Rantzau

Rantzau may refer to:

Places:

  • Rantzau (Amt), Amt in the district of Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  • Rantzau, Plön, municipality in the district of Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  • Rantzau (county), former state in the Holy Roman Empire

People:

  • Johan Rantzau (1492–1565), German-Danish general and statesman
  • Heinrich Rantzau (1526–1598), German-Danish humanist writer and statesman
  • Daniel Rantzau (1529–1569), Danish-German general
  • Jørgen Rantzau (1652–1713), Danish military officer
  • Ulrich Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau (1869–1928), German diplomat, the first Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic and German Ambassador to the USSR

Other:

  • Rantzau (horse), racehorse
  • I Rantzau, opera in four acts by Pietro Mascagni