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WITTENBURG
Most Famous People Born in Wittenburg, Germany
- Notable people
- 322
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1856
- Most distinctive
- Theologian 18.0×
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Wittenburg during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Wittenburg Is Known For
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Politician is Wittenburg's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (38).
Wittenburg over-indexes on theologian — 18.0× the global rate.
Wittenburg under-produces actor — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Wittenburg's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber
1804 - 1891
Ernst Chladni
1756 - 1827
Lucas Cranach the Younger
1515 - 1586
Ernst Heinrich Weber
1795 - 1878
Walther Wenck
1900 - 1982
Paul Luther
1533 - 1593
Hermann Reinecke
1888 - 1973
Abraham Vater
1684 - 1751
Bert Grabsch
Born 1975
Hans Cranach
1513 - 1537
Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg
1284 - 1356
Albrecht von Bernstorff
1809 - 1873
Albert II, Duke of Saxony
1250 - 1298
Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
1805 - 1860
Benedikt Carpzov der Jüngere
1595 - 1666
Max Fürbringer
1846 - 1920
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg
1337 - 1388
Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg
1373 - 1419
Johann Martin Chladenius
1710 - 1759
Annemarie Eilfeld
Born 1990
Uwe Raab
Born 1962
Harald Ringstorff
1939 - 2020
Augustin Friedrich Walther
1688 - 1746
Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg
1373 - 1422
Rudolf II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg
1307 - 1370
Annerose Schmidt
Born 1936
Theodor Kliefoth
1810 - 1895
Käte Bosse-Griffiths
1910 - 1998
Joachim Mörlin
1514 - 1571
Rudolph Goclenius the Younger
1572 - 1621
Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch
1790 - 1861
Eduard Weber
1806 - 1871
August Zeune
1778 - 1853
Heinz Gerischer
1919 - 1994
Friedrich August Körnicke
1828 - 1908
Hans Lorbeer
1901 - 1973
Ines Papert
Born 1974
Horst Niendorf
1926 - 1999
Matthias Fahrig
Born 1985
Caspar Cruciger the Younger
1525 - 1597
Ralf Grabsch
Born 1973
Franz Anton
Born 1989
Friedrich Gottlieb Barth
1738 - 1794
Manuela Mucke
Born 1975
Adelheid Dietrich
1827 - 1891
Karl Ludwig Nitzsch
1751 - 1831
Polykarp Leyser II
1586 - 1633
Magdalena Luther
1529 - 1542
Aegidius Strauch II
1632 - 1682
Eduard Wunder
1800 - 1869
Johann Friedrich Erdmann
1778 - 1846
Christian Ludwig Liscow
1701 - 1760
Marcus Fischer
Born 1980
Johann Christian Wernsdorf
1723 - 1793
Erich Reusch
1925 - 2019
Bernd Baumgart
Born 1955
Daniel Rogers (diplomat)
1538 - 1591
Augustin Cranach
1554 - 1595
Maximilian Mörlin
1516 - 1584
Thea Schleusner
1879 - 1964
Sybille Schönrock
Born 1964
Justus Jonas der Jüngere
1525 - 1567
Michael Ohnesorge
Born 1983
Paul Stein (entomologist)
1852 - 1921
Karsten Bindrich
Born 1973
Lothar Meister
Born 1931
Moritz Ludwig Seyffert
1809 - 1872
Karl August Traugott Vogt
1808 - 1869
Ernst Friedrich Werndorf
1718 - 1782
Hermann Dorner
1882 - 1963
Claudia Wenzel
Born 1959
Hans Franck (Schriftsteller)
1879 - 1964
Ferdinand Trautmann
1833 - 1902
Christian Tschirner
Born 1969
Gottlieb Wernsdorf II
1717 - 1774
Andreas Sennert
1606 - 1689
Constanze Behrends
Born 1981
Wilhelm Halfmann
1896 - 1964
Ludwig Person
1555 - 1607
André Herrmann
Born 1986
Karl Gottfried Erdmann
1774 - 1835
Johannes Bugenhagen der Jüngere
1527 - 1594
Joachim Frederik Bernstorff
1771 - 1835
Thomas Birk
Born 1988
Ursula Kurz
1923 - 2018
Hans Otfried von Linstow
1899 - 1944
Paul Gottfried Sperling
1652 - 1709
Antje Wagner
Born 1974
Uve Schmidt
Born 1939
Guido Behling
Born 1964
Bernard Yurke
Born 1951
Else Hertzer
1884 - 1978
Christian Kuchenbuch
Born 1964
Margarete von Kunheim
1534 - 1570
Justin Neumann
Born 1998
Katrin Rönicke
Born 1982
Frantz Wittkamp
Born 1943
Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg
1912 - 1975
Benjamin Girke
Born 1988
Lucas Cranach III.
1586 - 1645
Paul Bosse
1881 - 1947
Olaf Rieck
Born 1964
Elisabeth Luther
1527 - 1528
Christian Brück
1516 - 1567
Adolf Karl Kunzen
1720 - 1781
Augustin Leyser
1683 - 1752
Caroline Müller (Handballspielerin)
Born 1993
Ruprecht Eser
Born 1943
Robert Kuchenbuch
Born 1967
Albert Wilkening
1909 - 1990
Henriette Gödde
Born 1986
Aegidius Strauch I.
1583 - 1657
Pascal Pannier
Born 1998
Frank-Michael Pietzsch
Born 1942
Juliane C. Wilmanns
1945 - 2008
Helmut Kraatz
1902 - 1983
Martin Eckermann
1930 - 2005
Christian Donati
1640 - 1694
Johannes Güthling
1903 - 1979
Erich Graf von Bernstorff
1883 - 1968
Hans von Dehn-Rothfelser
1500 - 1561
Melchior Junius
1545 - 1604
Johann Georg Zimmermann (Postkommissar)
1680 - 1734
Moritz Blum
1596 - 1626
Hans Arnold (Bildhauer)
1860 - 1913
Karl Gottlieb Anton
1778 - 1861
Wilhelm Leyser II.
1628 - 1689
Sepp Müller
Born 1989
Bernd Lindner (Kultursoziologe)
Born 1952
Werner Ende
Born 1937
Ernst Martin Chladni
1715 - 1782
Hans Rietschel
1878 - 1970
Helmut Rippl
Born 1925
Gustav von Golz
1833 - 1908
Margret Seemann
Born 1961
Franz Thedieck (Jurist)
1947 - 2017
Bartholomäus Schönborn
1530 - 1585
Karl-Hans Arndt
1935 - 2012
Christoph Heinrich von Berger
1687 - 1737
Klaus Michael
Born 1959
Valentin Forster
1530 - 1609
Torsten Kühnemund
Born 1964
Gerhard Commichau
1933 - 2019
Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier
1673 - 1759
Barbara di Sassonia-Wittenberg
1405 - 1465
Julia Hönemann
Born 1987
Kurt Mosert
1907 - 1934
Konrad Carpzov
1593 - 1658
Karl von Stumpff (Offizier)
1858 - 1936
Johann Michael
1638 - 1718
Tobias Falberg
Born 1976
Carl Eschebach
1842 - 1905
August Wilhelm Hunzinger
1871 - 1920
Karl August Tittmann
1775 - 1834
Michael Friedrich Lederer
1639 - 1674
Michael Strauch
1635 - 1709
Mathias Tietke
Born 1959
Max Rötger (Beamter, 1860)
1860 - 1923
Max Weiß
1874 - 1944
Gottlieb Leuchtenberger
1839 - 1914
Ulrich Petzold
Born 1951
Richard Wiener
Born 1927
Friedrich Ludwig von Berger
1701 - 1735
Eckhard Naumann
Born 1947
Werner Haseleu
1935 - 2012
Heinrich Kühne
1910 - 2003
Johann Heinrich Mücke
1735 - 1799
Georg Nymmann
1592 - 1638
Friedrich Wilhelm Tittmann
1784 - 1864
Johann Gottfried Brendel
1712 - 1758
Werner von Bülow
1898 - 1943
Julius Schweikert
1807 - 1876
Peter Benedix (Dokumentarfilmer)
Born 1980
Georg Sigismund Green der Ältere
1673 - 1734
Johannes Garcaeus der Jüngere
1530 - 1574
Johanne Friederike Lohmann
1749 - 1811
Carl Christian Horvath
1752 - 1837
Otto Vitense (Pädagoge)
1880 - 1948
Benedikt Pauli
1490 - 1552
Matthäus Blöchinger
1520 - 1584
Walter Lutze
1891 - 1980
Georg Michael Heber
1652 - 1702
Johann Strauch I.
1588 - 1639
Herbert Sennewald
Born 1905
Gerhard Bartels
Born 1949
Georg Friedrich Kraus
1718 - 1784
Joachim Bernhard Nicolaus Hacker
1760 - 1817
Gottfried Meisner
1618 - 1690
Johann Stoltz
1514 - 1556
Willy Weyhrauch
Born 1994
Curt Schlettwein
1879 - 1965
Günther Kaphammel
1926 - 2002
Gottfried Strauß
1641 - 1706
Kai Pohl
Born 1964
Adolf Boettge
1848 - 1913
Christian Taubmann
1597 - 1651
Christian Groß (Theologe)
1601 - 1673
Ägidius Hunnius der Jüngere
1594 - 1642
Jürgen Storost
Born 1940
Heinrich Gottfried Haferung
1713 - 1759
Anne Becker
Born 1989
Johann August von Berger
1702 - 1770
Carl Otto Müller (Jurist)
1819 - 1898
Gottfried Suevus der Jüngere
1652 - 1718
André Kudernatsch
Born 1970
Walter Dreizner
1908 - 1996
Johann Gottlieb Hauptmann
1703 - 1768
Benjamin Gottlieb Lorenz Boden
1737 - 1782
Karl Kraepelin (Schauspieler)
1817 - 1882
Gisela Gneist
1930 - 2007
Ernst Christian Schröder
1675 - 1758
Gerhard Kettmann
1928 - 2009
Hermann Strunk
1882 - 1933
Ilse Neumann
1890 - 1933
Wolfgang Sämann
Born 1940
Reinhold Franckenberger
1585 - 1664
Georg Friedrich Wiesand
1777 - 1842
Michael Sennert
1615 - 1691
Kurt Lemcke
1914 - 2003
Albert Giese (Linguist)
1803 - 1834
Johann Christoph Neide
1681 - 1754
Prista Frühbottin
1490 - 1540
Siegfried Gericke
1901 - 1987
Christian Gottlieb Hommel
1737 - 1802
Christian August Langguth
1754 - 1814
Johann Christoph Heintze
1696 - 1747
Georg Johann Simon Dreves
1774 - 1832
Anna Melanchthon
1522 - 1547
Johann von Preen
Died 1461
Christian Gottlieb Kluge der Jüngere
1742 - 1824
Friedrich Wetzel (SS-Mitglied)
1909 - 1951
Johann Augustin Köselitz
1721 - 1790
Georg David Ziegra
1653 - 1724
Otto Metterhausen
1861 - 1943
Christian Hanack
1692 - 1765
Detlev Friedrich Dreves
1776 - 1843
Johannes Rotlöben
1593 - 1649
Werner Marquardt
1922 - 2001
Caspar Pezel
1579 - 1634
Johann Abraham Mayer
1684 - 1726
Johann Bartholomäus Krüger
1608 - 1638
Frank Scheurell
Born 1962
Torsten Schneider
Born 1969
Christian Friedrich Franke
1767 - 1794
Friedrich August Fischer
1727 - 1787
Salomo Konstantin Titius
1766 - 1801
Gottfried Reinhold Köselitz
1692 - 1754
Matthias Gärtner
Born 1972
Johann Ludolph Quenstedt
1663 - 1714
Ernst Gottfried Christian Klügel
1737 - 1819
Johann Caspar Ludwig Mencke
1752 - 1795
Hans Wagner (Philatelist)
1852 - 1940
Johann Bartholomäus Reusner
1613 - 1660
Tobias Tilemann
1584 - 1614
Dirk Hanus
Born 1962
Thomas Höse
Born 1967
Maren Günther
Born 1931
Johann Gottfried Pilarik
1705 - 1764
Katrin Pannicke
Born 1968
Johann Gottlieb Horwein
1709 - 1770
Björn Lakenmacher
Born 1975
Hermann Trautmann
1842 - 1926
Walter Kühn
Born 1902
Helmut Strehl
1931 - 2019
Gerhard Piontek
Born 1939
Johann Burckhardt von Wichmannshausen
1710 - 1771
Clemens Ernsting
Born 1991
Matthias Lieschke
Born 1970
Walter Corsep
1862 - 1944
Johann Adolph Heinlein
1798 - 1829
Christoph Heinrich (Sänger)
Born 1985
Arthur Lambert
1891 - 1983
Peter B. Lorre
Born 1984
Peter Jenne
1921 - 1945
Ruprecht Langer
Born 1984
Curt Bley
1910 - 1961
Klaus Krupa
Born 1935
Johann Gottlieb Rintsch
1788 - 1867
Matthias Oldag
Born 1954
Bruno Wittig
1885 - 1973
Wilhelm Baarck
Born 1887
Matthias Friedrich
Born 1960
Cuno von Bassewitz
1856 - 1930
Gerhard Dornbusch
1910 - 1976
Fritz Simon
1904 - 1931
Bert Flemming
Born 1944
Paul Schwarze
1888 - 1943
Johannes Kwaschik
Born 1948
Jan Suski
Born 1964
Curt Schulze
1881 - 1966
Cassandra Engel
Born 1986
Robert Schlüter
1892 - 1980
Torsten Zugehör
Born 1972
Katharina Stahn
Born 1983
Gustav Melkert
1890 - 1943
Paul Leonhardt
1852 - 1927
Ron Dohanetz
Born 1980
Helmut Morche
Born 1930
Nico Burkhardt
Born 1984
Uwe Loos
Born 1963