Editing Goslar (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Maurice de Saxe (1696-1750).PNG|thumb|140px|[[Maurice de Saxe]], {{Circa|1750}}]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F073370-0006, Bad Godesberg, Ernst Jünger, Philipp Jenninger.jpg|thumb|220px|[[Ernst Jünger]], Philipp Jenninger & Liselotte Jünger, 1986]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1976-130-53, Henning v. Tresckow.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Henning von Tresckow]], 1944]]
* [[Frederuna]] (887–917), [[queen consort]] of France by marriage to King [[Charles III of France]].
* [[Kraft of Meissen]] (died 1066) provost of [[:de:Goslarer Dom|Goslarer Dom]] (Collegiate Church of Goslar), and Bishop of Meissen in 1066.
* [[Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor]] (1050–1106), King of [[Kingdom of Germany|Germany]] and Holy Roman Emperor.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Henry IV. (Roman emperor) |last= Holland |first= Arthur William  |author-link= |volume= 13 |pages= 275-277 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Helmold]] (ca 1120 – after 1177), a Saxon historian of the 12th century and priest.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Helmold |volume= 13 |page= 249 |short=1}}</ref>
* Goslar is the ancestral home of the [[Siemens family]] since 1384; including the Prussian-British-Russian industrial pioneers [[Ernst Werner von Siemens|Werner von Siemens]], [[Carl Wilhelm Siemens|Sir William Siemens]] and [[Carl Heinrich von Siemens|Carl von Siemens]] 
* [[Maurice de Saxe]] (1696–1750), Marshal General of France. Adversary of the [[House of Hanover|Hanoverians]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Saxe, Maurice |volume= 24 |page= 258-259 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Wilhelm Ripe]] (1818–1885), painter and graphic designer during the era of [[Romanticism]], died locally
* [[Albert Niemann (chemist)|Albert Niemann]] (1834–1861), chemist and pharmacist. Credited with the discovery of [[cocaine]]
* Otto Wilhelm August Nieper (1848–1939), Chief Surgeon at the hospital in Goslar, which was renamed the Dr.-Herbert-Nieper-Krankenhaus in his honor.
* [[Ludwig Gattermann]] (1860–1920), a chemist who worked on [[organic chemistry]] and [[inorganic chemistry]].
* [[Ernst Jünger]] (1895–1998), German soldier (recipient of the [[Pour le Mérite]] decoration in WWI) and author, lived in Goslar from December 1933 to 1936.
* Hans Colbitz (1899–1972), artist, painter, teacher at Albrecht-Duerer-Oberrealschule in Berlin-Neukoelln<ref>Research Library for the History of Education, German Institute for International Educational Research, Berlin</ref>
* [[Henning von Tresckow]] (1901–1944), German military officer and leading anti-Hitler conspirator, was a student at the Goslar Realgymnasium from 1913 until 1917.
* [[Heinz Günther Guderian]] (1914–2004), officer in the [[Wehrmacht]] and later a [[Major general]]
* [[Rudolf Sprung]] (1925–2015), politician ([[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]]), Member of Bundestag 1969–1994
* [[Dieter Zechlin]] (1926–2012), pianist
* [[Rudolf Bindig]] (born 1940), politician ([[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]]), Member of Bundestag 1976–2005
* [[Hermann Max]] (born 1941), church musician and conductor
* [[Phylicia Whitney]] (born 1950), journalist and public speaker
* [[Ewald Schnug]] (born 1954), agricultural researcher, professor, Honorary-President of the International Scientific Center for Fertilizers<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ciec.iae.ac.cn/staff/|title = Staff--International Scientific Center of Fertilizers(CIEC)}}</ref>
* [[Falko Feldmann]] (born 1959), German biologist and phytomedicologist ([[Herbal medicine]] practitioner)
* [[Sigmar Gabriel]] (born 1959), politician (SPD), Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
* [[Regine Schumann]] (born 1961), artist, painter and [[light art]]ist
* [[Belit Onay]] (born 1981), politician, [[List of mayors of Hanover|Mayor of Hanover]] since 2019

=== Sport ===
* [[Ernst Pistulla]] (1906–1944), light heavyweight boxer, silver medallist at the [[1928 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Günther Brennecke]] (1927–2014), field hockey player, team bronze medallist at the [[1952 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Angelika Dünhaupt]] (born 1946), [[luge]]r, (rides a sled face-up and feet-first); bronze medallist at the [[1968 Winter Olympics]]
* [[Carola Hoffmann]] (born 1962), field hockey player, team silver medallist at the [[1988 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Mathias Hain]] (born 1972), football goalkeeper, played 513 games 
* [[Aaron Hunt]] (born 1986), footballer, played 413 games