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List of people from Frankfurt

List of people from Frankfurt

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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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Anton Dereser

19th century

1801–1820

Heinrich Hoffmann
Moritz Abraham Stern

1821–1840

1841–1860

Arthur von Weinberg

1861–1880

Rahel Hirsch
Karl Schwarzschild
Otto Hahn
  • 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

Hans Fischer
Siegfried Kracauer
Wilhelm Süss
Ernst Udet
Willy Messerschmitt

20th century

1901–1910

Theodor W. Adorno
Ott-Heinrich Keller
Kurt H. Debus
  • Kurt H. Debus (1908–1983), spaceflight scientist
  • Rudolf Gramlich (1908–1988), football player and chairman
  • Arthur Dreifuss (1908–1993), film director and occasional producer and screenwriter
  • Kurt Hessenberg (1908–1994), composer and professor
  • John Slade (1908–2005), American Olympic field hockey player and Wall Street broker
  • Edgar Weil (1908–1941), Germanist, dramaturge, and merchant
Ernst vom Rath

1911–1920

Werner Grothmann (left)
Eric Koch

1921–1930

Alfred Grosser
Anne Frank

1931–1940

Heinz Riesenhuber
Ulrich Schindel
Günter Lenz

1941–1950

Jürgen Roth
  • Jürgen Roth (1945–2017), publicist and investigative journalist
  • Gerhard Welz (born 1945), former professional footballer
Gerd Binnig
Wolfgang Flür
Horst Ludwig Störmer

1951–1960

Peter Ammon
Dietrich Thurau
Roland Koch
Thomas Reiter
Hannes Jaenicke

1961–1970

Valentin Schiedermair
Jakob Arjouni
Oliver Reck
Eckart von Hirschhausen
Peter Thiel
  • 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
Shantel

1971–1980

Alexander Waske
Mark Medlock
Cha Du-ri

1981–1990

Jermaine Jones
Patrick Ochs
Kevin Pezzoni

1991–2000

Notable residents of Frankfurt

8th to 17th centuries

Charlemagne
  • 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
  • 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
Matthäus Merian

18th century

Arthur Schopenhauer

19th century

Paul Ehrlich
  • 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
  • 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

20th century

1901–1910

Oskar Schindler
  • 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

Dr. Ruth Westheimer
  • Reinhard Goerdeler (1922–1996), accountant instrumental in founding KPMG, a leading international firm of accountants
  • Arno Lustiger (1924–2012), historian and author
  • Horst Streckenbach (1925–2001), tattoo artist and historian of the medium
  • Hilmar Hoffmann (1925–2018), 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)
  • Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel, 1928), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, Doctor of Education, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
  • 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 (1930–2017), conservative politician and statesman

1931–1940

Pope Francis
  • 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. (1934–2017), 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

Joschka Fischer

1951–2000

Michel Friedman

References

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

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