Steuer (born 1933), former district counsilior, politician (CDU) and former manager in the energy industry 2010: Winfried Aßfalg, museum director, author, photographer, local historian Notable people Schweikhard of Helfenstein (1539–1599), president of the Reichskammergericht and there imperial governor of Tyrol, also author, publicist and promoter of the Catholic Reform Andreas von Jerin (1541–1596), Bishop of Breslau Agatha Mahler (born 1604), was the last woman executed in a witch-hunt Franz Joseph Christian (1739–1798), sculptor Joseph Anton Sauter (1742–1817), religious law expert and university teacher Conrad Graf (1782–1851), piano maker Frederick Miller (1824–1888), founder of the national brewer Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee Adolf Gröber (1854–1919), politician, leader of the Centre Party in the Reichstag Gustav Merk (1874–1954), Catholic priest and archivist Maria Caspar-Filser (1878–1968), painter Willy Missmahl (1885–1964), surgeon Wilhelm Broeckel (1887–1957), bank and association director Josef Keller (1887–1981), confectioner, considered one of the inventors of the Black Forest gateau Emil Münch (1891–1961), local politician, District Chief Executive in Tettnang (1947–1957) Albert Burkart (1898–1982), artist Ludwig Walz (1898–1989), mayor and Righteous Among the Nations Franz Freiherr von Bodman (1908–1945), Obersturmführer and camp doctor in several concentration camps Hans-Peter Missmahl (1920–2008), internist Helmut Schlegel OFM (born 1943), Franciscans, Priest, meditation teacher, author and lyricist of new sacred songs Hans-Peter Mayer (1944), European delegate of the CDU for Niedersachsen Eugen Münch (born 1945), entrepreneur, founder of the Rhön-Klinikum Franz Schmidberger (born 1946), Catholic priest and Superior of the Society of Saint Pius X Wolfgang Schneiderhan (born 1946), officer, former Inspector General of the Bundeswehr Peter Schneider (CDU) (born 1958), politician (CDU), Member of Parliament, President of the Savings Banks Association of Baden-Württemberg Wolfgang Amann (born 1959), mayor of Geislingen (1998–2014) Thomas Tress (born 1966), CEO of Borussia Dortmund, finance and organization Mario Gómez (born 1985), VfB Stuttgart and German football player Those associated with the city Kaspar of Carp to Pflummern and Talheim (1580), the feudal lord of Pflummern Richard Lohrmann (1896–1970), forester and conservationists, led from 1946 to 1961, the Forestry Office Riedlingen John Zwick ( 1496–1542), pastor in Riedlingen 1522 Reformation attempt Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), writer, philosopher, officer and entomologist; died in the district hospital Riedlingen References Biberach (district) Württemberg