page_title: Freiburg im Breisgau
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Freiburg im Breisgau / Notable residents / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Hannah Arendt in 1975
context_page_description: Freiburg im Breisgau is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000, Freiburg is the fourth largest city in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, and Mannheim. The population of the Freiburg metropolitan area was 656,753 in 2018. In the south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain. A famous old German university town, and archiepiscopal seat, Freiburg was incorporated in the early twelfth century and developed into a major commercial, intellectual, and ecclesiastical center of the upper Rhine region. The city is known for its medieval minster and Renaissance university, as well as for its high standard of living and advanced environmental practices. The city is situated in the heart of the major Baden wine-growing region and serves as the primary tourist entry point to the scenic beauty of the Black Forest.
context_section_description: Bernhard Sigmund Schultze, (1827–1919) obstetrician and gynecologist
  August Weismann, (1834–1914) evolutionary biologist
  Max von Gallwitz, (1852–1937) general and politician
  Adolf Furtwangler (1853–1907) archaeologist, teacher, art historian and museum director.
  Edmund Husserl, (1859–1938) philosopher who established the school of phenomenology
  Max Weber, (1864–1920), lawyer, political economist, and sociologist
  Barney Dreyfuss, (1865–1932), baseball entrepreneur, co-founder of the Major League Baseball world series
  Carl Christian Mez, (1866–1944), botanist
  Friedrich Gempp, (1873–1947) Major General and the founder and first director of the Department Defence of Reichswehr
  Alfred Döblin, (1878–1957), physician and novelist
  Joseph Wirth, (1879–1956), politician (center), member of the Reichstag, chancellor, foreign minister, minister of the interior
  Hans Jantzen, (1881–1967) art historian, specialized in Medieval art.
  Hermann Staudinger, (1881–1965) Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry "for discoveries about macromolecular chemistry"
  Otto Heinrich Warburg, (1883–1970), recipient in 1931 of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  Martin Heidegger, (1889–1976) philosopher
  Arnold Fanck (1889–1974) film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre
  Walter Eucken, (1891–1950) economist of the Freiburg school and father of ordoliberalism
  Edith Stein, (1891–1942), nun, Saint of the Catholic Church, martyred by the Nazis, Freiburg university faculty member
  Hans F. K. Günther, (1891–1968) Nazi eugenicist
  Walter Benjamin, (1892–1940), literary critic and philosopher
  Felix H. Man (1893–1985) photographer, art collector and pioneer photojournalist for Picture Post
  Sepp Allgeier (1895–1968) cinematographer, worked with Leni Riefenstahl
  Engelbert Zaschka, (1895–1955) inventor and one of the first German helicopter pioneers
  Kurt Bauch, (1897–1975), art historian
  Friedrich von Hayek, CH FBA (1899–1992), economist, philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate in economics
caption: Hannah Arendt, 1975
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