Heilmann is a

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surname. It can be tracked to early 16th-century Protestant families in south-west Germany (various locations); In France, it has spread around 1545 to

Mulhouse Mulhouse (; Alsatian language, Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning ''Mill (grinding), mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin Departments of France, department, in the Grand Est Regions of France, region, eastern France, close to the France–Switzerl ...

(Mülhausen in German), a city now in the

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region. Members of the Heilmann family of Mulhouse, of Protestant faith, issued from Lorentz Heilmann, a cooper, common ancestor born in 1545 in Niedernhall (now in Germany) and having established himself in Mulhouse: * Jean-Gaspard Heilmann (c. 1718 – 1760), French painter * Nicolas Heilmann, Burgmeister (mayor) of Mulhouse from 1753 to 1766. * Josué Heilmann (1796–1848), inventor, in particular of a hand

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. * Jean-Jacques Heilmann (1822–1859), early photographer and cofounder of the Société Française de Photographie. * Jean-Jacques Heilmann (1853–1922), inventor of the Heilmann locomotive "La Fusée Electrique", one of the first electric locomotives. Members of the Heilmann family initially from Geiselbach, who co-founded the

Heilmann & Littmann Heilmann & Littmann was a leading German contracting business. It was founded in 1871 by Jakob Heilmann (1846-1927) in Regensburg as "Baugeschäft J. Heilmann" (J. Heilmann building company), and, by 1876, specialized on railway construction, lat ...

German building company: *

Jakob Heilmann Jakob Heilmann (21 August 1846 in Geiselbach, Aschaffenburg County (Lower Franconia) – 15 February 1927 in Munich) was a German contractor. Son of a glazier, Heilmann attended the construction school in Munich and graduated with the exam as a ...

, (1846–1927), co-founder of the company *

Otto Heilmann Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded fr ...

(1888–1945), German architect *

Albert Heilmann Albert Heilmann (6 June 1886 Munich – 20 December 1949 Berlin-Wilmersdorf) was an architect and contractor who worked in Munich and Berlin. From 1909 to 1929 he was junior boss of his father Jakob Heilmann's construction company, Heilmann ...

, (1869–1949), German architect *

Mary Heilmann Mary Heilmann is an American painter based in New York City and Bridgehampton, NY. She has had solo shows and travelling exhibitions at galleries such as 303 Gallery (NY, NY) and Hauser & Wirth Hauser & Wirth is a Swiss contemporary and modern a ...

(born 1940), American artist. Other people bearing this name: In Germany: * Pr Sebastian Heilmann (b.1965), German political scientist and sinologist. *

Lutz Heilmann Lutz Heilmann (born 7 September 1966 in Zittau, East Germany) is a German politician of the left-wing politics, left-wing party The Left (Germany), Die Linke. He was elected to the Bundestag in the 2005 German federal election, 2005 federal elec ...

, (b.1966), German politician (Die Linke) and member of the

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. *

Thomas Heilmann Thomas Heilmann (born 16 July 1964) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Born in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, he has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Berlin since 2017. Career in the private ...

(b. 1964), German politician (CDU) In other countries than France and Germany : * Gerhard Heilmann,

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artist and

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. * Harry Heilmann, American baseball player ssued from a 17th-century "Heylmann" ancestor from South-West Germany* Joe Heilmann,(1931-2010), American golfer erman ancestry, born Chicago, IL

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