List of people from Frankfurt

This list contains notable people both born in Frankfurt and residents of the city, ordered chronologically.

Born in Frankfurt

9th to 17th centuries

18th century

1801–1820

1821–1840

1841–1860

1861–1880

  • Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry
  • Moritz Geiger (1880–1937), philosopher
  • Karl von Roques (1880–1949), general and war criminal during World War II
  • Paul Maas (1880–1964), classical scholar

1881–1900

  • Ernst Udet (1896–1941), German flying ace of World War I
  • Theodor Haubach (1896–1945), journalist, SPD politician, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime
  • Walter Peterhans (1897–1960), photographer
  • Tilly Edinger (1897–1967), paleontologist
  • Karl Freiherr von Lersner (1898–1943), Wehrmacht general during World War II
  • Karl Menninger (1898–1963), mathematician

1901–1910

1911–1920

1921–1930

1931–1940

1941–1950

  • Jürgen Roth (born 1945), publicist and investigative journalist
  • Gerhard Welz (born 1945), former professional footballer

1951–1960

1961–1970

  • Peter Thiel (born 1967), American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager
  • Andreas Paulus (born 1968), jurist
  • Uwe Schmidt (born 1968), composer, musician, and producer of electronic music

1971–1980

1981–1990

1991–2000

Notable residents of Frankfurt

8th to 17th centuries

  • Charlemagne (born between 742 and 748; died 814), King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany
  • Fastrada (765–794), East Frankish noblewoman
  • Louis the German (c. 810–876), grandson of Charlemagne and third son of the succeeding Frankish Emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye
  • Louis the Younger (born between 830 and 835; died 882), second eldest son of Louis the German and Emma who succeeded his father as King of Saxony and his elder brother Carloman as King of Bavaria
  • Johannes von Soest (1448–1506), composer, theorist, and poet
  • Conrad Faber von Kreuznach (born c. 1500; died between 1552 and 1553), painter and woodcuts designer
  • Jacob Micyllus (1503–1558), Renaissance humanist and teacher
  • Adam Lonicer (1528–1586), botanist
  • Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer

18th century

19th century

  • Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy
  • Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921), composer
  • Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936), Austrian-Jewish feminist, social pioneer, and founder of the Jüdischer Frauenbund (League of Jewish Women)
  • Adolf Bartels (1862–1945), journalist and poet
  • Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), Bavarian-born psychiatrist and neuropathologist credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", later identified as Alzheimer's disease
  • Georg Voigt (1866–1927), politician
  • Ludwig Landmann (1868–1945), liberal politician
  • Oskar Ursinus (1877–1952), aerospace engineer
  • Max Beckmann (1884–1950), painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer
  • Magda Spiegel (1887–1944), contralto
  • Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), Roman Catholic theologian and sociologist
  • Franz Bronstert (1895–1967), engineer and painter
  • Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), philosopher and sociologist
  • Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), composer, violist, violinist, teacher, and conductor
  • Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), politician affiliated with the CDU and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1963 until 1966
  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000), first female Austrian architect and an activist in the Nazi resistance movement

1901–1910

  • Kurt Thomas (1904–1973), composer, conductor, and music educator
  • Hans Bethe (1906–2005), German–American nuclear physicist
  • Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), industrialist, spy, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust
  • Alexander Mitscherlich (1908–1982), psychologist
  • Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), Silesian-German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist

1911–1920

1921–1930

  • Reinhard Goerdeler (1922–1996), accountant instrumental in founding KPMG, the leading international firm of accountants
  • Horst Heinrich Streckenbach (1925–2001), tattoo artist and historian of the medium
  • Hilmar Hoffmann (born 1925), cultural functionary and director
  • Ignatz Bubis (1927–1999), chairman (and later president) of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland)
  • Karl-Hermann Flach (1929–1973), journalist of the Frankfurter Rundschau and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP)
  • Jürgen Habermas (born 1929), sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism
  • Helmut Kohl (born 1930), conservative politician and statesman

1931–1940

  • Alfred Schmidt (1931–2012), philosopher
  • Walter Wallmann (1932–2013), politician
  • Rosemarie Nitribitt (1933–1957), luxury call girl whose violent death caused a scandal in the Wirtschaftswunder years
  • Michael Grzimek (1934–1959), zoologist, conservationist, and filmmaker
  • Albert Speer Jr. (born 1934), architect and urban planner
  • Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 1936), pope of the Catholic Church, spent several months at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt
  • F. K. Waechter (1937–2005), cartoonist, author, and playwright
  • Robert Gernhardt (1937–2006), writer, painter, caricaturist, and poet
  • Barbara Klemm (born 1939), photographer, worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for 45 years

1941–1950

1951–2000

References

  1. "Abschied von einer kämpferischen Gewerkschafterin". Kommunisten.de. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2017.

See also

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