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	Northern Europe
Other names
Related names	William, Guillaume, Willem, Vilhelm, Villem, Vilhelms

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

Wilhelm is a German given name, and the origin of the English name William. The feminine form is Wilhelmine.

People with the given name Wilhelm

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 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 Heinrich Erb (1840–1921), German neurologist
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 Göcke (1898–1944), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), German anthropologist
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher
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 Keitel (1882–1946), German Nazi Field Marshal, executed for war crimes
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), German mathematician and philosopher
Wilhelm List (1880–1971), German Field Marshal
Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Wilhelm Ruppert (1905–1946), SS trooper in charge of executions at Dachau concentration camp executed for war crimes
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854), German philosopher
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 Wundt (1832–1920), German doctor and psychologist

Fictional characters

Wilhelm in Xenosaga video games
Wilhelm, servant in manga Ludwig Kakumei
Noiz (Wilhelm), a character from a Japanese visual novel, DRAMAtical Murder
Colonel Wilhelm Klink in Hogan's Heroes
Wilhelm Ryan, Supreme Trimage in Amory Wars
Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse, Nazi general from the Wolfenstein series.
Wilhelm Wicki, a character in the 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds
Wilhelm, a cyborg from Borderlands (series).
Wilhelm Winter, an officer in Generation War

People with the surname Wilhelm

Bill Wilhelm (1929–2010), American college baseball coach
Bill de Blasio (born 1961), born Warren Wilhelm, American politician and current mayor of New York
Carl Wilhelm (1885-?), a German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era
Eugène Wilhelm (1866-1951), a French lawyer and sexologist
Hoyt Wilhelm (1923–2002), a major league baseball pitcher
Karl Wilhelm (disambiguation)
Kate Wilhelm (1928–2018), an American writer
Kati Wilhelm (born 1976), a German biathlete
Manuel Wilhelm, a German rugby union player
Mary Jo Wilhelm, an Iowa politician
Richard Wilhelm (disambiguation)
William Charles John Pitcher or C. Wilhelm (1858–1925), a British costume designer of the Victorian era and Edwardian period

Fictional character

Mr. Wilhelm, a recurring minor character in Seinfeld

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