Rudolf Ehrmann was born in Altenstadt in 1879. He became Professor at the
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin for Inner Medicine and one of the most prominent German Physician of first half of the 20th century. He was a personal general practitioner to
Albert Einstein who helped him to emigrate to the
United States in 1939. In 1945 he became a US citizen. One of the inhabitants of Altenstadt was the justice inspector
Friedrich Kellner, who alternated his work-week between Laubach and Altenstadt during
World War II. Kellner recorded the misdeeds of the Nazis in a
ten-volume diary which was on display in 2005 at the
George Bush Presidential Library. A Canadian documentary,
My Opposition: the Diaries of Friedrich Kellner, was produced in 2006. The Lutheran missionary Georg Heinrich Schwarz was born in Höchst an der Nidder in 1868. He laboured in the
Cape Bedford Mission, North Queensland, Australia, for 55 years. The anniversary of his arrival is still celebrated there each year in September and known as Muni Day. On 5 September 2019,
Stefan Jagsch from the extreme-right
NPD was elected the Mayor of the Waldsiedlung unopposed, which led to irritation in other parties at national level. ==References==