List of people from Stuttgart

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The following is a list containing people both born in Stuttgart and notable residents of the city, ordered chronologically.

Artists[]

Image Name Date born Date died Notes
Balduin Hoyoul 1547 or 1548 26 November 1594 Composer
Paul Peuerl 13 June 1570 After 1625 Organist, organ builder, composer
Johann Jakob Froberger 19 May 1616 7 May 1667 Composer, keyboard virtuoso, organist
Charles Theodore Pachelbel 24 November 1690 15 September 1750 Composer, organist, harpsichordist
Dorothea Wendling-Spurni.jpg Dorothea Wendling 21 March 1736 20 August 1811 Soprano
Karl Friedrich Abt 1743 20 November 1783 Actor
Reinhard Ferdinand Heinrich Fischer, Porträt.jpg Reinhard Heinrich Ferdinand Fischer 18 June 1746 25 June 1813 Architect
Nicolas Lupot.jpg Nicolas Lupot 4 December 1758 14 August 1824 Violin maker
Andreas Streicher von Franz Klein 1812 Wien SAM 660.jpg Johann Andreas Streicher 13 December 1761 25 May 1833 Pianist, composer, piano maker
E. Wächter.jpg Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter February 1762 14 August 1852 Painter
GF Hetsch2.jpg Gustav Friedrich Hetsch 28 September 1788 7 September 1864 Architect
Carl Alexander Heideloff (Zeichnung ca.1840).jpg Carl Alexander Heideloff 2 February 1789 28 September 1865 Architect
Gustav Schwab.jpg Gustav Schwab 19 June 1792 4 November 1850 Writer, pastor, publisher
Emilie Zumsteeg, Porträt.jpg Emilie Zumsteeg 9 December 1796 1 August 1857 Choir conductor, songwriter, composer, pianist
Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer.jpg Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer 23 June 1799 25 August 1868 Actress
Viktor A Huber.jpeg Victor Aimé Huber 10 March 1800 19 July 1869 Social reformer, travel writer, literary historian
Hauff.jpg Wilhelm Hauff 29 November 1802 18 November 1827 Poet, novelist
Julius Benedict in National Portrait Gallery x721.jpg Julius Benedict 27 November 1804 5 June 1885 Composer, conductor
Herwegh.jpg Georg Herwegh 31 May 1817 7 April 1875 Poet
Wilhelm Hertz.jpg Wilhelm Hertz 24 September 1835 7 January 1902 Writer
Frederick Leypoldt 17 November 1835 31 March 1884 Bibliographer
Julius Ruthardt 13 December 1841 13 October 1909 Violinist, composer
Louis Welden Hawkins 1 July 1849 1 May 1910 Painter
Isolde Kurz.jpg Isolde Kurz 21 December 1853 5 April 1944 Poet, writer
Cäsar Flaischlen (cropped).jpg Cäsar Flaischlen 12 May 1864 16 October 1920 Poet
Theodor Bertram as Wotan.jpg Theodor Bertram 12 February 1869 24 November 1907 Opera singer
Otto Treßler 13 April 1871 27 April 1965 Actor
Johannes Baader 22 June 1875 15 January 1955 Architect, writer, artist
Fritz Lang 15 March 1877 26 October 1961 Painter
Ludwig Dürr (cropped).jpg Ludwig Dürr 4 June 1878 1 January 1956 Airship designer
Alfred Roth 27 April 1879 9 October 1948 Politician, writer
Alfred Fischer 29 August 1881 10 April 1950 Architect
Paul Leni 8 July 1885[1] 2 September 1929[1] Filmmaker
Otto Wunderlich 1886 1975 Photographer
Bruno Frank, 114.jpg Bruno Frank 13 June 1887 20 June 1945 Author, poet, dramatist, humanist
Oskar Schlemmer 4 September 1888 13 April 1943 Painter, sculptor, choreographer
WP Willi Baumeister.jpg Willi Baumeister 22 January 1889 31 August 1955 Painter, scenic designer, art professor, typographer
CPJ Americanart.si.edu.jpg C. Paul Jennewein 2 December 1890 22 February 1978 Sculptor
Carl Jules Weyl (1938).jpg Carl Jules Weyl 6 December 1890 12 July 1941 Art director, soldier
Fred Uhlman 19 January 1901 11 April 1985 Writer, painter, lawyer
Werner Klingler 23 October 1903 23 June 1972 Film director, actor
Kurt Schumacher 6 May 1905 22 December 1942 Sculptor, communist, member of the German resistance to Nazism
Will Eisenmann 3 March 1906 20 August 1992 Composer
Eberhard Koebel.jpg Eberhard Koebel 22 June 1907 31 August 1955 Youth leader, writer, publisher
Trude Eipperle 27 January 1908 18 October 1997 Operatic soprano
Gerda Taro-Anonymous.jpg Gerda Taro 1 August 1910 26 July 1997 War photographer
Anni Schaad 10 December 1911 20 December 1988 Jewelry designer
Richard Holm 3 August 1912 20 July 1988 Operatic tenor
Hermann Lenz 26 February 1913 12 May 1998 Poet, author, novelist
Alfred Vohrer 29 December 1914 3 February 1986 Film director, actor
Alfred Weidenmann 10 May 1916 9 June 2000 Film director, screenwriter
Heinz Weiss 12 June 1921 20 November 2010 Actor
Fritz Umgelter.jpeg Fritz Umgelter 18 August 1922 9 May 1981 Television director, television writer, film director
Dieter Eppler 11 February 1927 12 April 2008 Actor
Joachim Fuchsberger ROMY2008.jpg Joachim Fuchsberger 11 March 1927 11 September 2014 Actor, television presenter, lyricist, businessman, activist, paratrooper
Wolf Kahn 4 October 1927
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 Painter
Ernst Mahle 3 January 1929
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 Composer, conductor
Fred Herzog 21 September 1930
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 Photographer
Werner Haas 3 March 1931 11 October 1976 Pianist
Michael Pfleghar 20 March 1933 23 June 1991 Film director, screenwriter
Helmuth Rilling 2013 (cropped).jpg Helmuth Rilling 29 May 1933
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 Conductor
19921123 wolfgang dauner ujre braunschweig.jpg Wolfgang Dauner 30 December 1935 10 January 2020 Jazz fusion pianist, composer, keyboardist
Helmut Lachenmann 27 November 1935
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 Composer
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche 11 December 1935 5 April 2012 Car designer
Walter Stoehrer 1978.jpg Walter Stöhrer 15 January 1937 10 April 2000 Painter
Eberhard Schoener 13 May 1938
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 Composer, conductor, arranger, keyboardist
Hartmut Geerken 15 January 1939
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 Musician, composer, writer, journalist, playwright, filmmaker
150px Bettina Kupfer 19 July 1963
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 Actress, writer

Artists (continued)[]

  • Hans Schumm (1896–1990), Film actor
  • Wolfgang Kermer (born 1935), art historian, art pedagogue
  • Veronika Bayer (1940–2008), actress
  • Eberhard Weber (born 1940), double bassist and composer
  • Klaus Zehelein (born 1940), opera intendant
  • Wolfgang Kramer (born 1942), board game designer
  • Rolf Schübel (born 1942), film director and screenwriter
  • Friedman Paul Erhardt (1943–2007), early television chef
  • Jerry Zaks (born 1946), stage and television director and actor
  • Andrea Rau (born 1947), actress and producer
  • Anna Thomas (born 1948), film screenwriter, film producer and writer
  • Manfred Wagner (born 1948), author of Wagner model
  • Hermann Kopp (born 1954), composer and musician
  • Horst von Saurma (born 1954), chief editor of the German automobile magazine Sport auto
  • Jeff Dahl (born 1955), musician
  • Roland Emmerich (born 1955), film director, screenwriter and producer
  • Ralf Illenberger (born 1956), guitarist
  • Peter Schilling (born 1956), synthpop musician
  • Kiddy Citny (born 1957), artist and musician
  • Madhukar (born 1957), author, teacher and guru
  • Uwe Grodd (born 1958), conductor and flutist
  • Nikolai Müllerschön (born 1958), film director, producer and screenwriter
  • Geoff Tate (born 1959), singer and musician
  • Greg Iles (born 1960), novelist
  • Claudia Neidig (born 1960), actress
  • Eytan Pessen (born 1961), pianist and opera director
  • Susanne Lewis (born 1962), American musician, songwriter and artist
  • Alex Jolig (born 1963), actor, singer and motorcycle racer
  • Angela Laich (born 1963), sculptor, draughtsperson and painter
  • Steffen Lehmann (born 1963), architect and urban designer
  • Denis Scheck (born 1964), literary critic and journalist
  • Christian Dierstein (born 1965), percussionist and academic teacher
  • Mark Landler (born 1965), journalist
  • Alexander Bader (born 1965), clarinetist
  • Jürgen Mayer (born 1965), architect and artist
  • Judith Kaufmann (born 1962), cinematographer
  • Sandra Hastenteufel (born 1966), artist
  • Stefan-Peter Greiner (born 1966), violin maker
  • Klaus Schedl (born 1966), composer
  • Michael Beck (born 1967), member of the German hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier
  • Natalia Wörner (born 1967), actress
  • Robert Schwentke (born 1968), film director
  • Markus Amm (born 1969), artist
  • Ulrike Frank (born 1969), actress
  • Jerri Manthey (born 1970), actress
  • Matthias Rexroth (born 1970), countertenor
  • Thom Barron (born 1971), pornographic actor
  • Chris Bosse (born 1971), architect
  • Lisa Martinek (born 1972), actress
  • Carmen Vincelj (born 1972), professional dancer
  • Reggie Watts (born 1972), musician
  • Christopher Bauder (born 1973), interaction designer and media artist
  • André Butzer (born 1973), artist
  • Max Herre (born 1973), musician
  • Florian Maier-Aichen (born 1973), landscape photographer
  • Matthias Megyeri (born 1973), designer of security products
  • Marc C. Woehr (born 1973), contemporary artist
  • Melina Aslanidou (born 1974). Greek musician
  • Dragan Espenschied (born 1975), media artist
  • Nina Hoss (born 1975), actress
  • Martin Pfeifle (born 1975), sculptor
  • Tanja Liedtke (born 1977), professional dancer
  • Tanja Becker-Bender (born 1978), violinist
  • Haha (born 1979), singer
  • Simone Simons (born 1985), singer [2]
  • Alexander Tuschinski (born 1988), film director
  • Pia Wurtzbach (born 1989), Miss Universe 2015 for the Philippines
  • Yoon So-hee (born 1993), South Korean actress
  • Mailin Hübler current mayor

Athletes[]

Businessman[]

  • Salomon Idler (1610–1669), shoemaker
  • Johann Friedrich Cotta (1764–1832), publisher, industrial pioneer and politician
  • Robert Schlumberger von Goldeck (1814–1879), entrepreneur
  • Charles Rasp (1846–1907), businessman
  • Hermann Eckstein (1847–1893), magnate and banker
  • Fritz Mannheimer (1890–1939), banker
  • Theodor Koch (1905-1976), German engineer and weapons manufacturer
  • Berthold Leibinger (1930–2018), engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • Heinz Dürr (born 1933), entrepreneur and stockholder
  • Ulrich Bez (born 1943), businessman
  • Matthias Rath (born 1955), doctor, businessman and vitamin entrepreneur
  • Dominik Brunner (1959–2009), businessman
  • Martin Brudermüller (born 1961), businessman, CEO of BASF[4]

Lawyers[]

Image Name Date born Date died Notes
Robert von Mohl (IZ 57-1871 S 153 HScherenberg).jpg Robert von Mohl 17 August 1799 4 November 1875 Jurist
Zionist Delegation to Jerusalem 1898.jpg Max Bodenheimer 12 March 1865 19 July 1940 Lawyer
Arnulf Klett 8 April 1905 14 August 1974 Lawyer and politician, former mayor of Stuttgart
Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2008-0184, Berlin, Berthold Schenk Graf v. Stauffenberg.jpg Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg 15 March 1905 10 August 1944 Aristocrat, lawyer and member of the 20 July plot
Rosalie Abella 1 July 1946
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 Jurist
Ferdinand Oliver Porsche 13 March 1961
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 Lawyer

Military[]

Officers[]

Scholars[]

  • Georg Bernhard Bilfinger (1693–1750), philosopher, mathematician and statesman
  • Johann Jakob Moser (1701–1785), jurist, publicist and researcher
  • Ludwig Timotheus Spittler (1752–1810), historian
  • Marianne Ehrmann (1755–1795), one of the first women novelists and publicists in the German-speaking countries
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), philosopher
  • Karl Christian Planck (1819–1880), philosopher
  • Rudolf von Roth (1821–1895), Indologist, founder of the Vedic philology
  • Karl Mauch (1837–1875), explorer and African geographer
  • Friedrich Hauser (1859–1917), archaeologist and art historian
  • Hermann Abert (1871–1927), music historian
  • Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), philosopher-sociologist
  • Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905–1964), aristocrat, historian and member of the 20 July plot
  • Edward Lowinsky (1908–1985), musicologist
  • Karl Dietrich Bracher (1922–2016), political scientist and historian
  • Herbert E. Brekle (1935–2018), typographer and linguist
  • Frieder Nake (born 1938), professor for computer graphics
  • Manfred Schneckenburger (1938–2019), art historian and curator
  • Gerhard Raff (born 1946), historian, editor and publisher
  • John Thorn (born 1947), sports historian
  • Phillip Longman (born 1956), demographer
  • Claudia Schoppmann (born 1958), historian and author
  • Andres Veiel (born 1959), film director and screenwriter
  • Michael Maar (born 1960), literary scholar and author
  • Eric Hilgendorf (born 1960), professor of law
  • Ralf Zerback (born 1961), historian and author

Scientists[]

  • Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765–1825), mathematician
  • Andreas Friedrich Bauer (1783–1860), engineer
  • Carl Reichenbach (1788–1869), chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist and philosopher
  • Christian Heinrich von Nagel (1803–1882), geometer
  • Friedrich August von Alberti (1795–1878), geologist
  • Hugo von Mohl (1805–1872), botanist
  • Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Berge (1811–1883), naturalist, ornithologist and entomologist
  • Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss (1812–1890), scientist, traveler and collector
  • Johann Ludwig Karl Heinrich von Struve (1812–1898), astronomer
  • Wilhelm Griesinger (1817–1868), neurologist and psychiatrist
  • Wilhelm Roser (1817–1888), surgeon and ophthalmologist
  • Carl Gustav Guckelberger (1820–1902), chemist
  • Carl Gustav Calwer (1821–1874), entomologist
  • Christian Zeller (1822–1899), mathematician
  • Carl Wilhelm Heine (1838–1877), physician
  • Wilhelm Camerer (1842–1910), physician
  • Eugen Baumann (1846–1896), chemist
  • Carl Magnus von Hell (1849–1926), chemist
  • Otto Hölder (1859–1937), mathematician
  • Wilhelm Weinberg (1862–1937), physician and obstetrician-gynecologist
  • Hans Spemann (1869–1941), embryologist
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Seiffer (1872–?), neurologist and psychiatrist
  • Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886–1957), physician and physiologist
  • Erich Huzenlaub (1888–1964), chemist
  • Erich Schönhardt (1891–1979), mathematician
  • Erwin Fues (1893–1970), physicist
  • Paul Schlack (1897–1967), chemist
  • Ernst Rexer (1902–1983), nuclear physicist
  • Erich Zürn (1906–1965), U-boat engineer
  • Fritz Leonhardt (1909–1999), structural engineer
  • Karl Steinbuch (1917–2005), computer scientist, cyberneticist and electrical engineer
  • Franz Sondheimer (1926–1981), chemist
  • Rolf Landauer (1927–1999), physicist
  • Hans-Peter Dürr (1929–2014), physicist
  • Gerhard Ertl (born 1936), physicist
  • Hartmut Elsenhans (born 1941), scientist
  • Ulf Dietrich Merbold (born 1941), astronaut
  • Knut Urban (born 1941), physicist
  • Bert Sakmann (born 1942), cell physiologist
  • Hans-Jörg Bullinger (born 1944), scientist
  • Bernhard Mann (born 1950), social scientist
  • David Robert Nelson (born 1951), physicist
  • Rudi Studer (born 1951), computer scientist
  • Rolf Schlierer (born 1955), physician, lawyer and politician
  • Ulf Hohmann (born 1963), ethologist
  • Christof Ebert (born 1964), computer scientist and author
  • Gert Mittring (born 1966), mental calculator
  • Patrick Cramer (born 1969), biochemist
  • Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974), Canadian technologist, entrepreneur, and author
  • Martin Reimann (born 1978), researcher

Statesmen[]

Royalty and nobility[]

Theologians[]

Image Name Date born Date died Notes
Eisengrein Martin 3a.png Martin Eisengrein 28 December 1535 4 May 1578 Catholic theologian and polemical writer
Hermann Gundert.jpg Hermann Gundert 4 February 1814 25 April 1893 Missionary and scholar
William Julius Mann 1819 1892 Theologian and author
Karl Theodor Keim 17 December 1825 17 November 1878 Protestant theologian

Notable residents of Stuttgart[]

  • Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1728–1793), son of Duke Karl I Alexander
  • Friedrich Schiller (1759��1805), poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
  • Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (1787–1860), botanist and Protestant minister
  • Friedrich Ruthardt (1802–1862), oboist and composer
  • Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), engineer, industrial designer and industrialist
  • Dionys Pruckner (1834–1896), pianist and music teacher
  • Wilhelm Maybach (1846–1929), designer and industrialist
  • Robert Bosch (1861–1942), industrialist, engineer and inventor
  • Carl Eytel (1862–1925), German-American artist who studied at the Royal Art School before emigrating to America and settling in Palm Springs, California
  • Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951), automotive engineer
  • Paul Bonatz (1877–1956), architect
  • Wilhelm Steinkopf (1879–1949), chemist
  • Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), politician
  • Claus von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), army officer and Catholic aristocrat
  • Günter Behnisch (1922–2010), architect
  • Albrecht Roser (1922–2011), master puppeteer
  • Frei Otto (1925–2015), architect and structural engineer
  • Klaus von Klitzing (born 1943), physicist
  • Fred Breinersdorfer (born 1946), screenwriter, producer and film director
  • Norbert Haug (born 1952), journalist
  • Jürgen Klinsmann (born 1964), footballer and coach
  • Frank Karlitschek (born 1973), open source software developer
  • Dragan Espenschied (born 1975), 8-bit musician and media artist
  • Katja Mragowska (born 1975), artist
  • Sascha Gerstner (born 1977), musician and photographer
  • Louk Sorensen (born 1985), Irish tennis player
  • Alexander Tuschinski (born 1988), film director
  • Pia Wurtzbach (born 1989), Miss Universe 2015
  • Fernando Raposo (born 1989), French basketball player
  • Yoon So-hee (born 1993), South Korean actress
  • Irmgard Schwebler (born 1931), American diplomat
  • Mirko McClammy (born 1964), Barrister

References[]

  1. ^ a b "BFI database: Paul Leni". bfi.org.uk. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  2. ^ "SMOONSTYLE : Search results for stuttgart". SMOONSTYLE. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Fred Gaiser". baseball-reference.com. Baseball Reference. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
  4. ^ "Dr. Martin Brudermüller". basf.com. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
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