List of personalities of the city of Lützen
The list of personalities of the city of Lützen contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Lützen in Saxony-Anhalt . These are personalities who are honorary citizens of Lützen, who were born or died here and who worked in Lützen.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Lützen, see the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen of the district of Zorbau (incorporated in 2011)
- 29 May 2008: Horst funds, Project planners of the industrial area whose name forever with the positive economic development of the region will stay connected
sons and daughters of the town
- Thomas Hartmann (1548–1609), Protestant theologian and hymn poet
- Gottfried Steinbrecher (1662–1732), school principal and philologist
- Johann Gottfried Seume (1763–1810), writer and poet, born in Poserna
- Gustav Senfft von Pilsach (1790–1867), royal Saxon lieutenant general
- Joseph Gautier (1794–1846), tightrope walker, art rider and circus director
- Carl Louis Oertel (1825–1892), military music director, chamber musician, company founder and music publisher
- Franz Theodor Förster (1839–1898), Protestant theologian and professor at the University of Halle
- Otto Flügel (1842–1914), Protestant theologian and philosopher
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), philosopher, poet and classical philologist, born in Röcken
- Arthur Langhammer (1854–1901), painter and illustrator
- Walther Kaufmann (1887–1965), hydraulic engineer
- Karl Gutjahr (1894–1971), politician (KPD, SED)
- Alfred Baumann (1895–1961), politician (SPD, USPD, KPD, SED), editor, columnist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Rosa Lettner (1903–1980), politician (KPD, SED) and women's functionary, first chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD) in the Halle district
- Kurt Krötzsch (1909–1945), Turner
- Wilfried Gunkel (1930–2005), marine biologist
- Rolf Kutzmutz (* 1947), politician (Die Linke), 1994–2002 Member of the Bundestag
- Günther Rothe (* 1947), musician, painter, designer and exhibition organizer
- Clemens Schwalbe (* 1947), politician (CDU)
- Ottomar Sachse (* 1951), boxer, won a total of six medals in light heavyweight at world and European championships for amateurs
- Volkmar Röhrig (* 1952), writer and radio play author
- Klaus Kabitzsch (* 1953), engineer and professor for technical information systems
- Thomas Bischoff (* 1957), theater director
- Fritz-Gerald Schröder (* 1961), professor of vegetable growing
Personalities associated with the city
- Gustav II Adolf (1594–1632), was King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632 and one of the most important figures in Swedish history and the Thirty Years' War, died near Lützen
- Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken (1683–1757), flower painter, craftswoman and alchemist as well as mother of a well-known child prodigy, died in Lützen
- Bernhard Becker (1826–1882), founder and later chairman of the General German Workers' Association (ADAV) and writer, died in Lützen