Editing Freiburg im Breisgau (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Holbein-erasmus.jpg|140px|thumb|Portraint of [[Desiderius Erasmus|Erasmus]] by Holbein, 1523]]
[[File:Karl von Rotteck Badische Bahnen.jpg|140px|thumb|[[Karl von Rotteck]]]]
[[File:Friedrich Hayek portrait.jpg|140px|thumb|[[Friedrich Hayek]]]]
[[File:Heidegger 4 (1960) cropped.jpg|140px|thumb|[[Martin Heidegger]], 1960]]

=== Pre-18th century ===
* [[Desiderius Erasmus]] of Rotterdam (1466–1536), Dutch Renaissance humanist and theologian<ref>{{Catholic Encyclopedia|wstitle=Desiderius_Erasmus |volume= 05 |short=x}}</ref>
* [[Berthold Schwarz]] (c. 1310–1388), fabled [[Alchemy|alchemist]] who introduced gunpowder to Germany<ref>{{Catholic Encyclopedia|wstitle=Berthold_Schwarz |volume= 13 |short=x}}</ref>
* [[Martin Waldseemüller]] (c.1470–1520), Renaissance cartographer<ref>{{Catholic Encyclopedia|wstitle=Martin_Waldseemüller |volume= 15 |short=x}}</ref>

=== 18th century ===
* [[Joseph von Auffenberg]] (1798–1857), playwright and poet<ref>{{Cite Americana |wstitle=Auffenberg,_Joseph,_Baron_von |short=x}}</ref>
* [[Aloysius Bellecius]] (1704–1757), Jesuit [[Asceticism|ascetic]] author<ref>{{Catholic Encyclopedia|wstitle=Aloysius_Bellecius |volume= 02 |short=x}}</ref>
* [[Jean-Henri Naderman]] (1734–1799), leading harp-maker and a music publisher
* [[Johann Nepomuk Locherer]] (1773–1837), Roman Catholic priest, theologian and professor
* [[Karl von Rotteck]] (1775–1840), [[political activist]], historian, politician and political scientist<ref>{{Cite AmCyc |wstitle=Rotteck,_Karl_von |short=x}}</ref>
* [[Heinrich Schreiber]] (1793–1872), Catholic theologian and historian, wrote about Freiburg

=== 19th century ===
* [[Sepp Allgeier]] (1895–1968), cinematographer, worked with [[Leni Riefenstahl]]
* [[Kurt Bauch]] (1897–1975), art historian
* [[Walter Benjamin]] (1892–1940), literary critic and philosopher
* [[Alfred Döblin]] (1878–1957), physician and novelist
* [[Barney Dreyfuss]] (1865–1932), [[baseball]] entrepreneur, co-founder of the [[Major League Baseball]] [[World Series]]
* [[Walter Eucken]] (1891–1950), economist of the Freiburg school and father of [[ordoliberalism]]
* [[Arnold Fanck]] (1889–1974), film director and pioneer of the [[mountain film]] genre<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0266691/  IMDb Database] retrieved 27 August 2018</ref>
* [[Eugen Fischer]] (1874–1967), physician who influenced Nazi racial hygiene
* [[Adolf Furtwangler]] (1853–1907), archaeologist, teacher, art historian and museum director.<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Furtwängler,_Adolf |volume=11 |short=x}}</ref>
* [[Max von Gallwitz]] (1852–1937), general and politician
* [[Friedrich Gempp]] (1873–1947), [[Major General]], founder and first director of the Department Defence of [[Reichswehr]]
* [[Hans F. K. Günther]] (1891–1968), Nazi eugenicist
* [[Friedrich von Hayek]] (1899–1992), economist, philosopher, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate in economics
* [[Martin Heidegger]] (1889–1976), philosopher
* [[Edmund Husserl]] (1859–1938), philosopher who established the school of [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]]
* [[Hans Jantzen]] (1881–1967), art historian, specialised in [[Medieval art]]
* [[Wilhelm Lamey]] (1854–1910), jurist
* [[Felix H. Man]] (1893–1985), photographer, art collector and pioneer photojournalist for [[Picture Post]]
* [[Carl Christian Mez]] (1866–1944), botanist
* [[Bernhard Sigmund Schultze]] (1827–1919), [[obstetrician]] and [[gynecologist]]
* [[Hans Spemann]] (1869–1941) Nobel prizewinning  embryologist 
* [[Hermann Staudinger]] (1881–1965), 1953 [[Nobel Prize]] laureate in [[chemistry]] "for discoveries about [[macromolecular chemistry]]", died locally
* [[Edith Stein]] (1891–1942), nun, Saint of the Catholic Church, martyred by the Nazis, Freiburg university faculty member
* [[Bronisław Trentowski]] (1808–1869) – Polish philosopher, pedagogue, insurgent and Freemason
* [[Franz Joseph Emil Fischer|Franz Fischer]] (1877–1947) – German chemist, discovered the [[Fischer–Tropsch process]] process with [[Hans Tropsch]].
* [[Otto Heinrich Warburg]] (1883–1970), recipient in 1931 of [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[Max Weber]] (1864–1920), lawyer, political economist, and sociologist
* [[August Weismann]] (1834–1914), evolutionary biologist
* [[Joseph Wirth]] (1879–1956), politician (center), member of the Reichstag, chancellor, foreign minister, minister of the interior
* [[Engelbert Zaschka]] (1895–1955), inventor and one of the first German helicopter pioneers

=== 20th century ===
[[File:Hannah Arendt auf dem 1. Kulturkritikerkongress, Barbara Niggl Radloff, FM-2019-1-5-9-16 (cropped).jpg|140px|thumb|[[Hannah Arendt]], 1958]]
[[File:Stephan Burger.jpg|140px|thumb|[[Stephan Burger]], 2014]]
[[File:20180602 FIFA Friendly Match Austria vs. Germany Jogi Löw 850 1386.jpg|140px|thumb|[[Joachim Löw]], 2018]]
[[File:Karl Rahner by Letizia Mancino Cremer.jpg|140px|thumb|Portrait of [[Karl Rahner]], 2011]]
[[File:4th EPP St Géry Dialogue; Jan. 2014 (12189287345) (cropped).jpg|140px|thumb|[[Wolfgang Schäuble]], 2014]]
* [[Wolfram Aichele]] (1924–2016), artist
* [[Hannah Arendt]] (1906–1975), political theorist
* [[Jürgen Aschoff]] (1913–1998), physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist, co-founded [[chronobiology]]
* [[Hans Bender]] (1907–1991), lecturer on [[parapsychology]]
* [[Nikolaus Brender]] (born 1949), journalist
* [[Johannes Boesiger]] (born 1962), scriptwriter and producer<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0127137/  IMDb Database] retrieved 27 August 2018</ref>
* [[Alexander Bonde]] (born 1975) in the Bundestag for Alliance '90/The Greens 2002 to 2011
* [[Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg]] (born 1956), head of the [[House of Mecklenburg]]
* [[Stephan Burger]] (born 1962), Roman Catholic clergyman, [[Archbishop of Freiburg]] since 2014
* [[Hoimar von Ditfurth]] (1921–1989), physician
* [[Mohamed Dräger]] (born 1996), German-Tunisian professional footballer
* [[Peter Dreher]] (1932-2020), painter
* [[Martin Egel]] (born 1944), bass-baritone in opera and concert
* [[Hedy Epstein]] (1924–2016), Holocaust refugee and [[political activist]]
* [[Anna Ewers]] (born 1993), fashion model from Freiburg
* [[Georg Gädker]] (born 1981), operatic baritone
* [[Heiner Garg]] (born 1966), politician (FDP)
* [[Miriam Gebhardt]] (born 1962), historian and writer
* [[Svetlana Geier]] (1923–2010), translator
* [[Michael Glatthaar]] (born 1953), medieval scholar
* [[Katharina Grosse]] (born 1961), contemporary artist
* [[Heinrich Haussler]] (born 1984), professional cyclist [[Cervelo TestTeam]]
* [[Dany Heatley]] (born 1981), former professional ice hockey winger
* [[Peter W. Heller]] (born 1957), former Deputy Mayor of Freiburg, environmental scientist and venture philanthropist
* [[Thomas Hengelbrock]] (born 1958), violinist, musicologist and conductor; co-founded the [[Freiburger Barockorchester]]
* [[Andreas Holschneider]] (1931–2019), music historian
* [[Waldemar Hoven]] (1903–1948), Nazi physician executed for war crimes
* [[Tobias Hug]] (1976–2020), a cappella singer
* [[Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch]] (born 1990), high-jump athlete
* [[Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)|Walter Kaufmann]] (1921–1980), philosopher, translator and poet
* [[Fritz Keller]] (born 1957), football administrator
* [[Boris Kodjoe]] (born 1973), U.S.based model and actor<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0462673/  IMDb Database] retrieved 27 August 2018</ref>
* [[Georges Jean Franz Köhler]] (1946–1995), geneticist
* [[Benjamin Lebert]] (born 1982), author and newspaper columnist<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0495627/  IMDb Database] retrieved 27 August 2018</ref>
* [[Joachim Löw]] (born 1960), coach of the [[Germany national football team]] from 2006 to 2021
* [[Michael Leuschner]] (born 1948), classical pianist and professor of piano at the [[Hochschule für Musik Freiburg]]
* [[Hanns Ludin]] (1905–1947), Nazi diplomat executed for war crimes
* [[Andreas Lutz]] (born 1981), [[media artist]] analyzes perception versus reality
* [[Christoph von Marschall]] (born 1959), journalist
* [[Christian Meyer (cyclist)|Christian Meyer]] (born 1969), track cyclist and gold medallist at the [[1992 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Michael Nehls]] (born 1962), medical doctor, author, and former cyclist
* [[Herbert Niebling]] (1905–1966), master designer of lace knitting
* [[Paul Pietsch]] (1911–2012), racing driver, journalist and publisher of ''[[Auto, Motor und Sport|Das Auto]]''
* [[Karl Rahner]] SJ (1904–1984), Jesuit priest and influential Roman Catholic theologian
* [[Dieter Salomon]] (born 1960), Alliance '90/The Greens politician, Mayor of Freiburg until 2018
* [[Wolfgang Schäuble]] (1942–2023), CDU politician
* [[Jürgen E. Schrempp]] (born 1944), former head of [[DaimlerChrysler]]
* [[Angelika Schrobsdorff]] (1927–2016), writer and actress
* [[Til Schweiger]] (born 1963), actor and director<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001709/  IMDb Database] retrieved 27 August 2018</ref>
* [[Klaus Tschira]] (1940–2015), entrepreneur
* [[Bernhard Witkop]] (1917–2010), organic chemist
* [[Johannes Fechner]] (born 1972), politician
* [[Joana Zimmer]] (born 1979), blind pop singer<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1961631/  IMDb Database] retrieved 27 August 2018</ref>



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