Walther
For other uses, see Walther (disambiguation).
| Walther | |
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| Gender | Male |
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| Word/name | Old German |
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| Related names | Walter |
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Walther is a masculine given name and a surname. It is a German form of Walter, which is derived from the Old High German Walthari, containing the elements wald "rule" and hari—"army, warrior".
Given name
- Walther of England or Gualterus Anglicus, twelfth-century poet
- Walther Bauersfeld (1879-1959), German engineer who built the first projection planetarium
- Walther Bothe (1891-1957), German nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate
- Walther von Brauchitsch (1881-1948), German World War II field marshal
- Walther Dahl (1916-1985), German World War II flying ace
- Walther von Dyck (1856-1934), German mathematician
- Walther Flemming (1843–1905), German biologist and a founder of cytogenetics
- Walther Funk (1890–1960), economist and Nazi official convicted of war crimes in the Nuremberg Trials
- Walther Hahm (1894-1951), German World War II general
- Walther Hewel (1904-1945), German diplomat and one of Hitler's few personal friends
- Walther Kossel (1888-1956), German physicist
- Walther von Lüttwitz (1859-1942), German general and a leader of the unsuccessful Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch against the Weimar Republic
- Walther Meissner (1882-1974), German technical physicist and discoverer of the Meissner effect
- Walther Müller (1905-1979), German physicist
- Walther Nehring (1892-1983), German World War II general
- Walther Nernst (1864-1941), German physical chemist and physicist; Nobel laureate in chemistry
- Walther Rathenau (1867-1922), German industrialist, politician, writer, statesman and Foreign Minister of Germany for the Weimar Republic
- Walther Ritz (1878-1909), Swiss theoretical physicist
- Walther Schroth (1882-1944), German World War II general
- Walther Schwieger (1885-1917), German World War I U-boat commander who sank the Lusitania
- Walther Stampfli (1884-1965), Swiss politician
- Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170–c. 1230), High German lyric poet
- Walther Wenck (1900–1982), the youngest general in the German Army during World War II
- Walther Wever (general) (1887-1936), German general, commander of the Luftwaffe and proponent of strategic bombing
- Walther Wever (pilot) (1923-1045), German flying ace and son of the above
Surname
- Bernhard Walther (1430–?), German astronomer for whom a lunar crater is named
- C. F. W. Walther (1811–1887), German-American first President of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and its most influential theologian
- Carl Walther (1858–1915), German gunsmith and founder of Walther arms
- Christoph Walther (born 1950), German computer scientist
- Eric Walther (born 1975), German pentathlete
- Erich Walther (1903–1947), German World War II general
- Frédéric Henri Walther (1761-1813), Alsatian-born general in Napoleon's army
- Geraldine Walther (born 1951), American violist
- Gesine Walther (born 1962), German sprinter
- Johann Jakob Walther (1650–1704) German composer/violinist
- Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748), German organist and composer
- Johannes Walther (1860–1937), German geologist
- Kerstin Walther (born 1961), German sprinter
- Philipp Franz von Walther (1782–1849), German doctor
See also
- Walter (disambiguation)