Gitta Escher [SEP] date of birth
Gitta Escher
Gitta Escher (later Sommer then Wagenknecht, born 18 March 1957) is a German former gymnast. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a bronze medal in the team competition. Individually she finished fifth in the vault and sixth in the floor exercise, balance beam and all-around.
After retirement from competition she worked as a gymnastics coach at her club SV Halle.
foreign advisor to Japan, father of M. C. Escher
- Gitta Escher (born 1957), a German gymnast
- (1775–1859), a Swiss industrialist and co-founder of Escher Wyss AG
- Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth (1767−1823), a Swiss scientist, civil engineer and politician
- (1743−1814), a Swiss politician
- Heinrich Escher (1626−1710), a Swiss politician, mayor of Zürich
- Josef Escher (1885−1954), a Swiss Federal Councilor
- Luiz Jeferson Escher