Editing Wittenberg (section)

=== 1851–1900 ===
* [[Karl Lamprecht]] (* 1856 in Jessen; † 1915 in Leipzig), historian
* [[Nathan Söderblom]] (* 1866 in Trönö; † 1931 in Uppsala), theologian, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, honorary citizen of Wittenberg
* [[Otto Kleinschmidt]] (* 1870 in Geinsheim 1870; † 1954 in Wittenberg), natural scientist.
* [[Otto Dibelius]] (* 1880 in Berlin; † 1967 in West Berlin), theologian
* [[Julius Riemer]] (* 1880 in Berlin; 1958 in Wittenberg), museum founder
* [[Else Hertzer]] (*1884 in Wittenberg; † 1978 in West Berlin), expressionist painter
* [[Otto Rasch]] (* 1891 in Friedrichsruh; † 1948 in Nuremberg), Lord Mayor 1934–36, as commander of Einsatzgruppe C responsible, among other things, for the massacre of [[Babyn Yar]]
* [[Hermann Oberth]] (* 1894 in Hermannstadt; † 1989 in Nuremberg), nuclear physicist