Hornberg

Geschichte

Hornberg is a town in the Ortenaukreis, in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest, 35 km southeast of Offenburg, and 25 km northwest of Villingen-Schwenningen.Sons and daughters of the town Andreas Beck, physicians, theologian and writer Bärbel Hähnle, athlete, 1969 European runner-up with the 4 × 100-meter relay Wilhelm Hausenstein, writer, art critic and cultural historian, journalist and diplomat Wilhelm Ludwig Hosch, pietistic theologian and hymn writer Friedrich Jeckeln, SS-Obergruppenführer, German war criminal Werner Reutter, director of the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Charité, Berlin-Dahlem Thomas Schäuble, German politician, Director of the Baden State Brewery Rothaus, brother of Wolfgang SchäublePersonalities who were active in Hornberg John Beck (born 1938), director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Bonn Misch (1917–2013), bodyguard and telephone Adolf Hitler; had a business for painters in Hornberg before the war Wolfgang Schäuble (born 1942), German politician (CDU), grew up in Hornberg Reinold of Urslingen (around 1364-1442), Knight, 1437 share ownership of the castle and city Hornberg