Siegfried
Siegfried is a German language male given name, composed from the Germanic elements sig "victory" and frithu "protection, peace". The German name has the Old Norse cognate Sigfriðr, Sigfrøðr, which gives rise to Swedish Sigfrid (hypocorisms Sigge, Siffer), Danish/Norwegian Sigfred. In Norway, Sigfrid is given as a feminine name.[1]
The name is medieval and was borne by the legendary dragon-slayer also known as Sigurd. It did survive in marginal use into the modern period, but after 1876 it enjoyed renewed popularity due to Wagner's Siegfried.
Notable people with the name include:
Medieval
- Sigfrid of Sweden (died 1045), English missionary to Sweden and patron saint of Växjö
- Siegfried I, Archbishop of Mainz (died 1084)
- Siegfried of Luxembourg (922-998), founder of Luxembourg
- Siegfried III, Archbishop of Mainz (d. 1249)
- Siegfried I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (c. 1230-1298)
Modern
- Siegfried Lipiner (1856-1911), Austrian poet and author
- Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930), German composer, conductor, and opera director, son of Richard Wagner
- Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch (1872-1939), Austrian saber fencer
- Siegfried Translateur (1875-1944), Austrian composer of dance music
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), English poet, named Siegfried by his mother because of her love of Wagner's operas.
- Siegfried Kasche (1903–1947), German Nazi Storm Trooper officer and ambassador executed for war crimes
- Siegfried Fehmer (1911–1948), German Nazi Gestapo officer executed for war crimes
- Siegfried Seidl (1911–1947), Austrian Nazi commander of the Theresienstadt concentration camp executed for war crimes
- Siegfried Rapp (1915–1982), one-armed German pianist
- Siegfried Buback (1920–1977), Attorney General of Germany
- Siegfried Fischbacher (b. 1939), German-American magician
- Siegfried Jerusalem (b. 1940), German operatic tenor
- Siegfried Ziering (1928-2000), German-born American business executive, playwright and philanthropist
Fictional characters
- Sigurd or Siegfried, the legendary dragon-slaying hero in Nibelungenlied
- Siegfried, leading character in the opera of the same name
- Siegfried, the first of Fritz Lang's two-film series, "Die Nibelungen"
- Siegfried, a character in History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi
- Siegfried (Get Smart), fictional character in 1960s American comedy television series Get Smart
- Siegfried, a principal character in the ballet Swan Lake
- Siegfried Farnon, one of the main characters in All Creatures Great and Small
- Siegfried Schtauffen and Nightmare, two interconnected characters of the Soulcalibur series of fighting games
- Dubhe Alpha Siegfried, Saint Seiya anime series character
- Siegfried Kircheis, Legend of the Galactic Heroes
- Siegfried, a recurring demon in the Shin Megami Tensei series
- Siegfried, the Saber of Black in the anime Fate/Apocrypha
See also
References
- nordicnames.de; official statistics at Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no; Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
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