carry out the municipal measures in question. The focus of the Frankenberg experiment will be measures aimed at making family life and work life compatible (the so-called work-life balance). International relations Twin towns — Sister cities Frankenberg is twinned with: Persons Tyle von Frankenberg, building master and sculptor in stone, (14th century) Wigand Gerstenberg, (1457–1522), chronicler, compiled the "Stadtchronik für Frankenberg bis 1525" ("Town chronicle for Frankenberg to 1525") Helius Eobanus Hessus (1488-1540), humanist and great Neo-Latin poet Conrad Buno (1613-1671), copper cutters, publishers, draftsmen and bookseller Philipp Soldan, (1500-1569), sculptor, carver, building master and painter, Theodor Valentin Volkmar (1781-1847), legal scientist, mayor in Frankenberg and first mayor of Marburg Caspar Garthe, (1795-1874), founder of the Cologne Zoological Garden Georg Thonet, (1909-2005), entrepreneur, great-grandson of Michael Thonet, built the Thonet firm back up after the Second World War and won it international fame, especially with Bauhaus steel-pipe furniture. Heinrich Kohl (1912-1984), politician (FDP), district administrator of the Frankenberg district and state secretary in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior Friedhelm König, (born 1931), Evangelistic writer, spent a great deal of his life in Frankenberg and is cofounder of the Frankenberger Handelsschule. Ansgar Nierhoff, (1941-2010), sculptor and artist, grew up in Frankenberg Christiane Kohl, (born 1954), journalist (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and writer ("Der Jude und das Mädchen" – "The Jew and the Girl") References External links Frankenberg Waldeck-Frankenberg Holocaust locations in Germany