page_title: Dillenburg
section_title: Famous natives of Dillenburg
hierarchical_section_title: Dillenburg / Personalities / Famous natives of Dillenburg
caption_attribution_description: Bust, facing right.
context_page_description: Dillenburg, officially Oranienstadt Dillenburg, is a town in Hesse's Gießen region in Germany. The town was formerly the seat of the old Dillkreis district, which is now part of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis.
  The town lies on the German-Dutch holiday road called the Orange Route, joining towns, cities and regions associated with the House of Orange-Nassau, as well as on the German Timber-Frame Road and the Rothaarsteig hiking trail.
context_section_description: Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach alias John O. Meusebach (1812–1897), founder of Fredericksburg, Texas and Texas Senator
  Karl Heinz Gasser, German politician
  Maria Kliegel, (born 1952), German cellist
  Rolf Krenzer, writer of children's books and composer
  John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch field marshal, called the Brasilianer ("Brazilian")
  Ernst Casimir van Nassau-Dietz, ancestor of Kings of the Netherlands
  John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg, (1536-1606), German aristocrat
  Maurice of Nassau (Also known as Maurits van Oranje-Nassau/Moritz von Oranien), Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders and Overijssel, also prince of Orange
  Julius Eckhardt Raht, American mining engineer and entrepreneur.
  William I of Orange-Nassau, leader in the Dutch war of independence against Spain
  Prof. Dr. Melanie Tatur, German political scientist and sociologist
  Wilhelm Zepper, reformed theologian; court chaplain and professor in Herborn
caption: William I of Orange-Nassau, by Adriaen Thomasz. Key, c. 1580
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