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 Saale-Wipper. It absorbed the former municipality Amesdorf in January 2010.

Notable people

Arno Philippsthal, physician and one of the first Jewish victims of the National Socialist rule in Berlin
Ernst-Otto Reher, process engineer and professor, pioneer of technical rheology
Fritz Siedentopf, communist and German [resistance to Nazism|resistance fighter] against Nazism.
Julius Kraaz, lawyer, sugar producer and member of the German Reichstag, died in Güsten