# Henze

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**Henze** is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

- [Albert Henze](/source/Albert_Henze) (1894–1979), German Wehrmacht general
- [Frank Henze](/source/Frank_Henze) (born 1977), German slalom canoeist
- [Gertrud Henze](/source/Gertrud_Henze) (1901–2014), a German supercentenarian
- [Gregor Henze](/source/Gregor_Henze), German-American engineer
- [Hans Werner Henze](/source/Hans_Werner_Henze) (1926–2012), German composer
- [Jürgen Henze](/source/J%C3%BCrgen_Henze) (born 1950), East German slalom canoeist
- [Leon Henze](/source/Leon_Henze) (born 1992), German footballer
- [Martin Henze](/source/Martin_Henze) (born 1981), a German astronomer and [namesake of minor planet 6642 Henze](/source/Meanings_of_minor_planet_names:_6501%E2%80%937000)
- [Friedrich Wolfgang Martin Henze](/source/Friedrich_Wolfgang_Martin_Henze) (1873 – 1956), a German chemist who first discovered vanadium-containing proteins known as [vanabins](/source/Vanabins) in 1911
- [Matthias Henze](/source/Matthias_Henze), the Isla Carroll and Perry E. Turner Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at Rice University in Houston
- [Paul Bernard Henze](/source/Paul_B._Henze) (1924—2011), CIA officer and national security specialist
- [Richard Henze](/source/Richard_Henze) (1895–1985), a highly decorated Oberst of the Reserves in the Wehrmacht during World War II
- [Stefan Henze](/source/Stefan_Henze) (1981–2016), German slalom canoeist

## See also

- [6642 Henze](/source/6642_Henze), a minor planet named for German astronomer Martin Henze
- [Henze Boekhout](/source/Henze_Boekhout) (1947–2024), Dutch artist/photographer

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