Pforzheim

Pforzheim is a town of 115,000 inhabitants in the state of Baden-Württemberg, south-west Germany at the gate to the Black Forest. It has an area of 98 km² and lies between the cities of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe at the confluence of three rivers (Enz, Nagold and Würm) and marks the frontier between Baden and Schwaben.

Personalities

Honorary citizens

(a small selection)

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• 1939 Alfons Kern, historian
• 1965 Dr. Johann Peter Brandenburg, German politician (FDP/DVP, Member of State Parliament, Lord Mayor of Pforzheim
• 1985 Dr. Willi Weigelt, German politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Pforzheim
• 1991 Richard Ziegler, painter
• 1998 Rolf Schweizer, church music director

Famous citizens born in Pforzheim

• 1455, January 29, Johannes Reuchlin, ? June 30, 1522 in Stuttgart; humanist and philosopher
• 1798, October 21, Karl Heinrich Baumgaertner, ? Dezember 11, 1886 in Baden-Baden; pathologist
• 1849, Bertha Benz, nee Ringer, ? 1944; wife of Carl Benz
• 1866, January 31, Emil Strauss, ? August 10, 1960 in Freiburg (Breisgau); German poet
• 1877, Prof. Dr. Heinrich Otto Wieland, ? 1957; Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry 1927
• 1899, December 18, Karl Abt, ? December 1985; painter
• 1913, January 1, Hans Lutz Merkle, ? September 22, 2000; chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH
• 1938, June 8, Manfred Mohr; artist and one of the pioneers of computer-generated graphic art (living in New York since 1981)
• 1943, June 6, Klaus Mangold; former chairman of the board of management of Toll Collect
• 1948, May 30, Dieter Kosslick; director of the Berlinale Film Festival
• 1953, March 26, Rene Weller; former boxing world champion, presently poet
• 1954, September 18, Peter Bofinger; member of the Advisory Board on the Assessment of Macroeconomic Trends in the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1961, April 13, Uwe Huebner; TV and radio show host (for example "ZDF-Hitparade")