page_title: Oppenheim
section_title: Famous people
hierarchical_section_title: Oppenheim / Famous people
context_page_description: Oppenheim is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The town is a well-known wine center, being the home of the German Winegrowing Museum, and is particularly known for the wines from the Oppenheimer Krötenbrunnen vineyards.
context_section_description: Johann von Dalberg (1455–1503), 1480 cathedral provost in Worms and Chancellor of the University of Heidelberg, 1482 Chancellor of Elector Philipp of the Palatinate, 1482 Bishop of Worms, made Heidelberg and Worms into the then centres of humanism.
  Kaspar Sturm (1481–1523), Imperial herald, guided Martin Luther in 1521 on his way to the Diet of Worms and back.
  Johann Paulsackel (1805–1855), champion of democratic freedom rights.
  Paul Wallot (1841–1912), German architect, builder of the Reichstag building in Berlin.
  Johanna Senfter (1879–1961), outstanding composer of the 20th century
  James Benjamin Oppenheim (1979) entrepreneur
  Carl Wilhelm Witterstätter (1884–1964), aviation pioneer.
  Jakob Steffan (1888–1957), Sozial Democratic politician, beginning in 1933 arrested several times, organized the civil anti-Nazi resistance in South Hesse and Rhenish Hesse, (1946–1950) Interior and Social Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate.
  Paul Witterstätter (1892–1966), expressionist (later realist) painter.
  Susanne Völker (b. 1974), German Wine Queen, 1998/1999
caption: Kaspar Sturm [de] guided Martin Luther on his way to the Diet of Worms
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