Personalities from Kitzingen

The well-known local and dialect poet Engelbert Bach was born in Kitzingen on 7 April 1929. His father was Franz Bach (1899-1977), a craftsman and long-standing town councillor.

Born on 9 October 1882 in Segnacco (province of Udine), Anselm Caliz came to Germany at the age of nine and found work in a brickworks near Penzberg in Werdenfelser Land.

Bartholomäus Dietwar was born on 7 September 1592 as the son of the Kitzingen glass painter Elias Dietwar and his wife Margareta, daughter of the Kitzingen organist Paul Brückner, in Kirchgasse opposite the Catholic rectory.

Max Fromm came from Großlangheim. He was born there on 1 June 1873 as the son of the Jewish wine merchant Nathan Fromm and his wife Marie Klein from Memmelsdorf.

Johann Rudolph Glauber was born on 10 March 1604 in Karlstadt am Main, the son of a barber. He came from a large family and was orphaned at an early age.

Michael Korbacher, born on 5 April 1861 in Waigolshausen (Schweinfurt district), was the son of the local bricklayer and master builder Michael Korbacher and his wife Barbara.

Olga Pöhlmann was born in Kitzingen on 21 April 1880 as the daughter of Christoph Heinrich Krauß (1833-1903) and Klotilde Hermine Krauß, née Kuntze, and spent her youth here.

Johann Daniel Sander was born on 9 July 1680 in Maienfels, Duchy of Württemberg, the son of the pastor Heinrich Sander. He died on 22 June 1731 in Kitzingen.

Born on 16 December 1829 in Thierstein/Upper Franconia, Andreas Schmiedel attended grammar school in Bayreuth and studied law in Erlangen, where he passed his first and second state examinations in 1855 and 1857 respectively.

The Jewish local history and family researcher Michael Schneeberger passed away in October 2014. Regional history and remembrance work owes a great deal to him.

Christian Friedrich Deuster was born on 2 March 1836 in Kitzingen as the fourth child of the wine merchant Carl Otto Deuster II and his wife Justine, née Hornschuh.

Frida von Soden, after whom the retirement home in Kanzler-Stürtzel-Straße is named, was born in 1860 on Gut Neuhaus near Hanover and attended secondary school in Neuendettelsau after the death of her parents.

Richard Wildhagen (born 10.1.1890 in Kitzingen, died on 20 August 1981, married to Hertha Wilhelmine Hedwig, Freiin Ebner von Eschenbach), son of the sweet manufacturer Hermann Wildhagen, attended the royal secondary school in Kitzingen.