List of Famous people born in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Joscha Wosz
Joscha Wosz is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for RB Leipzig.
Erik Neutsch
Erik Neutsch was one of the most successful writers in East Germany.
Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg
Albert III was Elector of Brandenburg from 1471 until his death, the third from the House of Hohenzollern. A member of the Order of the Swan, he received the cognomen Achilles because of his knightly qualities and virtues. He also ruled in the Franconian principalities of Ansbach from 1440 and Kulmbach from 1464.
Ingolf Gorges
Ingolf Gorges (1940–2008) was a German stage, film and television actor. Based in East Germany, he appeared in a number of DEFA films during the 1960s.
Michael Naumann
Michael Naumann is a German politician, publisher and journalist. He was the German secretary of culture from 1998 until 2001. He is married to Marie Warburg, daughter of Eric Warburg and granddaughter of Max Warburg.
Johannes Hassebroek
Johannes Hassebroek was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. He served as a commandant of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp and its sub-camps from October 1943 till the end of the war. Hassebroek was tried for his crimes by the British occupational authorities, convicted to life imprisonment, and released in 1954. The later prosecution by the West German authorities proved unsuccessful.
Oswald Spengler
Oswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art and their relation to his cyclical theory of history. He is best known for his two-volume work, The Decline of the West, published in 1918 and 1922, covering all of world history. Spengler's model of history postulates that any culture is a superorganism with a limited and predictable lifespan.
Reinhard Höppner
Reinhard Höppner was a German politician (SPD). and writer.
Paul Seguin
Paul Seguin is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Greuther Fürth.
Georg Kaiser
Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, called Georg Kaiser, was a German dramatist.