Augsburg category of associated people Category:People from Augsburg
Notable people
Saint Afra, (died 304), patron Saint of Augsburg, martyr
Simpert, (died 807), abbot, bishop and confessor
Saint Ulrich (c. 890–973), Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg
Saint Wolfhard (1070–1127), Swabian artisan, trader and hermit
Jakob Fugger the Elder (1398–1469), master weaver, town councillor and merchant
Erhard Ratdolt (1442–1528), Printer, famous for having produced the first known printers type specimen book
Jakob Fugger (1459–1525), Noted banker and financial broker. An area within the city, called the Fuggerei, was set aside for the poor and needy in 1519.
Hans Holbein the Elder (1460–1524), pioneer in the transformation of German art from the Gothic to the Renaissance style
Konrad Peutinger (1465–1547), humanist, jurist, diplomat, politician, economist and archaeologist
Hans Burgkmair (1473–1531), painter and woodcut printmaker
Caspar Aquila (1488–1560), Lutheran theologian and reformer
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543), portrait and religious painter
Matthäus Schwarz (1497–c. 1574), accountant and author
Paulus Hector Mair (1517–1579), martial artist
Wilhelm Xylander (1532–1576), classical scholar and humanist
Elias Holl (1573–1646), architect
Philipp Hainhofer (1578–1647), merchant, banker, diplomat and art collector
Julius Schiller (1580–1627), lawyer and astronomer
Johann Georg Wirsung (1589–1643), anatomist
Johann Jakob Brucker (1696–1770), German historian of philosophy
Andreas Christoph Graf (1701–1776), German teacher, author and poet
Johann Jakob Haid (1704–1767), engraver
Leopold Mozart (1719–1787), violinist-composer, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Christoph Christian Sturm (1740–1786), preacher and author
Eduard Bayer (1822–1908), composer and classical guitarist
Emil Schürer (1844–1910), Protestant theologian. He studied the history of the Jews.
Johann Most (1846–1906), Social Democratic and then anarchist politician, newspaper editor and orator
Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), inventor of the diesel engine
Albert Rehm (1871–1949), philologist who first understood the significance of the Antikythera mechanism
Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873–1964), co-recipient of 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Karl Haberstock (1878–1956), art dealer to the Nazis
Artur Lauinger (1879–1961), German journalist
Julius Streicher (1885–1946), prominent Nazi prior to World War II, founder and publisher of anti-Semitic Der Stürmer newspaper, executed for war crimes
Julius Schaxel (1887–1943), biologist
Hans Loritz (1895–1946), Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), writer and theater director
August Schmidhuber (1901–1947), Nazi SS officer, executed for war crimes
Wilhelm Gerstenmeier (1908–1944), SS concentration camp officer, executed for war crimes
Josef Priller (1915–1961), Luftwaffe ace
Mietek Pemper (1920–2011), Polish-born Jew. He compiled and typed Oskar Schindler's list, which saved 1,200 Jewish prisoners from the Holocaust.
Günther Schneider-Siemssen (1926–2015), scenic designer
Hans Henning Atrott (born 1944), German author and theorist
Wolf Blitzer (born 1948), American journalist and CNN reporter
Günther K.H. Zupanc (born 1958), neurobiologist, researcher, university teacher, book author, journal editor and educational reformer
Sheryl Lee (born 1967), actress, poet and activist
Alexander Wesselsky (born 1968), lead singer of the German band Eisbrecher
Florian Hecker (born 1975), experimental electronic music composer
Marisa Olson (born 1977), artist
Benny Greb (born 1980), solo drum artist
Andreas Bourani (born 1983), singer-songwriter
Bianca Voitek (born 1985), female bodybuilder
Maximilian Hornung (born 1986), cellist
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