Behr

Behr is a family name.

Origin and Meaning

The name comes from the German Uradelsgeschlecht Behr ( nobility ).

Variants

  • Baehr
  • Bähr
  • Bear
  • Beer

Well-known bearers of the name

A

  • Andreas Behr ( b. 1975 ), German speed skater
  • Anton von Behr ( 1849 - ~ 1936), German architect, construction officer, Mr and architecture writer
  • Arno Behr ( b. 1952 ), German chemist

C

  • Carl Behr (Director), German film director and screenwriter
  • Carl von Behr Negendank (1791-1827), German landowner and politician
  • Carl von Behr ( MdR ) ( 1835-1906 ), German jurist
  • Carl Julius Peter Behr (1874-1943), German ophthalmologist
  • Christoph Behr ( * 1989), German football player

D

  • Denis Behr ( b. 1980 ), German magician
  • Dominik Behr ( b. 1981 ), German fencer

E

  • Edgar Behr ( 1910 -? ), German sailors
  • Emily Behr ( b. 1976 ), German actress and speaker for audio books

F

  • Franz Behr, German football player, umpire and functionary
  • Friedrich von Behr (1821-1892), Prussian politician
  • Fritz Behr (1881-1974), German local politician (SPD, SED), teacher and literary scholar

G

  • Georg Behr (around 1527-1600 ), Duke of Württemberg court architect
  • Giorgio Behr ( b. 1948 ), Swiss professor of Business Administration

B

  • Hans -Georg Behr (1937-2010), Austrian journalist and writer
  • Hans Hermann Behr (1818-1904), German physician, botanist and entomologist
  • Hans -Joachim Behr ( Archivist ) (* 1930), German archivist and historian
  • Hans -Joachim Behr ( philologist ) (* 1949), German philologist and university teachers
  • Harry Harun Behr ( b. 1962 ), professor of Islamic religion at the Friedrich -Alexander -University Erlangen -Nuremberg
  • Heinrich von Behr (1902-1983), German officer in the Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr
  • Heinz -Peter Behr ( b. 1955 ), German diplomat
  • Helmut Behr ( b. 1952 ), German football player
  • Hermann Behr (1792-1848), German Protestant minister, Member of Parliament ( Kingdom of Saxony )

I

  • Falk son Issachar Behr (1746-1817), German - Jewish military doctor and poet

J

  • Jan- Marco Behr ( * 1988), German handball player
  • Jason Behr ( b. 1973 ), American film actor
  • Johann von Behr (~ 1615 - ~ 1692 ), German traveler and author
  • Johann Heinrich Behr (1647-1719), German engineer and architect
  • Johann Heinrich August von Behr (1793-1871), German politician
  • John Behr ( b. 1966 ), Orthodox priest and theologian
  • Jürgen Behr ( b. 1960 ), German specialist in internal medicine, respiratory medicine and cardiology and Allergist

K

  • Karl Behr (1864-1941), German officer, social hygiene and eugenics
  • Karl von Behr ( General ), German Major General
  • Karl Behr ( politician) (1892 -? ), German politician ( KPD)
  • Karl Howell Behr (1885-1949), American tennis player and banker
  • Karsten Behr ( b. 1964 ), German politician ( CDU)
  • Kurt von Behr (1891-1945), top leader of the Red Cross, head of the " department west " in the Operations Staff Reich Leader Rosenberg

M

  • Mark Behr ( b. 1963 ), writer and professor at Rhodes College, Memphis
  • Matthias Behr ( b. 1955 ), German fencer
  • Max von Behr (1879-1951), German officer and SS-group leader

O

  • Ottmar von Behr (1810-1856), German - American farmer and sheep rancher, meteorologist and naturalist

P

R

  • Randall Behr (1952-2005), American conductor
  • Reinhart Behr (1928-2003), German mathematician, physicist, politician and author
  • Reinhold Behr ( b. 1948 ), German fencer

S

  • Samuel von Behr ( ~ 1575-1621 ), Mecklenburg politicians
  • Sepp Behr ( born 1931 ), German ski racer
  • Sophie Behr ( b. 1935 ), actually Sophie Elisabeth Behr - Negendanck, German journalist and writer

T

  • Therese Behr - Schnabel (1876-1959), German contralto and voice teacher
  • Thomas M. Behr (1966-2010), German nuclear medicine

U

  • Ulrich von Behr Negendank (1826-1902), Prussian politician

V

  • Victoria Behr ( b. 1979 ), German costume designer

W

  • William Joseph Behr (1775-1851), German constitutional lawyer and politician
  • Winrich Behr (1918-2011), German Major and recipient of the Knight's Cross
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