Heilmann

Heilmann is a German language 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 (Mülhausen in German), a city now in the Alsace 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 embroidery machine. 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.