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.

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 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, 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