Hornberg

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Country Germany Admin. region Freiburg Elevation 953 m (3,127 ft) Area 54.45 km² Local time Tuesday 8:37 PM		State Baden-Württemberg District Ortenaukreis Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Population 4,354 (31 Dec 2008) Postal code 78132

Weather 8°C, Wind W at 8 km/h, 69% Humidity

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.

Map of Hornberg, Germany

Andreas Beck (born 1948), physicians (head of the radiology department of the hospital Konstanz), theologian and writer

Bärbel Hähnle (born 1949), athlete, 1969 European runner-up with the 4 × 100-meter relay

Wilhelm Hausenstein (1882–1957), writer, art critic and cultural historian, journalist and diplomat

Wilhelm Ludwig Hosch (1750–1811), pietistic theologian and hymn writer

Friedrich Jeckeln (1895–1946), SS-Obergruppenführer, German war criminal

Werner Reutter (1937–2016), director of the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Charité, Berlin-Dahlem

Thomas Schäuble (1948–2013), German politician (CDU), Director of the Baden State Brewery Rothaus, brother of Wolfgang Schäuble

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

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