Wendlingen 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 (commissarial)
• 1945–1946: Rudolf Bisterfeld (commissarial)
• 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.

Political parties and community voters		% 2014	Sitze 2014	% 2009	Sitze 2009
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	34,75	8	29,0	6
Greens	Alliance '90/The Greens	23,39	5	23,2	5
FW	Free voters Baden-Württemberg	22,83	5	25,5	6
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	19,03	4	22,3	5
Total		100,0	22	100,0	22
Voter turnout		47,16%		49,3%

Notable people

• Marianne Erdrich-Sommer (born 1952), German politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), former member of Landtag, Kreistagsabgeordnete, lives in Wendlingen
• Matthias Landfried (born 1975), German national table-tennis trainer
• Andrea Barth (born 1972), World champion, Europe champion, German champion in one wheel art cycling
• Werner Utter (1921–2006), chef-pilot of Lufthansa
• Erwin Behr (1857–1931), 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, (born 1933), German athlete, competing in 5000 meters

International relations

Wendlingen is twinned with:

• – Dorog, Hungary
• – Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, France
• – Millstatt, Austria