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, German politician Otto Fridolin Fritzsche (1812–1896), German theologian Ronald Fritzsche, 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