Pilz

Pilz, Piltz
Family name
Meaning	mushroom
Region of origin	Germany, Poland, Austria
Language(s) of origin	German
Related names	Pilc (Slavic), Pilzer (Piltzer); Pils, Pelz (Peltz), Pels
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Pilz may refer to:

Pilz is also the name of the following companies:

Pilz GmbH & Co. KG, a company working in the field of safe automation technology, named after Hermann Pilz
Pilz (record label), a German record label

Pilz can also refer to:

Family name

Gerald Pilz (de) (born 19??), German economist
Gerhard Pilz (Bütz) (de) (born 1942), known as Bütz, Austrian playwright, actor
Gerhard Pilz (born 1965)
Gottlieb Theodor Pilz (de) (1789–1856)
Gunter A. Pilz (de) (born 1944), German sociologist
Günter Pilz (born 1945, Bad Hall), Austrian mathematician
Hans-Uwe Pilz (born 1958), German footballer
Joachim Pilz (de) (born 1923), German politician
Michael Pilz (de) (born 1943), Austrian film producer
Otto Pilz (de) (1876–1934), German sculptor
Peter Pilz (born 1954), Austrian politician and author
Siegfried Pilz (de) (? - ?)
Sigrid Pilz (de) (born 1958), Austrian female politician
Vincenz Pilz (1816–1896), Austrian sculptor
Winfried Pilz (de) (born 1940),
Wolfgang Pilz (de) (1911–1994)

Anders Piltz (born 1943), Swedish Latinist and medievalist, a Dominican priest in the Roman Catholic church
Eberhard Piltz (de) (1942–2011), German journalist
Georg Piltz (de) (born 1925), German art historian and writer
Gisela Piltz (de) (born 1964), German female politician (FDP)
Jan Piltz (de) (1870–1930), German psychiatry
Karol Piltz (1903–1939), Polish chess master
Klaus Piltz (de) (1935–1993)
Otto Piltz (de) (1846–1910), German painter
Rick S. Piltz, senior associate in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program

Paul Zane Pilzer, world-renowned economist, social entrepreneur, adjunct professor, and author