Georg Kükenthal (1864–1955), botanist Horst P. Horst (1906–1999), photographer Benjamin Halevy (1910–1996), Israeli judge and politician Konrad Dannenberg (1912–2009), rocket scientist Johanna Elisabeth Döbricht (1692—1786), operatic soprano Hermann Eilts (1922–2006), diplomat and adviser to Kissinger on Mideast Gérard Tichy (1920–1992), Spanish actor Max Frankel (born 1930), American journalist, Editor in Chief of the New York Times Theresa Emilie Henriette Winkel (1784–1867), composer Twin towns – sister cities Weißenfels is twinned with: Kornwestheim, Germany (1990) Komárno, Slovakia (1995) See also Saale-Unstrut wine region References Burgenlandkreis Burial sites of the House of Leiningen