Karlsruhe - Famous People

Famous People

• Dennis Aogo, German football defender who currently plays for Hamburger SV
• Victoria of Baden (1862–1930), born in Karlsruhe, Queen consort of Sweden by her marriage to King Gustaf V of Sweden
• Christa Bauch, female Bodybuilding legend
• Hermann Billing, Art Nouveau architect, was born and lived in Karlsruhe and built his first famous works here.
• Karoline von Günderrode, a German poet, was born in Karlsruhe (1780–1806).
• Karl Drais, inventor of the two-wheeler principle basic to bicycle and motorcycle, key typewriter and earliest stenograph, was born and died in Karlsruhe (1785–1851)
• Mühlburg, since 1886 a borough of Karlsruhe, is the birthplace of Karl Benz (1844–1929), inventor of the automobile and founder of Benz & Co., now part of Daimler AG (formerly Daimler-Benz)
• Walther Bensemann is one of the founders of the first southern German soccer club Karlsruher FV and later he became one of the founders of DFB and the founder of Kicker, which still is Germany's leading soccer magazine.
• Oliver Bierhoff, retired German football striker and former national team captain for the Germany and Italian Serie A clubs Udinese, A.C. Milan and Chievo; currently working as the German national team manager
• Siegfried Buback then Attorney General of Germany fell victim to terrorists of the Rote Armee Fraktion in April 1977.
• Andi Deris, lead singer of the power metal band Helloween, was born in Karlsruhe.
• Theodor von Dusch (1824–1890), physician remembered for experiments involving cotton-wool filters for bacteria.
• Ludwig Eichrodt, writer
• Obergruppenführer SA Hans Frank (1900–1946), Gauleiter and Governor-General of Nazi occupied Poland. Hanged at Nuremberg for his crimes during World War II.
• Reinhold Frank, a German lawyer who worked for the resistance in Nazi Germany, ran a law practice in Karlsruhe. In his honour the street in Karlsruhe where the lawyer's chambers were founded bears his name.
• Gottfried Fuchs was born in Karlsruhe and holds the record of ten goals in one single international soccer match for the German national team.
• Regina Halmich, the current female boxing flyweight world champion
• Johann Peter Hebel, writer and poet, lived in Karlsruhe for most of his life.
• In the late 1880s, professor Heinrich Rudolf Hertz discovered electromagnetic waves at the University of Karlsruhe; today, a lecture room named after Hertz lies close by the very spot where the discovery was made.
• Friedrich Hund a physicist of the pioneering generation of quantum mechanics (see Hund's rules) was born here.
• Oliver Kahn, retired goalkeeper of Bayern Munich and Germany was also born in this city, in 1969.
• Sebastian Koch, German actor (born May 31, 1962, in Karlsruhe)
• Gustav Landauer, one of the leading theorists of anarchism in Germany, was born in Karlsruhe.
• Renate Lingor, former German national football player.
• Vincenzo Italiano, Italian footballer currently plays for Calcio Padova
• Markus Lüpertz worked and lives in Karlsruhe. He created the “Narrenbrunnen” (Fool's Fountain) in the city center.
• Composer Wolfgang Rihm is a resident of Karlsruhe
• In 1886, Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, a German poet and novelist, was born in Karlsruhe.
• Peter Sloterdijk, philosopher and current president of the State Academy of Design
• Mehmet Scholl, retired footballer for Bayern and the German national team
• Muhammed Suiçmez, guitarist and composer for German technical death metal band Necrophagist was born in Karlsruhe on November 23, 1975.
• Johann Gottfried Tulla, born on March 20, 1770, in Karlsruhe and died on March 27, 1828, in Paris. Tulla studied engineering at the Mining Academy in Freiberg (Saxony) during the 1790s. From 1817 on, Tulla was instrumental in stabilizing and straightening the course of the southern Rhine River, a project that continued until 1879. Tulla was also a co-founder of the Technical University in Karlsruhe (1825)
• Friedrich Weinbrenner, (1766–1826) a German architect of Neoclassicism. His tomb is situated in the main Protestant church in Karlsruhe.
• Eugene Weingand (1934–1986), actor and TV host, who claimed to be Peter Lorre Jr.
• Herbert Wetterauer, an author and artist, was born in Karlsruhe in 1957.