Freiburg im Breisgau

**Freiburg** () is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its full name is _Freiburg im Breisgau_.

Freiburg is on the western edge of the southern Black Forest ().

## Twin cities

Freiburg has many twin cities throughout the world:
- , Besançon,since 1959
- , Innsbruck, since 1963
- , Padua, since 1967
- , Guildford, since 1979
- , Madison, Wisconsin, since 1987
- , Matsuyama, since 1988
- , Lviv, since 1989
- , Granada, since 1991
- , Isfahan, since 2000

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial comments, which included questioning the size of the Holocaust, have sparked questions about Freiburg's partnership with Isfahan. After the comments Freiburg's mayor postponed a trip to Isfahan, but most people involved, especially those in the Alliance '90/The Greens party, were opposed to cancelling the partnership.

## Famous residents

- Friedrich von Hayek, economist
- Hans F. K. Günther, Nazi eugenicist
- Dany Heatley, player for the Ottawa Senators NHL team
- Martin Heidegger, philosopher (originally not from Freiburg, taught in Freiburg)
- Edmund Husserl, philosopher
- Boris Kodjoe, model and actor
- Benjamin Lebert, author and newspaper columnist
- Joachim Löw, coach of the German national football team.
- Karl Rahner, Catholic theologian
- Wolfgang Schäuble, Minister of the Interior, 1989 - 1991, in Helmut Kohl and, 2005 - current, Angela Merkel governments.
- Jürgen Schrempp, former head of DaimlerChrysler
- Berthold Schwarz, fabled alchemist who supposedly introduced gunpowder to Germany
- Til Schweiger, actor and director
- Hermann Staudinger, Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"
- Edith Stein, Saint of the Roman Catholic Church, martyred by the Nazis, member of the Freiburg faculty; her residence is marked by a plaque.
- Martin Waldseemüller, the inventor of the name America
- August Weismann, biologist
- Bernhard Witkop, organic chemist

## Other websites

- Official website
- Freiburg:History and images
- City of Freiburg and the Black Forest
- Augustinermuseum
- _VAG Freiburg_ Freiburg Public Transit Authority
- Freiburg-Home.com - Information & Reviews about Freiburg in English for expats, tourists and the community
- Solar City - Germany  August 2000
- Webcams in Freiburg and the Black Forest
- Tramway in Freiburg
- fudder - a popular online-mag for young people (Winner of Grimme Online Award 2007)
- Freiburg's History for Pedestrians

## Infobox (german location)

- **name**: Freiburg im Breisgau
- **type**: City
- **image photo**: Freiburg 017.650.n.jpg
- **image caption**: View over Freiburg
- **image coa**: DEU Freiburg im Breisgau COA.svg
- **image flag**: Flagge Freiburg im Breisgau.svg
- **state**: Baden-Württemberg
- **region**: Freiburg Government Region, Freiburg
- **district**: Stadtkreis
- **elevation**: 278
- **area**: 153.07
- **population**: 217547
- **stand**: 2006-12-31
- **postal code**: 79098–79117
- **area code**: 0761, 07664, 07665
- **licence**: FR
- **gemeindeschlüssel**: 08 3 11.000
- **divisions**: 41 districts
- **mayor**: Martin Horn (politician), Martin Horn
- **bürgermeistertitel**: Oberbürgermeister
- **party**: Independent