title: Schwanitz
text: # Schwanitz
  
  Schwanitz is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Christina Schwanitz (born 1985), German shot putter
  * Wolfgang Schwanitz (1930–2022), last head of the Stasi, the East German secret police
  * Wolfgang G. Schwanitz (born 1955), German-American Middle East historian
  