2012–2020: Andreas Steppberger, FW 2020–present: Josef Grienberger, CSU Education Eichstätt is home to the (KU), the lone Catholic university in Germany. The KU was founded in 1980, and was granted full rights of a university, including Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees by the State of Bavaria. Sons and daughters of the town Tobias Barnerssoi (born 1969), alpine skier and sports reporter Erhard Bauer (died 1493), municipal architect of Eger Erich Emminger (1880–1951), politician (center party), minister of justice from 1923 to 1924 Anton Fils (1733–1760), composer Edmund Harburger (1846–1906), Munich draftsman and painter Johann Philipp Jeningen (1642–1704), catholic priest Anna Knauer (born 1995), cyclist Konrad Kyeser (1366–after 1405), nobleman and war technician of medieval Europe Jörg Mager (1880–1939), electronic music pioneer and inventor Caritas Pirckheimer (1467–1532), abbess in Nuremberg during the Reformation Willibald Pirckheimer (1470–1530), lawyer, author humanist Max von Widnmann (1812–1895), sculptor and successor of Schwanthaler as professor at the academy of fine arts in Munich (1849–1887) Personalities connected with the city Pope Victor II (Gebhard von Dollnstein-Hirschberg) (died 1057), fifth German pope 1055–1057 Gundekar II of Eichstätt (1019-1075), bishop, church politician, (sarcophagus in the St. John's Chapel of the Cathedral). Loy Hering (1484/85–1564), Renaissance sculptor from Kaufbeuren, councilor and mayor in Eichstätt Elias Holl (1573–1646), master builder from Augsburg, architect of the Willibaldsburg Karl Engel, brother of Jakob Engel, carpenter and builder Franz Xaver Witt (1834–1888), church musician, composer, reformer, founder of the general German Cäcilienvereine, 1870-1871 conductor of Eichstätt Prince Maximilian of Saxony (1870–1951) (1870–1951), prince of the albertine branch, priestly and chaplain activity in Eichstätt, church researcher Cesare Orsenigo (1873–1946 in Eichstätt), from 1930 to 1945 apostolic Nuncio in Germany, successor of Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) as Apostolic Nuncio in Germany Karl Friedrich Lippmann (1883–1957), art painter, (New Objectivity), 1943–1955 in Eichstätt Saint Walpurga, also spelled Valderburg or Guibor (AD 710 – 25 February 777 or 779), was an Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frankish Empire. She was canonized on 1 May c. 870 by Pope Adrian II. Saint Walpurgis Night (or "Sankt Walpurgisnacht") is the name for the eve of her feast day, which coincides with May Day. At Eichstätt, her bones were moved to a rocky niche, which allegedly began to exude a miraculously therapeutic oil, which drew pilgrims to her shrine. See also Obereichstaett References Sources External links Eichstätt (district)