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Sons and daughters of the town

(chronological list)
  • around 780, Rabanus Maurus
    Rabanus Maurus
    Rabanus Maurus Magnentius , also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in Germany and a theologian. He was the author of the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis . He also wrote treatises on education and grammar and commentaries on the Bible...

    , † 856, a Benedictine
    Benedictine
    Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...

     monk, and archbishop
    Archbishop
    An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

     of Mainz. He was the author of the encyclopaedia On the Nature of Things.
  • (c. 960 -1040? or 1028?) Gershom ben Judah
    Gershom ben Judah
    Gershom ben Judah, best known as Rabbeinu Gershom and also commonly known to scholars of Judaism by the title Rabbeinu Gershom Me'Or Hagolah , was a famous Talmudist and Halakhist.Rashi of Troyes Gershom ben Judah, (c. 960 -1040? -1028?) best known as Rabbeinu Gershom (Hebrew: רבנו גרשום, "Our...

    , 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
    Johann Fust
    Johann Fust was an early German printer.- Family background :Fust belonged to a rich and respectable burgher family of Mainz, traceable back to the early thirteenth-century; members of the family held many civil and religious offices.The name was always written Fust, but in 1506 Peter Schöffer, in...

     († 1466 in Paris
    Paris
    Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

    ), an early German printer, assistant and investor of Gutenberg. Together with Peter Schöffer
    Peter Schöffer
    Peter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer was an early German printer, who studied in Paris and worked as a manuscript copyist in 1451 before apprenticing with Johannes Gutenberg and joining Johann Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money lender.-Life and works:Working for Fust, Schöffer was the principal...

     he founded a printshop.
  • 1488, Otto Brunfels
    Otto Brunfels
    Otto Brunfels was a German theologian and botanist...

    , a German theologian and botanist. Carl von Linné listed him among the "Fathers of Botany".
  • 1674, Friedrich Carl von Schönborn († 1746), bishop of Bamberg
    Bamberg
    Bamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not destroyed by World War II bombings because of a nearby Artillery Factory that prevented planes from...

     and Würzburg
    Würzburg
    Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....

     (1729-46).
  • 1716, Count Johann Franz Raymond Kasimir Anton Joseph Peter (May 19, 1716- † October 3, 1775), Knight of Teutonic Order, Privy Councilor, General Feld Zeug Meister, and "Governor of Mainz".
  • 1739, Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk Graf von Waldersdorf, † 21. April 1810 in Bruchsal, Fürstbishop of Speyer
    Speyer
    Speyer is a city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located beside the river Rhine, Speyer is 25 km south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. Founded by the Romans, it is one of Germany's oldest cities...

     1797-1810.
  • 1745, Ludwig Fischer, † July 19, 1825 in Berlin
    Berlin
    Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

    , 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
    Dalberg
    Dalberg is the name of an ancient and distinguished German noble family, derived from the hamlet and castle of Dalberg or Dalburg near Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate...

    , † September 28, 1806 in Mannheim
    Mannheim
    Mannheim is a city in southwestern Germany. With about 315,000 inhabitants, Mannheim is the second-largest city in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, following the capital city of Stuttgart....

    , chamberlain of Worms
    Worms, Germany
    Worms is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Rhine River. At the end of 2004, it had 85,829 inhabitants.Established by the Celts, who called it Borbetomagus, Worms today remains embattled with the cities Trier and Cologne over the title of "Oldest City in Germany." Worms is the only...

     and intendant of the theatre at Mannheim.
  • 1766, Johann Martin Manl, † October 15, 1835 in Eichstätt
    Eichstätt
    Eichstätt is a town in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the District of Eichstätt. It is located along the Altmühl River, at , and had a population of 13,078 in 2002. It is home to the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, the lone Catholic university in Germany. The...

    , Bischop of Speyer 1827-35 and Bishop of Eichstätt 1835.
  • Ferdinand Ochsenheimer
    Ferdinand Ochsenheimer
    Ferdinand Ochsenheimer was a German actor and entomologist .-Life:Ochsenheimer was born and brought up in in Mainz, Germany, and began to show an interest in butterflies and moths in his early youth...

     (1767–1822) was a German stage actor and entomologist (lepidopterist
    Lepidopterist
    A lepidopterist is a person who specialises in the study of Lepidoptera, members of an order encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

    ).
  • 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
    Hallgarten
    -People:* Charles Hallgarten , German-American banker, philanthropist and social reformer* Fritz Hallgarten , chemist, co-founder and honorary citizen of the University of Frankfurt, the son of Charles Hallgarten...

    , politician and member of the Frankfurt Parliament.
  • 1780, Johann Adam Ackermann
    Johann Adam Ackermann
    Johann Adam Ackermann was a German landscape painter of the early 19th century.He was born in Mainz and moved to Frankfurt in 1804. His best-known works are his winter landscapes and watercolours...

    ,† 1853, landscape painter.
  • 1791, Franz Bopp
    Franz Bopp
    Franz Bopp was a German linguist known for extensive comparative work on Indo-European languages.-Biography:...

    , 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
    Champagne Krug
    Champagne Krug—a "négociant-manipulateur" with offices in Reims, the main city in Champagne—was one of the famous Champagne houses who formed part of the membership of the Grande Marques. Krug Grande Cuvée is one of the crown jewels in the LVMH wine division, placed alongside the Moët et Chandon's...

     in Reims
    Reims
    Reims , a city in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, lies east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire....

     in 1843.
  • 1805, Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn
    Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn
    Countess Ida von Hahn-Hahn was a German author.-Biography:She was born at Tressow, in the duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. She was the daughter of Carl Friedrich Graf von Hahn , who was well known for his enthusiasm for stage productions, upon which he squandered a large portion of his fortune...

     was a German author and founder of a nunnery.
  • 1811, Josef Kling
    Josef Kling
    Josef Kling was a German chess master and chess composer. In 1851 he wrote Chess Studies with Bernhard Horwitz.-External links:* at Chessgames.com...

    , was a German chess master
    Chess master
    A chess master is a chess player of such skill that he/she can usually beat chess experts, who themselves typically prevail against most amateurs. Among chess players, the term is often abbreviated to master, the meaning being clear from context....

     and chess composer
    Chess composer
    A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. He usually specializes in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies, twomovers, threemovers, moremovers, helpmates, selfmates, fairy problems...

    .
  • 1817, Christoph Moufang
    Christoph Moufang
    Franz Christoph Ignaz Moufang was a German Catholic theologian and diocesan administrator.-Education:...

    , † 1890 in Mainz, diocesan administrator of Mainz 1877-86.
  • 1822, Joseph Gottsleben, † 1888, printer and publisher, established the "Mainzer Anzeiger".
  • 1823, Ludwig Bamberger
    Ludwig Bamberger
    Ludwig Bamberger was a German economist, politician and writer.-Early life:Bamberger was born in a Jewish family in Mainz.After studying at Gießen, Heidelberg and Göttingen, he entered law.-Career:...

    , † 1899 in Berlin, was an economist, publicist and politician. He took part in the republican rising in the Palatinate and Baden
    Baden
    Baden is a historical state on the east bank of the Rhine in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Württemberg of Germany....

    ; it was chiefly owing to him that a gold currency was adopted and that the Reichsbank
    Reichsbank
    The Reichsbank was the central bank of Germany from 1876 until 1945. It was founded on 1 January 1876 . The Reichsbank was a privately owned central bank of Prussia, under close control by the Reich government. Its first president was Hermann von Dechend...

     took form.
  • 1824, Peter Cornelius
    Peter Cornelius
    Carl August Peter Cornelius was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. He was born and died in Mainz where his grave in the Hauptfriedhof survives....

    , † 1874 in Mainz, composer, writer about music, poet and translator.
  • 1826, Paul Stumpf, † March 15, 1912 in Mainz, politician and entrepreneur.
  • 1835, Paul Haenlein
    Paul Haenlein
    Paul Haenlein was a German engineer and flight pioneer. He flew in a semi-rigid-frame dirigible. His family belonged to the Citoyens notables, those notabilities who led the economy, administration and culture of Mainz.Haenlein received an education as a mechanical engineer and pattern maker...

    , † 1905 in Mainz, was an engineer and flight pioneer. He flew in a semi-rigid-frame dirigible.
  • 1838, in Mainz, Charles Hallgarten
    Charles Hallgarten
    Charles Hallgarten, or Charles/Karl Lazarus Hallgarten was a German banker and philanthropist....

    , † 1908 in Frankfurt am Main, was a banker and philanthropist.
  • 1839, Adolphus Busch
    Adolphus Busch
    Colonel Adolphus Busch was the German-born co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. His great-great-grandson, August Busch IV is now on the board of Anheuser-Busch InBev.-Biography:...

    , † 1913 was the cofounder of Anheuser-Busch
    Anheuser-Busch
    Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. , is an American brewing company. The company operates 12 breweries in the United States and 18 in other countries. It was, until December 2009, also one of America's largest theme park operators; operating ten theme parks across the United States through the...

    .
  • 1846, Ferdinand Becker
    Ferdinand Becker
    Ferdinand Becker was born at Gonsenheim in 1846. He entered the studio of Steinle, at Frankfort, in 1868, and afterwards removed to Mainz, where he painted his most celebrated work, “Der Jude im Dorn” illustrating the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. He died in Munich in 1877.-References:...

    , † 1877, painter of religious subjects.
  • 1849, May 29, Lorenz Adlon, † April 7, 1921 , established Hotel Adlon
    Hotel Adlon
    Hotel Adlon is a hotel on Unter den Linden, the main boulevard in the Berlin city centre, directly opposite the Brandenburg Gate.-First Hotel Adlon 1907-1945:...

     in Berlin.
  • 1850, March 4, Ludwig Lindenschmit the younger, † July 1922 in Mainz, prehistorian and painter.
  • 1858, July 2, Georg Heinrich Maria 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
    Munich
    Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

    , painter and scenic design
    Scenic design
    Scenic design is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers have traditionally come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but nowadays, generally speaking, they are trained professionals, often with M.F.A...

    er, 1948 - 1968 president of the Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste
    Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste
    Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in München is an association of renowned personalities in Munich, Bavaria. It was founded by the Free State of Bavaria in 1948, continuinf a tradition established in 1808 by the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich.The academy organizes panel discussions,...

    .
  • 1883, Adolf Reinach
    Adolf Reinach
    Adolf Bernhard Philipp Reinach , German philosopher, phenomenologist and law theorist.-Life and Works:...

    , German philosopher, phenomenologist (from the Munich
    Munich
    Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

     phenomenology perspective) and law theorist.
  • 1871, Oskar Heinroth
    Oskar Heinroth
    Oskar Heinroth was a German biologist who was one of the first to apply the methods of comparative morphology to animal behaviour, and was thus one of the founders of ethology...

    , Ornithologist.
  • 1873, Rudolf Rocker
    Rudolf Rocker
    Johann Rudolf Rocker was an anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist. A self-professed anarchist without adjectives, Rocker believed that anarchist schools of thought represented "only different methods of economy" and that the first objective for anarchists was "to secure the personal and social...

    , † 1958 in Mohegan/Maine (USA); was an anarcho-syndicalist
    Anarcho-syndicalism
    Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labour movement. The word syndicalism comes from the French word syndicat which means trade union , from the Latin word syndicus which in turn comes from the Greek word σύνδικος which means caretaker of an issue...

     writer, historian and prominent activist.
  • 1878, Karl Friedrich Zörgiebel, police president in Berlin, SPD
    Social Democratic Party of Germany
    The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

     politician.
  • 1888 Alfred Mumbächer, † 1953 in Mainz, landscape painter.
  • 1888, 17 November, Curt Goetz
    Curt Goetz
    Curt Goetz , born Kurt Walter Götz, was a Swiss-German writer, actor and film director. Curt Goetz was regarded as one of the most brilliant comedy writers of his time in the German-speaking world. Together with his wife Valérie von Martens he acted in his own plays and also filmed them...

    , † 12 September 1960 in Grabs/St. Gallen (Switzerland), Schriftsteller ("Der Lügner und die Nonne", "Das Haus in Montevideo"), playwright
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

    , film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

    .
  • 1892, 6 January Ludwig Berger
    Ludwig Berger (director)
    Ludwig Berger was a German film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He directed 36 films between 1920 and 1969...

     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
    Anna Seghers
    Anna Seghers was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.- Life :...

    , † 1983 in Berlin (East), writer ("Das siebte Kreuz").
  • 1901, Walter Hallstein
    Walter Hallstein
    Walter Hallstein was a German politician and professor.He was one of the key figures of European integration after World War II, becoming the first President of the Commission of the European Economic Community, serving from 1958 to 1967. He famously defined his position as "a kind of Prime...

    , † 1982 in Stuttgart
    Stuttgart
    Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

    , politician and professor (Hallstein Doctrine
    Hallstein Doctrine
    The Hallstein Doctrine, named after Walter Hallstein, was a key doctrine in the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany after 1955. It established that the Federal Republic would not establish or maintain diplomatic relations with any state that recognized the German Democratic Republic...

    ) (1950-1951).
  • 1904, 30 December, Edith Schultze-Westrum
    Edith Schultze-Westrum
    Edith Schultze-Westrum was a German film actress. She appeared in 64 films between 1932 and 1979.-Selected filmography:* Derrick - Season 3, Episode 06: "Kalkutta"...

    , † 20 March 1981 in München, actress ("Die Brücke
    Die Brücke (film)
    Die Brücke is a West-German anti-war novel written by Gregor Dorfmeister, under the pseudonym of Manfred Gregor, and published in 1958 by Heyne Bücher....

    ", D 1959, "Jeder stirbt für sich allein", Hans Fallada
    Hans Fallada
    Hans Fallada , born Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen in Greifswald, Germany, was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include Little Man, What Now? and Every Man Dies Alone...

     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
    Hamburg
    -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

    , actor ("Kommissar Freytag", "Tim Frazer").
  • 1916, Ferdy Mayne
    Ferdy Mayne
    -Early life:He was born Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel, in Mainz, Germany. His German father was the Judge of Mayence, and his half-English mother gave singing lessons. Because his family was Jewish, he was sent to England to protect him from the Nazis, and he stayed with his aunt, the photographer...

    , † 1998 in London, actor.
  • 1919, 15 August, Maria Mucke, singer during Wirtschaftswunder
    Wirtschaftswunder
    The term describes the rapid reconstruction and development of the economies of West Germany and Austria after World War II . The expression was used by The Times in 1950...

     times ("Heut ist ein Feiertag für mich").
  • 1920, 11 November, Walter Scherf, Märchen researcher
    Researcher
    A researcher is somebody who performs research, the search for knowledge or in general any systematic investigation to establish facts. Researchers can work in academic, industrial, government, or private institutions.-Examples of research institutions:...

    .
  • 1924, 6 November, Otto Höpfner, 1. landlord of the "Blauer Bock", singer, actor, conférencier, author.
  • 1924, 11 December, Heinz Schenk, 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
    Sesamstraße
    Sesamstraße is the German-language version of Sesame Street, a children's television program. It airs primarily in Germany and the surrounding German-speaking countries. The show premièred on 8th January 1973, Sesamstraße has been running on Norddeutscher Rundfunk since 1973; it's now in its...

    ).
  • 1938, 25 February, Dieter Reith, composer (TV-melodies), band leader.
  • 1941, 2 January, Johannes Gerster, politician.
  • 1942, 18 April, Jochen Rindt
    Jochen Rindt
    Karl Jochen Rindt was a German racing driver who represented Austria during his career. He is the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship , after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix...

    , Austrian racing driver.
  • 1947, 31 December, Gerhard Ludwig Müller
    Gerhard Ludwig Müller
    Gerhard Ludwig Müller has served as the Bishop of Regensburg since his appointment by Pope John Paul II on 1 October 2002.-Early life:...

    , bishop of Regensburg
    Regensburg
    Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...

    , since 2002.
  • 1961, 6 December, Manuel Reuter
    Manuel Reuter
    Manuel Reuter is a German former race car driver.He has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice:*in 1989 24 Hours of Le Mans for Sauber-Mercedes*in 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans for Joest Racing...

    , race car driver.
  • 1968, Anja Gockel, fashion designer.

Honorary citizens

(47 since 1831)

Chronological list:
  • 1831: Dr. Georg Moller
    Georg Moller
    Georg Moller was an architect and a town planner who worked in the South of Germany, mostly in the region today known as Hessen.- Life and family background :...

    , Regierungsbaumeister (first honorary citizen)
  • 1834: Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly
    Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly
    Emmanuel, count of Mensdorff-Pouilly was an army officer in the Imperial and Royal Army of the Austrian Empire, and vice-governor of Mainz....

    , vice governor of the federal fortress Mainz
  • 1835: Albert Thorvaldsen
    Bertel Thorvaldsen
    Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor of international fame, who spent most of his life in Italy . Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a Danish/Icelandic family of humble means, and was accepted to the Royal Academy of Arts when he was eleven years old...

    , 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
    Prince Wilhelm of Prussia
    Prince Wilhelm of Prussia was the son of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt.- Life :...

    , 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
    Prince Charles of Prussia
    Prince Frederick Charles Alexander of Prussia born in Charlottenburg, was a younger son of Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz...

     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
    Hermann von Boyen
    Leopold Hermann Ludwig von Boyen was a Prussian army officer who helped to reform the Prussian Army in the early 19th century...

    , governor of the federal fortress Mainz
  • 1877: Philipp Veit
    Philipp Veit
    Philipp Veit was a German Romantic painter. To Veit is due the credit of having been the first to revive the almost forgotten technique of fresco painting.- Biography :Veit was born in Berlin, Prussia...

    , 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
    Grand Duchy of Hesse
    The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine , or, between 1806 and 1816, Grand Duchy of Hesse —as it was also known after 1816—was a member state of the German Confederation from 1806, when the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt was elevated to a Grand Duchy, until 1918, when all the German...

  • 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
    Max von Gagern
    Max von Gagern was a German liberal politician.He was the son of Hans Christoph von Gagern, minister of state in Nassau; he attended the gymnasiums at Kreuznach, Mannheim, and Weilburg, and studied law from 1826 at Heidelberg, Utrecht, and Göttingen...

    , 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
    Carl Zuckmayer
    Carl Zuckmayer was a German writer and playwright.-Biography:Born in Nackenheim in Rheinhessen, he was four years old when his family moved to Mainz. With the outbreak of World War I, he finished school with a facilitated "emergency"-Abitur and volunteered for military service...

    , author
  • 1962: Prof. Dr. Adam Gottron, priest, theologian and historian regarding sacred music
  • 1964: Félix Kir
    Félix Kir
    Canon Félix Kir was a French Catholic priest, resistance fighter and politician.He was born at Alise-Sainte-Reine on the Côte-d'Or. He entered a small seminary at Plombières-lès-Dijon in 1891 and was ordained 1901. He then worked as a parish priest...

    , catholic priest, resistance fighter and politician
  • 1965: Dr. Peter Altmeier
    Peter Altmeier
    Peter Altmeier was a German politician . From 1947 to 1969 he was the Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate. He was born in Saarbrücken and died in Koblenz. He was the longest governing German Ministers-Presidents in one single state - longest at all was Bernhard Vogel.- External links :* * *...

    , first prime minister of Rhineland-Palatinate
    Rhineland-Palatinate
    Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....

    , co-founder of the Second German Television
    ZDF
    Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

  • 1965: Prof. Dr. Hermann Reifenberg, catholic priest
  • 1969: rector Karl Preller, rector parent house of the Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence
    Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence
    The Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Providence is a Catholic religious order that was founded in 1851 in Germany by Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Bishop of Mainz, and Stephanie Amelia Starkenfels de la Roche, a French noblewoman....

     in Finthen
  • 1969: Heinrich Dreibus, local politician and deputy mayor of Mainz
  • 1970: Dr. Ludwig Strecker, director of Schott Music
    Schott Music
    Schott Music is one of the oldest German music publishers. It is also one of the largest music publishing houses in Europe and is currently the second oldest music publishing house. The company headquarters of Schott Music was founded by Bernhard Schott in Mainz, Germany in 1770.Established in...

    , publisher
  • 1972: Prof. Dr. Ing. Fritz Strassmann
    Fritz Strassmann
    Friedrich Wilhelm "Fritz" Strassmann was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in 1938, identified barium in the residue after bombarding uranium with neutrons, which led to the interpretation of their results as being from nuclear fission...

    , chemist who, along with Otto Hahn, and Lisa Meitner discovered the nuclear fission of uranium in 1938
  • 1975: Hermann Kardinal Volk
    Hermann Volk
    Hermann Volk was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mainz from 1962 to 1982, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973.-Early life and ministry:...

    , Bishop of Mainz
  • 1979: Paul Distelhut, local politician
  • 1981: Marc Chagall
    Marc Chagall
    Marc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...

    , painter, created nine stained-glass windows in St. Stephan Mainz
  • 1981: Anna Seghers
    Anna Seghers
    Anna Seghers was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.- Life :...

    , originally Netty Rádvany, geb. Reiling, author
  • 1983: Prof. Dr. Karl Holzamer
    Karl Holzamer
    Johannes Karl Holzamer was a German philosopher, pedagogue and former director general of the German television station ZDF.- Life :...

    , first director general (Intendant) of the ZDF
  • 1984: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Erich Schott, chemist and glass technologist and the inventor of borosilicate glass
    Borosilicate glass
    Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with the main glass-forming constituents silica and boron oxide. Borosilicate glasses are known for having very low coefficients of thermal expansion , making them resistant to thermal shock, more so than any other common glass...

     (Schott Glass
    Schott Glass
    SCHOTT AG is a German manufacturer of high-quality industrial glass products, its main markets are household appliances, pharmaceutical industries, solar energy, electronics, optics as well as automotive...

    ).
  • 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

Scientists

  • Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) , was a physician
    Physician
    A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

    , alchemist
    Alchemy
    Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners’ claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base...

    , precursor of Chemistry
    Chemistry
    Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

    , scholar, economist
    Economist
    An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...

     and adventurer.
  • Johann Georg Adam Forster  naturalist
    Natural history
    Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

    , ethnologist, travel writer, journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

     and revolutionary
    Revolutionary
    A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...

    . Played a leading role in the Republic of Mainz
    Republic of Mainz
    The Republic of Mainz was the first democratic state on the current German territory and was centered in Mainz. A product of the French Revolutionary Wars, it lasted from March to July 1793.-Context:...

     1793.
  • Johann Fischer von Waldheim
    Johann Fischer von Waldheim
    Johann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim was a German anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist....

    , was a German anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist.
  • Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
    Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
    ----Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt was a German mineralogist, natural philosopher, and art collector.- Life :...

     (1853-1933), was a German mineralogist, crystallograph, nature philosopher, art collector and sponsor.
  • Gustav Killian
    Gustav Killian
    Gustav Killian was a German laryngologist, born in Mainz, and educated at the University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau. He made revolutionary advances in the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the infralaryngeal passages, especially in the diagnosis and removal of foreign bodies in the bronchial...

     (1860-1921) was a German
    Germans
    The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

     laryngologist
    Laryngology
    Laryngology is that branch of medicine which deals with disorders, diseases and injuries of the vocal apparatus, especially the larynx. Common conditions addressed by laryngologists include vocal fold nodules and cysts, laryngeal cancer, spasmodic dysphonia, laryngopharyngeal reflux, papillomas,...

  • Romano Guardini
    Romano Guardini
    Romano Guardini was a Catholic priest, author, and academic. He was one of the most important figures in Catholic intellectual life in 20th-century.- Life and work:...

     (* 1885 in Verona
    Verona
    Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

    , † 1968 in München), was a Roman Catholic priest
    Priest
    A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...

    , author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    , and academic.
  • Fritz Strassmann
    Fritz Strassmann
    Friedrich Wilhelm "Fritz" Strassmann was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in 1938, identified barium in the residue after bombarding uranium with neutrons, which led to the interpretation of their results as being from nuclear fission...

     (* 22 February 1902 in Boppard; † 22 April 1980 in Mainz) was a chemist
    Chemistry
    Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

     who, along with Otto Hahn
    Otto Hahn
    Otto Hahn FRS was a German chemist and Nobel laureate, a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry". Hahn was a courageous opposer of Jewish persecution by the Nazis and after World War II he became a passionate campaigner...

    , discovered the nuclear fission
    Nuclear fission
    In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts , often producing free neutrons and photons , and releasing a tremendous amount of energy...

     of uranium
    Uranium
    Uranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table, with atomic number 92. It is assigned the chemical symbol U. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons...

     in 1938.
  • Otto Laporte
    Otto Laporte
    Otto Laporte was a German-born American physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics, electromagnetic wave propagation theory, spectroscopy, and fluid dynamics...

    , (1902-1971) physicist
    Physicist
    A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

    .
  • Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Fresenius (* 17 July 1913 in Berlin; † 31 July 2004 in Wiesbaden) was a chemist
    Chemistry
    Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

     and established Institute Fresenius
  • Helmut Schoeck
    Helmut Schoeck
    Helmut Schoeck was an Austrian-German sociologist and writer, best known for his work "Envy. A Theory of Social Behaviour" .-Life:...

     (1922-1993) was an Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

    n-German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     sociologist and writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    , best known for his work "Envy
    Envy
    Envy is best defined as a resentful emotion that "occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it."...

    .
  • Paul J. Crutzen
    Paul J. Crutzen
    Paul Jozef Crutzen is a Dutch Nobel prize winning atmospheric chemist.Crutzen is best known for his research on ozone depletion. He lists his main research interests as “Stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry, and their role in the biogeochemical cycles and climate”...

    , is a Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     Nobel prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     winning atmospheric chemist
    Atmospheric chemistry
    Atmospheric chemistry is a branch of atmospheric science in which the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and that of other planets is studied. It is a multidisciplinary field of research and draws on environmental chemistry, physics, meteorology, computer modeling, oceanography, geology and...

     at the Max-Planck-Institut in Mainz
  • Herbert Kühn, prehistorian
    Prehistory
    Prehistory is the span of time before recorded history. Prehistory can refer to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it refers to all the time preceding human existence and the invention of writing...

    , art historian, philosopher and religious studies
    Religious studies
    Religious studies is the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions. It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing systematic, historically based, and cross-cultural perspectives.While theology attempts to...

     (* 29 April 1895 Beelitz
    Beelitz
    Beelitz is a town in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated about 18 km south of Potsdam, in a glacial sandur plain surrounded by extended pine woods...

    ; 25 June 1980 Mainz), 1946 first ordained Professor
    Professor
    A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...

     for Pre-and Early history at the relaunched Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
    Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
    The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz is a university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg. With approximately 36,000 students in about 150 schools and clinics, it is among the ten largest universities in Germany...

    , until 1956.
  • Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder
    Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder
    Ludwig Lindenschmit was a German history painter, prehistorian and art instructor who was a native of Mainz. He studied art in Vienna and Munich, and beginning in 1831 was a high school art teacher in Mainz...

     (* 4 September 1809 in Mainz; † 14 February 1893 in Mainz) was an important prehistorian, a pioneer of prehistorian research during the 19. century, history painting
    History painting
    History painting is a genre in painting defined by subject matter rather than an artistic style, depicting a moment in a narrative story, rather than a static subject such as a portrait...

    , Lithography
    Lithography
    Lithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface...

    .
  • 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
    History of Christianity
    The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, its followers and the Church with its various denominations, from the first century to the present. Christianity was founded in the 1st century by the followers of Jesus of Nazareth who they believed to be the Christ or chosen one of God...


Politicians

  • Nero Claudius Drusus
    Nero Claudius Drusus
    Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus , born Decimus Claudius Drusus also called Drusus, Drusus I, Nero Drusus, or Drusus the Elder was a Roman politician and military commander. He was a fully patrician Claudian on his father's side but his maternal grandmother was from a plebeian family...

    , Consul
    Consul
    Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire. The title was also used in other city states and also revived in modern states, notably in the First French Republic...

     of the Roman Empire
    Roman Empire
    The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

     („Drusus-Cenotaph
    Cenotaph
    A cenotaph is an "empty tomb" or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been interred elsewhere. The word derives from the Greek κενοτάφιον = kenotaphion...

    “ in the Zitadelle
    Zitadelle Mainz
    The Mainzer Zitadelle is situated at the fringe of the Old Town near Mainz Römisches Theater station. The fortress was constructed in 1660 and was an important part of the Fortress Mainz.-History:...

    )
  • Didius Julianus
    Didius Julianus
    Didius Julianus , was Roman Emperor for three months during the year 193. He ascended the throne after buying it from the Praetorian Guard, who had assassinated his predecessor Pertinax. This led to the Roman Civil War of 193–197...

    , Roman Emperor, commanded the Legio XXII Primigenia
    Legio XXII Primigenia
    Legio XXII Primigenia was a Roman legion levied by Roman Emperor Caligula in 39, for his campaigns in Germania. There are still records of the XXII Primigenia in Mogontiacum from the end of 3rd century...

     in Mogontiacum
  • Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (222-235) of the Severan dynasty
    Severan dynasty
    The Severan dynasty was a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 193 and 235. The dynasty was founded by the Roman general Septimius Severus, who rose to power during the civil war of 193, known as the Year of the Five Emperors....

    .
  • Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus
    Laelianus
    Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus was a usurper against Postumus, the emperor of the Gallic Empire. His revolt lasted from approximately late February to early June 269.-Origins:...

     was a usurper
    Roman usurper
    Usurpers are individuals or groups of individuals who obtain and maintain the power or rights of another by force and without legal authority. Usurpation was endemic during roman imperial era, especially from the crisis of the third century onwards, when political instability became the rule.The...

     against Postumus
    Postumus
    Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus was a Roman emperor of Batavian origin. He usurped power from Gallienus in 260 and formed the so-called Gallic Empire...

    , the emperor of the Gallic Empire
    Gallic Empire
    The Gallic Empire is the modern name for a breakaway realm that existed from 260 to 274. It originated during the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century....

    . He declared himself emperor at Mainz in February/March 268.
  • Anton Heinrich Friedrich von Stadion, Grand Steward at the electoral court, advocate of the Enlightenment
    Age of Enlightenment
    The Age of Enlightenment was an elite cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th century Europe that sought to mobilize the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge. It promoted intellectual interchange and opposed intolerance and abuses in church and state...

  • Jean Bon Saint-André
    Jean Bon Saint-André
    Jean Bon Saint-André was a French politician of the Revolution era.-Early career and in the Convention:...

    , was a French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     politician of the Revolution era
    French Revolution
    The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...

    , became préfet
    Préfet
    A prefect in France is the State's representative in a department or region. Sub-prefects are responsible for the subdivisions of departments, arrondissements...

    of the départment of Mont-Tonnerre
    Mont-Tonnerre
    Mont-Tonnerre is the name of a département of the First French Empire in present Germany. It is named after the highest point in the Rhenish Palatinate, the Donnersberg. It was the southernmost of four départements formed in 1798, when the west bank of the Rhine was annexed by France...

     (1801) and commissary-general of the three départments on the left bank of the Rhine.
  • Bernhard Adelung, politician
  • Ludwig Schwamb
    Ludwig Schwamb
    Ludwig Schwamb was a social-democratic jurist and politician who fought against the Nazi dictatorship in Germany as a member of the Kreisau Circle motivated by his Christian beliefs, and as a close colleague of Wilhelm Leuschner, which led to his execution as a resistance fighter.Ludwig Schwamb...

     (1890-1945) was a social-democratic jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

     and politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

     who fought against the Nazi
    Nazism
    Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

     dictatorship
    Dictatorship
    A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator. It has three possible meanings:...

     in Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     as a member of the Kreisau Circle
    Kreisau Circle
    The Kreisau Circle was the name the Nazi Gestapo gave to a group of German dissidents centered on the Kreisau estate of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke. The Kreisauer Kreis is celebrated as one of the instances of German opposition to the Nazi regime...

    .
  • Raymond Schmittlein, was a French general and politician, re-established the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Johannes Gerster, politician
  • Helmut Kohl
    Helmut Kohl
    Helmut Josef Michael Kohl is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998...

    , politician
  • 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
    Johann Philipp von Schönborn
    Johann Philipp von Schönborn was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1647 until 1673, the Bishop of Würzburg from 1642 until 1673, and the Bishop of Worms from 1663 until 1673....

  • Maximilian von Welsch
    Maximilian von Welsch
    Johann Maximilian von Welsch was a German architect, High Director of Building and fortress master builder.- Life :Maximilian von Welsch is regarded as a prominent representative of baroque fortress building in Germany. Besides this he got reputation with the construction of several...

     (* Kronach
    Kronach
    Kronach is a town in Oberfranken, Bavaria, Germany, located in the Frankenwald area. It is the capital of the district Kronach.Kronach is the birthtown of Lucas Cranach the Elder and Maximilian von Welsch, as well as Johann Kaspar Zeuss and Josef Stangl....

     1671, † 1745 in Mainz), electoral director of building, architect, military engineer
    Military engineer
    In military science, engineering refers to the practice of designing, building, maintaining and dismantling military works, including offensive, defensive and logistical structures, to shape the physical operating environment in war...

    , famed for his skill in both designing fortification
    Fortification
    Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defence in warfare and military bases. Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs...

    s as well as civil architecture (Lustschloss Favorite Mainz, New Armory Mainz)
  • Ludwig Lindenschmit the Younger (1850-1922), important prehistorian
  • Christian Heinrich Kleukens (1880-1954), printer and writer
  • Emy Roeder (* 1890 in Würzburg, † 1971 in Mainz), sculpturer, sine 1950 teacher at the Mainzer Kunstgewerbeschule
    Kunstgewerbeschule
    A Kunstgewerbeschule was the old name for an advanced school of applied arts in German-speaking countries. The first such schools were opened in Kassel in 1867 and Berlin and Munich in 1868 with other German towns following. They are now merged into universities....

  • Herbert Kühn (* 29 April 1895 in Beelitz
    Beelitz
    Beelitz is a town in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated about 18 km south of Potsdam, in a glacial sandur plain surrounded by extended pine woods...

     - 25 Juni 1980 Mainz, prehistorian, philosoph, Religious studies, history of arts studies
  • Gertrude Degenhardt (* 1 Oktober 1940 in New York
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

    , (NY)), Lithography
    Lithography
    Lithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface...

     and graphic artist
  • Alois Plum
    Alois Plum
    Alois Johannes Plum is an artist working in Mainz, Germany, who has acquired a national reputation for his stained glass, his paintings , and his plastic art. Active since the 1950s, his work decorates hundreds of churches and public buildings in Germany...

     (* 1935), stained glass artist
  • Margret Hofheinz-Döring
    Margret Hofheinz-Döring
    Margret Hofheinz-Döring was a German painter and graphic artist.She created about 9,000 paintings, images and portraits, presented in more than 100 exhibitions. Her experimental "structure painting", repainting fabric collages and frames, is a notable technique used by Hofheiz-Döring...

     (* 20 May 1910, in Mainz; † 18 June 1994 in Bad Boll
    Bad Boll
    Bad Boll is a municipality in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.-History:Since the Middle Ages there has been a thermal spa there, at one time a hunting lodge of the Dukes of Württemberg. In the 19th Century, the spa was acquired by Pastor Johann Christoph...

    ), painter and graphic artist

Literature

  • Marianus Scotus (* 1028, † 1082), Irish chronicler
  • Kathinka Zitz (1801-1877), was a German writer and political activist.
  • Siegmund Salfeld
    Siegmund Salfeld
    Siegmund Salfeld was a German rabbi and writer. He was born at Stadthagen, Schaumburg-Lippe.Having received his degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1870, he became in the same year rabbi of Dessau, Anhalt. In 1880 he was chosen rabbi of Mainz. He collaborated on Meyers...

     (1843-1926) was a German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     rabbi and writer.
  • Gerd Buchdahl
    Gerd Buchdahl
    Gerd Buchdahl was a German-English philosopher of science, born to German-Jewish parents in Mainz.The developing natural sciences were the causal lens through which he viewed and from which he wrote about the consequences on epistemology and the history of metaphysics...

     (1914-2001), was a German-Jewish philosopher of science.
  • Harald Martenstein
    Harald Martenstein
    Harald Martenstein is a German journalist and author.- Biography :Martenstein studied History and Romance Studies in Freiburg. From 1981 to 1988, he was a journalist at the Stuttgarter Zeitung and from 1988 to 1997 he was a journalist at Tagesspiegel in Berlin...

    , author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    , columnist at Die Zeit
    Die Zeit
    Die Zeit is a German nationwide weekly newspaper that is highly respected for its quality journalism.With a circulation of 488,036 and an estimated readership of slightly above 2 million, it is the most widely read German weekly newspaper...

     (* 9 September 1953 in Mainz
    Mainz
    Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

    )
  • Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Mainz town chronist
  • Friedrich Kellner
    Friedrich Kellner
    August Friedrich Kellner was a mid-level official in Germany who worked as a justice inspector in Mainz and Laubach. During the First World War, Kellner was an infantryman in a Hessian regiment...

     (* 1885, † 1970), author of My Opposition.

Sport

  • Katrin Schultheis, vice world champion 2004, 2005, 2006 artistic cycling
    Artistic cycling
    Artistic cycling is a form of competitive indoor cycling in which athletes perform tricks for points on specialized, fixed-gear bikes in a format similar to ballet or gymnastics...

  • Sandra Sprinkmeier, vice world champion 2004, 2005, 2006 artistic cycling
  • Jürgen Klopp
    Jürgen Klopp
    Jürgen Norbert Klopp is a retired German footballer and current manager of Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga....

    , soccer trainer
  • Martin Steffes-Mies, Mainzer Ruder-Verein, fourfold rowing
    Rowing (sport)
    Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

     world champion octuple (8x) (1989, 1990, 1991, 1993)
  • Jochen Rindt
    Jochen Rindt
    Karl Jochen Rindt was a German racing driver who represented Austria during his career. He is the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship , after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix...

    , racing driver, posthumously won the Formula One
    Formula One
    Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

     World Drivers' Championship (in 1970)

Economy

  • Salomon Oppenheim, Jr., (1772-1828) was a Jewish German
    Germans
    The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

     banker. He is the founder of the private bank Sal Oppenheim.
  • Lorenz Adlon
    Lorenz Adlon
    Lorenz Adlon was a German caterer, gastronomer and hotelier.-Early life:Lorenz Adlon was born at Mainz. His original name had been Laurenz. He was the sixth out of nine children of the shoemaker Jacob Adlon and his wife Anna Maria Elisabeth, who was an accoucheuse...

     created the most luxurious hotel of his time, the Hotel Adlon
    Hotel Adlon
    Hotel Adlon is a hotel on Unter den Linden, the main boulevard in the Berlin city centre, directly opposite the Brandenburg Gate.-First Hotel Adlon 1907-1945:...

  • Dr. Hans Friderichs, Bundesminister a. D.
  • Beatrice Weder di Mauro
    Beatrice Weder di Mauro
    Beatrice Weder di Mauro is a Swiss economist. Since June 2004 she is a member of the German Council of Economic Experts, as the first woman and the first non-German in that council....

    , Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
    Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
    The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz is a university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg. With approximately 36,000 students in about 150 schools and clinics, it is among the ten largest universities in Germany...

    , Chair of International Macroeconomics
    Macroeconomics
    Macroeconomics is a branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of the whole economy. This includes a national, regional, or global economy...

     Wirtschaftsweise

Religion

  • refer to Bishop of Mainz
    Bishop of Mainz
    The Diocese of Mainz is a diocese of the Catholic church in Germany. It was created in 1802 with the abolition of the old Archbishopric of Mainz. The diocese is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Freiburg; its district is located in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse...

  • Archbishopric of Mainz
    Archbishopric of Mainz
    The Archbishopric of Mainz or Electorate of Mainz was an influential ecclesiastic and secular prince-bishopric in the Holy Roman Empire between 780–82 and 1802. In the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy, the Archbishop of Mainz was the primas Germaniae, the substitute of the Pope north of the Alps...

  • Yaakov ben Yakar
    Yaakov ben Yakar
    Yaakov ben Yakar was a German Talmudist. He flourished in the first half of the 11th century. He was a pupil of Gershom ben Judah in Mainz, and is especially known as the teacher of Rashi, who characterizes him as Mori HaZaken .Yaakov was one of the leading Talmudic authorities of his time...

     (990 - 1064) was a Talmud
    Talmud
    The Talmud is a central text of mainstream Judaism. It takes the form of a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, philosophy, customs and history....

    ist, pupil of Gershom ben Judah
    Gershom ben Judah
    Gershom ben Judah, best known as Rabbeinu Gershom and also commonly known to scholars of Judaism by the title Rabbeinu Gershom Me'Or Hagolah , was a famous Talmudist and Halakhist.Rashi of Troyes Gershom ben Judah, (c. 960 -1040? -1028?) best known as Rabbeinu Gershom (Hebrew: רבנו גרשום, "Our...

    , and is especially known as the teacher of Rashi
    Rashi
    Shlomo Yitzhaki , or in Latin Salomon Isaacides, and today generally known by the acronym Rashi , was a medieval French rabbi famed as the author of a comprehensive commentary on the Talmud, as well as a comprehensive commentary on the Tanakh...

  • Yehuda ben Meir
    Yehuda ben Meir
    Yehuda ben Meir, also known as Yehuda ha-Kohen or Judah of Mainz, was a German rabbi, Talmudic scholar and traveler of the late tenth and early eleventh century CE. His book Sefer ha-Dinim contains an account of his travels and those of other Jews in Eastern Europe...

     (also known as Yehuda ha-Kohen
    Kohen
    A Kohen is the Hebrew word for priest. Jewish Kohens are traditionally believed and halachically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from the Biblical Aaron....

     or Judah of Mainz
    Mainz
    Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

     was a German
    Germans
    The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

    -Jewish rabbi
    Rabbi
    In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...

    , Talmud
    Talmud
    The Talmud is a central text of mainstream Judaism. It takes the form of a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, philosophy, customs and history....

    ic scholar and traveler of the late tenth and early eleventh century
  • Karl von Miltitz
    Karl von Miltitz
    Karl von Miltitz was a papal nuncio and a Mainz Cathedral canon.-Biography:He was born in Rabenau near Meißen and Dresden, his family stemming from the lesser Saxon nobility. He studied at Mainz, Trier, Cologne , and Bologna , but his deficient Latin reveals that he was not especially learned...

     (1490–1529) was a papal
    Pope
    The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, a position that makes him the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle...

     nuncio
    Nuncio
    Nuncio is an ecclesiastical diplomatic title, derived from the ancient Latin word, Nuntius, meaning "envoy." This article addresses this title as well as derived similar titles, all within the structure of the Roman Catholic Church...

    and a Mainz Cathedral
    Mainz Cathedral
    Mainz Cathedral or St. Martin's Cathedral is located near the historical center and pedestrianized market square of the city of Mainz, Germany...

     canon
    Canon (priest)
    A canon is a priest or minister who is a member of certain bodies of the Christian clergy subject to an ecclesiastical rule ....

    .
  • Johann Michael Raich
    Johann Michael Raich
    Johann Michael Raich was a Catholic theologian.Raich pursued his gymnasial studies under the Benedictines at St. Stephen's at Augsburg, and studied philosophy and theology at the Collegium Germanicum at Rome . On 29 May 1858, he was ordained priest at the same place...

    , was a Catholic theologian.
  • Adam Franz Lennig
    Adam Franz Lennig
    Adam Franz Lennig was an ultramontanistic German Catholic theologian.-Life:Lennig studied at Bruchsal under the private tutorship of the ex-Jesuit Laurentius Doller, and afterwards at the bishop's gymnasium at Mainz, his birthplace...

     (1803-1866), ultramontanist
    Ultramontanism
    Ultramontanism is a religious philosophy within the Roman Catholic community that places strong emphasis on the prerogatives and powers of the Pope...

    , established in March 1848 the Piusverein
    Piusverein
    The Piusverein was a Roman Catholic society, founded in 1848 in Germany, and named for Pope Pius IX. Its political direction was conservative and ultramontanist, and its purpose to form a bridge between Catholics and the political classes...

     and organized the first Katholikentag
    Katholikentag
    Katholikentag is a festival-like gathering in German-speaking countries organized by the Roman Catholic laity. Katholikentag festivals occur approximately every 2–4 years in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.-History:...


Music, canto

  • Heinrich von Meißen
    Heinrich Frauenlob
    Heinrich Frauenlob , sometimes known as Henry of Meissen , was a Middle High German poet and minnesinger. The nickname Frauenlob means "praise of women" or "praise of Our Lady".-Biography:He was born in Meissen. He had great musical talents, and he held court positions in Prague...

    , called Frauenlob, , was a Middle High German
    Middle High German
    Middle High German , abbreviated MHG , is the term used for the period in the history of the German language between 1050 and 1350. It is preceded by Old High German and followed by Early New High German...

     poet and Minnesinger. Since 1312 up to his death 1318 at Peter von Aspelts court in Mainz.
  • Gottfried Weber
    Gottfried Weber
    Jacob Gottfried Weber , was a prominent German writer on music , composer, and jurist....

     (1799-1839) was a prominent writer on music, especially music theory
    Music theory
    Music theory is the study of how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It seeks to identify patterns and structures in composers' techniques across or within genres, styles, or historical periods...

    .
  • Peter Cornelius
    Peter Cornelius
    Carl August Peter Cornelius was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. He was born and died in Mainz where his grave in the Hauptfriedhof survives....

    , composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

    , writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     about music, poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

     and translator.
  • Gerhard Fischer-Münster, composer
  • Gundula Krause
    Gundula Krause
    Gundula Krause, born 7 July 1966 in Göttingen, is a German folk violinist. She lives in Mainz, Roetgen nearby Aachen and East-Clare .-Life and work:...

    , Folk violinist
  • Nanette Scriba, chanson singer
  • Jutta Weinhold, rock singer
  • Tonka
    DJ Tonka
    DJ Tonka , is an electronic music artist. He is also known as Tonka, Chip Tunes, and Thomastic.-Career:...

    , House music
    House music
    House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

     disc jockey
    Disc jockey
    A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

     and record producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

  • Josef Traxel
    Josef Traxel
    Josef Traxel was a German operatic tenor, particularly associated with Mozart roles and the German repertory....

     (1916-1975), singer
  • Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
    Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
    Aziza Mustafa Zadeh also known as The Princess of Jazz, or Die Prinzessin des Jazz or as Jazziza is an Azerbaijani singer, pianist and composer who plays a fusion of jazz and mugam with classical and Avant-garde influences...

    , Azerbaijani singer, pianist and composer
  • Wolf Hoffmann
    Wolf Hoffmann
    Wolf Hoffmann grew up in Wuppertal. He is primarily known as guitarist in the German heavy metal band Accept since 1976. In 1997, he released the album Classical with rock versions of classical pieces...

    , lead guitarist for Accept
    Accept
    Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled by former vocalist Udo Dirkschneider, guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and bassist Peter Baltes. Their beginnings can be traced back to the late 1960s...

     band

Cabaret, comedian, carnivalist

  • Hanns Dieter Hüsch
    Hanns Dieter Hüsch
    Hanns Dieter Hüsch was a German author, cabaret artist, actor, songwriter and radio commentator....

    , cabaret artist
  • Herbert Bonewitz, carnival, cabaret artist
  • Rolf Braun, carnival

Others

  • Marx Rumpolt
    Marx Rumpolt
    Marx Rumpolt was head cook to Elector of Mainz, Daniel Brendel of Homburg. His cookbook, Ein new Kochbuch , written in 1581, was the first textbook for professional chefs in training....

    , 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
    Schinderhannes
    Johannes Bückler , nicknamed Schinderhannes, was a German outlaw who orchestrated one of the most fascinating crime sprees in German history. He was born at Miehlen, the son of Johann and Anna Maria Bückler. He began an apprenticeship to a tanner, but turned to petty theft. At 16 he was arrested...

     (*Miehlen im Taunus 1783, † Mainz 1803 (persecuted)), legendary German outlaw
  • Hans Wagner (* Wittenberg
    Wittenberg
    Wittenberg, officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is a city in Germany in the Bundesland Saxony-Anhalt, on the river Elbe. It has a population of about 50,000....

     1852, † Frankfurt am Main 1940), Philatelist
  • Paul Baron von Collas (* Bromberg 1841; † Kassel
    Kassel
    Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...

    1910), military governor of Mainz (1898-1903)
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