Walther

Walther
Origin
Walther fights Hartunc
Pronunciation	valt-her
Gender	Male
Word/name	Old German
Meaning	"powerful warrior", "bright warrior" or "forest warrior"
Region of origin	Northern Europe
Other names
Related names	Walt, Walter, Valtyr, Wouter, Gauthier, Gualtiero, Gutierre, Gutierrez, Gautier

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 -"power", "brightness" or "forest" and hari -"warrior".

The name was first popularized by the famous epic German hero Walther von Aquitaine and later with the Minnesänger Walther von der Vogelweide.

Given name

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 von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, German World War II general
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

Surname

Andrea Walther (born 1970), German mathematician
Augustin Friedrich Walther (1688–1746), German anatomist
Bernhard Walther (1430–1504), German astronomer for whom a lunar crater is named
C. F. W. Walther (1811–1887), German-American first President of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and its most influential theologian
Carl Walther (1858–1915), German gunsmith and founder of Walther Arms
Christoph Walther (born 1950), German computer scientist
Edgar Walther (1930-2013), Swiss chess player
Eric Walther (born 1975), German pentathlete
Erich Walther (1903–1947), German World War II general
Frédéric Henri Walther (1761–1813), Alsatian-born general in Napoleon's army
George Walther Sr. (1876–1961), American inventor
George H. Walther (1828–1895), American politician
Geraldine Walther (born 1950), American violist
Gesine Walther (born 1962), German sprinter
Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748), German organist and composer
Johann Jakob Walther (composer) (1650–1704), German composer/violinist
Johann Jakob Walther (1600–1679), German artist and botanical illustrator
Johannes Walther (1860–1937), German geologist
Kerstin Walther (born 1961), German sprinter
Kirsten Walther (1933–1987), Danish actress
Philipp Franz von Walther (1782–1849), German doctor
Christoph Theodosius Walther (1699–1741), German missionary