List of People of Heilbronn - Sons and Daughters of The City

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

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