Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg is a city in Germany, about 12 km north of Stuttgart's city center, by the river Neckar. It is the capital of the Ludwigsburg District (its largest city having at present ca 87,000 inhabitants), and belongs to the Stuttgart Region in the Administrative District of Stuttgart.

People

• Carl Maria von Weber and Friedrich Silcher wrote music in Ludwigsburg.
• Horst Köhler, current Federal President of Germany and previous managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) grew up in Ludwigsburg.

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Sons and daughters of the city

• Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (13 April, 1739 - 10 October 1791 in Stuttgart), poet.
• Justinus Kerner (18 September, 1786 - 21 February 1862 in Weinsberg), writer and physician.
• Eduard Mörike (8 September, 1804 - 4 June 1874 in Stuttgart), poet and theologian.
• Friedrich Theodor Vischer (30 June, 1807 - 14 September 1887 in Gmunden am Traunsee), Protestant theologian, German writer, professor of philosophy and aesthetics, politician.
• David Friedrich Strauß (27 June, 1808 - 8 February 1874 in Ludwigsburg), theologian and writer.
• Tony Schumacher (17 May, 1848 - 10 July 1931 in Ludwigsburg), author of children's books.
• Wilhelm Groener (22 Novenber, 1867 - 3 May, 1939 in Bornstedt bei Potsdam), German soldier and politician.

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