Countries Germany Baden Wurttemberg

Events in Baden-Württemberg History

1525-05-12 Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttemberg farmers
1534-05-12 German Duchy of Wurttemberg becomes Lutheran under Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg

Battle of Montereau

1814-02-18 The Battle of Montereau; victory of French under Napoleon Bonaparte against Austrians and Württembergers under the King of Württemberg.

1951-12-09 West German voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg
1952-04-25 German state of Bathe-Wurttemberg forms

Famous People from Baden-Württemberg

1487-02-08 Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
1557-08-19 Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg, born in Montbéliard, France (d. 1608)
1572-09-15 Erasmus Widmann, German composer, born in Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Württemberg (d. 1634)
1586-08-17 Johann Valentin Andreae, German theologian and writer (claimed to have written Rosicrucian text), born in Herrenberg, Württemberg (d. 1654)
1604-12-07 Ambrosius Reiner, German composer, born in Altdorf, Weingarten, Württemberg (d. 1672)
1614-12-16 Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)
1616-05-19 Johann Jakob Froberger, German singer, organist, and composer, baptized in Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg (d. 1667)
1631-10-03 Sebastian Anton Scherer, German composer, born in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1712)
1647-01-07 Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
1675-08-14 Johann Georg Christian Störl, composer, born in Kirchberg an der Jagst, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1719)
1676-09-18 Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg, born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1733)
1687-06-24 Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar of Greek (Greek New Testament), born in Winnenden, Württemberg (d. 1757)
1690-11-24 Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German-American composer (son of Johann Pachelbel), one of the first European composers to emigrate to America, born in Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1750)
1691-01-28 Johann Balthasar König, German Baroque composer, mainly of hymn music, born in Cannstatt, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1758)
1706-11-08 Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher, born in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1772)
1720-08-11 Martin Gerbert, German composer, music historian and Benedictine abbot, born in Horb am Neckar, Duchy of Württemberg (now Germany) (d. 1793)

1722-06-08 Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Ulm, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1794)
1728-12-22 Charles Frederick, Margrave, Elector and later Grand Duke of Baden, born in Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1811)
1731-11-11 Carl Joseph Toeschi, German composer, born in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1788)
1733-01-15 Joseph Lederer, German composer, born in Swabia, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1796)
1739-10-27 Franz Ignaz Kaa, German composer, born in Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg (d. 1818)
1741-02-09 Henri-Joseph Rigel, German composer, born in Wertheim am Main, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1799)
1747-06-24 Johann Melchior Dreyer, German composer, born in Röttingen, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1824)
1750-04-28 Paul Ignaz Kürzinger, German composer and pedagogue, born in Mergentheim, Duchy of Württemberg (d. 1837)
1752-09-09 Johann Friedrich Christmann, German composer, born in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1817)
1757-01-03 Johann Abraham Sixt, German organist, harpsichord player, and composer, born in Grafenhausen, Baden-Wurttemberg (d. 1797)
1757-06-13 Christian Ludwig Dieter, German composer, born in Ludwigsburg, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1822)
1770-08-27 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher and inventor (dialectic), born in Stuttgart, Württemberg (d. 1831)
1770-11-08 Friedrich Witt, German cellist and composer (Jena Symphony; The Suffering Saviour), born in Niederstetten, Germany (d. 1836)

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854)

1775-01-27 German philosopher (Views on Christianity), born in Leonberg, Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire

1783-02-21 Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
1786-09-18 Justinus Kerner, German physician and medical writer (first detailed description of botulism), born in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1862)
1787-04-26 Ludwig Uhland, German writer, born in Tübingen, Württemberg (d. 1862)
1796-05-09 August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), born in Benningen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1845)
1813-03-20 Matthias Keller, German hymn writer (O Farther un High), born in Ulm, Württemberg (d. 1875)
1814-11-25 Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (first law of thermodynamics), born in Heilbronn, Württemberg (d. 1878)
1816-05-24 Emanuel Leutze, American painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware), born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg, German Confederation (d. 1868)
1818-06-17 Sophie of Württemberg, Queen of Netherlands as wife of William III, born in Ludwigsburg Palace, Stuttgart, Württemberg (d. 1877)
1820-05-27 Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess (daughter of Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte and his second wife, Catharina of Württemberg, daughter of King Frederick I of Württemberg) and socialite, born in Trieste, Austrian Empire (d. 1904)
1826-09-09 Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907), born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg (d. 1907)

Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900)

1834-03-17 German engineer and inventor, designed 1st motorcycle, born in Schorndorf, Kingdom of Württemberg

1838-06-27 Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, born in Oberndorf am Neckar, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1914)
1839-06-10 Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish politician (Council President of Denmark), born in Hochberg (now Remseck am Neckar), Württemberg (d. 1912)

Karl Benz (1844-1929)

1844-11-25 German inventor, engine designer and automobile manufacturer (Mercedes-Benz), born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg

1844-12-04 Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus, born in Rottweil, Württemberg (d. 1914)
1845-10-17 Franz Ehrle, German Jesuit and Vatican librarian (modernised the Vatican Library), born in Isny im Allgäu, Kingdom of Württemberg, (d. 1934)
1846-02-09 Wilhelm Maybach, German industrialist and engine designer (the 1st Mercedes), born in Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg (d. 1929)
1852-07-10 Alfred von Kiderlen-Wächter, German foreign minister, born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany (d. 1912)
1853-03-28 Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms), born in Eningen, Württemberg, Germany (d. 1929)
1854-05-11 Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American inventor who invented the linotype machine that revolutionized printing, born in Hachtel, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1899)
1855-10-08 Gustav Ehrismann, German author and expert on the German language, born in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg (d. 1941)
1861-09-23 Robert Bosch, German engineer, inventor (automotive ignition device), and industrialist, born in Albeck, Kingdom of Württemberg (now Germany) (d. 1942)
1864-06-29 Anton Beer-Walbrun, German composer, born in Kohlberg, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1929)
1868-03-31 Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist and neurologist (resisted Nazi's Aktion T4 extermination campaign), born in Neresheim, Württemberg (d. 1948)

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

1877-07-02 German-Swiss novelist and poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize for Literature 1946), born in Calw, Württemberg, Germany

1877-07-13 Karl Erb, German opera and oratorio tenor, born in Ravensburg, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1958)
1885-07-08 Hugo Boss, German clothing manufacturer, Nazi party member, and war profiteer, born in Metzingen, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1948) [1]

Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)

1891-11-15 German World War II Field Marshal (North African campaign, Battle of Normandy) known as the Desert Fox, born in Heidenheim, Württemberg, Germany

1897-10-28 Hans Speidel, German army officer (WWI, WWII), involved in the 20 July Plot to kill Adolf Hitler (19440, and NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), born in Metzingen, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire (d. 1984)
1904-04-06 Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German politician and author (Chancellor of West Germany 1966-69, born in Ebingen, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1988)
1908-04-19 Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festspiele), born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1968)
1915-01-05 Uta Graf, German-American soprano and teacher, born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; (d. 1995)
1919-12-31 Artur Fischer, German inventor with more patents than Edison, born in Tumlingen, Baden-Württemberg (d. 2016)
1922-04-19 Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot (downed 352 Russian aircraft), born in Weissach, Württemberg, Weimar Republic (d. 1993)
1930-11-26 Berthold Leibinger, German entrepreneur (Trumpf) and philanthropist, born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 2018)
1947-05-24 Martin Winterkorn, German automotive executive, born in Leonberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
1948-03-30 Markus Liebherr, Swiss businessman and sports executive (owner Southampton FC 2008-10), born in Kirchdorf an der Iller, Württemberg, Germany (d. 2010)
1955-11-10 Roland Emmerich, German film producer and director (2012, The Day After Tomorrow), born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
1959-03-30 Sabine Meyer, German classical clarinetist, Born in Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany