List of personalities of the city of Halle (Saale)

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This list contains important personalities who lived and worked in Halle (Saale) without being born in the city itself. People born there are included in the list of sons and daughters of the city of Halle (Saale) .

Honorary citizen

mayor

15th century

  • Matthias Grünewald , actually Mathis Gothart-Nithart (* 1475 or 1480 in Würzburg, † August 31, 1528 in Halle ad Saale), painter and graphic artist

16th Century

  • Melchior Kling (born December 1, 1504 in Steinau an der Strasse, † February 21, 1571 in Halle (Saale)), German lawyer and legal scholar
  • Nickel Hoffmann (* around 1510; † 1592), sculptor, stonemason and foreman, was a council builder in Halle (Saale) , created, among other things, the Stadtgottesacker , the old town hall and contributed to the completion of the market church .
  • Sebastian Boetius (born January 19, 1515 in Guben; † June 8, 1573 in Halle (Saale)), Protestant theologian
  • Adam Siber (born September 8, 1516 in Schönau, † September 24, 1584 in Grimma) German humanist and educator
  • Kaspar Eberhard (born March 21, 1523 in Schneeberg, † October 21, 1575 in Wittenberg), German Lutheran theologian and educator
  • Christoph Caesar (born April 24, 1540 in Preußisch Eylau; † August 16, 1604 in Halle an der Saale), educator and poet, 1683-1604 rector of the Lutheran grammar school
  • Johannes Olearius (born September 17, 1546 in Wesel, † January 26, 1623 in Halle (Saale)), Lutheran theologian and philologist, ancestor of the Olearius family of scholars, since 1581 active in Halle as pastor and superintendent
  • Kilian Stisser (born March 23, 1562 in Eisleben, † January 9, 1620 in Halle), German lawyer and chancellor of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg
  • Christian Gueintz (born October 13, 1592 in Kohlo near Guben; † April 3, 1650 in Halle), educator and language reformer
  • Konrad Carpzov (born July 11, 1593 in Wittenberg; † February 12, 1658 in Halle (Saale)), legal scholar and statesman

17th century

  • David Pohle (* 1624 in Marienberg; † December 20, 1695 in Merseburg), composer, from 1661 to 1678 "Princely Capellmeister" at the court of Duke August von Halle-Weißenfels
  • Gottfried von Jena (born November 20, 1624 in Zerbst / Anhalt; † January 8, 1703 in Halle), Chancellor of the Duchy of Magdeburg, founder of the Jenastift on May 14, 1703, a foundation for single noble women; first curator of the Friedrichs University Halle, today's Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • Samuel Stryk (born November 22, 1640 in Lenzen; † July 23, 1710 in Halle (Saale)), German lawyer
  • Christian Thomasius (born January 1, 1655 in Leipzig, † September 23, 1728 in Halle), lawyer and philosopher
  • Johann Jänichen (born September 29, 1659 in Kamenz, † October 10, 1731 in Halle), German educator and poet
  • Paul Anton (born February 12, 1661 in Hirschfelde, Oberlausitz, † October 19, 1730 in Halle (Saale)), German Protestant theologian, at the University of Halle since 1695
  • August Hermann Francke (born March 22, 1663 in Lübeck; † June 8, 1727 in Halle), Pietist, theologian and social pedagogue, founder of the Francke Foundations
  • Gottfried Vockerodt (born September 24, 1665 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia; † October 10, 1727 in Gotha) German educator, vice principal of the grammar school in Halle from 1689 to 1693
  • Carl Hildebrand Freiherr von Canstein (born August 4, 1667 at Gut Lindenberg / Mark Brandenburg; † August 19, 1719 in Berlin), Brandenburg court official and founder of the Canstein Bible Institute, the oldest Bible Society in the world.
  • Johann Peter von Ludewig (born August 5, 1668 in Honhardt; † September 7, 1743 in Halle), professor of theoretical philosophy, history and law at the University of Halle; 1721 Chancellor of the University of Halle, 1741 Chancellor of the government of the Duchy of Magdeburg, author of the state manual for the German territories Germania Princeps ; Namesake of Ludwigstrasse in Halle
  • Joachim Lange (born October 26, 1670 in Gardelegen, † May 7, 1744 in Halle), pietistic theologian.
  • Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen (born December 2, 1670 in Gandersheim, † February 12, 1739 in Halle (Saale)), influential theologian of the pietistic Hallesche Schule, the second director of the Francke Foundations .
  • Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling (born February 25, 1671 in Kirchensittenbach; † December 9, 1729 in Magdeburg), polyhistor, main representative of the Hallische Staatsrechtlichen-historical school and co-founder of the teaching of intellectual property
  • Martin Knobloch (born January 18, 1684 in Mötzig; † September 30, 1759 in Wurzen), German educator and Protestant theologian
  • Samuel Lenz (born March 8, 1686 in Stendal; † May 14, 1776 in Halle), historian, lawyer and university professor; lived in Halle, wrote and died there
  • Johann Heinrich Schulze (born May 12, 1687 in Colbitz; † October 10, 1744 in Halle (Saale)), universal scholar, discoverer of the sensitivity of silver salts to light, numismatist, professor at the University of Halle

18th century

  • Anton Wilhelm Amo (* around 1703 in Nkubeam near Axim , today Ghana ; † after 1753 probably in today's Ghana) first well-known philosopher and legal scholar of African origin in Germany
  • Johann Georg Knapp (born December 27, 1705 in Öhringen; † July 30, 1771 in Halle (Saale)), Lutheran theologian
  • Adam Struensee (born September 8, 1708 in Neuruppin; † June 20, 1791 in Rendsburg), 1732–1757 pastor and professor of theology
  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - the "Hallesche Bach" - (born November 22, 1710 in Weimar; † July 1, 1784 in Berlin), 1746 to 1764 music director and organist of the Marienkirche, head of the Stadtsingechore , his house on Hallorenring, corner of Domstrasse is still receive.
  • Dorothea Christiane Erxleben , b. Leporin (born November 13, 1715 in Quedlinburg; † July 13, 1762 ibid), was the first woman in Germany to receive a doctorate. med. at the University of Halle
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Richter (born February 14, 1727 in Halle (Saale); † July 27, 1791 in Braunschweig), general superintendent of the Principality of Wolfenbüttel.
  • Ernst Ferdinand Klein (born September 3, 1744 in Breslau; † March 18, 1810 in Berlin), Prussian judicial reformer, editor and philosopher, studied in Halle from 1763 and taught from 1791–1800 as a full professor of the law faculty, temporarily also university director
  • Daniel Gottlob Türk (born August 10, 1750 in Chemnitz, † August 26, 1813 in Halle); Organist and composer
  • Johann Friedrich Reichardt (born November 25, 1752 in Königsberg / Prussia, † June 27, 1814 in Giebichenstein near Halle), composer and music writer
  • Michael Weber (theologian) (born December 8, 1754 in Gröben; † August 1, 1833 in Halle (Saale)), Protestant theologian and professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg
  • Gabriel Wilhelm Keferstein (born September 16, 1755 in Kröllwitz, † June 16, 1816 in Halle), councilor and mayor
  • Philipp Friedrich Theodor Meckel (born April 30, 1755 in Berlin, † March 17, 1803 in Halle), surgeon
  • Johann Christian Reil (born February 20, 1759 in Rhaude (East Friesland); † November 22, 1813 in Halle), doctor and professor in Halle, invented the term “psychiatry” in 1808, which quickly became “psychiatry”.
  • Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths , also Guts Muths or Gutsmuths (born August 9, 1759 in Quedlinburg; † May 21, 1839 in Ibenhain), teacher and co-founder of gymnastics, studied theology in Halle
  • Gottfried Fähse (born August 24, 1764 in Schleesen; † May 29, 1831 in Jüterbog), German classical philologist and educator
  • Friedrich Schleiermacher (born November 21, 1768 in Breslau, † February 12, 1834 in Berlin), Protestant theologian
  • Christian Ludwig Nitzsch (born September 3, 1782 in Beucha; † August 16, 1837 in Halle (Saale)), biologist
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Wäldner (born June 8, 1785 in Olbersleben; † March 14, 1852 in Olbersleben) and son August Ferdinand Wäldner (1817–1905), organ builder in Halle (Saale) from 1817 to about 1897, builder of the large organ in Halleschen Dom
  • Peter David Krukenberg (born February 14, 1787 in Königslutter, † December 13, 1865 in Halle / Saale), a German pathologist
  • Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff (born March 10, 1788 Lubowitz Castle near Ratibor; Upper Silesia; † November 26, 1857 in Neisse) was an important poet and writer of German Romanticism. He studied in Halle, poems and the story "Die Glücksritter" were written in Halle.
  • Johann August Jacobs (born April 27, 1788 in Pietzpuhl, † December 21, 1829 in Halle), German philologist and university professor, director of the Francke Foundations and inspector of the local pedagogy

19th century

  • Gustav Kramer (born April 1, 1806 in Halberstadt, † July 31, 1888 in Halle), German philologist, theologian and educator
  • Ludwig Krahmer (born September 13, 1810 in Hunnesrück, † December 20, 1895), German pharmacologist
  • Otto Eduard Vincenz Ule (born January 22, 1820 in Lossow (Frankfurt); † August 7, 1876 in Halle (Saale)), scientific writer
  • Carl Adolf Riebeck (born September 27, 1821 in Clausthal; † January 28, 1883 in Halle), industrialist and mining entrepreneur, founder of A. Riebeck'sche Montanwerke .
  • Bernhard von Gudden (born June 7, 1824 in Kleve; † June 13, 1886), psychiatrist and court doctor to King Ludwig II, was a doctoral student in Halle
  • Julius Kühn (born October 23, 1825 in Pulsnitz / Oberlausitz; † April 14, 1910 in Halle), founder and designer of university studies in agricultural sciences in Germany
  • Julius Opel (born July 17, 1829 in Loitzschütz; † February 17, 1895 in Halle), educator and historian, teacher at the city high school and member of the city council of Halle
  • Richard von Volkmann (born August 17, 1830 in Leipzig, † November 28, 1889 in Jena), surgeon and poet.
  • Martin Kähler (born January 6, 1835 in Neuhausen near Königsberg; † September 7, 1912 in Freudenstadt (Black Forest)), Evangelical Lutheran senior pastor and consistorial councilor
  • Paul von Gersdorf (born June 24, 1835 in Neustettin; † July 28, 1915 in Cummersdorf), parish bishop of the Catholic Apostolic Church ( angel )
  • Hermann Nietschmann (pseudonym: Armin Stein; born January 11, 1840 in Neutz-Lettewitz; † November 27, 1929 in Halle), Protestant pastor, writer and composer.
  • Victor Lwowski (born November 24, 1841 in Alt Karmunkau, Upper Silesia, † August 23, 1917 in Halle), city councilor, engineer and machine manufacturer
  • Paul Kramer (born December 3, 1842 in Berlin, † October 30, 1898 in Magdeburg), German educator
  • Georg Cantor (born March 3, 1845 in Saint Petersburg, † January 6, 1918 in Halle (Saale)), mathematician, founder of set theory
  • Wilhelm Fries (born October 23, 1845 in Landeshut (Silesia), † September 18, 1928 in Halle), German philologist and educator
  • Hans Vaihinger (born September 25, 1852 in Nehren near Tübingen, † December 18, 1933 in Halle / Saale) was a German philosopher and Kant researcher; Main work "The Philosophy of As Obs. System of theoretical, practical and religious fictions of mankind based on idealistic positivism. With an appendix on Kant and Nietzsche", 1911.
  • Rudolf Disselhorst (born January 4, 1854 in Rinteln / Weser, † January 28, 1930 in Halle), German veterinarian, physician and university professor, member of the Leopoldina
  • Emil Löwenhardt (* 1858 in Nietleben; † 1941 in Halle), chemist, teacher and textbook author, from 1921 rector of the municipal high school
  • Bruno Baentsch (born March 25, 1859 in Halle (Saale); † October 27, 1908), Protestant theologian
  • Edmund Husserl (born April 8, 1859 in Proßnitz; Moravia; † April 27, 1938 in Freiburg im Breisgau), philosopher and mathematician, founder of phenomenology
  • Paul Riebeck (born October 9, 1859 in Weißenfels, † October 10, 1889 in Yokohama, Japan), son of Carl Adolf Riebeck, chemist, entrepreneur and founder of the Paul Riebeck Foundation for the elderly and the sick and builder of the Paul Riebeck Pen .
  • Max Richards (born October 19, 1859 in Leipzig, † 1932), German theater actor, opera singer (tenor), theater director and director. Namesake of Max-Richards-Strasse.
  • Lyonel Feininger (born July 17, 1871 in New York; † January 13, 1956 in New York), German-American painter and graphic artist, he created major works in Halle from 1930 to 1931
  • Otto Schlueter (born November 12, 1872 in Witten / Ruhr; † October 12, 1959 in Halle), geographer, professor in Halle in 1911, president of the Leopoldina in 1952
  • Wilhelm Jost (born November 2, 1874 in Darmstadt; † June 6, 1944 in Lohdorf bei Hohensalza), German architect and construction officer, 1912–1939 city planning officer in Halle
  • Max Schneider (born July 20, 1875 in Eisleben, † May 5, 1967 in Halle) music historian, professor at MLU .
  • Georg Paul Baesecke (born January 13, 1876 in Braunschweig, † May 1, 1951 in Halle / Saale) was a German Germanic Medievalist. He was professor and director of the seminar for German philology at the University of Halle.
  • Emil Abderhalden (born March 9, 1877 in Oberuzwil; † August 5, 1950 in Zurich), Swiss physiologist, biochemist, professor at the University of Halle, 1932–1950 President of the Leopoldina
  • Paul Thiersch (born May 2, 1879 in Munich, † November 15, 1928 in Hanover), architect and from 1915 to 1928 director of Burg Giebichenstein , today Halle University of Art and Design
  • Max Sauerlandt (born February 6, 1880 in Berlin, † January 1, 1934 in Hamburg), director of the Städtisches Museum Halle from 1908 to 1919, important art historian and museum director
  • Felix Graf von Luckner (born June 9, 1881 in Dresden; April 13, 1966 in Malmö), prevented the bombing of Halle in April 1945
  • Erwin Hahs (born July 27, 1887 in Berlin; † March 31, 1970 in Zernsdorf), painter, graphic artist and professor at Burg Giebichenstein Halle
  • Walter Hülse (born August 16, 1887 in Guttenfeld; † probably 1958), doctor and from 1945 to 1946 Vice President of the Province of Saxony
  • Frida Leider (born April 18, 1888 in Berlin; † June 4, 1975 there), soprano, received her first engagement in Halle
  • Karl Müller (born November 17, 1888 in Berlin, † May 2, 1972 in Halle (Saale)); Metal sculptor, product designer and professor at the Burg Giebichenstein Art School
  • Curt Goetz (born November 17, 1888 in Mainz, † September 12, 1960 in Grabs, Canton St. Gallen, Switzerland), German - Swiss writer and actor , grew up in Halle
  • Walter Draeger (born December 14, 1888 in Batzlow (Brandenburg), † January 24, 1976 in Weimar), German composer and university professor, one of the initiators of the Hallische Musiktage
  • Gerhard Marcks (born February 18, 1889 in Berlin; † November 13, 1981 in Burgbroh / Eifel), professor of sculpture at Burg Giebichenstein , acting director there from 1928 to 1933
  • Oswald Boelcke (born May 19, 1891 in Giebichenstein; † October 28, 1916 near Bapaume, Somme, France), fighter pilot in World War I , pioneer of aerial combat tactics
  • Hans Finsler (born December 7, 1891 in Heilbronn; † April 3, 1972 in Zurich), photographer, lecturer in photography until 1932 at Giebichenstein Castle
  • Hanns Freydank (born December 26, 1892 in Starkow (Pomerania), † September 22, 1971 in Halle), local history researcher, genealogist, archivist and economic historian
  • Charles Crodel (born September 16, 1894 in Marseille, † November 28, 1973 in Munich), painter, teacher at Giebichenstein Castle
  • Werner Scholem (born December 29, 1895 in Berlin; † July 17, 1940 in Buchenwald concentration camp), 1924–1928 member of the Reichstag for the KPD , stationed as a soldier in Halle in 1916/1917 and imprisoned in the "Red Ox" for activities critical of the war, 1919 / 1920 editor of the Halle "Volksblatt"
  • Marguerite Friedlaender (born October 11, 1896 in Lyon; † February 24, 1985 in Guerneville / USA), ceramist, lecturer for ceramics at Burg Giebichenstein until she emigrated in 1933
  • Erich Neuss (born February 11, 1899 in Frankfurt am Main; † December 28, 1982 in Halle (Saale)), historian and archivist
  • Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher (born December 23, 1896 in Zwickau, † March 24, 1985 in Halle), first professor of law in Germany
  • Wilhelm Nauhaus (born September 23, 1899 in Erfurt, † July 31, 1979 in Halle (Saale)), bookbinder, artist and archivist at Giebichenstein Castle
  • Kurt Mothes (born November 3, 1900 in Plauen; † February 12, 1983 in Ribnitz-Damgarten) botanist and university professor, 1954–1974 president of the Leopoldina
  • Rudolf Agricola (born November 29, 1900 in Ladenburg; † January 14, 1985 in Greifswald), resistance fighter after 1933, political economist at the university from 1948 to 1956.

20th century

  • Helene Glatzer (born February 8, 1902 in Berlin-Neukölln, † January 31, 1935 in Halle), anti-fascist resistance fighter
  • Herbert Post (born January 13, 1903 in Mannheim; † July 9, 1978 in Bayersoien), type artist, typographer and book designer and professor at Giebichenstein Castle
  • Kurt Fiebig (born February 29, 1908 in Berlin; † October 12, 1988 in Hamburg), composer (e.g. "Hallische Cantata from the Word of God" - premiered in 1939 in the Ulrichkirche / Halle), church musician, Mendelssohn Prize 1931, Co-founder and head of the church music school in Halle / Saale, today Evangelical University for Church Music in Halle
  • Alfred Mäde (born June 16, 1910 in Borsdorf; † October 5, 1988 in Halle (Saale)), meteorologist, professor and rector at the University of Halle-Wittenberg
  • Erna Dorn (born July 17, 1911 in Tilsit, † October 1, 1953 in Dresden), alleged fascist ringleader of the popular uprising of June 17, 1953 in Halle
  • Johannes Hamel (born November 19, 1911 in Schöningen ; † August 1, 2002 in Wernigerode), theologian, student pastor, prisoner in the Red Ox
  • Gerhard Reintanz (born March 1, 1914 in Cuxhaven; † November 18, 1997 in Halle), professor of international law
  • Kurt Aland (born March 28, 1915 in Berlin-Steglitz; † April 13, 1994 in Münster / Westphalia), German theologian and professor for New Testament introductory studies and church history at the university
  • Walther Siegmund-Schultze (born July 6, 1916 in Schweinitz, Province of Saxony, † March 6, 1993 in Halle (Saale)), musicologist, co-founder of the Handel Festival in Halle (Saale)
  • Arthur Epperlein (born June 4, 1919 in Danzig; † December 29, 1995 in Halle (Saale)), German author and cartoonist.
  • Heinz Bethge (born November 15, 1919 in Magdeburg; † May 9, 2001 in Halle (Saale)) physicist, President of the Leopoldina
  • Willi Sitte (born February 28, 1921 in Kratzau, Czechoslovakia; † June 8, 2013 in Halle (Saale)), painter, long-time president of the professional association of visual artists in the GDR, professor at Giebichenstein Castle
  • Curt Frankenstein (born March 11, 1922 in Hanover, † January 4, 2009 in Wilmette, Cook County, Illinois), American draftsman, painter, lithographer
  • Günther Krause (born February 9, 1923 in Erfurt; † January 19, 2012 in Halle), emcee, especially in the Steintor-Varieté
  • Wolfgang Hütt (born August 18, 1925 in Barmen; † January 14, 2019), German art historian and author
  • Christa Susanne Dorothea Kleinert (born September 21, 1925 in Neurode; † February 14, 2004 in Halle (Saale)), German economist
  • Edgar Hilsenrath (1926–2018), German writer ( The Nazi & the Hairdresser , The Fairy Tale of the Last Thought ), grew up in Halle until the “Reichspogromnacht” .
  • Werner Heiduczek (born November 24, 1926 in Hindenburg , Upper Silesia ; † July 28, 2019 in Zwenkau ), German writer, lived and worked in Halle / Saale since 1965.
  • Thomas Höhle (born December 10, 1926 in Aue; † January 9, 2012 in Magdeburg), German literary scholar, em. Professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , campaigned for the preservation of Reichardt's garden in Halle.
  • Barbara Cramer-Nauhaus (born September 22, 1927 in Brandenburg (Havel), † March 21, 2001 in Halle (Saale)), English scholar and translator
  • Reinfried Pohl (born April 26, 1928 in Zwickau in Böhmen (Cvikov), Czechoslovakia; † June 12, 2014 in Marburg), lawyer, founder and CEO of Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG (DVAG), from 1945 with his mother after being expelled from the Sudetenland in Halle (Saale), co-founder of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDP) in the Soviet occupation zone in September 1945, on March 7, 1947 Abitur in Halle, in August 1948, he fled the Soviet zone to Marburg.
  • Hans-Joachim Bartmuß (born July 19, 1929 in Großkorbetha ), German historian in the field of medieval and modern history, emeritus professor for the history of the Middle Ages at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • Joachim Garz (born April 27, 1930 in Calbe an der Saale; † March 8, 2016 in Halle (Saale)), agricultural scientist at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • Erik Neutsch (born June 21, 1931 in Schönebeck (Elbe); † August 20, 2013 in Halle (Saale)), writer
  • Ivan Rebroff (born July 31, 1931 in Berlin-Spandau; † February 27, 2008 in Frankfurt am Main), German singer, 1945–1950 student in the Francke Foundations, member of the Stadtsingechore
  • Karin Mylius (born January 11, 1934 in Münster, † December 13, 1986 in Halle (Saale)); Chairwoman of the Jewish Community in Halle (Saale)
  • Dorothea Prühl (born February 22, 1937 in Breslau), artist, jewelry designer, art professor at Burg Giebichenstein
  • Heinrich Pera (* 1938 in Magdeburg; † March 2, 2004), Catholic priest, pioneer of the hospice movement in the GDR
  • Peter Freiheit (born January 14, 1940 in Breslau; † December 4, 2001 in Halle (Saale)), composer and cellist, 1969–1977 musical director of the Junge Garde theater
  • Gerd Domhardt (born February 19, 1945 in Wolmirstedt; † February 18, 1997 in Halle) composer
  • Günter Heinz (* 1954 in Zeitz), mathematician, composer, musician, studied mathematics in Halle.
  • Renée Reichenbach (* 1956 in Jena), German artist and ceramist.
  • Jürgen Krätzer (born February 14, 1959 in Leipzig; † March 24, 2019 in Leipzig), Germanist. From 2001 to editor, from 2012 editor of the literary magazine " Die Horen ", since 2005 lecturer at the MLU Halle / Saale
  • Paul Alfred Kleinert (born February 24, 1960 in Leipzig), writer, editor and translator, spent (with interruptions) 12 years of his childhood in Halle / Saale
  • Thomas Buchholz (born August 27, 1961 in Eisenach (Thuringia)), composer, since 1995 director of the Hallische Musiktage
  • Dagmar Schmidt (born May 9, 1963 in Lommatzsch / Saxony), artist, first winner of the mfi-Preis Kunst am Bau for the floor sculpture Excavation Cities in the Silberhöhe
  • Ralf Jacob (* 1967 in Merseburg), city archivist since 1994
  • Uwe Nolte (born May 11, 1969 in Merseburg) is a German musician, poet and graphic artist who lives in Halle.
  • Parham Nassehpoor (* 1976 in Iran), musicologist and musician of classical Persian music
  • Johann Joachim Winckelmann (born December 9, 1717 in Stendal; † June 8, 1768 in Trieste), classical scholar, from 1738 to 1740 student of theology in Halle
  • Georg Wissowa (born June 17, 1859 in Neudorf, Neumarkt district, Stendal province; † May 11, 1931 in Halle (Saale)), classical philologist
  • Richard Wittsack (born September 9, 1887 in Koethen; † March 6, 1952 in Halle (Saale)), speech scientist
  • Gerhard Wohlgemuth (born March 16, 1920 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse; † October 26, 2001 in Halle (Saale)), composer
  • Christa Wolf (born March 18, 1929 in Landsberg / Warthe; † December 1, 2011 in Berlin), writer, lived and worked with her husband in Halle / Saale from 1959 to 1962
  • Gerhard Wolf (born October 16, 1928 Bad Frankenhausen / Kyffhäuser), writer, editor and publisher, lived and worked with his wife in Halle / Saale from 1959 to 1962
  • Christian Wolff (born January 24, 1679 in Breslau; † April 9, 1754 in Halle), polymath, philosopher, lawyer and mathematician
  • Gustav Wolff (born May 18, 1858 in Maar (Lauterbach), Hesse; † April 5, 1930 in Halle (Saale)), architect
  • Wilhelm Worringer (born January 13, 1881 in Aachen, † March 29, 1965 in Munich), important art historian and professor
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau (baptized on November 14, 1663 in Leipzig; † August 7, 1712 in Halle), composer of the Baroque era, among his students were Georg Friedrich Handel , Gottfried Kirchhoff , Johann Krieger and Johann Gotthilf Ziegler
  • Johann Gotthilf Ziegler (born March 25, 1688 in Leubnitz, † September 15, 1747 in Halle), composer and organist of the Baroque era.
  • Karl Ziegler (born November 26, 1898 in Helsa (Hessen); † August 11, 1973 in Mülheim an der Ruhr), chemist worked at Martin Luther University from 1933 to 1945, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1963.
  • Lothar Zitzmann (born February 14, 1924 in Kahla (Thuringia), † January 19, 1977 in Halle (Saale)), painter, worked in the 1950s and 1960s a. a. works as an art lecturer in Halle ->

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  1. ^ Parham Nassehpoor musicologist and musician of classical Persian music