page_title: Bonn
section_title: Up to the 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Bonn / Notable residents / Up to the 19th century
caption_attribution_description: Information added by Wikimedia users. Portrait of Dr. Ewald Krebsbach, doctor of the Mauthausen concentration camp, as SS-Sturmbannführer, c. 1942/1943
context_page_description: The Federal city of Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About 24 km south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany's largest metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants. It is famously known as the birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven in 1770. He spent his childhood and teenage years in Bonn.
  Founded in the 1st century BC as a Roman settlement, Bonn is one of Germany's oldest cities. From 1597 to 1794, Bonn was the capital of the Electorate of Cologne, and residence of the Archbishops and Prince-electors of Cologne. From 1949 to 1990, Bonn was the capital of West Germany, and Germany's present constitution, the Basic Law, was declared in the city in 1949. The era when Bonn served as the capital of West Germany is referred to by historians as the Bonn Republic. From 1990 to 1999, Bonn served as the seat of government – but no longer capital – of reunited Germany.
  Because of a political compromise following the reunification, the German federal government maintains a substantial presence in Bonn.
context_section_description: Johann Peter Salomon, baptized 20 February 1745 † 25 November 1815 in London, musician
  Franz Anton Ries, * 10 November 1755 † 1 November 1846 in Bonn, violinist and violin teacher
  Ludwig van Beethoven, * 16 December 1770 † 26 March 1827 in Vienna, composer
  Salomon Oppenheim, Jr., * 19 June 1772 † 8 November 1828 in Mainz, banker
  Peter Joseph Lenné, * 29 September 1789 † 23 January 1866 in Potsdam, gardener and landscape architect
  Friedrich von Gerolt, * 5 March 1797 † 27 July 1879 in Linz, diplomat
  Karl Joseph Simrock, * 28 August 1802 † 18 July 1876 in Bonn, writer and specialist in German
  Wilhelm Neuland, * July 1806 † 28 December 1889 in Bonn, composer and conductor
  Johanna Kinkel, * 8 July 1810 † 15 November 1858 in London, composer and writer
  Moses Hess, * 21 June 1812 † 6 April 1875 in Paris, philosopher and writer
  Johann Gottfried Kinkel, * 11 August 1815 † 12 November 1882 in Zürich, theologian, writer, and politician
  Alexander Kaufmann, * 14 May 1817 † 1 May 1893 in Wertheim, author and archivist
  Leopold Kaufmann, * 13 March 1821 † 27 February 1898 in Bonn, mayor
  Julius von Haast, * 1 May 1822 † 16 August 1887 in Christchurch, New Zealand, professor of geology
  Dietrich Brandis, * 31 March 1824 † 28 May 1907 in Bonn, botanist
  Balduin Möllhausen, * 27 January 1825 † 28 May 1905 in Berlin, traveler and writer
  Maurus Wolter, * 4 June 1825 † 8 July 1890 in Beuron, Benedictine, founder and first abbot of the Abbey of Beuron and Beuronese Congregation
  August Reifferscheid, * 3 October 1835 † 10 November 1887 in Strasbourg, philologist
  Antonius Maria Bodewig, * 2 November 1839 † 8 January 1915 in Rome, Jesuit missionary and founder
  Nathan Zuntz, * 7 October 1847 † 23 March 1920 in Berlin, physician
  Alexander Koenig, * 20 February 1858 † 16 July 1940 in Blücherhof, Klocksin, zoologist, founder of Museum Koenig in Bonn
  Alfred Philippson, * 1 January 1864 † 28 March 1953 in Bonn, geographer
  Johanna Elberskirchen, * 11 April 1864 † 17 May 1943 in Rüdersdorf, feminist writer and activist
  Max Alsberg, * 16 October 1877 † 10 September 1933, lawyer
  Kurt Wolff, * 3 March 1887 † 21 October 1963, publisher
  Hans Riegel (senior), * 3 April 1893 † 31 March 1945, entrepreneur
  Eduard Krebsbach, * 8 August 1894 † 28 May 1947 in Landsberg am Lech, SS doctor in Nazi Mauthausen concentration camp, executed for war crimes
  Paul Kemp, * 20 May 1896 † 13 August 1953 in Bonn, actor
caption: Eduard Krebsbach
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