as a mutation about 1600. Hergershausen, elected as the third most beautiful village in Hesse. Harpertshausen Sickenhofen Langstadt The US military installation in Babenhausen, Babenhausen Kaserne, formerly home of the 41st Field Artillery Brigade, the 2nd and the 5th Field Artillery unit and two Patriot Missile units (D and E Batteries) of the 5th Battalion 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was closed and returned to the control of the German government in 2007. In the early '60s, it was the home of the 1st Missile Battalion 38th Artillery (Corporal) and its supporting Ordnance Detachment, the 157th Ord Det. Mayor Dominik Stadler (independent) was elected mayor in November 2020 with 54.9% of the votes. Sons and daughters of the town Wilhelm Grünewald (1859-1925), German politician (Progressive People's Party, DDP) member of Landtag (Hesse), member of the Weimar National Assembly Oskar Hock (1898-1976), German physician, NSDAP functionary, SS Brigade commander and major general of the Waffen SS Eugen Jochum (1902-1987), was one of the great conductors of the 20th century. Heinrich Klein (1932-1989) Gross-Umstadt), was from 1970 to 1976 District Administrator of the Dieburg district and 1976-1989 member of the Bundestag Johann Adam Oest (born 1946), German actor Heinrich Leonhard Kolb (born 1956), politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag 1990-2013 References Darmstadt-Dieburg Grand Duchy of Hesse