August Freiherr von Binzer (30 May 1793 – 20 March 1868) was a German poet, journalist, and Urburschenschafter.

(Stoßt an!, 1817) and "Wir hatten gebauet ein stattliches Haus" (1819).

The second song was written to dissolve the Jena Burschenschaft and contains the line "The Band is Cut / Was Red Black and Gold", in which the three colors of the fraternity were first recorded in writing.

The latter song was immortalized much later (1881) by Johannes Brahms as a trumpet theme in his Academic Festival Overture.

As a journalist and writer von Binzer worked in many German cities, including Altenburg, Glücksburg (Baltic Sea), Flensburg, Leipzig, Cologne and Augsburg.