Wendlingen


Wendlingen am Neckar is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated on the Neckar and Lauter rivers, 27 km southeast of Stuttgart.
The town grew in size, officially, on 1 April 1940, when three separate communities of Wendlingen, Unterboihingen and Bodelshofen merged.
The town also is the headquarters of the tool company Festool.

Mayors

  • 1940–1944: Andreas Bauer
  • 1944–1945: Emil Hartung
  • 1945–1945: Karl Strohmaier
  • 1945–1946: Rudolf Bisterfeld
  • 1946–1978: Helmut Kaiser
  • 1978–1992: Hans Köhler
  • 1992–2003: Andreas Hesky
  • 2003–2011: Frank Ziegler
  • 2011-2019: Steffen Weigel
  • Since 2019: Steffen Weigel

    Local council

The local council in Wendlingen has 22 members. The mayor is the president of the local council and has one vote. Communal elections in Baden-Württemberg 2014 had the following official results.

Notable people

  • Marianne Erdrich-Sommer, German politician, former member of Landtag, Kreistagsabgeordnete, lives in Wendlingen
  • Matthias Landfried, German national table-tennis trainer
  • Andrea Barth, World champion, Europe champion, German champion in one wheel art cycling
  • Werner Utter, chef-pilot of Lufthansa
  • Erwin Behr, entrepreneur for furniture, first producer of wall units
  • Robert Otto, manager of Heinrich Otto & Söhne company in Unterboihingen, first cotton spinning in Württemberg
  • Alfred Kleefeldt,, German athlete, competing in 5000 meters

    International relations

Wendlingen is twinned with: