page_title: Magdeburg
section_title: L–Z
hierarchical_section_title: Magdeburg / People / L–Z
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
context_page_description: Magdeburg is the capital and second-largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is situated on the Elbe River.
  Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the archbishopric of Magdeburg, was buried in the town's cathedral after his death. Magdeburg's version of German town law, known as Magdeburg rights, spread throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Until 1631, Magdeburg was one of the largest and most prosperous German cities and a notable member of the Hanseatic League.
  Magdeburg has been destroyed twice in its history. The Catholic League sacked Magdeburg in 1631, resulting in the death of 25,000 non-combatants, the largest loss of the Thirty Years' War. Allies bombed the city in 1945, destroying much of it.
  Magdeburg is the site of two universities, the Otto-von-Guericke University and the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences.
  Magdeburg is situated on autobahn route 2, and hence is at the connection point of the East with the West of Europe, as well as the North and South of Germany.
context_section_description: Ernst Lehmann (1908–1945), SPD politician, active in the resistance against Nazism
  Otto Lehmann (1900–1936), resistance fighter against Nazism
  Werner Marcks (1896–1967), lieutenant general in World War II
  Olaf Malolepski (born 1946), singer-songwriter, frontman of schlager band Die Flippers
  Johann Carl Simon Morgenstern (1770–1852), philologist who coined the term Bildungsroman
  Werner Naumann (1896–1952), director of the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory in Bremen
  Felix von Niemeyer (1820–1871), physician, royal Württemberg personal physician
  Leo Nowak (born 1929), Roman Catholic bishop of Magdeburg (1990–2004)
  Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born 1942), biologist, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995
  Richard Ölze (1900–1980), painter
  Erich Ollenhauer (1901–1963), leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany 1952–1963
  Menahem Pressler (born 1923), pianist
  Ernst Reuter (1889–1953), Mayor of Magdeburg 1931–1933, then Mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953
  Willy Rosen (born 1894 as William Julius Rosenbaum; died 28 October 1944 (according to other sources 30 September 1944) in Auschwitz
  Ekkehard Schall (1930–2005), actor and theatre director
  Karl Schmidt (1902–1945 in the Bay of Lübeck), resistance fighter against Nazism
  Manfred Schoof (born 1936), jazz trumpeter
  Wolfgang Schreyer (1927–2017), writer
  Patrick Schulz (born 1988), handball goalkeeper
  Petra Schmidt-Schaller (born 1980), actress
  Margarete Schön (1895–1985), stage and film actress
  Kurt Singer (1886–1962), philosopher
  Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), American patriot
  Christoph Christian Sturm (1740–1786), preacher and author, who wrote the majority of his devotional works here
  Bruno Taut (1880–1938), city architect 1921–1923, completed two housing projects in Magdeburg
  Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), composer
  Klaus Thunemann (born 1937), bassoon professor
  Henning von Tresckow (1901–1944), major general in the Wehrmacht, active in the military resistance
  Lothar von Trotha (1848–1920), military commander notorious for presiding over the near-extermination of the Herero in German South-West Africa
  Karl Wallenda (1905–1978), highwire acrobat
  Camillo Walzel (1829–1895), librettist and theatre director, who wrote under the pseudonym F Zell
  Dieter Zahn (born 1940), double-bassist
  Dejan Zavec, (born 1976), Slovenian welterweight boxer, IBF Welterweight Champion
  Heinrich Zschokke, (1771–1848), author and reformer
  Arthur Ruppin, (1876–1943), Zionist thinker and leader
  Marcel Schmelzer, (born 1988), footballer
  Wilhelm Weitling, (1808–1871), utopian Communist
  George William Ziemann (1809–1881), Christian missionary who served in Magdeburg in the infantry
caption: Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben 1782
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