- Ulrich Of Augsburg
Saint Ulrich, sometimes spelled Uodalric or Odalrici, was Bishop of Augsburg and a leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. He was the first saint to be canonized. - Abraham Of Augsburg
Abraham of Augsburg (? - d.November 21, 1265) was a German proselyte to Judaism; died a martyr's death. He seems to have adopted his new faith with such enthusiasm that he publicly assailed Christianity and attacked images of the saints, for which he was sentenced to torture and death. The incident attracted considerable attention, and it forms the subject of elegies by Mordecai ben Hillel (who himself suffered martyrdom in 1298) and by the liturgical poet Moses ben Jacob. - Bruno Of Augsburg
Bruno or Brun (died 1029) was the son of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria (the Wrangler or Quarrelsome) and Gisela of Burgundy. He was the brother of St. Henry II of Germany, the only Holy Roman Emperor to be made a saint. Bruno was Bishop of Augsburg from 1006 or 1007 until 1029. Bruno of Augsburg lived at a time when Christianity was still making inroads into various parts of Europe. As a bishop, he forwarded his kinsman St. - David Of Augsburg
David of Augsburg, was a medieval German mystic, and a Franciscan friar. It is believed that he probably joined the Franciscan Order at Regensburg, where he filled the position of master of novices and wrote his acclaimed "Formula Novitiorum". *Christian mystics - Johann Rynmann Of Augsburg
Johann Rynmann of Augsburg (d. 1522) is considered to be the first non-printing publisher. Unlike many of the publishers of his time, Rynmann would hire others to conduct the technical production of printed material, choosing instead to concentrate on the distribution and sale of work contracted to him. Reynmann published nearly 200 books but never printed one of them. - Philipp Kohlschreiber
Philipp Kohlschreiber (born October 16, 1983 in Augsburg) is a tennis player from Germany, who turned professional in 2001. The righthander won one doubles title (2005, Vietnam Open in Ho Chi Minh City) so far. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on June 18, 2007, when he became the number 28 of the world. He achieved his greatest result at a Masters event during the 2007 Monte Carlo Masters event, when he reached the quarterfinals after going through qualifying, … - Leopold Mozart
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a composer, music teacher and violinist. He was born in the city of Augsburg (Germany), and was legally a citizen of the Diocese of Salzburg (now in Austria), but spent much of his time in Vienna, Austria, (all within the Holy Roman Empire). He is best known today for being the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as writing the well-known book, "Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule", but in his time, … - Paul Wengert
Paul Wengert is Mayor of Augsburg in the state of Bavaria in Germany. Elected in 2002, he is a member of the Social Democratic Party. In 2006 he was one of the finalists for World Mayor. - Bernd Schuster
Bernd Schuster (born December 22, 1959 in Augsburg) is a German football coach and former player. During his heyday as a player Schuster and his wife, Gaby, were well known celebrities in Germany, and were both loved and hated. Gaby had a controversial reputation, worsened when she took over the job as her husband's manager. She was soon labelled by the press as being "Bernd's dragon-like boss" without whom he would never even sign a bill in a restaurant. - Simpert
Saint Simpert (also known as Sintbert) was an abbot, bishop, and confessor of the late-8th and early-9th centuries, and was supposedly the nephew of Charlemagne. He was educated at Murbach Abbey in Alsace, where he took the Benedictine habit and was elected abbot. In 778, he was appointed bishop of Augsburg by Charlemagne. He consolidated and strengthened the jurisdiction of his bishopric and lived alternately at Neuburg an der Donau, … - Salomon Idler
Salomon Idler (born February 11, 1610, in Cannstatt; died probably 1669 in Augsburg) was a German shoemaker and a failed Augsburg aviation pioneer. At the time of his first and simultaneously last attempt to fly with two self-built wings on both arms, he lost control over his flying apparatus and plunged into a bridge, which collapsed under the force of the landing. Four chickens, which at this point in time were under the bridge, died. - Markus Ferber
Markus Ferber (born on 15 January 1965 in Augsburg) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Budgets. He is a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism - Roy Black
Roy Black was a German "Schlager" singer and actor who appeared in several musical comedies and starred in the 1989 TV series "Ein Schloß am Wörthersee". Born Gerhard Höllerich in Straßberg near Augsburg, Roy Black attended the "gymnasium" in Augsburg and, aged 20, founded the rock and roll band "Roy Black and His Cannons". His stage name derived from his black hair and his idol Roy Orbison. - Hans Burgkmair
Hans Burgkmair the elder (1473 - 1531) was a German painter and printmaker in woodcut. Burgkmair was born in Augsburg, the son of painter Thomas Burgkmair and his son, Hans the Younger, became one too. From 1488 he was a pupil of Martin Schongauer in Colmar, who died during his two years there, before Burgkmair completed the normal period of training. He may have visited Italy at this time, and certainly did so in 1507, which greatly influenced his style. - Raimond Aumann
Raimond Aumann (born October 12, 1963 in Augsburg (District Oberhausen), West Germany) was a German footballer. His nickname is Balu (Germanized version of Baloo the bear in the Jungle Book). He was a goalkeeper in the Bundesliga between 1982 and 1994. The first two years he was only reserve keeper of FC Bayern Munich (first choice was Jean-Marie Pfaff). In 1984 he became number 1 for the first time until his injury in November 1985. - Helmut Haller
Helmut Haller (born July 21, 1939 in Augsburg, Germany) was a footballer who represented West Germany at three World Cups. A playmaker and striker who made his international debut at age 19 in 1958, he played at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile, the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England and the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, earning a total of 33 caps and scoring 13 goals. - Jacob Fugger
Jacob Fugger, nicknamed "the Rich" (6 March 1459 in Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire - 30 December 1525 in Augsburg), was a banker and a member of the Fugger family. A trader like his brothers, he learned double-entry bookkeeping (keeping track of both credits and debits) in the Adriatic Port of Venice. He was well-known throughout Europe, and used his eventual fortune to lend money to its rulers. - Ernst Lehner
Ernst Lehner (7 November 1912 - 10 January 1986) was a German footballer. He was born in Augsburg and died in Aschaffenburg. He played for the Germany national football team in the 1934 FIFA World Cup and the 1938 FIFA World Cup. In total, he made 65 appearances and scored 31 goals for the national team. - Julia Schruff
Julia Schruff (born August 16, 1982 in Augsburg, Bavaria) is a professional female tennis player from Germany. She enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2005 and has beaten two Top 10-ranked players - Anastasia Myskina in 2005 and Elena Dementieva in 2006. Her all time world ranking high was attained on April 17, 2006, when she reached 52. Her highest doubles ranking was reached on October 2, 2006, when she reached 99. - Wolfgang Lettl
Wolfgang Lettl is a surrealist painter who was born in Augsburg, Germany in 1919. In 1939, at the age of 20, Wolfgang joined the German army and served as a Communications Officer in occupied Paris from 1940-43, during which time he worked on his watercolours and first became exposed to surrealism. Later in the war, he became a reconnaissance airman in Norway, where he was captured at the end of the war and held for four months. - Ludwig Ganghofer
Ludwig Ganghofer was a German writer who became famous for his homeland novels. Born in Kaufbeuren, he graduated from a gymnasium in 1873 and subsequently worked as a fitter in Augsburg engine works. In 1875, he entered Munich Polytechnic as a student of mechanical engineering, but eventually changed his major to history of literature and philosophy, which subjects he studied in München, Berlin and Leipzig. - Hans Denck
Hans Denck, was a German theologian and Anabaptist leader during the Reformation. Denck was born in 1495 in Habach, Germany. After a classical education, he became headmaster at the St. Sebaldus school in Nuremberg in 1523. He became involved in the trial of the artist brothers Sebald and Barthel Beham, who were expelled from the city in 1524 at the instigation of Andreas Osiander. - Erhard Ratdolt
Erhard Ratdolt was an early German printer. From Augsburg, he was active printing in Venice, where he worked from 1476 to 1486. There he produced a Kalendario (1476) for Regiomontanus, and editions of the "Historia Romana" of Appianus (1477), and "Euclid's Elements" (1482), solving the problem of reproducing mathematical diagrams. Other works were the "Poeticon astronomicon", also from 1482, Haly Abenragel (1485),and Alchabitius (1503). - Johann Moritz Rugendas
Johann Moritz Rugendas (b. March 29, 1802, Augsburg, Germany; d. May 29, 1858), Weilheim, Germany), was a German painter, famous for his works depicting landscapes and ethnographic information in several countries in the Americas, in the first half of the 19th century. Rugendas was born to the seventh generation of a family of noted painters and engravers of Augsburg (he was a grandson of Georg Philipp Rugendas, 1666-1742, a noted painter of battles), … - Sebastian Franck
Sebastian Franck was a 16th century German freethinker, humanist, and radical reformer. Franck was born about 1499 at Donauwörth, Bavaria. Because of this he styled himself Franck von Word. He entered the University of Ingolstadt on March 26, 1515, and afterwards went to Bethlehem College, incorporated with the university, as an institution of the Dominicans at Heidelberg. Here he met Martin Bucer and Martin Frecht, … - Hans Holbein The Elder
Hans Holbein (c. 1460 - 1524) was a German painter. He was born in Augsburg, Bavaria and died in Isenheim, Alsace. He and his brother Sigismund Holbein painted religious works in the late Gothic style. Hans the Elder was a pioneer and leader in the transformation of German art from the Gothic to the Renaissance style. He was also a woodcut artist and an illustrator of books. One of his best known works in this domain is the series he did for "The Praise of Folly". - Levin Schücking
Levin Schucking, German novelist, was born on the estate of Klemenswerth, near Meppen, in Westphalia. After studying law at Munich, Heidelberg and Göttingen, he wished to enter the government judicial service, but, confronted by serious difficulties, abandoned the legal career, and settling at Münster in 1837, devoted himself to literary work. In 1841 he removed to Schloss Meersburg on the Lake of Constance, … - Georg von Vollmar
Georg Heinrich von Vollmar (March 7 1850 - June 30 1922), was a Socialist politician in Bavaria. He was born in Veltheim, educated at Augsburg, and 1865 joined the Bavarian army, serving in the cavalry. He was in the campaign of 1866, then volunteered for the Papal Guard. Returning to Germany in 1869, he was in the Franco-Prussian War, severely wounded at Blois, and invalided home. He took up the cause of socialism in the early 1870s, … - Adriaen de Vries
Adriaen de Vries (The Hague ca.1556 - Prague 1626) was a Late Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands, whose international style crossed the threshold to the Baroque; he excelled in refined modelling and bronze casting and in the manipulation of patina and became the most famous European sculptor of his generation. He also excelled in draughtsmanship. Born in The Hague to a patrician family, … - Jürgen Möllemann
Jürgen Wilhelm Möllemann was a German politician. Born in Augsburg, he served as a member of the German government as minister of state in the department of foreign affairs (1982-1987), minister for education and science (1987-1991), and as minister for economy (1991-1993) and vice chancellor (1992-1993) under chancellor Helmut Kohl, … - Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolfgang Sawallisch (born August 26, 1923) is a German conductor and pianist. - David Ford
David Ford (born March 23, 1967 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian whitewater slalom kayaker. He began kayaking at age 10, and is a graduate of the University of Alberta. He won a gold medal in the K1 event of the 1999 World Championships La Seu d'Urgell, Spain and won a silver in the same event at the 2003 World Championships in Augsburg, Germany. - Joseph Vilsmaier
Joseph Vilsmaier is a German film director. After boarding school near Augsburg, was trained to as a technician to make film cameras, spent nine years at a music conservatory and was afterwards a member of a Jazz group. After some years as a technician, he moved into film, first as an assistant, then as cameraman. As a cameraman he His debut film, "Herbstmilch" in 1988, additionally starring his wife, Dana Vávrová, was a huge success, … - Rudolf Wagner
Rudolf Wagner, German anatomist and physiologist was born at Bayreuth, where his father was a professor in the gymnasium. He was the co-discoverer of the germinal vesicle. He made important investigations on ganglia, nerve-endings, and the sympathetic nerves. He began the study of medicine at Erlangen in 1822, and finished his curriculum in 1826 at Würzburg, … - Matthäus Günther
Matthäus Günther (* 7 September 1705 in Peissenberg (at that time: Tritschengreith); † 30 September 1788 in Haid near Wessobrunn) was an important German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era. Günther helped develop the rococo style of painting in Bavaria and Tyrol, working on over 40 churches. His known work includes about 70 frescoes and 25 panels. In particular, he was known for his life-like imagery and lively coloring. - Bernhard Strigel
Bernhard Strigel was a German portrait and historical painter of the Swabian school, the most important of a family of artists established at Memmingen. He was born at Memmingen and was probably a pupil of Zeitblom at Ulm. He stood in high favor with the Emperor Maximilian I, in whose service he repeatedly journeyed to Augsburg, Innsbruck, and Vienna. His religious paintings, which include four altar wings with scenes from the "Life of the Virgin," in the Berlin Gallery, … - Christoph Amberger
Christoph Amberger was a painter of Nürnberg in the 16th century, a disciple of Hans Holbein, his principal work being the history of Joseph in twelve pictures. Amberger travelled to Northern Italy and Venice between 1525 and 1527. He died in Augsburg. - Auguste Piccard
Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer. Piccard and his twin brother Jean Felix were born in Basel, Switzerland. Showing an intense interest in science as a child, he attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and became a professor of physics in Brussels at the Free University of Brussels in 1922, the same year his son Jacques Piccard was born. He was a member of the Solvay Congress of 1927. - Johann Philipp Palm
Johann Philipp Palm was a German bookseller executed during the Napoleonic Wars. He was born at Schorndorf, in Württemberg. Having been apprenticed to his uncle, the publisher Johann Jakob Palm (1750-1826), in Erlangen, he married the daughter of the bookseller Stein in Nuremberg, and in the course of time became proprietor of his father-in-law's business. - Ludwig Senfl
Ludwig Senfl was a Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in Germany. He was the most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and was an influential figure in the development of the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style in Germany. Senfl was probably born in Basle around 1486, and lived in Zürich from 1488 until 1496, when he joined the choir of the Hofkapelle of Emperor Maximilian I in Augsburg.
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