Justinus Kerner (1786–1862), poet, physician, and medical writer Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862), poet, philologist, and literary historian Friedrich Silcher (1789–1860), composer and folksong collector Wilhelm Hauff (1802–1827), novelist Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), poet and novelist Julius Robert Mayer (1814–1878), physician, chemist, and physicist Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), engineer, industrial designer, and co-founder of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917), general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships Wilhelm Maybach (1846–1929), engine designer and co-founder of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft Margarete Steiff (1847–1909), company founder Robert Bosch (1861–1942), mechanic, inventor, and founder of Robert Bosch GmbH Hermann Hesse (1877–1961), novelist, poet, and painter, Nobel laureate in Literature Clara Ritter (1877–1959), co-founder of Ritter Sport Albert Einstein (1879–1955), Nobel prize winning physicist Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), politician, first President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949–1959) Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), philosopher Erwin Rommel (1891–1944), field marshal during World War II Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet Claus von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), army officer best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler Thaddäus Troll (1914–1980), journalist, writer, and Swabian dialect poet Artur Fischer (1919–2016), inventor and company founder Richard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015), politician, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1984–1994) Maria Beig (1920–2017), novelist Ralf Rangnick (1958–), football manager and former player Jürgen Klinsmann (1964–), football manager and former player Gert Mittring (1966–), mental calculator Jürgen Klopp (1967–), football manager and former player Diana Damrau (1971–), soprano opera singer References See also Swabian children Alsatians Bavarians Alemannic separatism German tribes Swabia Germanic ethnic groups Ethnic groups in Germany