(CDU): 1957-1976, elected in 1957, 1961, 1965, 1969 and 1972 Alfred Dregger (CDU): 1976-1998, elected in 1976, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990 and 1994 Martin Hohmann (CDU): 1998-2005, elected in 1998 and 2002; expelled from CDU in 2003 for anti-Semitic remarks Michael Brand (CDU): 2005-, elected in 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 Source: Transport Fulda station is a transport hub and interchange point between local and long-distance traffic of the German railway network, and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category2 station. It is on the Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway; the North–South line (Nord-Süd-Strecke), comprising the Bebra–Fulda line north of Fulda, and the Kinzig Valley Railway and Fulda–Main Railway to the south; the Vogelsberg Railway, which connects to the hills of the Vogelsberg in the west; and the Fulda–Gersfeld Railway (Rhön Railway) to Gersfeld in the Rhön Mountains to the east. Fulda is on the Bundesautobahn 7 (BAB 7). Bundesautobahn 66 starts at the interchange with the BAB 7, heading south towards Frankfurt. Fulda is also on the Bundesstraße 27. Twin towns – sister cities Fulda is twinned with: Como, Italy (1960) Arles, France (1964) Sergiyev Posad, Russia (1991) Wilmington, United States (1997) Litoměřice, Czech Republic (2001) Dokkum, Netherlands (2013) Notable people Pre-1800 Adam of Fulda (), composer and music theorist Adam Krafft (1493–1558), Protestant church reformer Justus Menius (1499–1558), theologian Franz Kaspar Lieblein (1744–1810), botanist Heinrich von Bibra Prince-Bishop, Prince-Abbot and of Fulda from 1759 to 1788 1801–1850 Georg von Adelmann (1811–1888), physician and surgeon Otto Bähr (1817–1895), lawyer and politician Hugo Staehle (1826–1848), composer Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), physicist, electrical engineer and Nobel laureate in physics 1851–1900 Adalbert Ricken (1851–1921), mycologist and priest Ludwig Hupfeld (1864–1949), instrument maker and industrialist Wilhelm Heye (1869–1947), officer Clara Harnack (1877–1962), painter, teacher and mother of the resistance fighters Arvid and Falk Harnack Anton Storch (1892–1975), politician Wilm Hosenfeld (1895–1952), officer and Righteous Among the Nations Paul Deichmann (1898–1981), officer of the Luftwaffe Max Stern (1898–1982), businessman, investor and philanthropist 1901–1950 Karl Storch (1913–1992), athlete (hammer thrower) Wilhelm Balthasar (1914–1941), Luftwaffe military aviator and wing commander during Spanish Civil War and WWII Fr. Gereon Goldmann (1916–2003), WWII veteran of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS; later a Franciscan priest Martin Hohmann (born 1948), politician (CDU, now AfD) Winfried Michel (born 1948), composer, recorder player and music publisher 1951–present Markus Oestreich (born 1963), racing driver Immanuel Bloch (born 1972), physicist Tobias Sammet (born 1977), musician