*unknown, +1388 in Prague by execution. Discoverd the explosive power of overheated gasses and developed high pressure weapons. Under the name of Bertoldus Niger, he hid for some time in a Freiburg Franciscan cloister. In 1853, a monument was established to honor his discovery of gunpowder.

*1461 in Constance, +1535 in Freiburg. Said to be the most famous advocate of legal humanism and the first German teacher of law. 1496, rector of the Latin school and in 1506, professor and legal consultant for the city who created the city laws of 1520.

*1469 in Gouda,+1536 in Basel. In 1529, he began a six year stay in Freiburg and lived in the Haus zum Walfisch.

*1710 in Ehrenstetten, +1797 in Freiburg. Sculptor, painter, and building master. The main master of Late Baroque and Rococo in Breisgau. Examples of his work are: the baptistry and built-in tomb in the Münster, his house on the Münsterplatz ("Wentzingerhaus"), Schloß Ebnet, and the decoration of the Stiftskirche in St. Gallen.

*1740 in Düsseldorf, +1814 in Freiburg. Author, Professor of Fine Arts in Freiburg.

*1774 in Meersburg, +1839 in Freiburg. Bookseller. His publishing house started in 1801 in Meersburg and began its Freiburg operations in 1808. He founded the Herder Publishing House.

*1775 in Freiburg, +1840 in Freiburg. History writer and politician, leading representative of radical liberalism in the regional parliament. Sought to transfer the ideas of the French Revolution to Baden.

Mayor of Freiburg (1888-1913). He was inundated with honors when he left office and people respectfully called him the city's second founder. During Winterer's mayoral term, the population and number of houses in Freiburg doubled. He was instrumental in the building of the Theatre, the City Hall, the University and new sections of the city.

*1808 in Bühl, +1883 in Freiburg. Theologian and folk writer. From 1847 on Professor for Pastoral Theology and Pedagogy.

*1837 in Haslach, +1916 in Freiburg. Priest and religious folk writer. 1871 - 1881, member of the Baden State Parliament, 1884-1913 town priest at St. Martin. Themes of his stories included the people and landscape in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) and cultural-historical works.

*1893 in Freiburg, +1965 in Freiburg. Painter who experimented with various elements and styles of European and East Asian art.

*1879 in Freiburg, +1965 in Freiburg. Teacher and Zentrumspartei (a christian conservative party) politician. Held public office as: parliament member (1914); Minister of Finance (1920); German Chancellor( 1921-22); and Minister for the Interior (1931). Staunch supporter of the policy of appeasement and for communication with the Soviet Union. Lived between 1933 and 1948 in Switzerland.

*1881 in worms, +1965 in Freiburg. Chemist. Professor in Freiburg (1926-51). In 1920, opened his findings which proved the existence of macro molecules and led to the scientific and technical development of synthetic materials. Received the Nobel Prize in 1953.

*1889 in Meßkirch,+1976 in Freiburg. Philosopher. 1928-51 Rector of the Freiburg University. Next to Karl Jaspers, the most important post 1945 representative of German philosophy in Europe. His influential main work Sein and Zeit ("Being and Time") 1927, remained unfinished.