page_title: Großenhain
section_title: Famous people
hierarchical_section_title: Großenhain / Famous people
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue in Grossenhain town square looking north to the spire of the Marienkirche
context_page_description: Großenhain is a Große Kreisstadt in the district of Meißen, Saxony, Germany. It was originally known as Hayne. The current name simply means "big Hayne"
context_section_description: Martin Blochwich (1602-1629): German physician, born here
  Karl Benjamin Preusker (1786–1871): Founder of the first public library in Germany (1828)
  Manfred von Richthofen (1892–1918): German fighter pilot known as The Red Baron, was trained as observer at the local airport
  Corinna Harfouch (born 1954): German actress, passed her childhood here
  Benjamin Hedericus (1675-1748): Lexicographer
  Heino (born 1938): German schlager artist, passed his childhood here
  Carlo Mierendorff (1897-1943), representatives of the SPD, a member of the German Reichstag and resistance fighter against Nazism
  Frederick Traugott Pursh (1774-1820), actually  Friedrich Pursch , botanist
  Helmut H. Schaefer (1925-2005), mathematician, professor at the University of Halle (Saale), at the University of Tübingen, at the California Institute of Technology and other US universities
  Ingo Senftleben (born 1974), German politician (CDU)
  Valentin Weigel (1533-1588), theologian and philosopher
caption: Statue in Grossenhain town square looking north to the spire of the Marienkirche
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