List of people of Heilbronn
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[edit] 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):
[edit] 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.
[edit] Honorary citizens of the formerly independent boroughs
- Böckingen
- Frankenbach
- 1908: Heinrich Jakob Knobloch, farmer and pub owner
- Horkheim
- Kirchhausen
- 1920: Gustav Lohmiller, teacher
- 1928: Hermann Hoffmann, MD
- 1967: Gustav Schwab, MD
- Klingenberg
- Neckargartach
- Sontheim
- 1901: Friedrich Ackermann, Geheimer Kommerzienrat
[edit] Sons and daughters of the city
This list includes notable individuals born in Heilbron, earliest birthdays listed first.
- Jäcklein Rohrbach; died May 20 oder May 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; died November 1, 1558 in Jena, minister, reformator, professor
- 1700 November 15, Georg Friedrich Schmahl; died August 26, 1773 in Ulm, organ builder
- 1751 December 8, Heinrich Friedrich Füger; died November 5, 1818 in Vienna, painter
- 1787 March 30, Georg Christian Kessler; died December 16, 1842 in Stuttgart, founder of the first German sparkling wine producer in Esslingen am Neckar
- 1804 November 21, Wilhelm Waiblinger; died January 17, 1830 in Rome, poet and author
- 1814 November 25, Julius Robert von Mayer; died March 20, 1878 in Heilbronn, physician and physicist, formulated the principle of mechanical equivalence
- 1821 August 25, Ludwig Pfau; died April 12, 1894 in Stuttgart, poet and revolutionary
- 1825 July 14, Adolf Cluss; died July 24, 1905 in Washington D.C., architect, builder of numerous public buildings in Washington D.C.
- 1838 June 24, Gustav von Schmoller; died June 27, 1917 in Bad Harzburg, economist
- 1846 February 9, Wilhelm Maybach; died December 29, 1929 in Stuttgart, engineer and motor vehicle pioneer, developed the first fast-running gasoline engine together with Gottlieb Daimler
- 1865 January 13, Peter Bruckmann; died March 2, 1937, scupturer, president of the German association of artisans]] 1909 - 1919
- 1886 April 24, Hellmuth Hirth; died July 1, 1938 in Karlsbad, pioneer of flight, designed and built air planes and zeppelins
- 1889 April 4, Ernestine von Trott zu Solz, died April 24, 1984 in Asendorf, sister, founder of the therapeutic Lebens- und Wohngemeinschaft Asendorf
- 1889 November 7, Wilhelm Friedle; died May 20, 1935, VP of director of the Sindelfingen production facility of the Daimler-Benz AG from 1927 to 1935, introduced Germans to the conveyor belt
- 1894 April 2, Richard Drauz; died December 4, 1946 in Landsberg an der Lech (executed as a war criminal), headed up the NSDAP in the Heilbronn district
- 1903, Victoria Wolff; died September 16, 1992 in Los Angeles, author and writer
- 1903 June 11, Ernst Fuchs; died January 15, 1983, scholar of theology
- 1908, Walter Vielhauer, politician (KPD)
- 1923 March 30, Herbert Asmodi, playwright, writer
- 1924 May 30, Kurt Rebmann; died April 21, 2005 in Stuttgart, Attorney General 1977 through 1990
- 1936 October 1, Inge Wettig-Danielmeyer, politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag, representative at the Niedersächsischer Landtag
- 1939 May 31, Klaus Zwickel, president of the union IG 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 the Bundestag
- 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
