List of people from Mainz

This is a list of notable people who were born in or associated with Mainz.

Sons and daughters of the town

(chronological list)

around 780, Rabanus Maurus, † 856, a Benedictine monk, and archbishop of Mainz. He was the author of the encyclopaedia On the Nature of Things.
(c. 960 -1040? or 1028?) Gershom ben Judah, also commonly known by the longer title "Rabbeinu Gershom Me'Or Hagolah" ("Our teacher Gershom the light of the exile"), a famous Talmudist and Halakhist.
around 1397, Johannes Gutenberg (also Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden), † February 3, 1468 in Mainz, a goldsmith and inventor. He achieved fame for his invention of the technology of printing with movable types during 1447.
? Johann Fust († 1466 in Paris), an early German printer, assistant and investor of Gutenberg. Together with Peter Schöffer he founded a printshop.
1488, Otto Brunfels, a German theologian and botanist. Carl von Linné listed him among the "Fathers of Botany".
1674, Friedrich Carl von Schönborn († 1746), bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg (1729–46).
1739, Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk Graf von Waldersdorf, † 21. April 1810 in Bruchsal, Fürstbishop of Speyer 1797-1810.
1745, Ludwig Fischer, † July 19, 1825 in Berlin, opera singer.
1749, February 20, Georg Karl Ignaz Freiherr von Fechenbach zu Laudenbach, † April 9, 1808 in Werneck near Würzburg, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg 1800-08.
1750, Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg, † September 28, 1806 in Mannheim, chamberlain of Worms and intendant of the theatre at Mannheim.
1766, Johann Martin Manl, † October 15, 1835 in Eichstätt, Bischop of Speyer 1827-35 and Bishop of Eichstätt 1835.
Ferdinand Ochsenheimer (1767–1822) was a German stage actor and entomologist (lepidopterist).
1770, Heinrich Anton Hoffmann, † January 19, 1842 in Frankfurt am Main, composer (concerts, chamber music etc.).
1775, September 28, Johann Adam von Itzstein, † September 14, 1855 in Hallgarten, politician and member of the Frankfurt Parliament.
1779, October 8, Johann Baptist Ziz, † December 1, 1829, botanist.
1780, Johann Adam Ackermann,† 1853, landscape painter.
1791, Franz Bopp, 1867 in Berlin, German linguist, author of comparative studies on Indo-European languages.
1798, March 7, Hermann Umpfenbach, † 1862 March 16, mathematician.
1800, Johann-Joseph Krug, † 1866. He established Champagne Krug in Reims in 1843.
1805, Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn was a German author and founder of a nunnery.
1811, Josef Kling, was a German chess master and chess composer.
1815, November 21, Karl Ludwig Bernays, Marxist journalist
1817, Christoph Moufang, † 1890 in Mainz, diocesan administrator of Mainz 1877-86.
1822, Joseph Gottsleben, † 1888, printer and publisher, established the "Mainzer Anzeiger".
1823, Ludwig Bamberger, † 1899 in Berlin, was an economist, publicist and politician. He took part in the republican rising in the Palatinate and Baden; it was chiefly owing to him that a gold currency was adopted and that the Reichsbank took form.
1824, Peter Cornelius, † 1874 in Mainz, composer, writer about music, poet and translator.
1826, Paul Stumpf, † March 15, 1912 in Mainz, politician and entrepreneur.
1835, Paul Haenlein, † 1905 in Mainz, was an engineer and flight pioneer. He flew in a semi-rigid-frame dirigible.
1838, in Mainz, Charles Hallgarten, † 1908 in Frankfurt am Main, was a banker and philanthropist.
1839, Adolphus Busch, † 1913 was the cofounder of Anheuser-Busch.
1846, Ferdinand Becker, † 1877, painter of religious subjects.
1849, May 29, Lorenz Adlon, † April 7, 1921, established Hotel Adlon in Berlin.
1850, March 4, Ludwig Lindenschmit the younger, † July 1922 in Mainz, prehistorian and painter.
1858, July 2, Georg Heinrich Kirstein, † April 15, 1921 in Mainz, bishop of Mainz 1904-21.
1861, January 20, Albanus Schachleiter, † June 20, 1937 in Feilnbach, Abt.
1883, Emil Preetorius, † 1973 in Munich, painter and scenic designer, 1948 - 1968 president of the Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste.
1883, Adolf Reinach, German philosopher, phenomenologist (from the Munich phenomenology perspective) and law theorist.
1871, Oskar Heinroth, Ornithologist.
1873, Rudolf Rocker, † 1958 in Mohegan/Maine (USA); was an anarcho-syndicalist writer, historian and prominent activist.
1878, Karl Friedrich Zörgiebel, † 1961, police president in Berlin, SPD politician.
1888 Alfred Mumbächer, † 1953 in Mainz, landscape painter.
1888, 17 November, Curt Goetz, † 12 September 1960 in Grabs/St. Gallen (Switzerland), Schriftsteller ("Der Lügner und die Nonne", "Das Haus in Montevideo"), playwright, film director.
1892, 6 January Ludwig Berger originally Ludwig Bamberger, † 1969 in Schlangenbad, film director, Shakespeare interpreter.
1899, 27 August, Hans Wilhelmi, † 5 June 1970 in Frankfurt am Main, Bundesminister für wirtschaftlichen Besitz des Bundes (1960–1961).
1900, Anna Seghers, † 1983 in Berlin (East), writer ("Das siebte Kreuz").
1901, Walter Hallstein, † 1982 in Stuttgart, politician and professor (Hallstein Doctrine) (1950–1951).
1904, 30 December, Edith Schultze-Westrum, † 20 March 1981 in München, actress ("Die Brücke", D 1959, "Jeder stirbt für sich allein", Hans Fallada 1962).
1909, 14 January, Ernst Neger, † 15 January 1989 in Mainz, singer ("Heile, heile Gänsje", "Rucki-Zucki").
1914, 11 December, Toni Hämmerle, † 8 December 1968 in Mainz, composer, pianist, organist ("Humba-Täterä", "Gell du hast mich gelle gern").
1914, 25 December, Konrad Georg, † 8 September 1987 in Hamburg, actor ("Kommissar Freytag", "Tim Frazer").
1916, Ferdy Mayne, † 1998 in London, actor.
1919, 15 August, Maria Mucke, singer during Wirtschaftswunder times ("Heut ist ein Feiertag für mich").
1920, 11 November, Walter Scherf, † 2010, fairy tale researcher.
1924, 6 November, Otto Höpfner, 1. landlord of the "Blauer Bock", singer, actor, conférencier, author.
1924, 11 December, Heinz Schenk, †2014, actor, singer ("Es ist alles nur geliehen"), Moderator ("Zum blauen Bock"), text writer ("Ole, ole Fiesta").
1935, 4 October, Horst Janson, actor ("Der Bastian", Sesamstraße).
1938, 25 February, Dieter Reith, composer (TV-melodies), band leader.
1941, 2 January, Johannes Gerster, politician.
1942, 18 April, Jochen Rindt, † 1970 Austrian racing driver.
1947, 31 December, Gerhard Ludwig Müller
1961, 6 December, Manuel Reuter, race car driver.
1968, Anja Gockel, fashion designer.

Honorary citizens

(47 since 1831)

Chronological list:

1831: Dr. Georg Moller, Regierungsbaumeister (first honorary citizen)
1834: Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly, vice governor of the federal fortress Mainz
1835: Albert Thorvaldsen, Danish/Icelandic sculptor, creator of the Gutenbergdenkmal
1839: Wilhelm Freiherr von Müffling, gen. Weiß, vice governor of the federal fortress Mainz
1839: Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, vice governor of the federal fortress Mainz
1856: Reinhard Carl Friedrich von Dalwigk, Hessian territory commissioner in the federal fortress Mainz
1864: Franz Xaver von Paumgartten, vice governor of the federal fortress Mainz
1864 to 1866 Prinz Prince Charles of Prussia was governor of Mainz
1871: Heinrich Karl Waldemar zu Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Augustenburg, vice governor of the federal fortress Mainz
1875: Leopold Hermann von Boyen, governor of the federal fortress Mainz
1877: Philipp Veit, romantic painter, director of the municipal gallery at Mainz
1878: Dr. Karl Georg Friedrich Schmitt, evangelical theology
1883: Wilhelm von Woyna, governor of the federal fortress Mainz
1886: Freiherr Edmund Gedult von Jungenfeld, Kaufmann, ehrenamtlicher Leiter der Mainzer Sparkasse
1891: Jakob Hochgesand, physician, director of the St. Rochus-Hospital
1891: Friedrich Küchler, administrative director of the province Rheinhessen
1898: Dr.jur. Carl Rothe, administrative director of the province Rheinhessen, Ministry of Internal Affairs within the Grand Duchy of Hesse
1905: Stefan Karl Michel, politician, vice president chamber of commerce
1905: Hermann Reinach, local politician, deputy mayor of Mainz
1907: Dr. Karl Georg Bockenheimer, local politician, historian, writer
1908: Max von Gagern, administrative director of the province Rheinhessen
1915: Ferdinand Albert Friedrich Kuhn, Hessian government building officer, deputy mayor of Mainz
1927: Dr. Heinrich Ludwig Müller, children physician, local politician and deputy mayor of Mainz
1931: Dr. Friedrich Karl Külb, physician, lord mayor of Mainz
1934: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Joseph Maria Schrohe, teacher and local historian
1936: Prof. Dr. Ernst Neeb, archivist, historian and promoter of the conservation of ancient monuments
1951: Wilhelm Christ, communal politician, founder of the Wohnungsbau GmbH in Mainz
1955: Alfred Freitag, local politician, founder of local social associations
1957: Prof. Dr. Aloys Ruppel, historian, director of the municipal library, municipal archives and the Gutenberg museum, Gutenberg researcher
1962: Carl Zuckmayer, author
1962: Prof. Dr. Adam Gottron, priest, theologian and historian regarding sacred music
1964: Félix Kir, catholic priest, resistance fighter and politician
1965: Dr. Peter Altmeier, first prime minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, co-founder of the Second German Television
1965: Prof. Dr. Hermann Reifenberg, catholic priest
1969: rector Karl Preller, rector parent house of the Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence in Finthen
1969: Heinrich Dreibus, local politician and deputy mayor of Mainz
1970: Dr. Ludwig Strecker, director of Schott Music, publisher
1972: Prof. Dr. Ing. Fritz Strassmann, chemist who, along with Otto Hahn, and Lisa Meitner discovered the nuclear fission of uranium in 1938
1975: Hermann Kardinal Volk, Bishop of Mainz
1979: Paul Distelhut, local politician
1981: Marc Chagall, painter, created nine stained-glass windows in St. Stephan Mainz
1981: Anna Seghers, originally Netty Rádvany, geb. Reiling, author
1983: Prof. Dr. Karl Holzamer, first director general (Intendant) of the Second German Television
1984: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Erich Schott, chemist and glass technologist and the inventor of borosilicate glass (Schott Glass).
1989: Jockel Fuchs, lord mayor
2001: Karl Kardinal Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz
2004: Karl Delorme, local politician
2005: Msgr. Klaus Mayer, catholic priest at St. Stephan

Other people related specially to Mainz

Scientists

Johann Joachim Becher (1635–1682), was a physician, alchemist, precursor of Chemistry, scholar, economist and adventurer.
Johann Georg Adam Forster naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. Played a leading role in the Republic of Mainz 1793.
Johann Fischer von Waldheim, was a German anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist.
Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (1853–1933), was a German mineralogist, crystallograph, nature philosopher, art collector and sponsor.
Gustav Killian (1860–1921) was a German laryngologist
Romano Guardini (* 1885 in Verona, † 1968 in München), was a Roman Catholic priest, author, and academic.
Fritz Strassmann (* 22 February 1902 in Boppard; † 22 April 1980 in Mainz) was a chemist who, along with Otto Hahn, discovered the nuclear fission of uranium in 1938.
Otto Laporte, (1902–1971) physicist.
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Fresenius (* 17 July 1913 in Berlin; † 31 July 2004 in Wiesbaden) was a chemist and established Institute Fresenius
Helmut Schoeck (1922–1993) was an Austrian-German sociologist and writer, best known for his work "Envy.
Paul J. Crutzen, is a Dutch Nobel prize winning atmospheric chemist at the Max-Planck-Institut in Mainz
Herbert Kühn, prehistorian, art historian, philosopher and religious studies (* 29 April 1895 Beelitz; 25 June 1980 Mainz), 1946 first ordained Professor for Pre-and Early history at the relaunched Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, until 1956.
Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder (* 4 September 1809 in Mainz; † 14 February 1893 in Mainz) was an important prehistorian, a pioneer of prehistorian research during the 19th century, history painting, Lithography.
Ludwig Lindenschmit the Younger (* 4 March 1850 in Mainz; † 20 July 1922 in Mainz), prehistorian, museum director and painter, son of the above
Heinrich Steitz (* 1907 in Fürfeld; † 1998 in Mainz), Professor for History of Christianity
Wolfgang Seiler, biogeochemists and climatologists

Politicians

Nero Claudius Drusus, Consul of the Roman Empire („Drusus-Cenotaph“ in the Zitadelle)
Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor, commanded the Legio XXII Primigenia in Mogontiacum
Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (222-235) of the Severan dynasty.
Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus was a usurper against Postumus, the emperor of the Gallic Empire. He declared himself emperor at Mainz in February/March 268.
Jean Bon Saint-André, was a French politician of the Revolution era, became préfet of the départment of Mont-Tonnerre (1801) and commissary-general of the three départments on the left bank of the Rhine.
Ludwig Schwamb (1890–1945) social-democratic jurist and politician who fought against the Nazi dictatorship in Germany as a member of the Kreisau Circle.
Helmut Kohl, politician
Susanne Wasum-Rainer, diplomat, Germany’s Ambassador to France (since 2012)
view: List of mayors of Mainz

Architecture, art and culture

Hans Backoffen, (* Sulzbach um 1470, † Mainz 1519), kurfürstlicher Steinmetz und Bildhauer
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Jurist, Mathematiker und Philosoph. Von 1667 - 1674 in Diensten Johann Philipps von Schönborn
Maximilian von Welsch (* Kronach 1671, † 1745 in Mainz), electoral director of building, architect, military engineer, famed for his fortifications and civil architecture (Lustschloss Favorite Mainz, New Armory Mainz)
Emy Roeder (* 1890 in Würzburg, † 1971 in Mainz), sculptor, since 1950 teacher at the Mainzer Kunstgewerbeschule
Alois Plum (* 1935), stained glass artist
Margret Hofheinz-Döring (* 20 May 1910, in Mainz; † 18 June 1994 in Bad Boll), painter and graphic artist

Literature

Marianus Scotus (* 1028, † 1082), Irish chronicler
Kathinka Zitz (1801–1877), writer and political activist.
Siegmund Salfeld (1843–1926) German rabbi and writer.
Gerd Buchdahl (1914–2001), German-Jewish philosopher of science.
Harald Martenstein, author, columnist at Die Zeit (9 September 1953 in Mainz)
Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Mainz town chronist
Friedrich Kellner (* 1885, † 1970), author of My Opposition.

Sports

Franco Foda, football manager
Jürgen Klopp, football manager
Manuel Reuter, racing driver, two-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner (1989, 1996)
Jochen Rindt, racing driver, posthumously won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970)
Martin Schmidt, football manager
Katrin Schultheis, world champion 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 artistic cycling
Sandra Sprinkmeier, world champion 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 artistic cycling
Martin Steffes-Mies, Mainzer Ruder-Verein, fourfold rowing world champion octuple (8x) (1989, 1990, 1991, 1993)

Economy

Salomon Oppenheim, Jr., (1772–1828) was a Jewish German banker. He is the founder of the private bank Sal Oppenheim.
Lorenz Adlon created the most luxurious hotel of his time, the Hotel Adlon
Dr. Hans Friderichs, Bundesminister a. D.
Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Chair of International Macroeconomics Wirtschaftsweise

Religion

refer to Bishop of Mainz
Archbishopric of Mainz
Yaakov ben Yakar (990 - 1064) was a Talmudist, pupil of Gershom ben Judah, and is especially known as the teacher of Rashi
Yehuda ben Meir (also known as Yehuda ha-Kohen or Judah of Mainz was a German-Jewish rabbi, Talmudic scholar and traveler of the late 10th and early 11th century
Karl von Miltitz (1490–1529) was a papal nuncio and a Mainz Cathedral canon.
Johann Michael Raich, was a Catholic theologian.
Adam Franz Lennig (1803–1866), ultramontanist, established in March 1848 the Piusverein and organized the first Katholikentag

Music, canto

Heinrich von Meißen, called Frauenlob, was a Middle High German poet and Minnesinger. Since 1312 up to his death 1318 at Peter von Aspelts court in Mainz.
Marianne Müller, (1772-1851) soprano singer at the Königliches Theater of Berlin in 1789-1816
Gottfried Weber (1799–1839) was a prominent writer on music, especially music theory.
Peter Cornelius, composer, writer about music, poet and translator.
Gerhard Fischer-Münster, composer
Volker David Kirchner (born 1942), violist and composer
Gundula Krause, Folk violinist
Tonka, House music disc jockey and record producer
Josef Traxel (1916–1975), singer
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Azerbaijani singer, pianist and composer
Wolf Hoffmann, lead guitarist for Accept

Cabaret, comedian, carnivalist

Hanns Dieter Hüsch, cabaret artist

Military

Others

Marx Rumpolt, personal chef to the Elector of Mainz, in 1581 wrote the first textbook "Ein New Kochbuch" (A New Cookbook) for professional cooks.
Johannes Wilhelm Bückler, called Schinderhannes (*Miehlen im Taunus 1783, † Mainz 1803 (persecuted)), legendary German outlaw
Hans Wagner (* Wittenberg 1852, † Frankfurt am Main 1940), Philatelist
Paul Baron von Collas (* Bromberg 1841; † Kassel 1910), military governor of Mainz (1898–1903)

Sources

Wolfgang Balzer: Mainz, Persönlichkeiten der Stadtgeschichte. Kügler, Ingelheim 1985–1993.
- Bd. 1: Mainzer Ehrenbürger, Mainzer Kirchenfürsten, militärische Persönlichkeiten, Mainzer Bürgermeister. ISBN 3-924124-01-9
- Bd. 2: Personen des religiösen Lebens, Personen des politischen Lebens, Personen des allgemein kulturellen Lebens, Wissenschaftler, Literaten, Künstler, Musiker. ISBN 3-924124-03-5.
- Bd. 3: Geschäftsleute, epochale Wegbereiter, Baumeister, Fastnachter, Sonderlinge, Originale. ISBN 3-924124-05-1.

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