- List of people of Heilbronn
= Famous People of Heilbronn =
The following list includes all persons who were granted honorary citizenship by Heilbronn or the formerly independent boroughs (earliest listed first):
Honorary citizens of Heilbronn
* 1823:
Josef Christian von Schliz , "Oberregierungsrat"
* 1839:Christoph Friedrich Ludwig von Mugler , "Oberamtmann"
* 1863:Ludwig von Schmoller , "Finanzrat"
* 1866:Karl Freiherr von Gemmingen , judge
* 1873:Johann Christoph Stephan Reiff , Protestant minister
* 1888:Wilhelm Happel , merchant
* 1890:Christian Jäger , teacher
* 1891:Ludwig Pfau , poet, author and art historian
* 1891:Georg Härle , merchant
* 1926:Peter Bruckmann , "Geheimer Hofrat"
* 1928:Gustav Binder , "Flaschnermeister"
* 1930:Max Rosengart , attorney
* 1953:Theodor Heuss , first President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 to 1959)
* 1953:Fritz Ulrich , Minister of the Interior for Baden-Württemberg (SPD )(1945 to 1956)
* 1955:Emil Beutinger , Heilbronn Mayor and architect
* 1967:Paul Meyle , Heilbronn Mayor
* 1977:Albert Großhans , shoe merchant
* 1996:Friedrich Niethammer , prosecutor and member of the city council (1971 to 1994) and honorary Deputy Mayor from 1977 to 1996
* 1997:Paula Fuchs , member of the city council (1971 to 1994and honorary Deputy Mayor from 1976 to 1994.Honorary citizens of the formerly independent boroughs
* Böckingen
** 1908:August Mogler , general contractor
** 1918:Ernst Welsch , minister
** 1919:Karl Maas , MD
** 1925:Gustav Hanselmann , teacher
** 1924:Eduard Wilhelm Bader , grammar school principal
** 1929:Adolf Alter , executor
** 1931:Rudolf Zeller , minister
* Frankenbach
** 1908:Heinrich Jakob Knobloch , farmer and pub owner
* Horkheim
** 1932:Wilhelm Jakob Wiest , minister
** 1948:Albert Debold , community caretaker and mayor
* Kirchhausen
** 1920:Gustav Lohmiller , teacher
** 1928:Hermann Hoffmann , MD
** 1967: Gustav Schwab, MD
* Klingenberg
** 1892:Adolf Heinrich Bächler , minister
** 1907:Albert Bruno Wagner , grammar school principal
* Neckargartach
** 1905:Friedrich Wilhelm von Schaal , "Oberbaurat"
** 1907: Ludwig Konrad Pfau, community executor
* Sontheim
** 1901:Friedrich Ackermann , "Geheimer Kommerzienrat"Sons and daughters of the city
This list includes notable individuals born in Heilbronn, earliest birthdays listed first.
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Jäcklein Rohrbach ; diedMay 20 oderMay 21 1525 near Neckargartach (executed), Böckingen peasant leader in the peasant revolts
* 1491,Johann Lachmann ; died 1538/39 in Heilbronn, reformator
*1493 ,November 1 ,Erhard Schnepf ; diedNovember 1 1558 inJena , minister, reformator, professor
*1700 ,November 15 ,Georg Friedrich Schmahl ; diedAugust 26 1773 inUlm , organ builder
*1751 ,December 8 ,Heinrich Friedrich Füger ; diedNovember 5 1818 inVienna , painter
*1787 ,March 30 ,Georg Christian Kessler ; diedDecember 16 1842 inStuttgart , founder of the first Germansparkling wine producer inEsslingen am Neckar
*1804 ,November 21 ,Wilhelm Waiblinger ; diedJanuary 17 1830 in Rome, poet and author
*1814 ,November 25 ,Julius Robert von Mayer ; diedMarch 20 1878 in Heilbronn, physician and physicist, formulated the principle of mechanical equivalence
*1821 ,August 25 ,Ludwig Pfau ; diedApril 12 1894 in Stuttgart, poet and revolutionary
*1825 ,July 14 ,Adolf Cluss ; diedJuly 24 1905 inWashington D.C. , architect, builder of numerous public buildings in Washington D.C.
*1838 ,June 24 ,Gustav von Schmoller ; diedJune 27 1917 inBad Harzburg , economist
*1846 ,February 9 ,Wilhelm Maybach ; diedDecember 29 1929 in Stuttgart, engineer and motor vehicle pioneer, developed the first fast-running gasoline engine together withGottlieb Daimler
*1865 ,January 13 ,Peter Bruckmann ; diedMarch 2 1937 , sculptor, president of the German association of artisans] 1909 - 1919
*1886 ,April 24 ,Hellmuth Hirth ; diedJuly 1 1938 inKarlsbad , pioneer of flight, designed and built air planes and zeppelins
*1874 ,September 22 ,Siegfried Gumbel ; diedJanuary 27 1942 in Dachau, attorney, politician (DDP), President of the Jewish Community of Württemberg, Stuttgart since 1933.
*1889 ,April 4 ,Ernestine von Trott zu Solz , diedApril 24 1984 in Asendorf, sister, founder of the therapeutic "Lebens- und Wohngemeinschaft Asendorf"
*1889 ,November 7 ,Wilhelm Friedle ; diedMay 20 1935 , VP of director of theSindelfingen production facility of theDaimler-Benz AG from 1927 to 1935, introduced Germans to theconveyor belt
*1894 ,April 2 ,Richard Drauz ; diedDecember 4 1946 inLandsberg an der Lech (executed as a war criminal), headed up the NSDAP in the Heilbronn district
* 1903,Victoria Wolff ; diedSeptember 16 1992 in Los Angeles, author and writer
*1903 ,June 11 , Ernst Fuchs; diedJanuary 15 1983 , scholar of theology
*1909 ,April 1 ,Walter Vielhauer , politician (KPD )
*1923 ,March 30 ,Herbert Asmodi , playwright, writer
*1924 ,May 30 ,Kurt Rebmann ; diedApril 21 2005 in Stuttgart,Attorney General 1977 through 1990
*1936 ,October 1 ,Inge Wettig-Danielmeyer , politician (SPD), member of theBundestag , representative at theNiedersächsischer Landtag
*1939 ,May 31 ,Klaus Zwickel , president of the unionIG Metall 1993 through 2001
*1946 ,April 25 ,Andrzej Seweryn , polish actor
*1948 ,November 5 ,Heide Rühle , politician (GRÜNE), MdEP, president of the Green party 1990 through 1991
*1951 ,November 21 ,Thomas Roth , journalist, moderator and chief of programming at the main Berlin studios of the TV Channel 1
*1958 ,October 29 ,Nicolette Kressl , politician (SPD), member of theBundestag
*1960 ,March 17 ,Thomas Strobl , politician (CDU), member of the Bundestag
*1963 ,February 6 ,Michael Link , politician (FDP), member of the Bundestag
*1980 ,June 16 ,Sibel Kekilli , actress
*1981 ,June 21 ,Michael Hackert , professional ice hockey player NHL
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