- Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg) what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose dream was to create small, high speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device. - Karl Marx
Karl Marx (November 12 1897, Munich - May 8 1985, Stuttgart) was a German composer, conductor, and educator. Karl Marx first studied natural sciences, but, after having met Carl Orff, decided to make music his career, and studied musical composition with Orff, Siegmund von Hausegger, and Anton Beer-Waldbrunn among others. In 1928 he became choir director of the Munich Bach Society, and in 1929 was appointed professor for compositional technique at the Akademie der Tonkunst, … - Clueso
Clueso (born 1980 as "Thomas Hübner" in Erfurt) is a German singer, rapper, songwriter and producer. Clueso, named after Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther, started making music in 1995. In 1998 he got to know his future manager "Andreas Welskop" and canceled his apprenticeship training in hairdressing. His first vinyl "Clüsolo" was released on "BMG Ufa" the same year. In 1999 he moves to the "10vor10-Studios" in Köln with Welskop. - Wolfgang Schuster
Wolfgang Schuster (b. 5 September 1949 in Ulm) is the Lord Mayor of Stuttgart. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. - Helmuth Rilling
Helmuth Rilling is a German conductor. He was born in Stuttgart into a musical family. He received his early training in Protestant seminaries in Württemberg. From 1952 to 1955, he studied organ, composition, and choral conducting at the Stuttgart College of Music. He completed his studies with Fernando Germani in Rome and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. While still a student in 1954, he founded his first choir, the Gächinger Kantorei. - Nadia Petrova
Nadia Petrova is a professional tennis player from Russia. Petrova's career high ranking is World No. 3, a ranking she achieved after beating Justine Henin in the final of the Qatar Telecom German Open in May 2006. She has reached the French Open semi-finals twice in her career, once in 2003 and again in 2005. As of July 9 2007, she is the No. 9 player in the world. - Ioannis Amanatidis
Ioannis Amanatidis (born 3 December 1981 in Kozani) is a Greek Football player. Amanatidis came as a 9 year old with his three siblings to Germany to Swabian Stuttgart where he joined SC Stuttgart. Two years later he went to VfB Stuttgart academy. In 2002 he started his Bundesliga career. He was transferred to Eintracht Frankfurt within the 2003/04 season because he could not get a regular spot at Stuttgart. - Eduard Mörike
Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German romantic poet. He studied Theology at the Seminary of Tübingen, and followed the ecclesiastical career, becoming a Lutheran pastor. In 1834 he was appointed pastor of Cleversulzbach near Weinsberg, and, after his early retirement for reasons of health, in 1851 became professor of German literature at the Katharinenstift in Stuttgart. - Richard von Weizsäcker
Dr. Richard Freiherr von Weizsäcker is a German politician (CDU). He was President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. He was born in Stuttgart as the son of the diplomat Ernst von Weizsäcker and brother of physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. His grandfather Carl von Weizsäcker had been Minister President of Württemberg He lived several years in Switzerland and Denmark due to his father's diplomatic duties. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, in the region of Württemberg in southwestern Germany. Together with Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Hegel is considered one of the representatives of German idealism. Hegel influenced writers of widely varying positions, including both his admirers (Bauer, Marx, Bradley, Sartre, Küng), and his detractors (Schelling, Kierkegaard, … - Ludwig Uhland
Johann Ludwig Uhland, was a German poet. He was born in Tübingen, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest in medieval literature. Having graduated as a doctor of laws in 1810, he went to Paris for a few months; and from 1812 to 1814 he worked as a lawyer in Stuttgart, in the bureau of the minister of justice. - Rio Reiser
Rio Reiser, was a German rock musician and singer of the famous rock group Ton Steine Scherben. He was born Ralph Christian Möbius in Berlin and died at the age of 46 in the little German town of Fresenhagen. Rio Reiser was politically active during his whole life. In the early 70ies he participated in the squatter scene, for which he wrote the famous "Rauchhaussong". - Hans Herrmann
Hans Herrmann (born February 23, 1928) is a former Formula One and Sports car racing driver from Stuttgart, Germany. In F1, he participated in 18 Grands Prix, debuting on August 2, 1953. He achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 10 championship points. In Sports car racing, he also scored the first overall win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Porsche in 1970, on a Porsche 917. - Volker Beck
Volker Beck (born 12 December, 1960 in Stuttgart) is a German politician, specifically a Green Party representative in the Bundestag first as their Speaker for Legal Affairs (1994-2002) and now as the Green Party whip. He is the member of parliament representing Cologne and was reelected as MP and whip in September 2005. He is also a famous homosexual. - Gebhard Fürst
Gebhard Fürst is the Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Fürst began his career attending the Collegium Abrosianum in Stuttgart, where he studied Greek and Hebrew, in 1969. He then studied theology at in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen (1970) and at the University of Vienna (1971 to 1973). In 1975, the passed the necessary theological tests and was concecrated a deacon. - Michael Ende
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende is Ende's best known work. Other books include "Momo" and "Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer" (Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver). Michael Ende's works have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 20 million copies, and have been adapted into motion pictures, stage plays, operas and audio books. He died in Stuttgart (Germany) of stomach cancer. - Carlos Berlocq
Carlos Alberto Berlocq (born March 2 , 1983 in Chascomus) is an Argentine professional male tennis player. He is nicknamed "Charly". Berlocq's favourite surface is clay and he is currently coached by Jorge Gerosi. Berlocq started playing tennis at the age of four and has had his success on the ATP Futures and Challenger circuits. In 2004 he made six consecutive finals in the Futures events, winning three of them, two finals each in Argentina, France and Slovenia. - Dennis Russell Davies
Dennis Russell Davies is an American conductor and pianist. He was born in Toledo, Ohio and studied piano and conducting at the Juilliard School of Music where he received his doctorate. He is a noted champion of living composers and modern music including Hans Werner Henze, William Bolcom, Lou Harrison, Alan Hovhaness, John Cage, Philip Glass, Giya Kancheli, Arvo Pärt, Virgil Thomson, and Aaron Copland. - Lothar Zagrosek
Lothar Zagrosek is a German conductor. From 1962-1967, he studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky, István Kertész, Bruno Maderna and Herbert von Karajan. Between 1990 and 1992, he conducted regularly at the Leipzig Opera. From 1997-2006, he was chief conductor at the Württemberg opera house in Stuttgart. Since 2006, he has been Chief Conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin (which was reorganized from the Berlin Symphony Orchestra). - Hansi Müller
Hans-Peter "Hansi" Müller is a former German footballer. Müller played for VfB Stuttgart from 1977 to 1982, and then later for Inter Milan and FC Tirol. He played for the German national football team, he made 42 appearances and scored 5 goals between 1978 and 1982. He played in the 1978 and 1982 FIFA World Cups, and was in the championship squad for Euro 80. Muller was an ambassador for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in the city of Stuttgart. - Manfred Rommel
Manfred Rommel (born December 24, 1928) is a German politician (CDU), who was Mayor of Stuttgart from 1974 until 1996. He is one of the most popular local politicians of the CDU. He was born in Stuttgart being the second of two children of World War II Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the only one of Lucie Maria Mollin. After his father committed suicide by poison in 1944, he deserted from the Wehrmacht and surrendered to General de Lattre de Tassigny's French First Army. - Wilhelm Raabe
Wilhelm Raabe (September 8, 1831 - November 15, 1910), German novelist, whose early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus, was born at Eschershausen (then in the Duchy of Brunswick, now in the Holzminden District). He served apprenticeship at a bookseller's in Magdeburg for four years (1849-1854); but tiring of the routine of business, studied philosophy at Berlin (1855-1857). - Willi Baumeister
Willi Baumeister was a German painter, scenic designer, and typographer. Baumeister was born in Stuttgart. There, he was educated as a decoration painter between 1905 and 1907. At the same time, he began to study art at the Stuttgart Art Academy (Kunstakademie) under Robert Poetzelberger, Josef Kerschensteiner, and Adolf Hölzel, but had to interrupt this because of obligatory military service. In 1926, Baumeister married the painter Margarete Oehm. - Walter Kasper
Cardinal Walter Kasper (born 5 March 1933 in Heidenheim an der Brenz) is a German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in the Roman Curia, and Cardinal Deacon of "Ognissanti in Via Appia Nuova". An accomplished theologian, Kasper is widely considered to be a liberal and can speak in German, English, and Italian. - Fritz Kuhn
Fritz Kuhn is a German politician. He was co-chairman of "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen", the German Green Party, from June 2000 to December 2002. He was born in Bad Mergentheim (Baden-Württemberg) and grew up in Memmingen (Bayern). In 1974 he finished the high school in Memmingen with Abitur, and studied German and philosophy in München and Tübingen. In 1980 he got the Master's degree with focus on Linguistics in Tübingen. - Andreas Stihl
Andreas Stihl was an engineer and important inventor in the area of chainsaws, the founder of the company Stihl. Stihl founded a company for steam boiler prefiring systems in 1926 in the town of Cannstatt, near Stuttgart, Germany. In the same year, he patented the "Cutoff Chainsaw for Electric Power". In 1929, he built the world's first petrol powered chainsaw, the 'tree-felling machine'. - Sergiu Celibidache
Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian-born conductor who lived and worked mainly in Germany. Sergiu Celibidache (pronounced ser-joo cheh-lee-bee-DAH-kay) was born in Roman, Romania, and began his studies in music with the piano, after which he studied music, philosophy and mathematics in Bucharest, Romania and then in Paris. One of the most important influences in his life was his introduction to Martin Steinke, who, being knowledgeable about Buddhism, … - Lolo Jones
Lolo Jones (born 5 August 1982) is an American track and field athlete, who specializes in the hurdles. After a stellar career at LSU that saw her win 3 NCAA titles and garner 11 All-American honors, Jones had a breakthrough 2006 season, in which she won two meets on the tough European circuit. She won her first national title in 2007, as she won the 60m hurdles at the 2007 USA Indoor Championships. At Theodore Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, … - Robert Gernhardt
Robert Gernhardt (b. December 13 1937, Reval (Tallinn), Estonia - d. June 30 2006, Frankfurt am Main) was a German writer, painter caricaturist and poet. He used the pseudonym Lützel Jeman. Robert Gernhardt studied Painting and German in Stuttgart and Berlin. He was one of the regular contributors to the satirical magazine "Pardon", where he did the section "Welt im Spiegel" together with F.K. Waechter and F.W. Bernstein. - Klaus Ernst
Klaus Ernst (born November 1, 1954 in Munich) is a left-wing German politician and a leading member of the Labour and Social Justice Party. The certified political economist has served as a member of the Labour and Social Justice Party in the Bundestag since 2005. At the age of 15 he left his home and school because of his violent father. In 1970 he found work as an electronics technician and was elected youth representative and member of the works council. - Peter Hoffmann
Peter Hoffmann is a German operatic tenor. Concentrating on the heldentenor roles of Wagner, he has performed Siegmund, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tristan and Loge, notably at the Bayreuth Festival. Starting his singing career as a rock singer, he studied singing in Karlsruhe and made his opera debut in 1979 in Lübeck. He subsequently appeared in Stuttgart, Paris, Vienna, London, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. He first appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976. - Jasmin Tabatabai
Jasmin Tabatabai, born June 8, 1967 in Tehran, Iran, is a German-Iranian singer, songwriter and actress. Jasmin Tabatabai lived in Tehran until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, at which point she migrated with her mother to Germany. After school, she studied drama in the arts college in Stuttgart. During her work as actress in Berlin, she co-founded the band "Even Cowgirls get the Blues" as singer and songwriter. - Fritz Bauer
Fritz Bauer, born on July 16 1903 in Stuttgart, Germany -- died on July 1 1968 in Frankfurt am Main, was a German judge and prosecutor. - Wilhelm Wagenfeld
Wilhelm Wagenfeld important german industrial designer of the 20th Century. Disciple and teacher of Bauhaus. He designed glass and metal works for the Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen., the Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke in Weißwasser, Rosenthal, Braun GmbH and WMF. Some of his designs are still produced until these days. One of his classics is a timeless tablelamp, known as "Wagenfeld Lampe", 1924, which he designed together with Karl J. Jucker. - Josef Schneider
Josef Schneider Sr. was the first producer of electricity in Germany and founded the Elektrizitätswerk Horb. He was born in Bühlertann and died at the age of 87 in his hometown Horb am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg. In 1890 Josef Schneider was granted a patent by royal warrant from the King of Württemberg to become the first German electricity producer. The next year, together with Ernst Werner von Siemens, he made significant improvements to the dynamo. - Wayne Ferreira
Wayne Richard Ferreira (born September 15, 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a former tennis player from South Africa. As a junior player, Ferreira was ranked the world's No. 1 junior doubles player and No. 6 junior singles player. He won the junior doubles title at the US Open in 1989. Ferreira turned professional in 1989. He won his first top-level doubles title in Adelaide in 1991. 1992 was Ferreira's breakthourgh year on the tour. - Johannes Brenz
Johann Brenz, the German theologian and Swabian Reformer, was born at Weil (8 m, s. of Stuttgart) June 24, 1499; died at Stuttgart September 11, 1570. - Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Kurt Georg Kiesinger (April 6, 1904-March 9, 1988) was a conservative German politician and Chancellor of West Germany from 1 December, 1966 until 21 October, 1969. - Wolf Hirth
Wolfram Kurt Erhard Hirth was a German gliding pioneer and sailplane designer. He was a co-founder of Schempp-Hirth, one of the most renowned sailplane manufacturers in the world today. Hirth was born in Stuttgart, the son of an engineer and tool-maker. He was the younger brother of Hellmuth, who founded the famous Hirth aircraft engine manufacturing company. As a young man, Hirth took up gliding and was soon drawn to the Wasserkuppe, … - Peter Schilling
Peter Schilling (born Pierre Michael Schilling on January 28, 1956, Stuttgart, Germany) is a German synthpop musician whose songs often feature science-fiction themes (aliens, astronauts, nuclear holocausts, etc.). His 1983 album, "Error in the System", generated his only international hit single, "Major Tom (Coming Home)", a retelling of David Bowie's classic 1969 song "Space Oddity". Although the song was originally recorded in German, …
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