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Klaus Rogge (born 1979), German rower; Klaus Schilling (1871–1946), German experimenter in Nazi human concentration camp experiments executed for war crimes; Klaus Schulten, computational biophysicist; Klaus Schulze (1947-2022), German electronic music composer and musician; Klaus Schwab (born 1938), German professor who founded the World ...
Rudolf Scharping, German politician (SPD) and sports official who served as 12th Minister of Defence of Germany; Rudolf Seiters, German politician of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) party; Rudolph G. Tenerowicz, American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan; Rudolf "Rudi" Vis, Dutch-born British politician and Member of Parliament
Walter is a German and English [1] masculine given name of Germanic origin, composed of the elements walt-(Proto-Germanic *wald-) "power", "ruler", and hari (Proto-Germanic *χarja) "army". [ 2 ] The name was first popularized by the epic German hero Walther von Aquitaine , and later from the name of the writer Walther von der Vogelweide .
As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...
Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German word schäfer, meaning 'shepherd', [1] which itself descends from the Old High German scāphare. Variants "Shaefer", "Schäfer" (a standardized spelling in many German-speaking countries after 1880), the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms ...
Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853–1928), German mathematician; Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), German philosopher; Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892–1946), Austrian Nazi politician; Arthur "Buddy" Schumacher (1916–1925), boy who was found murdered in 1925; Art Shamsky (born 1941), American baseball player and manager
Traditionally, this name is considered to be composed of two elements, deriving from both Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz ("loud, famous") and *wiganą ("to battle, to fight") respectively, resulting in the traditional practice of translating Clovis' name as meaning "famous warrior" or "famous in battle". [2]
Hans is a Germanic male given name in Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, German, Norwegian, Icelandic and Swedish-speaking populations.It was originally short for Johannes (), [2] but is now also recognized as a name in its own right for official purposes.