of the Church. Bertha of Bingen (c. 600's) (1754–1825), writer Philipp Foltz (1805–1877), painter (1828–1912), Mayor of Bingen and Member of the Landstände of the Grand Duchy of Hesse Heinrich Brück (1831–1903), Bishop of Mainz Johann Baptist Hilsdorf (1835–1918), photographer and father of Theodor and Jacob (1843–1905), Catholic priest, writer and Rhenish Hessian local historian Alice Bensheimer (1864–1935), politician and feminist Theodor Hilsdorf (1868–1944), photographer Stefan George (1868–1933), poet Carl Friedberg (1872–1955), pianist and music pedagogue Jacob Hilsdorf (1872–1916), photographer (born 1882), Member of the Landtag (Zentrum) Saladin Schmitt (1883–1951), theatre researcher, producer and theatre manager (1891–1960), leading Jewish architect who designed synagogues, department stores, and the first skyscraper in Mannheim Born 1900 and later (1900–1983), geologist and paleontologist, professor at the Freie Universität Berlin (1908–1980), trade unionist and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag (1913–1984), ecclesiastical historian, librarian at the Martinus-Bibliothek (born 1922), docent for pastoral liturgy at the Episcopal Seminary, diocesan president of church choirs in the Bishopric of Mainz (born 1940), politician, former Bundestag Armed Forces Commissioner Mary Roos (born 1949), singer and actress (born 1954), singer Thomas Kling (1957–2005), lyric poet Peter Frey (born 1957), journalist (born 1964), singer and actor Dajan Šimac (born 1982), footballer Jan Schlaudraff (born 1983), footballer and first national player from Bingen Twin towns – sister cities Bingen am Rhein is twinned with: Hitchin, England, United Kingdom (1958) Nuits-Saint-Georges, France (1960) Venarey-les-Laumes, France (1967) Prizren, Kosovo (1968) Anamur, Turkey (2011) Kutná Hora, Czech Republic (2011) References External links Town's official webpage Tourist Information on Bingen am Rhein Information on Bingen Jewish Encyclopedia: "Bingen" by Kaufmann Kohler & A. M. Friedenberg (1906). Jewish History of Bingen Populated places on the Rhine Rhenish Hesse Mainz-Bingen Naheland Holocaust locations in Germany Middle Rhine