Güsten

Güsten is a town in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the river Wipper, west of Bernburg. It is part of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Saale-Wipper. It absorbed the former municipality Amesdorf in January 2010.^[3]

Notable people

Memorial plate Berlin Arno Philippsthal

Arno Philippsthal (1887-1933), physician and one of the first Jewish victims of the National Socialist rule in Berlin
Ernst-Otto Reher (1936-2016), process engineer and professor, pioneer of technical rheology
Fritz Siedentopf (1908–1944), communist and resistance fighter against Nazism.
Julius Kraaz (1822-1889), lawyer, sugar producer and member of the German Reichstag, died in Güsten

References

^ Bürgermeisterwahlen in den Gemeinden, Endgültige Ergebnisse, Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt, accessed 10 November 2022.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden – Stand: 31. Dezember 2022" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. June 2023.
^ Gebietsänderungen vom 01. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2010, Statistisches Bundesamt