Wilhelm (name)

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Wilhelm
Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Pronunciation/ˈwɪlhɛlm, ˈvɪl-/;[1] German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm]
GenderMasculine
Language(s)Germanic languages
Origin
Word/namewille + helm (protection)
MeaningVehement protector
Region of originGermany
Other names
Related namesWilliam, Guillaume, Willem, Vilhelm, Villem, Vilhelms, Guglielmo, Guilherme, Guillem, Guillermo

Wilhelm is a German given name, and a cognate of the English name William. The feminine form is Wilhelmine.[2]

People with the given name

  • Wilhelm I, German Emperor
    (1797–1888), King of Prussia and German Emperor
  • Wilhelm II, German Emperor
    (1859–1941), grandson of the former, King of Prussia and German Emperor
  • Prince Wilhelm (disambiguation)
  • Wilhelm Boger (1906–1977), German police officer and one of the SS staff at Auschwitz concentration camp
  • Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895–1945), Germany Army commander and staff officer during World War II
  • Wilhelm Dörr (Nazi) (1921–1945), German SS and concentration camp officer executed for war crimes
  • Wilhelm Enckell (born 1990), Finnish actor
  • Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946), German Nazi politician, executed for war crimes
  • Wilhelm Frimann Krog (1767–1825), Norwegian civil servant and politician
  • Wilhelm Fuchs (1898–1947), German Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator executed for war crimes
  • Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954), German conductor and composer, leader of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Wilhelm Gerstenmeier (1908–1944), German SS concentration camp officer executed for war crimes
  • Wilhelm Gideon (1898–1977), German Nazi SS commandant of the concentration camp Gross-Rosen
  • Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), German anthropologist
  • Wilhelm Göcke (1898–1944), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
  • Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1840–1921), German neurologist
  • Wilhelm Hetling (1740–1798), Baltic-German politician and the first mayor of Reval (modern-day Tallinn)
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), Prussian philosopher and diplomat
  • Wilhelm Imkamp (born 1951), German Catholic prelate
  • Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946), German Nazi field marshal, executed for war crimes
  • Wilhelm Legler (1875–1951), Austrian painter
  • Wilhelm List (1880–1971), German field marshal
  • Wilhelm Niklas (1887–1957), German academic and politician
  • Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
  • Wilhelm Rietschel (1911–1941), German sculptor
  • Wilhelm Ruppert (1905–1946), SS trooper in charge of executions at Dachau concentration camp executed for war crimes
  • Wilhelm Schitli (1912–1945 (missing)), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
  • Wilhelm Trapp (1889–1948), German Nazi policeman, executed for war crimes
  • Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813–1883), German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor
  • Wilhelm Weitling (1808–1871), early German communist or socialist
  • Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928), Nobel Prize Winner in 1911 and scientist who created Wien's Displacement Law
  • Wilhelm Woutersz (1939–2003), Sri Lankan Burgher diplomat
  • Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), German doctor and psychologist

Fictional characters with the given name

People with the surname

Fictional characters with the surname

  • Mr. Wilhelm, a
    recurring minor character in Seinfeld
  • Reinhardt Wilhelm, a tank hero in Overwatch

See also

References

  1. ^ "Definition of 'Wilhelm'". Collins English Dictionary.
  2. OCLC 67869278
    . Retrieved 15 January 2021.