List of personalities of the city of Mannheim

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Coat of arms of the city of Mannheim

The following overview contains people born in Mannheim , listed chronologically according to the year of birth, as well as people who worked in Mannheim. It is irrelevant whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Mannheim.

The lists do not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Mannheim

Until 1800

Archbishop Karl Theodor von Dalberg
Maximilian I. King of Bavaria
Karoline Auguste Empress of Austria

19th century

1801 to 1850

Alexander of Soiron
Karl Mathy
Friedrich Daniel Bassermann
Friedrich Engelhorn
Julius Jolly

1851 to 1900

Emmy Wehlen
Sepp Herberger
  • 1853: Gustav Mayer-Dinkel († 1937 in Mannheim), businessman and local politician
  • 1854: Konrad Clemm († 1930 in Lahr), administrative lawyer, state commissioner in Baden
  • 1854: Emil Engelhard († 1920 in Mannheim), industrialist
  • 1854: Ernst Ladenburg († 1921 in Frankfurt am Main), Privy Councilor of Commerce, banker
  • 1855: Adelbert Düringer († 1924 in Berlin), lawyer, member of the Reichstag
  • 1856: Henry Morgenthau senior († 1946 in New York), US politician and businessman
  • 1857: Nathan Stein († 1927 in Mannheim), President of the Regional Court
  • 1857: Fritz Noetling († 1928 in India), geologist and paleontologist
  • 1857: John Gustav Weiss († 1943 in Eberbach), politician, member of the Baden state parliament
  • 1859: Willy Hess († 1939 in Berlin), violin virtuoso
  • 1860: Max Hachenburg († 1951 in Berkeley), lawyer and legal journalist, honorary citizen of Mannheim
  • 1860: Carl Neumann († 1934 in Frankfurt am Main), art historian
  • 1862: Karl Ludwig Werner († 1902 in Freiburg im Breisgau), organist and composer
  • 1863: Hans Bussard († 1946 in Möckmühl), theater actor and opera singer
  • 1864: Wilhelm Karl , born in Seckenheim († 1938 in Teningen), pastor and member of the state parliament
  • 1865: Gottholdlusser († 1940 in Sulzburg), Protestant pastor
  • 1865: Robert Kahn († 1951 in Biddenden, Kent), composer and music teacher
  • 1866: Otto Albert Koch († 1920 in Heidelberg), painter
  • 1867: Albert Bassermann († 1952 in Zurich), actor (various stages in Berlin and others), holder of the Iffland-Ring
  • 1867: Fritz Held († 1938 in Baiersbronn), entrepreneur and automobile racing driver
  • 1868: Ludwig Landmann († 1945 in Voorburg), liberal politician, Mayor of Frankfurt 1924–1933 and victim of National Socialism
  • 1868: Karl Bornhäuser († 1947 in Marburg), Protestant theologian
  • 1869: Karl Heinsheimer († 1929 in Heidelberg), lawyer
  • 1869: Moritz Mayer-Mahr († 1947 in Gothenburg), pianist and music teacher
  • 1869: Rudolf Sillib († 1946 in Badenweiler), librarian and regional historian from Baden
  • 1870: Friedrich Koch († 1938 in Heidelberg), politician
  • 1871: Philipp Klein († 1907 in Gundelsheim am Neckar), painter
  • 1871: Anton Lindeck († 1956 in Bad Dürkheim), lawyer
  • 1871: Adalbert Wahl († 1957 in Tübingen), historian and university professor
  • 1873: Karl Boehm († 1958 in Kressbronn am Bodensee), mathematician
  • 1873: Karl Lanz († 1921 in Mannheim), industrialist and promoter of aviation
  • 1875: Julius Döpfner († 1936), lawyer and bailiff in the Baden civil service
  • 1875: Fritz Erle († 1957 in Mannheim), engineer and racing car driver
  • 1875: Max Ernst Mayer († 1923 in Frankfurt am Main), lawyer, legal philosopher and university professor
  • 1876: Hans Hecht († 1946 in Berlin), linguist (English studies) and university lecturer
  • 1876: Karl Imhoff († 1965 in Essen), engineer and pioneer of wastewater technology
  • 1876: Albert Mayer-Reinach († 1954 in Örebro), musicologist, music teacher and conductor
  • 1876: Hermann Müller († 1931 in Berlin), politician (SPD), MdR , Reich Chancellor 1920 and 1928–1930, Reich Foreign Minister 1919–20
  • 1877: Johanna Geissmar († 1942 in Auschwitz), Jewish doctor
  • 1878: Adolf Kistner († 1940 in Heidelberg), high school teacher, cultural historian
  • 1878: Erich Carl Mayer († 1942), cigar manufacturer
  • 1879: Wilhelm Schindele († 1963 in Kork or Oppenau), Oberamtmann and district administrator in Baden
  • 1880: Theodor Becker († 1952 in Coppenbrügge), actor
  • 1880: Erich Ebler († 1922 in Munich), chemist and university professor
  • 1881: Werner Hegemann († 1936 in New York, NY), urban planner, architecture critic and political writer
  • 1881: Hans Dieter († 1968 in Meersburg), painter of landscapes, especially from Lake Constance
  • 1881: Albert Gayer († 1930 in Hamburg), rear admiral
  • 1882: Herbert Engelhard († 1945 in Heidelberg), legal scholar and university graduate
  • 1882: Franz Mayer († 1975 in Mexico), art collector
  • 1882: Fritz Reuther († 1967 in Hausham), industrialist (Bopp & Reuther) and military manager
  • 1883: Ludwig Arnold Mohler († 1943 in Freiburg im Breisgau), church historian
  • 1883: Henriette Wagner († 1943 in Stuttgart), resistance fighter against the Nazi state
  • 1884: Georg Kenzler († 1959 in Berlin), communist politician, MdR 1924–1928
  • 1884: Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler († 1979 in Paris), German-French gallery owner and art dealer, pioneer of Cubism
  • 1885: Alfred Kuhn († 1940 in Kappel (Freiburg im Breisgau)), art historian, curator and author
  • 1886: Florian Waldeck († 1960 in Mannheim), lawyer and politician, member of the state parliament, honorary citizen
  • 1886: Emmy Wehlen († 1977), actress
  • 1887: Franz Klebusch († 1951 in Dresden), actor
  • 1887: Franz Schnabel († 1966 in Munich), historian, honorary citizen
  • 1887: Daniel Seizinger , († September 15, 1942 in Stuttgart), resistance fighter against the Nazi state
  • 1888: Hans-Martin Pippart († 1918 at Noyon), fighter pilot and aircraft designer
  • 1888: Wilhelm Trautmann († 1969), football player
  • 1889: Fritz Cahn-Garnier († 1949 in Mannheim), lawyer and politician (SPD), member of the state parliament, mayor
  • 1889: Theodor Humpert († 1968 in Konstanz), teacher and historian
  • 1889: Fritz Wenneis († 1969 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen), composer
  • 1890: Rudolf Ahorn († 1914 in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges), football player
  • 1890: Karl Helfenstein , († 1958 in Mannheim), politician (FDP), member of the state parliament
  • 1890, Wilhelm Wendelin Hoffmann († 1969), architect and architectural historian
  • 1891: Ernst-Christoph Brühler († 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau), politician (German party), Member of the Bundestag, parliamentary group leader of the DP in the German Bundestag 1955–1957
  • 1891: Hedwig Wachenheim († 1969 in Hanover), social worker, politician (SPD), co-founder of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt, author
  • 1892: Berta Geissmar († 1949 in London), musicologist and author, private secretary to Wilhelm Furtwängler
  • 1893: Wilhelm Wahre († 1971 in Stuttgart), politician (NSDAP) and member of the Hessian state parliament
  • 1894: Richard Dietrich († 1945 in the NKVD special camp Fünfeichen near Neubrandenburg), aircraft designer and entrepreneur
  • 1894: Paul Nikolaus , bourgeois Paul Nikolaus Steiner († 1933 in Zurich), poet, playwright, cabaret artist and emcee
  • 1894: Albert Schmitt († 1970 in Neckarsulm), Benedictine in Beuron, Abbot of Grüssau / Silesia and Grüssau / Wimpfen
  • 1895: Karl Jakob Heinrich Brenner († 1954 in Karlsruhe), SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police in World War II
  • 1895: Walter Loeb († 1948 in London), banker and politician (SPD)
  • 1896: Stefan Heymann († 1967 in East Berlin), communist politician, editor, concentration camp prisoner, cultural functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), ambassador of the GDR in Hungary and Poland, university professor
  • 1896: Alois Schnorr († 1962 in Karlsruhe), banker and politician (BCSV, CDU), member of the state parliament, Baden finance minister
  • 1896: Hildegardis Wulff († 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau), prioress and founder of the women's order of the Benedictine Sisters OSB of St. Lioba
  • 1896: Rupert Gießler († 1980 in Freiburg im Breisgau), journalist
  • 1896: Robert Schmoll († 1942 in Stuttgart) executed communist resistance fighter against the Nazi state
  • 1897: Max Hansen († 1961 in Copenhagen), Danish cabaret artist, film actor and singer
  • 1897: Josef 'Sepp' Herberger († 1977 in Mannheim), soccer player and coach
  • 1897: Hans Kissel († 1975 in Aglasterhausen), major general
  • 1897: Wilhelm Knevels († 1978 in Berlin), theologian and university professor of the German Christians
  • 1897: Willy Oeser († 1966 in Heidelberg), church painter and glass artist
  • 1897: Max Silberstein († 1966 in Mannheim), lawyer
  • 1898: Alfred Au († 1986), football player
  • 1898: Wilhelm Fuchs († 1947 in Belgrade), SS-Oberführer and colonel in the police
  • 1898: Franz Xaver Fuhr († 1973 in Regensburg), painter
  • 1898: Arthur Hebel († after 1974), athlete
  • 1898: August Hirt († 1945 in Schönenbach), anatomist
  • 1899: Kurt Bader († 1959 in Müllheim (Baden)), lawyer
  • 1899: Ludwig Moldrzyk , († September 15, 1942 in Stuttgart), resistance fighter against the Nazi state
  • 1899: Sybill Morel († after 1930), actress
  • 1899: Franziska Schmidt († 1979 in Heilbronn), journalist and politician (SPD), member of the state parliament
  • 1899: Lou Seitz († 1985 in Berlin), actress
  • 1900: Paula Doell († 1983 in Heidelberg), opera singer and politician (CDU), MdL

20th century

1901 to 1920

Franz Six
  • 1901: Georg Friedrich Alexan († 1995 in Dornum), journalist and editor-in-chief of the GDR newspaper USA in words and pictures
  • 1901: Annemarie Marks-Rocke († 2004 in Hamburg-Eppendorf), actress, acting teacher and radio play speaker
  • 1901: Friedrich Maurer († 1980 in Munich), actor
  • 1902: Bernhard Greulich († 1995 in Mannheim), track and field athlete and lawn athlete
  • 1902: Elisabeth Heimpel († 1972 in Falkau), educator, social worker, author and editor
  • 1902: Fritz Klemm († 1990 in Karlsruhe), painter
  • 1902: Else Kocher († July 29, 1994 in Mannheim), Baden's first female pilot, first German master in skill flying
  • 1902: August Locherer († 1998 in Mannheim), longstanding Mannheim municipal councilor (KPD, DKP) and trade unionist
  • 1902: Maria Scherer († 1981 in Mannheim), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
  • 1902: Erik Tuxen († 1957 in Copenhagen), Danish conductor and jazz musician
  • 1902: Max Winterhalter († 1942 in Stuttgart), executed communist resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
  • 1903: Erwin Gaber († 1986 in Berlin), lawyer and president of the Federal Insurance Institute for Salaried Employees
  • 1903: Otto Weissert († 1969 in Zurich), theater director
  • 1904: Walter Elsasser († 1991 in Baltimore), physicist
  • 1904: Karl Friedrich Hormuth († 1992 in Neibsheim), archaeologist, finder of the tools of Homo heidelbergensis
  • 1904: Franz Illner († 1988), District Administrator of the Überlingen district
  • 1905: Theodor Emil Schmidt († 1982), engineer and university professor
  • 1905: Albert Speer Sr. († 1981 in London), architect, National Socialist general building inspector for the Reich capital, armaments minister and convicted war criminal
  • 1905: Paul Wandel († 1995 in Berlin), first minister for popular education and youth in the GDR
  • 1906: Hermann Eyer († 1997 in Munich), hygienist, microbiologist and university professor
  • 1906: Julius Hatry († 2000 in Mannheim), aviation and rocket pioneer, filmmaker
  • 1906: Richard Jatzek († 1943 in Stuttgart), executed communist resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
  • 1906: August Marx († 1990 in Mannheim), economist
  • 1906: Gustav Seitz († 1969 in Hamburg), sculptor
  • 1906: Arpad Wigand († 1983 in Mannheim), SS-Oberführer
  • 1907: Alfred Delp († 1945 (executed) in Berlin-Plötzensee), Catholic theologian, philosopher and resistance fighter
  • 1907: Bernhard Fritz († 1980 in Karlsruhe), civil engineer, university professor and orchestra founder
  • 1907: Ernst C. Stiefel († 1997 in Baden-Baden), German-American lawyer
  • 1907: Hugo Strauss († 1941 in Golodajewa), rower
  • 1908: Gerta Blaschka († 1999 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale), historian and geodesist
  • 1908: Herbert Haag († 1977 in Heidelberg), National Socialist cultural functionary, organist and church musician
  • 1908: Wolfgang Klein († 1944 in Focșani, Romania), actor
  • 1908: Emil Schmetzer († 1988), football referee
  • 1908: Fritz Spengler († 2003 in Saarbrücken), field handball player
  • 1909: Erwin Neter († 1983 in Buffalo, NY), microbiologist in Buffalo
  • 1909: Waldemar Ernst († 2002 in Heidelberg), lawyer and administrative officer
  • 1909: Kurt Heiss († 1976 in East Berlin), communist functionary and journalist
  • 1909: Eugen Keidel († 1991 in Freiburg), politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau from 1962 to 1982
  • 1909: Hans Maier († 1943 on the Mareth Line in Tunisia), rower and Olympic champion
  • 1909: Wilhelm Müller († 1984), field handball player
  • 1909: Franz Six († 1975 in Bolzano), SS brigade leader, Nazi functionary, convicted as a war criminal and employee of the Gehlen organization and the Federal Intelligence Service
  • 1909: Franz Schömbs († 1976 in Munich), painter
  • 1910: Rudi Baerwind († 1982 in Mannheim), painter
  • 1910: Ludwig Günderoth († 1994), football player
  • 1910: Heinz Hoffmann († 1985 in Strausberg), SED functionary and defense minister of the GDR
  • 1910: Gustav Kramer († 1959 in Castrovillari, Italy), zoologist and ornithologist
  • 1911: Hans Eppstein († 2008 in Danderyd near Stockholm), German-Swedish musicologist, music teacher and pianist
  • 1911: Gertrude Goldhaber b. Scharff († 1998 in Patchogue), nuclear physicist
  • 1911: Karl Haager († 2008), lawyer, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
  • 1911: Peter Hamel († 1979 in Munich), director
  • 1911: Kurt Maier († 1952 in Heilbronn), Air Force officer
  • 1911: Karl Neckermann († 1984 in Mannheim), athlete
  • 1912: Fritz Haber II († 1998 in Westport, CT), aircraft and turbine designer
  • 1912: Peter Mosbacher († 1977 in Kempfenhausen), actor
  • 1912: Oskar Rohr , († 1988), football player and coach
  • 1912: Carl Raddatz († 2004 in Berlin), actor
  • 1912: Otto Siffling († 1939), national soccer player
  • 1912: Gustav Weinkötz († 1986 in Grasellenbach), athlete
  • 1913: Ludwig Acker († 1998), chemist and food chemist
  • 1913: Walter Braun († 1989), businessman and senior member of various associations
  • 1913: Hans Filbinger († 2007 in Freiburg im Breisgau), Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg (CDU) 1966–1978
  • 1913: Siegfried Franz († 1998 in Hamburg), composer
  • 1913: Heinz Haber († 1990 in Hamburg), physicist, publicist
  • 1913: Ingo Herzog († 1980 in Kirchheim unter Teck), journalist
  • 1913: Oskar Steinbach († 1937 in Mannheim), motorcycle racing driver
  • 1913: Trude Stolp-Seitz († 2004 in Mannheim), painter
  • 1914: Otto Diringer († 1992 in Mannheim), football player
  • 1914: Heinrich Herrwerth († 2008), athlete
  • 1914: Hans Mayer († 1974 in Mannheim), football player
  • 1915: Geno Hartlaub , actually Genoveva Hartlaub, pseudonym Muriel Castorp († 2007 in Hamburg), writer
  • 1915: Ernst Hartmann († 1992 in Waldkatzenbach), doctor
  • 1915: Kurt Angstmann († 1978 in Heidelberg), politician of the SPD and finance minister of Baden-Württemberg
  • 1915: Helmut Wick († 1940 over the English Channel), fighter pilot
  • 1916: Walter Schmitthenner († 1997 in Freiburg im Breisgau), ancient historian, university professor and editor
  • 1917: Karl Gass († 2009 in Kleinmachnow), documentary film director, film official and author
  • 1917: Philipp Henninger († 1986 in Mannheim), football player
  • 1917: Eugen Rößling († 1965), football player
  • 1918: Herbert Kessler († 2002), lawyer, philosopher and writer
  • 1918: Philipp Rohr († 2007 in Mannheim), soccer player and coach
  • 1919: Werner Gerich († 2003 in Mannheim), engineer
  • 1919: Karl Ziegler († 2019 in Mannheim), cycling coach
  • 1920: Willi Preschle († 1989 in Mannheim), football player

1921 to 1940

Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder
Rudi Altig

1941 to 1960

Reinhard Bütikofer
Matthias Ank

1961 to 1980

Thomas Schaaf
Christian Wörns
Jochen Hecht

1981 to 2000

Mandy Capristo
Sarah Hedges

2001 to 2020

Personalities who have worked in the city

  • Theodor Timmermann (1627–1700) pharmacist, mayor of Mannheim and mayor of the Palatinate colony of Magdeburg
  • Franz Fortunat von Isselbach (1663–1734), General Feldzeugmeister, chief of the Electoral Palatinate Army, from 1717 governor of Mannheim, where he also died in 1734
  • Johann Sigismund Weiss (after 1690-1737), lutenist and composer
  • Adam Huth (1696–1771), Jesuit, theologian and canon lawyer, rector of the college in Mannheim
  • Johann Stamitz (1717–1757), composer, conductor and violinist, founder of the Mannheim School
  • Alexander Keck (1724-1804), Jesuit; from 1756 head of the "Seminarium musicum" and music director at the Jesuit Church
  • Christian Friedrich Schwan (1733–1815), publisher, bookseller, center of Mannheim's intellectual life at the time
  • Johann Valentin Metz (1745–1829), Catholic priest, first cathedral provost and vicar general of the newly established diocese of Speyer in 1818; 1772 to 1786 high school professor and city chaplain in Mannheim
  • Ludwig Wilhelm Alexander von Hövel (1746–1829), Baden Minister of State
  • Anton von Klein (1746–1810), poet, linguist and publisher as well as professor in Mannheim, secret secretary of the elector
  • Constanze Weber (1762–1842), soprano, pianist, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Karl Theodor von Traitteur (1756–1830), Palatinate-Bavarian court librarian, court historiographer, author and poet
  • Karl von Drais (1785–1851), baron, forest clerk in Baden and important inventor, including the steerable balance bike, the forerunner of the bicycle
  • Carl Benz (1844–1929), inventor of the first practical motor vehicle, founder of Benz & Cie. Rheinische gas engine factory in Mannheim
  • Helene Hecht (1854–1940), salonier and patron of the arts, victim of National Socialism
  • Alice Bensheimer (1864–1935), women's rights activist
  • Georg Segler (1906–1978), agricultural scientist, engineer, author and inventor
  • Herbert Meyer (1908–1992), Germanist, librarian, director of the Mannheim City Library and the Reiss Museum
  • Fritz Esser (1914–1978), politician
  • Wolf Magin (1927–2009), graphic artist and painter
  • Carl Weissner (1940–2012), literary translator of almost all of the novels and poems by the US writer Charles Bukowski into German
  • Jochen Meißner (* 1943), rower at the Mannheim club "Amicitia", silver medalist (Olympic Games 1968)
  • GReeeN (* 1989), singer, rap, battlerap and reggae artist

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