page_title: Weißenfels
section_title: Notable citizens
hierarchical_section_title: Weißenfels / Notable citizens
caption_attribution_description: English: Heinrich Schütz House in Weißenfels Deutsch: Heinrich-Schütz-Haus, Weißenfels
context_page_description: Weißenfels is the largest town of the Burgenlandkreis district, in southern Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the river Saale, approximately 30 km south of Halle.
context_section_description: Joachim Wilhelm von Brawe (1738–1758), playwright
  Konrad Dannenberg (1912–2009), rocket scientist
  Hermann Eilts (1922–2006), diplomat and adviser to Kissinger on Mideast
  Louise von François (1817–1893), writer
  Horst P. Horst (1906–1999), photographer
  Georg Kükenthal (1864–1955), botanist
  Willy Kükenthal (1861–1922), zoologist
  Novalis, pen name of poet Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801)
  Gottfried Reiche (1667–1734), trumpeter
  Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1685–1747),  Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels
  Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672), composer and organist
  Benjamin Halevy (1910–1996), Israeli judge and politician
  Gérard Tichy (1920–1992), actor
  Max Frankel (born 1930), journalist, Editor in Chief of the New York Times
caption: Heinrich Schütz House, the composer's home in Weißenfels, now a museum.
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