Heim

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The word Heim is the German equivalent of the English word home. It is a common German suffix in place names (cf. Mannheim). As a family name it may refer to the following people:

  • Albert Heim (1849-1937), Swiss geologist
  • Aribert Heim (b. 1914), an Austrian doctor and one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals
  • Arnold Heim (1882-1965), Swiss geologist
  • Burkhard Heim (1925-2001), German physicist
  • Ernst Ludwig Heim (1747-1834), German physician
  • Ferdinand Heim (1897-1977), German general
  • François Joseph Heim (1787-1865), French painter
  • Georg Heim (1865-1938), Bavarian politician and founder of the Bayerischen Volkspartei (BVP)
  • Ignaz Heim (1818-1880), Swiss musician and choir director
  • Irene Heim, linguist, specialist in semantics
  • Joseph C. Heim, Ph.D., professor of history and political science at California University of Pennsylvania
  • Karl Heim (1820-1895), former mayor of Ulm, Germany
  • Karl Heim (1874-1958), German theologian
  • Marie Heim-Vögtlin (1845-1916), first female physician in Switzerland
  • Rory Heim (b. 1990) American Baller

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