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Fritzsche is a German surname. Like Fritsch, Fritsche and Fritzsch, it is a patronymic derived from Friedrich. Notable people with the surname include:

Carl Julius Fritzsche (1808–1871), German chemist
Christian Friedrich Fritzsche (1776–1850), German Protestant theologian
Franz Volkmar Fritzsche (1806–1887), German classical philologist
Friedrich Wilhelm Fritzsche (1825–1905), German parliamentarian and newspaper editor in the United States
Gotthard Daniel Fritzsche (1797–1863), Australian theologian
Hans Fritzsche (1900–1953), German Nazi official
Hellmut Fritzsche (1927–2018), German-American physicist
Immo Fritzsche (1918–1943), German Luftwaffe officer
Oliver Fritzsche (born 1970), German politician
Otto Fridolin Fritzsche (1812–1896), German theologian
Ronald Fritzsche (born 1945), American Icthyologist who described the fishes Cosmocampus heraldi,’Syngnathus macrobrachium, Syngnathus euchrous, Syngnathus insulae, Solenostomus halimeda, †Syngnathus emeritus, and Micrognathus pygmaeus.
Walter Fritzsche (1903–1956), German footballer