page_title: Bensheim
section_title: Famous people
hierarchical_section_title: Bensheim / Famous people
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Arthur von Oettingen
context_page_description: Bensheim is a town in the Bergstraße district in southern Hessen, Germany. Bensheim lies on the Bergstraße and at the edge of the Odenwald mountains while at the same time having an open view over the Rhine plain. With about 40,000 inhabitants, it is the district's biggest town.
context_section_description: Jakob Adam (1568–1618), reformed preacher and minister (in Bensheim 1598 to 1603)
  Gerhard Beetz (1918–2005), General secretary of the Evangelical Federation
  Hermann von Beisler (1790–1859), Bavarian military officer and politician
  Nicolai Borger (1974-), writer, director and actor
  Sir William Curtius (1599–1678), 1st Curtius Baronet of Sweden, FRS, diplomat
  Moritz Edelmann (1891–1973), National Socialist historical didactic
  Friedrich von Eichheimer (1764–1854), Bavarian military physician and Surgeon General of the Bavarian army
  Wilhelm Euler (1847–1934), paper manufacturer, member of the Landtag, patron and member of the city council of Bensheim
  Friedrich Wilhelm Euler (1908–1995), archivist, genealogist and endowment founder
  Elsa Fraenkel (1892–1975), sculptor
  Steffen Gebhardt (1981–    ), German pentathlete
  Leo Grewenig (1898–1991), painter, student of Kandinsky and Klee
  Willi Harwerth (1894–1982), Grafic artist and illustrator
  Eduard Haßloch (1887–1944), businessman, journalist and Bensheim local poet
  Joseph Heckler (1786–1857), Grand Duchy of Hesse collector, “homeland researcher” (Heimatforscher)
  Heinz Jost (1904–1964), SS-Brigadeführer, major general of the police, Amtschef in the SD-Hauptamt Amt III (Abwehr), Chief of RSHA-Amt VI
  Karl Ernst Knodt (1856–1917), German poet
  Paul Kleinschmidt (1883–1949), German painter
  Michael Klemm (1953–    ), German author, director and actor
  Karl Kunkel (1913–2012), Catholic theologian
  Klaus Kübler (1936–2007) Member of the Bundestag (SPD)
  Father Dirk Kranz (1969-), Catholic Priest
  Matthias Lorenz (1964), classical cellist
  Hugo Lindemann (1867–1949), German college teacher and social democratic politician
  Michael Meister (1961), Member of the Bundestag (CDU)
  Georg Metzendorf (1874–1934), architect
  FranzHeinrich Metzendorf (1866–1923), architect, “Building Master of the Bergstraße”
  Marcus Morlinghaus (1965–    ), German actor, author and director
  Norbert Müller-Everling (1953–    ), sculptor
  Arthur von Oettingen (1836–1920), German-Baltich physicist, musical theorist and biographer
  Wilhelm Ringelband (1921–1981), theatre critic, endower of the Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring
  Joseph Stoll (1879–1956), local poet, “homeland researcher”, cofounder of the Bensheimer Winzerfest, NSDAP local politician
  Bernhard Trares (1965–    ), former German football player in the Bundesliga and football trainer
  Heinrich Werlé (1887–1955), choir director and music critic
  Otto-Werner Mueller (1926–    ), conductor and musical educator
  Wilhelm Weyrauch (1914–2003), regional historical researcher and municipal politician
caption: Arthur von Oettingen
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