page_title: Halle (Saale)
section_title: L–Z
hierarchical_section_title: Halle (Saale) / Notable residents / L–Z
caption_attribution_description: English: Leonhard Sohncke during his time as a professor for physics at the Technische Hochschule Munich 1886 -1897 Deutsch: Leonhard Sohncke in seiner Zeit als Professor der Physik an der Technischen Hochschule München 1886 -1897
context_page_description: Halle (Saale) is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the fifth most populous city in the area of former East Germany after Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, as well as the 31st largest city of Germany, and with around 239,000 inhabitants, it is slightly more populous than the state capital of Magdeburg. Together with Leipzig, the largest city of Saxony, Halle forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle conurbation. Between the two cities, in Schkeuditz, lies Leipzig/Halle International Airport. The Leipzig-Halle conurbation is at the heart of the larger Central German Metropolitan Region.
  Halle lies in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, in the Leipzig Bay, the southernmost part of the North German Plain, on the River Saale, which is the third longest river flowing entirely in Germany after the Weser and the Main. The White Elster flows into the Saale in the southern borough of Silberhöhe. Halle is the fourth largest city in the Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect area after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz.
  Halle is an economic and educational center in central-eastern Germany.
context_section_description: August Lafontaine (1758–1831), a writer of sentimental novels hugely popular in their time, died in Halle
  Blessed Carl Lampert, priest, beheaded by Nazis in World War II at Halle
  Marita Lange (born 1943), athlete
  Georg Listing (born 1987), bassist from the Magdeburg-based band, Tokio Hotel
  Hans Litten (1903–1938), German lawyer who represented opponents of the Nazis at important political trials between 1929-1932
  Karl Freiherr von Müffling (1775-1851), Prussian general field marshall
  Frederick Muhlenberg (1750–1801), the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, graduated at Halle University
  George Müller (1805–1898), coordinator of orphanages in Bristol, England
  Johann Friedrich Naue (1787–1858), classical composer
  Kai Pflaume (born 1967), German television presenter, born in Halle
  Richard Raatzsch (born 1957), philosopher and professor of practical philosophy
  Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814), composer, writer and music critic, lived in Halle. He was a close friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
  Samuel Scheidt (1587–1654), early Baroque composer and organist was both born and spent the majority of his life and career in Halle.
  Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1907–1980), lawyer, officer, judge and member of the German resistance.
  Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768–1834), university preacher and professor of theology to the University of Halle, where he remained until 1807.
  Albrecht Schröter (born 1955), politician (SPD) and mayor of Jena
  Ullrich Sierau (born 1956), politician (SPD) and mayor of Dortmund
  Leonhard Sohncke (1842–1897), in Munich, mathematician and professor of physics
  Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709–1746), a botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer of Siberia, Kamchatka and Alaska.
  Hans-Christian Ströbele (born 1939), politician (Greens) and member of the Bundestag
  Ľudovít Štúr (1815–1856), Slovak national leader, linguist and writer, studied at the University of Halle in 1838–1840.
  Daniel Gottlob Türk (1756–1813), classical composer, was born in Halle in 1750, and was a professor at the University of Halle.
  Andreas Wank (born 1988), German ski jumper, born in Halle.
  Anja Daniela Wagner (born 1969), operatic mezzo-soprano
  Ludwig Wucherer (1790–1861), elected councillor.
  Rudolf Ernst Weise (1844-1935), engineer, entrepreneur and industrialist.
caption: Leonhard Sohncke
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