List of people from Heilbronn

A list of people who have lived in Heilbronn, Germany.

Julius Robert Mayer

Gustav von Schmoller by Rudolf Dührkoop 1908

Siegfried Gumbel

Theodor Heuss 1953

• Gustav Schübler (1787-1834), scientist (meteorology).
• Heinrich Friedrich Füger; (1751-1818), painter
• Wilhelm Waiblinger; (1804-1830), poet and author
• Julius Robert von Mayer; (1814-1878), physician and physicist, formulated the principle of mechanical equivalence
• Ludwig Pfau; (1821-1894), poet and revolutionary
• Adolf Cluss; (1825-1905), architect, builder of numerous public buildings in Washington D.C.
• Gustav von Schmoller; (1838-1917), economist
• Wilhelm Maybach; (1846-1929), engineer and motor vehicle pioneer, developed the first fast-running gasoline engine together with Gottlieb Daimler
• Friedrich Stolz (1860-1936), chemist, invented in 1897 a predecessor of aspirin
• Siegfried Gumbel (1874-1942), lawyer, alderman ( DDP), since 1933 head of the Israelite High Councillor for Württemberg in Stuttgart, died in Dachau concentration camp
• Theodor Heuss, (1884-1963), politician, first President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 to 1959)
• Hellmuth Hirth (1886-1938), aviation pioneer, aircraft and airship builder
• Richard Drauz; (1894-1946) in Landsberg Lech (executed as a war criminal), headed up the NSDAP in the Heilbronn district
• Walter Kreiser (1898-1958), aircraft designer and journalist
• Walter Vielhauer, (1909-1986), politician (KPD)
• Joseph Asher (1921-1990), German-American rabbi
• Rolf Wütherich (1927-1981), passenger of the fatal car accident of James Dean
• Heinz A. Richter (born 1939), historian to the specialty Greece and Cyprus
• Dieter Schwarz, (born 1939), entrepreneur and owner of the Schwarz-Gruppe. (Kaufland, Lidl)
• Rosemarie Haag Bletter (born 1939), German-American architectural historian
• Andrzej Seweryn (born 1946), Polish actor
• Jürgen Schreiber (born 1947), journalist
• Heide Rühle (born 1948), politician ( Greens) MEP, Federal President of the Greens 1990-1991
• Thomas Roth (born 1951), journalist, retired TV-presenter Tagesthemen
• Freddy Sahin-Scholl (born 1953 as Freddy Scholl), singer and composer
• Falk Struckmann (born 1958), opera singer (baritone)
• Joachim Schlör (born 1960), professor, author of Jewish history
• Thomas Strobl (born 1960), politician ( CDU) Member of Bundestag
• Michael Georg Link (born 1963), politician ( FDP) Member of Bundestag
• Michael Wenczel (born 1977), football player
• Sibel Kekilli, (born 1980), German actress
• Michael Hackert, (born 1981), professional ice hockey player NHL
• Corey Mapes (born 1992), hockey player
• Daniel Fischbuch (born 1993), hockey player

Other notable residents

Karl Mayer

Kilian Steiner

• Martinus von Biberach (d. 1498), theologian, writer of famous epitaph
• Christian Friedrich Duttenhofer (1742-1814), theologian, pastor and prelate in Heilbronn
• Karl Mayer (1786-1870), poet, lived for a time in Heilbronn
• Louis Mayer (1791-1843), landscape painter lived for a time in Heilbronn
• Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr (1800-1875), founder of the food business Knorr
• Alexander Bruckmann (1806-1852), historical and portrait painter, lived for a time in Heilbronn
• Gustav Rümelin (1815-1889), politician, lived and worked temporarily in Heilbronn
• Kilian von Steiner (1833–1903), banker, was lawyer in Heilbronn
• Max Eyth (1836–1906), writer, studied in Heilbronn
• Karl Nicolai (1839-1892) German magistrate and politician, from 1881 onwards Official notary in Heilbronn
• Max Cramer (1859-1933), teacher and genealogist in Heilbronn
• Theophil Wurm (1868-1953), prelate of Heilbronn 1927-29
• Ernst August Wagner (1874-1938), mass murderer, convicted and temporarily detained in Heilbronn
• Ernst Jaeckh (1875-1959), 1902-1912 editor of Neckar-Zeitung
• Oskar Dirlewanger (1895-1945), deputy director since 1933 of the Heilbronner labor office, later Waffen-SS officer and war criminal
• Emanuel H. Bronner (1908–1997), maker of Dr. Bronner's castile soap
• Walter Vielhauer (1909–1986), politician, mayor
• Marla Glen (born 1960), singer, living in Heilbronn since 1998