People with the surname Freytag (Friday in German) include: Adam Freytag (1608–50), Polish mathematician and military engineer Arny Freytag, American photographer Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag (1788-1861), German philologist Gustav Freytag (1816-1895), German dramatist Michael Freytag (born 1958), German politician Freytag's pyramid Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven (1914-2007), Baltic German general Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927), Dada-artist Wessel von Freytag-Loringhoven (1899-1944), Baltic German member of the resistance against Adolf Hitler See also Freitag German-language surnames Surnames from nicknames