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.
• 1997: Emanuel H. Bronner, maker of Dr. Bronner's castile soap (1908–1997).

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.

• Jäcklein Rohrbach; died May 20 or 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, sculptor, 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
• 1874,September 22, Siegfried Gumbel; died January 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, 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
• 1909, April 1, 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

Other notable residents

• Martinus von Biberach (d. 1498), theologian, writer of famous epitaph
• Kilian von Steiner (1833–1903), banker, was lawyer in Heilbronn
• Max Eyth (1836–1906), writer, studied in Heilbronn
• Ernst August Wagner (1874–1938), mass murderer, detained and convicted in Heilbronn
• Walter Vielhauer (1909–1986), politician, mayor
• Marla Glen (b. 1960), singer, living in Heilbronn since 1998