Freytag is a German surname, meaning ''Friday''. Notable people with the surname include: *

Adam Freytag Adam Freytag (1608–1650) was a Polish military engineer, mathematician and physician. He is best known for his work ''Architectura militaris nova et aucta'', the first manual of bastion fortifications of the so-called Old Dutch system, publishe ...

(1608–1650), Polish mathematician and military engineer *

Arny Freytag Arny Freytag (born April 12, 1950) is an American photographer who specializes in glamour photography. He began working for ''Playboy'' magazine in 1976 and at one time was one of only two photographers who produced the ''Playboy'' centerfold pho ...

(born 1950), American photographer *

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag (19 September 1788 – 16 November 1861) was a German philologist. Background Freytag was born in Lüneburg. He studied philology and theology at the University of Göttingen, where from 1811 to 1813 he worke ...

(1788–1861), German philologist *

Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag (; 13 July 1816 – 30 April 1895) was a German novelist and playwright. Life Freytag was born in Kreuzburg (Kluczbork) in Silesia. After attending the school at Oels (Oleśnica), he studied philology at the universities of ...

(1816–1895), German dramatist *

Heinrich Hermann Freytag Heinrich Hermann Freytag (born around 15 April 1759 in Hamburg, died 14 April 1811) was a German/Dutch organ builder. A pupil of Albertus Antonius Hinsz, he became one of the most important organ builders in the Netherlands around 1800. His wor ...

(1759–1811), German/Dutch organ-builder *

Michael Freytag Michael Freytag (born 4 May 1958 in Hamburg) is a German politician, jurist, former minister of finance of Hamburg and former chairman of the CDU Hamburg. Life and work After finishing school in 1977 at Wandsbeker Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium, ...

(born 1958), German politician ** Freytag's pyramid *

Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven Alexander Otto Hermann Wolfgang Bernd(t) Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven (6 February 1914 – 27 February 2007), was a Baltic German officer in the German Army during World War II. In 1956, he joined the German Federal Armed Forces, the ''Bunde ...

(1914–2007), Baltic German general *

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; (12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German-born avant-garde visual artist and poet, who was active in Greenwich Village, New York, from 1913 to 1923, where her radical self ...

(1874–1927), Dada-artist *

Wessel von Freytag-Loringhoven Wessel Oskar Karl Johann Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven ( – 26 July 1944), was a Baltic German colonel in the High Command of the German Armed Forces (OKW) and a member of the German Resistance (''Widerstand'') against Adolf Hitler. Loring ...

(1899–1944), Baltic German member of the resistance against Adolf Hitler *

Wilhelm von Freytag Heinrich Wilhelm von Freytag (17 March 1720, Estorf – 2 January 1798, Hannover ) was an officer in the service of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover). Career B.1720 in Estorf, Freytag rose to prominence during the Seven Years' W ...

(1720–1798), German field-marshall in Hanoverian service

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