Schulze is a German occupational surname meaning "village headman".
Notable people Andrew Schulze (1896–1982), clergyman and civil rights activist Christina Schulze (born 1964) Edmund Schulze (1824–1878), German organ builder, or four previous generations of his family in the same profession Ernst Schulze, multiple people Frank Schulze (born 1970), German footballer Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808–1883), German economist Franz Eilhard Schulze (1840–1921), German anatomist and zoologist Friedrich August Schulze (1770–1849), German novelist Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761–1833), German professor and philosopher Hans-Joachim Schulze (born 1934), German musicologist and Bach scholar Harro Schulze-Boysen (1909–1942), left-wing German publicist, Luftwaffe officer, and anti-fascist resistance fighter Horst Schulze, founder of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Horst Schulze (1921–2018), German actor and opera singer Joan Schulze (born 1936), American artist, lecturer, and poet Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687–1744), German academic, inventor of a primitive photogram John Schulze, multiple people Karl Schulze, German rower Klaus Schulze (1947–2022), German musician Klaus-Peter Schulze (born 1954), German politician Kurt Schulze (1894–1942), German resistance fighter Lara Schulze (born 2002), German chess master Ludwig Schulze, Papua New Guinean politician Luisa Schulze (born 1990), German handball player Luise Schulze-Berghof (1889–1970), German composer, pianist, and teacher Mark Schulze, rugby player Martin Schulze Wessel, German historian Maximilian Schulze Niehues, German footballer Paul Schulze, multiple people Paul Schulze (born 1962), American actor Richard Schulze, multiple people Sven Schulze (born 1979), German politician, minister-president of Saxony-Anhalt (2026–) Thomas Schulze (born 1964), German civil servant, restaurateur and politician Tobias Schulze (born 1976), German politician William August Schulze, rocket scientist recruited in 1945 by "Operation Paperclip" Willibald Schulze, German writer
See also Schulze method, a single-winner election method Schulze STV, a method of proportional representation by the single transferable vote Müller-Schulze Gambit, a chess gambit Schulze Baking Company Plant Schütze (surname)
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