Editing Wernigerode (section)

==Notable people==
*[[Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode]] (1716–1786), canon, dean and author of many hymns
*[[Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein]] (1723–1795), physician and engineer
*[[Christian Frederick of Stolberg-Wernigerode]] (1746–1824), Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode
*[[Martin Heinrich Klaproth]] (1743–1817), chemist
*[[Henry of Stolberg-Wernigerode]] (1772–1854), Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode
*[[Anton of Stolberg-Wernigerode]] (1785–1854), chief minister in Magdeburg, governor in the Prussian Province of Saxony and Prussian Minister of State
*[[Heinrich Karl Beyrich]] (1796–1834), botanist
*[[Gustav Eduard von Hindersin]] (1804–1872), Prussian general
*[[Rudolf Stammler]] (1856–1938), jurist
*[[Otto Herfurth]] (1893–1944), general
*[[Wilhelm Bittrich]] (1895–1979), Waffen-SS General 
*[[Friedrich Lütge]] (1901–1968), historian and economist
*[[Franz Nicklisch]] (1906–1975), actor
*[[Rolf Hermichen]] (1918–2014), fighter ace
*[[Konrad Sasse]] (1926–1981), musicologist
*[[Karl Oppermann (painter)|Karl Oppermann]] (1930-2022), painter
*[[Rudolf Dannhauer]] (born 1934), cross-country skier
*[[Waldtraut Lewin]] (1937–2017), stage director
*[[Wolf Barth]] (1942–2016), mathematician
*[[Monika Wulf-Mathies]] (born 1942), politician
*[[Karin Rüger-Schulze]] (born 1944), track and field athlete
*[[Irene Ellenberger]] (born 1946), architect
*[[Lutz Unger]] (born 1951), swimmer
*[[Karsten Brandt]] (born 1958), cross-country skier
*[[Caspar René Hirschfeld]] (born 1965), composer
*[[Bernhard Schneyer]] (born 1968), composer
*[[Guido Fulst]] (born 1970), racing cyclist
*[[Jens Baxmann]] (born 1985), ice hockey player
*[[Nils Petersen]] (born 1988), footballer
*[[Christopher Grotheer]] (born 1992), skeleton racer