Albert was born at Ansbach and, having lost his father Casimir in 1527, he came under the guardianship of his uncle George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, a strong adherent of Protestantism.

Albert was born in Ansbach in Franconia as the third son of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

Anne was in turn the eldest daughter of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach.

He was the second and last Prussian duke of the Ansbach branch of the Hohenzollern family.

In 1792 Ansbach was annexed by the Hohenzollerns of Prussia.

In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken, Maximilian Joseph, the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zweibrücken had been taken by the French.

At the end of the 17th century, the margraves ' palace at Ansbach was rebuilt in Baroque style.

Ansbach was a small town largely by-passed by the Industrial Revolution, an administrative and cultural center.

Although all bridges were destroyed, the historical center of Ansbach was spared during World War II and it has kept its baroque character.

Ansbach was also home to the headquarters of the 1st Armored Division ( United States ) from 1972 to the early1990s.

* Ansbach was home of the astronomer Simon Marius, who observed Jupiter's moons from the castle's tower.

* Ansbach was the birthplace of the early chemist, Georg Ernst Stahl.

* Queen Caroline, consort of King George II of Great Britain was born in Ansbach in 1683.

* Ansbach was the birthplace of the pre-Linnean botanist, Georg Christian Oeder.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

* Also the Bavarian Major General and War Minister Moritz Ritter von Spies ( 1805 – 1862 ) was born in Ansbach.

* Hermann Fegelein SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant and Adolf Hitler's brother in law was a great admirer of his birthplace, Ansbach.

* Pinchas Kohn was the last rabbi of Ansbach.

Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth ( also known as Frederick V ; or ; 8 May 1460 – 4 April 1536 ) was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of the Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony.

George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach () ( April 5, 1539, Ansbach – April 25, 1603 ) was Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth, as well as Regent of Prussia.

He was born in Ansbach, the third of eight sons of Margrave Frederick the Elder and his wife Sophia of Poland, daughter of Casimir IV of Poland and Elisabeth of Habsburg.

As his father then ruled as Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( from 1457 also as Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ), he was born at the Hohenzollern residence of Ansbach in Franconia, where he spent his childhood years until in 1466 he received the call to Brandenburg as presumed heir by his uncle Elector Frederick II.

* March 1 – Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain ( d. 1737 ); her birthdate was associated with Saint David's Day, for example in plate 4 of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress

Ansbach hosts several units of the U. S. armed forces, associated with German units under NATO.

Her father, John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, was the ruler of a small German state, the Principality of Ansbach, and she belonged to a branch of the House of Hohenzollern.

Another 4, 000 Huguenots settled in the German territories of Baden, Franconia ( Principality of Bayreuth, Principality of Ansbach ), Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, Duchy of Württemberg, in the Wetterau Association of Imperial Counts, in Electoral Palatinate and Palatinate-Zweibrücken, in the Rhine-Main-Area ( Frankfurt ), in modern-day Saarland and 1, 500 found refuge in Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony.

* November 10 – German Bowl I – Frankfurter Löwen defeated the Ansbach Grizzlies 14-8.

A portion of the accident scene for Ansbach, Germany incident response exercise for U. S. and German emergency responders, October 2007.

In 1979, the American Football Bundesliga, later to be renamed the German Football League, was formed, consisting of six clubs, the Frankfurter Löwen, Ansbach Grizzlies, Düsseldorf Panther, Munich Cowboys, Berlin Bears and Bremerhaven Seahawks.

The early years of the league were dominated by two teams, Frankfurt and Ansbach, who met each other in the first three editions of the German Bowl.

The era of the Frankfurter Löwen was hereby ended and the club went defunct in the mid-1980s, while the Ansbach Grizzlies continued to be an outstanding team, playing in all of the first eight German Bowls.

In 1979, the American Football Bundesliga, later to be renamed the German Football League, was formed, consisting of six clubs, the Frankfurter Löwen, Ansbach Grizzlies, Düsseldorf Panther, Munich Cowboys, Berlin Bears und Bremerhaven Seahawks.

The early years of the league were dominated by two teams, Frankfurt and Ansbach, who met each other in the first three editions of the German Bowl.

The era of the Frankfurter Löwen was hereby ended and the club went defunct in the mid-1980s, while the Ansbach Grizzlies continued to be an outstanding team, playing in all of the first eight German Bowls.

In 1979, the American Football Bundesliga, later to be renamed the German Football League, was formed, consisting of six clubs, the Düsseldorf Panther, Frankfurter Löwen, Ansbach Grizzlies, Munich Cowboys, Berlin Bears and Bremerhaven Seahawks.

From 1982 to 1986, the league stood under the dominance of the Panthers and the Ansbach Grizzlies, who played each other in four consecutive German Bowls, with the Panthers winning all but the 1985 one.

Johann Peter Uz ( October 3, 1720 – May 12, 1796 ), German poet, was born at Ansbach.

Adam was born in Ansbach, joining the German Army in 1897, and serving in Bavarian telegraph and Communication units before being detached to the Bavarian War Academy in 1907.

Heilsbronn is a town in the Ansbach district of the Mittelfranken administrative region of Franconia, in the German state of Bavaria between Nuremberg and Ansbach, in the wooded valley of the Rangau.

Category: People from the Principality of Ansbach

Category: People from Ansbach

Jewish families were resident in Ansbach from at least the end of the 18th century.

In 1940, at least 500 patients were deported from the Heil-und Pflegeanstalt Ansbach Medical and Nursing Clinic to the extermination facilities Sonnenstein and Hartheim which were disguised as psychiatric institutions, as part of the T4 euthanasia action.

* Kaspar Hauser lived in Ansbach from 1830 to 1833.

# John Albert ( 20 September 1499, Ansbach – 17 May 1550, Halle ), Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1545 to 1550.

Category: People from Ansbach

Category: People from Ansbach

Category: People from Ansbach

* 1777 – Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.

After he returned to Nuremberg, he divided the inheritance from his father with his brother John, who received Bayreuth, while Frederick kept Ansbach.

In 1769 Margrave Charles Alexander, from the Ansbach line of Frankish Hohenzollerns, followed the childless Frederick Christian and Bayreuth was reduced to a secondary residence.

Following the abdication of the last Margrave, Charles Alexander, from the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth on 2 December 1791 its territories became part of a Prussian province.

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Category: People from the Principality of Ansbach

Prince William Augustus ( 26 April 1721 < small >< nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki ></ small > – 31 October 1765 ), was a younger son of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach, and Duke of Cumberland from 1726.

Category: People from the Principality of Ansbach

He travelled through Ansbach, Amberg, Neumarkt, and Waldsassen, where he was met by representatives from the Bohemian Estates.

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Category: People from Ansbach

Neighboring districts are ( from north-west clockwise ) Miltenberg, Main-Spessart, Würzburg, Neustadt ( Aisch )- Bad Windsheim and Ansbach ( all in Bavaria ), and the districts of Schwäbisch Hall, Hohenlohe and Neckar-Odenwald.

Neighboring districts are ( from the north clockwise ) Schwäbisch Hall, Ansbach, Donau-Ries, Heidenheim, Göppingen and Rems-Murr.