Karl August Wittfogel was born 6 September 1896 at Woltersdorf, in Lüchow, Province of Hanover.
Zangius was born in Woltersdorf, and became kapellmeister for Philipp Sigismund, Prince Bishop of Osnabrück and later John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg.
Ottokar Domma (pseudonym; properly Otto Häuser) (20 May 1924, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia - 15 July 2007, Woltersdorf) was a German journalist and writer specialising in satire.
Woltersdorf is a municipality in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.