Great minds of Stuttgart:  Schiller, Hegel, Reichenbach, Bosch and Daimler.
Fotos: City archive

Whether mayor, honorary citizen or celebrity – they all have shaped Stuttgart in their own way. Some were politically active, others wrote poetry, many have lastingly changed the city and further developed it. Men and women who through birth, residence, action or death are connected to Stuttgart.

• Max Ackermann , painter
• Willi Baumeister , painter
• Karl Benz , automobile constructor
• Paul Bonatz , architect
• Robert Bosch , enterpreneur
• Johann Friedrich Cotta , publisher
• Gottlieb Daimler , automobile constructor
• Johann Heinrich von Dannecker , sculptor
• Martin Elsaesser , architect
• Rolf Gutbrod , master builder
• Wilhelm Hauff , narrator
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , philosopher
• Theodor Heuss , federal president
• Adolf Hölzel , painter
• Max Horkheimer , Professor of Social Philosophy
• Ida Kerkovius , painter
• Arnulf Klett , mayor
• Karl Lautenschlager , mayor
• Hermann Lenz , narrator and writer
• Fritz Leonhardt , civil engineer
• Reinhold Maier , Prime Minister
• Eduard Mörike , narrator and lyricist
• Gebhard Müller , Prime Minister
• Pierre Pflimlin , Mayor of Straßburg
• Ferdinand Porsche , automobile constructor
• Karl Ludwig von Reichenbach , chemist + natural scientist
• Manfred Rommel , Mayor and philosopher
• Friedrich von Schiller , philosopher
• Oskar Schlemmer , painter
• Erwin Schoettle , journalist and politician
• Wolfgang Schuster , acting Mayor
• Gustav Schwab , Swabian poet and publisher
• Karl Strölin , Mayor
• Nicolaus Friedrich Thouret , architect and painter
• Friedrich Theodor Vischer , philosopher and writer
• Richard von Weizsäcker , Federal President
• Clara Zetkin , politician
• Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg , composer