page_title: Frankenthal
section_title: Sons and daughters of the town
hierarchical_section_title: Frankenthal / Sons and daughters of the town
context_page_description: Frankenthal is a town in southwestern Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
context_section_description: Abraham Heidanus (1597-1678), a reformed theologian
  Esther Moscherosch née Ackermann (1602-1632), wife of the statesman and baroque poet Johann Michael Moscherosch
  Jacob Marrel (1614-1681), still life painter
  Johann Philipp Becker (1809-1886), revolutionary
  Georg Vierling (1820-1901), composer (dedication of the  Vierlingstrasse )
  Konrad Maurer (1823-1902), a Bavarian legal historian
  Julius von Michel (1843-1911), ophthalmologist
  Richard Reverdy (1851-1915), civil engineer
  Karl Wendling (1857-1918), pianist and music pedagogue
  Karl Perron (1858-1928), opera singer
  Franz Nissl (1860-1919), neurologist and psychiatrist
  August von Parseval (1861-1942), designer of airships (dedication of the Parsevalplatz)
  Hermann Wilker (1874-1941), rower
  Karl Gentner (1876–1922), operatic tenor
  Oskar Perron (1880-1975), mathematician
  Ludwig Marum (1882-1934), lawyer and politician, victims of the Holocaust
  Arnold Fanck (1889-1974), director and pioneer of the mountain film
  Paul Martini (1889-1964), medical doctor
  Carl Neubronner (1892-1961), politician
  Georg Gehring (1903-1943), wrestler
  Karl Huber (1904-1965), politician and trade unionist
  Josef Frank (1906-1971), politician (SPD)
  Werner Knab (1908-1945), jurist and SS leader
  Hans Carste (1909-1971), composer and conductor
  Adolf Metzner (1910-1978), Leichtathlet
  Rudi Fischer (1925-2012), Football goalkeeper
  Michael Werner (publisher) (1965-), founder of the Pennsylvania German newspaper Hiwwe wie Driwwe
  Tobias Eckmeier (1995-), vlogger and Instagram personality known as EXSL95
caption: Franz Nissl
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