Wilhelm (name)

Wilhelm
Origin
Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Pronunciation	/ˈwɪlhɛlm, ˈvɪl-/;^[1] German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm]
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	Germanic languages
Word/name	wille + helm (protection)
Meaning	Vehement protector
Region of origin	Germany
Other names
Related names	William, 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]

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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

Colonel Wilhelm Klink in Hogan's Heroes
Wilhelm van Astrea, a character in the light novel series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
Noiz (Wilhelm), a character from the Japanese visual novel, DRAMAtical Murder
Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse, Nazi general from the Wolfenstein series
Wilhelm, a character in Xenosaga video games
Wilhelm Ryan, Supreme Trimage in The Amory Wars
Wilhelm Wicki, a character in the 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds
Wilhelm Winter, an officer in Generation War.
Wilhelm, a cyborg from the Borderlands series
Wilhelm, servant in the manga Ludwig Kakumei
Wilhelm, crown prince of Sweden, Young Royals

People with the surname

Anette Wilhelm (born 1972), Swedish wheelchair curler
Bill Wilhelm (1929–2010), American college baseball coach
Bruce Wilhelm (born 1945), American former weightlifter strongman, twice winner of the World's Strongest Man competition, in 1977 and 1978
Carl Wilhelm (1885–1936), German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era
Eugène Wilhelm (1866–1951), French lawyer and sexologist
George Wilhelm (1829–1920), American Medal of Honor recipient
George W. Wilhelm (1847–1902), American politician from Ohio
Hellmut Wilhelm (1905–1990), German Sinologist
Hoyt Wilhelm (1923–2002), American major league baseball pitcher
Karl Wilhelm (disambiguation)
Kate Wilhelm (1928–2018), American writer
Kati Wilhelm (born 1976), German biathlete
Manuel Wilhelm, German rugby union player
Mary Jo Wilhelm, American politician
Matthew Wilhelm, American politician
Richard Wilhelm (disambiguation)
Stephen Wilhelm (1919–2002), American phytopathologist
Thomas Wilhelm (born 1971), Swedish curler and curling coach
Warren Wilhelm, birth name of Bill de Blasio (born 1961), American politician and former mayor of New York
William Charles John Pitcher (1858–1925), British costume designer of the Victorian era and Edwardian period

Fictional characters with the surname

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

References

^ "Definition of 'Wilhelm'". Collins English Dictionary.
^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford University Press. p. 477. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. OCLC 67869278. Retrieved 15 January 2021.

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