Personalities of Mainz

Wire & girls of the city

( chronological List )

Rabanus Maurus (towards 780 - † 856 with Winkel close to Rüdesheim, monk Benedictine, Archbishop of Mainz (Germany) and famous theologist: (" Veni creator spiritus")
Rabbenou Guershom (towards 960 with Metz - † 1028 or 1040 in Mainz) commentator of the Jewish crowned texts so much of the tradition written than of the oral tradition (Talmud), said „Light of the exiles “. Teacher of Rachi
Johannes Gutenberg (Gensfleisch zur Laden) (towards 1397 - † February 3rd 1468 in Mainz), Printer.
Johann Fust (? - † 1466 with Paris), Printer, collaborator and silent partner of Johannes Gutenberg, sells its printed books with Paris.
Otto Brunfels, (1488 -?), theologist and Botanist.
Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk Graf von Waldersdorf (March 2nd 1739 - † April 21st 1810 with Bruchsal), Prince-bishop of Whorl 1797-1810
Ludwig Fischer (1745 - † July 19th 1825 with Berlin), Singer Soloist with the opera
Georg Karl Ignaz Freiherr von Fechenbach zu Laudenbach (February 20th 1749 † April 9th 1808 with Werneck close to Würzburg), Prince-bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg 1800-08
Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg, (November 18th 1750 - † September 28th 1806 in Mannheim), treasurer of Worms and intendant of the theater main road of Mannheim
Heinrich Anton Hoffmann (June 4th 1770 - † January 19th 1842 with Francfort-sur-le-Main), type-setter
Johann Adam von Itzstein (September 28th 1775 - † September 14th 1855 with Hallgarten) Political personality of the Liberalism and member of Parliament of Frankfurt
Franz Bopp 'September 14th 1791 - † October 23rd 1867 with Berlin), Philologist and Linguist, professor of Sanskrit
Friedrich Lennig (November 3rd 1796 - † April 6th 1838 with Mainz), Poète of dialect mayencois
Johann-Joseph Krug (1800 - † August 5th 1866 with Rheims) creates the house Champagne Krug in 1843
Christoph Moufang (February 17th 1817 - † February 27th 1890 with Mainz), provisional bishop of the Diocese of Mainz 1877-1886
Ludwig Bamberger (July 22nd 1823 - † 1899 with Banking Berlin), Political personality of the Liberalism and publicity agent. Take part in the German Révolution of 1848
Peter Cornelius (December 24th 1824 - † October 26th 1874 in Mainz), type-setter
Paul Stumpf (August 5th 1826 - † March 15th 1912 in Mainz), Political personality Socialiste. Take part in the French revolution of 1848 and in the German Révolution of 1848
Paul Haenlein (1835 - † 1905) notable of Mainz, inventive Engineer and of the Airship
Charles Hallgarten (November 18th 1838 - † April 19th 1908 with Francfort-sur-le-Main), banker and reformer social
Adolphus Busch (July 10th 1839 - † October 10th 1913), fondador of the Brewery Anheuser-Busch.
Lorenz Adlon (May 29th 1849 - † April 7th 1921 with Berlin), gastronome in Pariser Platz where the French embassy and the Adlon hotel are, one of most famous of Berlin,
Ludwig Lindenschmit der Ältere (March 4th 1850 - † July 20th 1922), Professor of Préhistoire
Georg Heinrich Maria Kirstein (July 2nd 1858 - † April 15th 1921), bishop of Mainz 1904-1921
Adalbert Seitz, German entomologist
Oskar Heinroth, (March 1st 1871 -?), ornithologist
Alfred Mumbächer (1888 - † 1953 in Mainz), painter.
Curt Goetz (November 17th 1888 - † September 12th 1960 with Grabs/Holy Gallen (Swiss)), writer (" Der Lügner und die Nonne" , " The house in Montevideo"), actor, realizer
Ludwig Shepherd (Ludwig Bamberger) (January 6th 1892 - † 1969 with Schlangenbad), realizer-Interpret of Shakespeare -
Hans Wilhelmi (August 27th 1899 - † June 5th 1970 with Francfort-sur-le-Main, Minister for Finance (1960-1961)
Anna Seghers (November 19th 1900 - † June 1st 1983 with Berlin - Is), writer ( the Seventh Cross ). Its novel, Insurrection of the fishermen of St-Barbara , was worth the Nobel Prize in 1928 to him. She obtains the Prix Stalin international for peace in 1951.
Walter Hallstein (November 17th 1901 - † March 29th 1982 with Stuttgart), belonged to European Coal and Steel Community Secretary of State and Chef of the offices chancellors President of the European commission (1950-1951), applies the Doctrine Hallstein.
Edith-Schulze-Westrum (December 30th 1904 - † March 20th 1981 with Munich), actress (" Die Brücke" (the bridge), D 1959)
Ernst Neger (January 14th 1909 - † January 15th 1989 with Mainz), singer, carnevalist (" Heile, heile Gänsje" , " Rucki-Zucki")
Toni Hämmerle (December 11th 1914 - † December 8th 1968 in Mainz), type-setter, pianist, organist (" Humba-Täterä" , " Freezing of the cold hast mich gern")
Ferdy Mayne (March 11th 1916 - † January 30th 1998 with London), actor
Walter Scherf, November 11th 1920, storyteller
Ludwig Lindenschmit der Jüngere (July 20th 1922 - † March 4th 1850 in Mainz), professor of Prehistory
Otto Höpfner (November 6th 1924 -), 1st Owner of the " Blauem Bock" (television), singer, actor, lecturer, author
Heinz Schenk (December 11th 1924 -), singer, actor, owner of (the " Zum blauen Bock"),
Horst Janson (October 4th 1935 -), actor (" Der Bastian" , Sesamstraße)
Jochen Rindt (April 18th 1942 -), racing driver Austrian of Formula 1
Manual Reuter (December 6th 1961 -), racing driver 24 hours of Mans
Anja Gockel (1968 -), Styliste

Famous residents

Julia Mamaea, the Severe wife of Septime, was assassinated into 235 close to Mogontiacum (Mainz) by a mutiny of the soldiers.
Johann Christian von Boyneburg, adviser intimate of the voter of Mainz
Adam Lonitzer (or Lonicerus) is a botanist, a naturalist and a German doctor, it studies medicine in Frankfurt and Mainz.
Georg Forster, German naturalist, as well as an ethnologist, a writer traveller, a journalist and a revolutionist.
Adam Lux, clubist and member of the rhéno-Germanic Convention.
Theodore Goepp, resided during fifteen years in Germany, in Mainz and in Mannheim, of 1855 to 1869.
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix of Clerfayt, Austrian field-marshal, delivered besieged Mainz.
François Joseph Rudler, police chief of the Republic cisrhénane
Georg Friedrich Rebmann, republican and judge.
Nicolas Chervin, French doctor, studied the typhus in Mainz in 1814.
Georges Vedel, French public law professor - schooling with the French college of Mainz.
Friedrich Kellner (1885-1970) written its newspaper at the time of the Nazi regime in Germany.
Alfred Döblin, inspector literary of the French military administration in Mainz
Franz Mazura (born on April 22nd, 1924 in Salzburg) is baritone-low an Austrian, sung in Mainz.
Paul Josef Crutzen, chemist and meterologist. It obtained the Nobel Prize of chemistry in 1995.
Karl Cardinal Lehmann is bishop of Mainz
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, singer and pianist of Azeri jazz.

Military celebrities

Didius Julianus, directed the legio XXII Primigenia, legion located at Mogontiacum
Nicolas Chalon of the Corn, was charged to hold the Place of Mainz (1689).
Maximilian von Welsch, German military architect, officer of the genious
Charles Antoine Morand, major general French, count, Par of France, governor of Mainz
Jean-Baptiste Kléber, engages in the Armée with the Rhine and illustrates in the defense of the town of besieged Mainz in 1793.
François-Christophe Kellermann was since employee under Custine
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, one of the most brilliant generals of the Revolution and the Empire.
François Ignace Ervoil d' Oyré, general-in-chief during the Head office of Mainz (1793)
Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert of Bayet (born August 19th, 1757 - † December 7th, 1797), politician and general French.
Louis Baraguey d' Hilliers, general French
Armand Samuel de Montescot, general French, born in Tours in 1758, ordered as a chief the genius in Mainz.
Louis Sebastien Grundler, Lieutenant the December 21st 1793, it was useful successively in Champagne, in Mainz.
Augustin Gabriel, count d' Aboville, born the March 20th 1773 with Fère (Aisne), dead the August 15th 1821, Major and the artillery subdirectorate of Mainz.
Jean-Jacques Ambert, major general.

Born the ler October 1766, in Saint-Céré (Batch), embarked in 1780 like volunteer on the Pluton , and attended the catch of the islands of Tabago and St Lucia. Of return in France, in 1783, it fought the Prussians as chief of the 2nd battalion of the Batch. Named brigadier general, then major general on November 28th, 1793 to the armies of the Rhine-and-Moselle, Mainz and Italy.

Jean Ernest de Beurmann (the baron of), born on October 25th, 1775, with Strasbourg. Soldier as of his more tender youth, he quickly became second lieutenant in 1790, lieutenant in 1791 and captain in 1792; he was with the head office of Mainz
Jean-Baptiste Jamin, was useful during years III and IV, with the armies of Sambre-and-Meuse and Mainz
the baron Roch Godart, born on April 30th, 1761 in Arras were used with the blockade as Mainz.
François Louis Dedon-Duclos, was used with the Prise as Mainz (1792).
Jean-Baptiste Estève de Latour
Jacques Darnaud, was a French general of the First Empire. It was used with the blockade as Mainz.
Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo
Stanislas Champein is a type-setter French, member of the Institute, born in Marseilles on November 19th, 1753 and died in Paris on September 19th, 1830. It entered in 1792 the administration: he was prefect in Mainz.
François de Chasseloup-Laubat born in 1754 in Saint-Sornin in Saintonge, of a family already illustrated in the weapons, dead on October 6th, 1837 in Paris. it organized the defense of the Rhine between Mainz
François-Etienne of Damas, followed to the Armée with the Rhine ordered by Custine. It was in Mainz besieged in 1793 and was close to its general when this one was wounded mortally, while crossing the Main.
Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen, general French, born in 1769 with Caen, died in 1832, was wire of an usher to the Bailliage. II enlists in 1792, announces itself the following year to Mainz under the eyes of Kléber.
Pierre Claude Pajot, known as Pajol (born with Besancon the February 3rd 1772 - died with Paris the March 20th 1844) was a great figure of the light cavalry of Napoleon.
Jean-François Mill, born with Caen in 1752 and died in 1810, is a general of the French revolution. He is governor of Mainz under the First Empire.
Jean Antoine Rossignol, (born the November 7th 1759 with Paris - died the April 27th 1802 with Anjouan, an island of the archipelago of the the Comoros) was a general of the French revolution is shown of impéritie.
Louis de Bouillé, was wounded with the head office of Mainz.
Alexandre François Marie de Beauharnais, he became general-in-chief of the army of the Rhine. June 13rd, 1793, it was named Minister for the War, but it refused. After the loss of Mainz, he resigned and returned.
Claude-François Ferey, pomegranate captain of the battalion of the frank hunters of Mainz.
Rémy Grillot, was still distinguished in Mainz
Nicolas Louis Jordy, of adjudant-general chief of brigade.
Jean Philippe Raymond Dorsner, was Major general ordering artillery of the army of the Rhine in 1794 - 1796
Anne-François-Charles Trelliard born in Parma (Italy) on February 9th, 1764, general French, attended the blockade of Mainz.
Claude Rostollant, Claude Sylvestre Colaud with the Blockade of Mainz
Emmanuel-Michel-Bertrand-Gaspard Neuhaus, French major general, born in Landau (the Low-Rhine) on September 29th, 1757, makes its studies with the college of Mainz.
Alexis Chalbos, finishes his career as commander of weapons of the Fortified town of Mainz.
Jacques Maurice Hatry, general-in-chief of the Armed with Mainz, risidiée after the January 29th 1798 with the Hotel of the order teutonic.
Louis Sebastien Grundler, Lieutenant in Mainz, then lieutenant-general.
Sylvain Eugene Raynal (March 3rd 1867 - January 13rd 1939, Boulogne), French military officer. Captivity in Mainz on June 11th, 1916 with the Citadel of Mainz.
Victor Goybet 1st commander de Mayence after the armistice of 1918.
Charles Mangin, reached the Rhine in Mainz on December 11th, 1918.
Raymond Schmittlein is a French politician, born the June 19th 1904 with Roubaix (Northern) and deceased the September 24th 1974 with Colmar (Haut-Rhin). From 1945 to 1951, it was the managing director of the cultural affairs in the zone of French occupation in Germany.
Norman Schwarzkopf, is a Général four stars “reprocesses some since 1992) US Army. Ordering the 8th mechanical division with Gonsenheim.

Others

Johannes Bueckler says Schinderhannes, chief of the Chauffeurs terrorizing Alsace and the area of Mainz was carried out in this city on November 21st, 1803.
Karl Gruber, Marcel Lods and Paul Schmitthenner, architects and town planners, plan of rebuilding of the city after the Second world war

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