Walther

Walther

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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", "brightness" and hari—"army, warrior".

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  • 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 Otto Müller (1833–1887), German botanist
  • 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), 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) (1923–1945), German flying ace and son of the above

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