Famous former pupils
- Georg Krauss (1826 - 1906, founder of the
locomotive factory Krauss & Co. and cofounder of the engineering
works Krauss-Maffei)
- Heinrich von Buz (1833 - 1918, Director of the
Maschinenfabrik
Augsburg, later MAN)
- Franz von Lenbach
(1836 - 1904, portrait painter)
- Rudolf Diesel (1858 - 1913, Inventor of
the diesel engine) --> Rudolf Diesel Monument
- Hans
von Euler-Chelpin (1873 - 1964, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1929)
- Manfred
Müller (1926 - 2015, alum and teacher, since 1972 Suffragan bishop in Augsburg, since 1982 Bishop in Regensburg)
- Roy Black (Gerhard Höllerich, 1943 - 1991, pop
singer)
- Johann Deisenhofer (Winner of the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1988)
- Roland Hetzer
(born 1944, since 1985 Director of German Heart Institut Berlin)
- Manfred Broy (born 1949, in 1994 Leibniz Prize of the
German National Science Foundation (DFG) for his achievements in
computer
science, in 2007 Konrad-Zuse-medalist for great merit in computer science)
- Walter
Erdelen (born 1951, since 2001 Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences at UNESCO, Paris)
Further former pupils mainly from wellknown families in
Augsburg:
Gustav und Karl Buz (MAN), Friedrich, Josef
und Willy Haindl (Papierfabrik), Wilhelm, Ludwig und Adolf Martini
(Fabrik), Friedrich und Johann Kniewitz (Seifenfabrik), August, Franz
und Ferdinand Schmedding (Gold- und Silberschmiede), Anton
Limbächer (orthopädische Werkstätten),
Theodor Wiedemann
(Vorstand AKS), Glogger (Zimmerei), Gottfried Grandel (Gewürz-
und
Ölfabrik), Wilhelm Thormann (Baufirma), Lorenz Spitzer
(Zimmerei),
Josef Bader (Kolonialwarenhandlung), Josef Witt
(Versandgeschäft
Weiden).
In addition many members of the nobility attended Holbein-Gymnasium:
Barone von Imhof, von Rehlingen, von Schaezler, von
Pfetten, von Reichlin, von Hößlin, von Langenmantel,
von
Seckendorf, von Riedheim, von Stengel, von Pechmann, von Ponikau, Graf
Sigmund von Tattenbach.