Wilhelm (name)

Wilhelm
	Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Pronunciation	German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm]
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Germanic languages
Origin
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.[1]

For the similar Dutch name Wilhelmus, see Wilhelmus (disambiguation)

People with the given name Wilhelm

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 1945), German filmmaker
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), German philosopher
Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), German mathematician and philosopher
Leonardo (Wilhelm) DiCaprio, (born 1974), American actor
(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (1813–1883), German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor
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 (1921–1945), German SS and concentration camp officer executed for war crimes
Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946), German Nazi politician, executed for war crimes
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 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
Wilhelm Imkamp (b. 1951), German Catholic prelate
Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946), German Nazi Field Marshal, executed for war crimes
Wilhelm List (1880–1971), German Field Marshal
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 von Humboldt (1767–1835), Prussian philosopher and diplomat
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 Wundt (1832–1920), German doctor and psychologist
Wilhelm, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1817–1887)

Fictional characters with the given name Wilhelm

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

People with the surname Wilhelm

Anette Wilhelm (born 1972), Swedish wheelchair curler
Bill de Blasio (born 1961), born Warren Wilhelm, American politician and current mayor of New York
Bill Wilhelm (1929–2010), American college baseball coach
Carl Wilhelm (1885–1936), German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era
Eugène Wilhelm (1866–1951), French lawyer and sexologist
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
Richard Wilhelm (disambiguation)
Stephen Wilhelm (1919–2002), American phytopathologist
Thomas Wilhelm (born 1971), Swedish curler and curling coach
William Charles John Pitcher or C. Wilhelm (1858–1925), British costume designer of the Victorian era and Edwardian period

Fictional characters with the surname Wilhelm

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

References

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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[Hanks_Hardcastle_Hodges_2006-1] 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.