameras and telescopes).
• Heinrich Gloël (born July 22, 1855 in Körbelitz near Magdeburg , † January 16, 1940 in Wetzlar), German philologist and Goethe researcher and honorary citizen of the city of Wetzlar
• Ernst Leitz II (born March 1, 1871 in Wetzlar; † June 15, 1956 there), entrepreneur from Wetzlar who created the world's first internationally successful large-scale 35mm camera with the Leica .
• Karl Horn (born June 3, 1888 in Nieder-Olm (Rheinhessen), † July 13, 1971 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe), Mayor of Wetzlar (1945)
• Germaine Krull (born November 20, 1897 in Posen , † July 31, 1985 in Wetzlar), photographer.
• Irmgard Freiin von Lemmers-Danfort (born March 28, 1892 in Wilhelmshaven ; † January 22, 1984 in Wetzlar), Wetzlar pediatrician and her collection of European living culture that she put together in the princely Palais Papius and made accessible to the public.
• Sepp Christmann (born September 22, 1895 in Bingen am Rhein , † April 11, 1977 in Wetzlar) was a German trainer for several sports
• Johannes von Rudloff (born January 24, 1897 in Wetzlar; † June 26, 1978 in Hamburg) was auxiliary bishop in Osnabrück and episcopal vicar in Hamburg

20th century

• Elli Hatschek , née Lotz, (born July 2, 1901 in Wetzlar; † December 8, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee), German resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism
• Elsie Kühn-Leitz (born December 22, 1903 in Wetzlar; † August 5, 1985 there), German lawyer and patron as well as an honorary citizen of Wetzlar
• Edgar Hobinka (born December 16, 1905 in Mährisch Schönberg; † January 24, 1989 in Wetzlar), German music teacher and honorary citizen of Wetzlar
• Ernst Leitz III (born January 16, 1906 in Wetzlar, † September 8, 1979 in Bad Nauheim), Wetzlar entrepreneur and politician
• Helmut Neuss (March 12, 1908 - July 21, 2009), German naval officer, most recently rear admiral of the German Navy
• Paul Hölzig (* 1911; † 1989 in Wetzlar-Naunheim), German puppeteer, graphic artist and magician (as Leo Paolo )
• Walter Schuster (born November 7, 1918 in Wetzlar; † May 20, 2010 ibid), German agricultural scientist in the field of plant breeding
• Wolfgang Kühle (born December 7, 1920 in Göttingen; † December 7, 2002 in Wetzlar) was a Hessian politician (CDU) and a member of the Hessian state parliament. Honorary citizen of the city of Wetzlar
• Otto Malfeld (* 1921 in Bad König; † February 24, 2013 in Wetzlar), Wetzlar Mayor 1972–1977
• Gisela May (born May 31, 1924 in Wetzlar; † December 2, 2016 in Berlin), multiple award-winning actress (stage and film), Diseuse, Brecht interpreter
• Helmut Spengler (born April 19, 1931 in Wetzlar), Protestant theologian; from 1985 to 1993 church president of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau
• Werner Jan Christiaan Noorda (born July 9, 1933), Dutch painter and poet of Expressionism, has lived in Wetzlar since 1970.
• Knut Kühn-Leitz (born June 16, 1936 in Frankfurt am Main; † May 23, 2020 in Wetzlar), the last direct offspring of the Leitz family in Wetzlar. He joined the Ernst Leitz Wetzlar company in 1965 and became part of the management team in 1971. Commitment as chairman of the board of the Ernst-Leitz-Foundation and for "Haus Friedwart", publications on company and family history. Maintaining international relations, especially the Franco-German friendship.
• Erich Neu (born November 26, 1936 in Wetzlar; † December 31, 1999 in Bochum), ancient orientalist
• Günter Henrich (born July 6, 1937 in Wetzlar; † October 20, 2011 in Frankfurt am Main), caricaturist and cartoonist
• Ulrich Denkhaus (born September 27, 1938, † January 1, 2013 in Wetzlar), theologian and physicist, lived and died in Wetzlar
• Karl-Ernst Eiermann (born July 17, 1940 in Wetzlar), cosmologist, theoretical physicist, researcher, speaker, lecturer and author
• Bernd Wulffen (politician) (born October 9, 1940 in Klosterheide, Brandenburg Province), lived in Wetzlar from 1951 to 1959, graduated from the Goethe School. Consul in Buenos Aires, press attaché in Mexico, economic and science attaché in Jakarta and Beijing, ambassador in Kuwait and Bahrain, civil coordinator for Kosovo and ambassador in Havana from 2001 to 2005.
• Ulrich Mayer (born February 25, 1941 in Wetzlar), historian and university professor
• Verena Dietrich (born June 30, 1941 in Wetzlar; † April 18, 2004 in Schwerte), architect and university professor
• Volker Pingel (born October 18, 1941 in Wetzlar; † 2005), professor of prehistory at the Ruhr University in Bochum
• Ellen-Heidi Hebestreit (born November 25, 1941 in Wetzlar), politician (CDU)
• Ted Herold (born September 9, 1942), rock singer; From 1963 Bundeswehr in the Spilburg, married in Wetzlar-Nauborn, apprenticeship and training to become a master craftsman in Wetzlar, divorce and departure around 1980.
• Hans Christoph Buch (born April 13, 1944 in Wetzlar), writer and essayist
• Karsten Porezag (born June 11, 1944 in Goslar) has lived in Wetzlar since 1971. City guide, author. Historical research and publications on regional, mining and technology history. 1991: Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs (born September 26, 1945 in Wetzlar), ethnologist and writer
• Nando Belardi (born August 16, 1946 in Wetzlar) em. University professor for social education, lives in Bergisch Gladbach
• Brigitta Weiss (born May 30, 1949 in Wetzlar; † July 2, 2013), writer
• Angi Domdey (* 1950 in Wetzlar), jazz singer and songwriter
• Kurt Herrmann (born August 3, 1950 in Wetzlar), Lieutenant General in the German Armed Forces
• Hella Heizmann (born February 24, 1951 in Wetzlar; † July 12, 2009 in Eschenburg), singer, vocal teacher and songwriter of Christian music
• Wolfram Dette (born August 15, 1951 in Weimar ), German local politician and Lord Mayor of the City of Wetzlar from 1997 to 2015; he made decisive progress in the city.
• Charly Weller (born October 9, 1951 in Marburg), film director and author; Youth and Abitur in Wetzlar
• Elli H. Radinger (* 1951 in Wetzlar), wolf expert, specialist journalist and author
• Petra Weber (* 1954 in Wetzlar), musicologist
• Helmut Gold (born December 7, 1958 in Wetzlar), director of the Museum for Communication Frankfurt
• Michael Keiner (born February 8, 1959 in Wetzlar), well-known German poker player
• Jürgen Stock (born October 4, 1959 in Wetzlar), one of two vice-presidents at the Federal Criminal Police Office and lecturer in criminology in Giessen. In 2014 Stock was elected as the new General Secretary of Interpol .
• Dieter Büddefeld (* 1960 in Wetzlar), Director of the Brandenburg State Criminal Police Office
• Stephan Becker (born December 2, 1960), virologist and university professor
• Stefanie Schäfer (born August 16, 1963 in Wetzlar), translator
• Hartmuth Becker (* 1966 in Wetzlar), economist, political scientist and author
• Annette Biemer (* 1966 near Wetzlar), crime writer
• Rainer Atzbach (* 1967 in Wetzlar), Associate Professor for Archeology of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance at Aarhus University, Denmark
• Sabine Remdisch (born April 21, 1969 in Wetzlar), German psychologist and professor of business psychology at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
• Anja Daniel-Zeipelt (born April 30, 1969 in Wetzlar), German author and painter
• Conny Kollet (born March 21, 1970 in Wetzlar), German singer and band leader
• Toni Rios , real name Antonio Jose Ferro (born October 13, 1971 in Wetzlar), German techno and house DJ
• Arne Stollberg (* 1973 in Wetzlar), German musicologist and university professor
• Ino Augsberg (* 1976), legal philosopher
• Mathis Mootz (born August 18, 1976 in Wetzlar), Panacea is the artist name of the German drum and bass producer and DJ.
• Alexander Kaschte (born March 1, 1978 in Wetzlar), musician, songwriter and writer.
• Vanessa Jean Dedmon (born April 28, 1987 in Braunfels), singer, lives in Hermannstein

Sports

(Selection)

• Werner Schanne (* 1935) from TUS Naunheim, 14-time German champion, European champion and world champion in long-distance running
• Klaus Enders (born May 2, 1937 in Wetzlar; † January 20, 2019), motorcycle racer; Between 1967 and 1974 six-time sidecar world champion with Reinhold Mannischef as co-driver.
• Peter Kunter (born April 28, 1941 in Berlin), grew up in Wetzlar, dentist and national soccer league player, most recently at Eintracht Frankfurt.
• Jörg Siebert (born April 2, 1944 in Wetzlar), rower, 1968 gold medal in Germany eighth at the Olympic Games in Mexico
• Holger Kirschke (born November 15, 1947; † July 4, 2019 in Wetzlar), four-time German swimming champion, at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo he started in the 1500 m freestyle.
• Hans-Johann Färber (* 1947 in Wetzlar), Olympic rowing champion in 1972 and world champion in the "bull" quadruple
• Volker Schmidt (* 1967 in Herborn , grew up in Wetzlar), with his partner Ellen Jonas multiple world champions in standard dances
• Gabriele Weller (* 1976), KTV Wetzlar, a. a. four-time German champion in artistic gymnastics, participation in the 1992 Olympics, three-time World Cup participation, two-time FICEP European champion.
• Nia Künzer (born January 18, 1980 in Botswana), soccer player, world champion 2003; grew up in Wetzlar
• Emir Ahmatović (* 1987 in Draga), German boxer of Bosnian origin, lives in Wetzlar
• Lukas Müller (born May 19, 1987 in Wetzlar), German rower (World and European Champion 2010)
• Fabian Hambüchen (born October 25, 1987 in Bergisch Gladbach) lives in Wetzlar, a German gymnast. His biggest success he achieved on stretching to the world title in 2007 and winning the bronze at the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing, the silver in 2012 in London and the gold medal in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
• Stefan Lex (born November 15, 1989 in Wetzlar), handball player.
• Mareike Adams (born February 27, 1990 in Wetzlar), four-time rowing world champion, most recently in 2011 in the U23 double scull.
• Marc El-Sayed (born January 18, 1991 in Wetzlar), German junior national player in ice hockey.
• Lisa Mayer (born May 2, 1996 in Gießen), sprint team Wetzlar, gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay and a silver medal in 4 × 200 m relay at the World Relays in the Bahamas 2017.
• Lars Haberzettl (* 1973), German master of artistic gymnastics on the pommel horse, Hessian master of artistic gymnastics floor.
• Cenk Tosun (born June 7, 1991 in Wetzlar), German-Turkish soccer player.
• Wolfgang Klimpke (born February 12, 1967 in Wetzlar), handball Bundesliga player HSG Wetzlar.

Originals

• Hakim Rex Aquarillo , his self-made naming means: Hakim = doctor in the Orient, Rex = king, Aquarillo = painter. He was a trained schumacher, clay poet and poet of his character. Franz-Josef Kienzler, a man of great imagination, always open to news, always wearing a black beret in public, often wearing an olive-colored army jacket, black trousers, a white shirt with a black bow tie and white gloves. In the 50s and 60s he was often chatting loudly on Wetzlar's streets, was always friendly and ready to discuss, but never aggressive. From time to time he regulated the traffic on Karl-Kellner-Ring, one of the main traffic arteries. He even played in various movies, for example in Peter Fleischmann's Das Unheil (predicate: Particularly valuable) a leading role in Charly Weller's films The Kienzler and in Wetzlar Washington is not a supporting role.
• Tsigga Willem (Cigar Wilhelm) from Rue de la Pumps (Schuhgasse), always with a cigar in his mouth. He had his regular seat on the Eisenmarkt in front of the Alte Münz, right next to the traffic policeman, as a so-called corner stand .
• Hanns's Hardt , city known organ grinder came early in a traffic accident.
• de Ottoruut , farmer's son from the new town. He was said to be very hungry. He is said to have cleaned up the entire breakfast for 20 thresher once.
• de Silver , Wilhelm Silberzahn was known for his crankiness and subtle humor. As a former master craftsman and city councilor, he once said during a budget debate: "I only keep hearing that we have a deficit - we have incurred debts!"
• Knittel Lein from the Rosengasse, always with a cigar. He made decades that the horse manure (equal horses Knittel ) disappeared from the streets, he provided him with his hand carts at Buderus from where Knittel found use in the Gussformerei.
• Erna Sack , a well-known personality with a dubious reputation, was on the streets of Wetzlar in the 50s and 60s.
• Plasterschisser , a nickname for the people of Wetzlar. In earlier times household rubbish was simply dumped out of the window onto the pavement due to the lack of sewerage; probably the one who (not) was careful.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry in Peter Bohrer, Heppenheim, "Families and relatives of the ancestors of the Counts of Beilstein ..."
2. ↑ ^{a b} Entry in Peter Bohrer, Heppenheim, "Families and relatives of the ancestors of the Counts of Beilstein ..."
3. ↑ manfred-hiebl.de ; Rüdiger E. Barth: The Duke in Lothringen in the 10th Century , p. 180
4. ↑ manfred-hiebl.de ; Karl-Heinz Schreiber: Konradiner , in: European family tables . New series Volume I.1 panels 8–9; Conradines . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 5, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-8905-0 , Sp. 1369.
5. ↑ City history: An unspectacular beginning ( memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ A. Schoenwerk: History of the city and district of Wetzlar. 2nd Edition. Wetzlar 1975
7. ↑ Spielmann: History of the city and rule Weilburg; City of Weilburg, 1896 (new edition 2005) pp. 35–55.
8. ^ Nassau, Katharina Countess of in the Hessian biography
9. ^ Sayn and Hachenburg, Johann I. Graf zu in the Hessian biography
10. ^ Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl : The dumb councilor in the Gutenberg-DE project , also Hamburg reading books, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-87291-038-7 ; Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 1957
11. ↑ Harald Pinl: The secret arts of Franz Kessler . 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-6790-8
12. ^ Johann Jakob Merlo:  Keßler, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 655.
13. ↑ https://www.wetzlar.de/rathaus/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2019_07/franz-kessler.php
14. ↑ Heimat- und Kulturverein Dittwar e. V .: Famous Dittwarers: Franz Callenbach Online at www.hkvdittwar.de. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
15. ↑ Sayn-Wittgenstein et al. Hohenstein, Heinrich Ernst August Graf zu in the Hessian biography
16. ^ Wilhelm Sauer:  Zwierlein, Freiherr Johann Jacob von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 535-537.
17. ↑ https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz83277.html
18. ↑ Spaur and Flavon, Joseph Philipp Graf in the Hessian Biography
19. ^ Spaur and Flavon, Karl Graf in the Hessian biography
20. ^ Vahlkampf, Franz Xaver Albert Christoph Leonhard Ritter von in the Hessian biography
21. ↑ infobitte.de ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
22. ↑ https://epaper.mittelhessen.de/issue.act?issueId=174365&mutationShortcut=E201&issueDate=20200606&thumbUrl=https://zh.diginews-service.apa.at/download/ZHUFDGJFKA/65cffe3a-016f-4322-f88ba511ac /ZH_20200606_E201_4/THUMBNAIL_1-x_75_380.jpg/S.13/GertHeiland
23. ↑ [1]
24. ↑ http://www.porezag.de/
25. ↑ In: "Helmut the pedestrian": Wetzlar originals
26. ↑ Hans Georg Waldschmidt: When the police were still driving Isetta. Stories and anecdotes from Wetzlar. P. 49ff.

literature

• Andreas Klass: Professional or performance elite? - A study of the careers of the Wetzlar attorneys at the Reich Chamber of Commerce (1693–1806), 2002, ISBN 3-631-38721-0
• Anke Stein: lawyers and procurators at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar (1693-1806) as a law teacher and writer 2002, ISBN 3-932274-86-5
• Hans Georg Waldschmidt: When the police were still driving Isetta , ISBN 978-3-8313-2089-9 ; Wartberg publishing house
• Riehl, Wilhelm: The mute councilor . Publisher: Hamburger Reading Books, ISBN 978-3-87291-038-7 ; Reclam-Verlag Stuttgart 1957. (Based on the Limburg Chronicle).
• Thomas Doepner, Altenberg Premonstratensian Monastery, pp. 203-204;
• Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln NF 1, 1980, T. 60