List of sons and daughters of the city of Landsberg am Lech

The following famous people were born in Landsberg am Lech or had the focus of their life and work in the city. The list does not claim to be complete.

Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A.

• Johann Baptist Anwander - * around 1750 in Landsberg am Lech, † around 1800 in Augsburg , artist and rococo painter (including ceiling fresco of the monastery church in Obermedlingen and painting "The lovesick Antiochus")
• Friedrich Anton Anwander - * in Landsberg am Lech, rococo artist, for example the pulpit of the pilgrimage church Maria Brünnlein in Wemding

B.

• Ludwig Prince of Bavaria (* 1982), German IT entrepreneur and development worker
• Fritz Beck (1889–1934), political activist and one of those killed in the so-called Röhm Putsch

C.

• Gitta von Cetto - February 6, 1908 in Landsberg am Lech, † April 26, 2010, writer and journalist

D.

• Friedrich Dörr - * December 13, 1921 in Landsberg am Lech; † August 17, 2018, physical chemist
• Susanne Drexl - * 1982 in Landsberg am Lech, opera and concert singer

F.

• Ferdinand Feldigl - born April 5, 1861 in Landsberg am Lech, † April 9, 1928 in Fürstenfeldbruck , writer and musician who dealt in particular with the history of the Oberammergau Passion Play
• Andreas Fleischmann - * 1980 in Landsberg am Lech, botanist

G

• Matthias Gerlich - * February 25, 1988 in Landsberg am Lech, handball player
• Rudolf Gilk - BR reporter, filmmaker and cinema operator

H

• Sir Hubert von Herkomer - born May 26, 1849 in Waal near Landsberg am Lech, † March 31, 1914 in Budleigh-Salterton , Devonshire, England, was an English painter, sculptor, musician and writer; he is also considered to be the pioneer of automobile racing in Germany. He had the mother tower built in Landsberg.
• Heinz Hoenig - born September 24, 1951 in Landsberg am Lech, actor
• Christoph Hartmann - * 1965 in Landsberg am Lech, German oboist, member of the Berlin Philharmonic
• Ludwig Hartmann - * July 20, 1978 in Landsberg, member of the Bavarian State Parliament and opposition leader since 2008

K

• Hans Kistler - * around 1400 in Landsberg am Lech, was a well-known goldsmith of his time. His most famous work is the monstrance of the Tegernsee Monastery (Miesbach district) from 1448 as its only preserved church treasure. In Landsberger Bayervorstadt a street bears the name of Hans Kistler.
• Ignaz Kögler - * May 11, 1680 in Landsberg am Lech, † March 30, 1746 in Beijing , Jesuit and mathematician. The Ignaz-Kögler-Gymnasium was named after him
• Norbert Kössinger - * 1975 in Landsberg am Lech, German and Medievalist
• Lubo Kristek - * 1943 in Brno , contemporary painter and sculptor of late Surrealism. 1968–1990 he lived and worked in Landsberg am Lech and Kleinkitzighofen near Landsberg.

L.

• Johannes Justus von Landsberg - (* around 1490 ; † August 10, 1539 in Cologne ), Carthusian monk
• Ferdinand Luidl - * 1670 in Landsberg am Lech, † 1736 in Hegelhofen, sculptor
• Lorenz Luidl - * 1645 in Landsberg am Lech, † 1719, sculptor and wood carver a. a. the famous baroque Luidl nativity scene, comprising 200 figures and still in existence today, in the parish church of Maria Himmelfahrt and the figures of the apostles in the pilgrimage church of Maria Birnbaum near Aichach
• Stephan Luidl - * 1684 in Landsberg am Lech, † 1736 in Dillingen a. d.Donau , well-known sculptor, son of Lorenz Luidl, works a. a. in the St. Wolfgang Chapel in Dillingen on the Danube
• Johann Luidl - * 1685 in Landsberg am Lech, † 1765, as the son of Lorenz Luidl, he took over his workshop and became an equally respected sculptor who was active throughout Bavaria
• Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb - * September 5, 1876 in Landsberg am Lech, † April 29, 1956 in Hohenschwangau , German field marshal in World War II . In Landsberg the now closed Ritter-von-Leeb barracks was named after him.
• Robert Lohr - * 1967 in Landsberg am Lech, actor

M.

• Nikolaus Mangold - was a Landsberg goldsmith in the 15th century. In the Katharinenvorstadt the Nikolaus-Mangold-Straße bears his name.
• Heinrich Mayr - born October 29, 1854 in Landsberg am Lech, † January 24, 1911 in Munich , forest scientist and botanist
• Max Mayr - * February 23, 1853 in Landsberg am Lech, † February 15, 1916 in Munich, hydraulic engineer
• Johann Mutter - * 1902 in Geretshausen near Landsberg am Lech, † 1974 in Landsberg am Lech, painter and photographer. He secretly took photos from his studio a. a. the ordeal of the concentration camp prisoners via Landsberg am Lech to the Dachau concentration camp
• Gerhard Marquard - * 1963 in Landsberg am Lech, painter
• Bernhard Müller-Hahl - * 1918 in today's Erpfting district , † 1985, politician

N

• Julian Nagelsmann - * July 23, 1987 in Landsberg am Lech, football coach
• Erwin Neher - born March 20, 1944 in Landsberg am Lech, chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
• Florian Neuhaus - * March 16, 1997 in Landsberg am Lech, football player

P

• Anton von Perfall - * December 11, 1853 in Landsberg am Lech, † November 3, 1912 in Schliersee , hunting writer
• Antje Pieper - born January 30, 1969 in Landsberg am Lech, TV presenter
• Hans Pieper - born April 9, 1882 in Landsberg am Lech, † March 23, 1946 in Lübeck , architect, preservationist and construction officer
• Petra Pinzler - * 1965 in Landsberg am Lech, author

R.

• Ignaz Albert von Riegg - * July 6, 1767 in Landsberg am Lech; † August 15, 1836 in Augsburg, from 1824–1836 Bishop of Augsburg
• Luise Rinser - * April 30, 1911 in the Landsberg district of Pitzling, † March 17, 2002 in Unterhaching near Munich, writer and educator, 1984 candidate of the Greens for the election of the Federal President
• Siegfried Rauch - born April 2, 1932 in Landsberg am Lech; † March 11, 2018 in Untersöchering , actor, a. a. "Dream ship"
• Heiner Rankl - multimillionaire and founder of Etienne Aigner AG , partner of Lorenz & Rankl Fahrzeugbau GmbH & Co KG (today LR Fahrzeugbau GmbH & Co. KG) in Wolfratshausen

S.

• Hubert Schmidbaur - born December 31, 1934 in Landsberg am Lech, chemist
• Alois Süßmayr - born January 15, 1825 in Landsberg am Lech; † December 9, 1885 in Eichstätt , painter in the art style of the Nazarenes , as well as draftsman and drawing teacher

T

• Emanuel Taffertshofer - * February 24, 1995 in Landsberg am Lech, football player

V

• Adam Vogt - * around 1570 in Stoffen near Landsberg am Lech, art potter and stove maker, created the famous two splendid ovens in the eastern princely rooms of Augsburg town hall in the 17th century

W.

• Sigmund von Weech - * May 26, 1888; † September 27, 1972, Munich , graphic designer, textile artist and entrepreneur
• Johann Baptist Weißbrod - * June 19, 1834; † November 7, 1912, Basel , history and genre painter
• Franz Weber - born June 27, 1835 in Landsberg am Lech; † January 31, 1904 in Landsberg am Lech, member of the Reichstag and Landtag (center)
• Alois Wolfmüller - born April 24, 1864 in Landsberg am Lech, † October 3, 1948 in Oberstdorf , inventor and flight technician. The Wolfmüllerweg in Landsberg, which leads from the Neue Bergstrasse to the Krachenberg , is named after him
• Gerhard Wilhelm Wunder - born December 26, 1908 in Landsberg am Lech, † May 30, 1988, librarian and regional historian
• Steffen Weinert - * September 28, 1975 in Landsberg am Lech, film director, a. a. "The ripper"

Z

• Dominikus Zimmermann - * June 30, 1685 near Wessobrunn, † November 16, 1766 in Wies near Steingaden, Bavarian master builder of the Rococo and from 1748 to 1753 mayor of the city. The Dominikus-Zimmermann-Gymnasium was named after him.