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Genthin () is a town in Jerichower Land district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
The municipal area consists of Genthin proper and the following Ortschaften or municipal divisions: Hauptsatzung der Stadt Genthin , November 2014.
The formerly independent municipalities Gladau, Paplitz and Tucheim were incorporated in July 2009, Gebietsänderungen vom 02. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2009, Statistisches Bundesamt followed by Schopsdorf in July 2012. Gebietsänderungen vom 01. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2012, Statistisches Bundesamt
Genthin was the administrative seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") Elbe-Stremme-Fiener until its merger into the newly established Jerichow municipality in 2010.
When the last administrator of the Magdeburg archbishopric, Duke Augustus of Saxe-Weissenfels, died in 1680, Genthin with the Duchy of Magdeburg fell to the Electors of Brandenburg. The Baroque Trinity parish church was erected from 1707 to 1722. The town's economy was decisively promoted by the building of the Elbe–Havel Canal from 1743 onwards and the opening of the Berlin–Magdeburg railway line in 1846. A detergent factory was opened in 1921 by Henkel.
On the night of 21–22 December 1939, at least 186 (according to other sources: 278) people were killed in a train crash at Genthin station, making it one of the deadliest railway accidents in Germany. A monument to the victims was erected in the town. In 1943 a subcamp of Ravensbrück concentration camp was built in Genthin for about 1,000 female prisoners and forced labourers. After World War II, Genthin was part of the Soviet occupation zone.
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