Hofmeister

Hofmeister
Family name
Region of origin	Germany
Language(s) of origin	German
Related names	Hoffmeister

Hofmeister may refer to:

• German: der Hofmeister, medieval and early modern court position
• Der Hofmeister (de), drama by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
• Hofmeister Lager, a UK lager brand
• Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag, German music publisher, short: Hofmeister

Family name

• Adolf Hofmeister (de) (1883–1956), German historian
• Corbinian Hofmeister (de) (1891–1966), German Benedictine abbot

• Franz Hofmeister (1850, Prague - 1922), Bohemian-German doctor, physiologist, chemist and pharmacologist, early protein scientist

• the Hofmeister series of ion classification he discovered

• Franz von Hofmeister (de) (1867–1926), German surgeon
• Franz-Peter Hofmeister (born 1951, Kerpen), West German-German athlete

• Friedrich Hofmeister (de) (1782–1864), German publisher

• Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag

• Herbert Hofmeister (de) (1945–1994), Austrian legal historian
• Hermann Hofmeister (de) (1878–1936), German historian and archaeologist
• John Hofmeister, American businessman, president of Shell Oil Company, member of the board of directors of the Foreign Policy Association

• Ludwig Hofmeister (1887–1959), German footballer
• Max Hofmeister (1913 – c. 1940), Austrian soccer player
• Oskar Hofmeister (de) (1871–1937), German photographer
• Rudolf Heinrich Hofmeister (de) (1814–1887), Swiss physicist and meteorologist
• Schlomo Hofmeister (de) (born 1975, München), German-Austrian rabbi, Viennese Vize Rabbi (Gemeinderabbiner) of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien
• Sebastian Hofmeister (1494, Schaffhausen - 1533), Swiss Christian monk and Christian religious reformer
• Theodor Hofmeister (de) (1868–1943), German photographer

• Werner Hofmeister (de) (1902–1984), German politician
• Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824, Leipzig - 1877), German biologist and botanist
• Wilhelm Hofmeister (automobile designer) (1912–1978), German automobile designer, the design chief of BMW

• the Hofmeister kink automobile design feature that he invented

• Willy Hofmeister, a German rugby union international player

See also

• Hoffmeister (disambiguation)

References

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