Hecht (surname)

Hecht is a German family name.

Origin

The name comes from Herold, in the Middle Ages an official messenger of a feudal lord. Furthermore, it is a Jewish surname, which is also common in North America. Yiddish (Hebrew: העכט ) the hekht means spear arm.

Bearers of the name

A

  • Anthony Hecht (1923-2004), American poet
  • Arno Hecht ( physician) (* 1932), German pathologist
  • Arno Hecht (musician ), American saxophonist
  • Axel Hecht (1944-2013), German art journalist

B

  • Béatrice Hecht -El Minshawi (* 1947), German expert on Intercultural Living
  • Ben Hecht (1894-1964), American screenwriter and writer

C

  • Chic Hecht (1928-2006), American politician
  • Christian Heinrich Hecht (1735-1801), Saxon Evangelical Lutheran pastor and chronicler

E

  • Erwin Hecht, OMI ( born 1933), Oblate of Mary Immaculate and Bishop of Kimberley in South Africa
  • Eugene Hecht ( born 1931 ), American physicist
  • Evelyn Hecht- Galinski (* 1949), German journalist

F

  • Florian Hecht (* 1993), German volleyball player
  • Frederick Hecht (1903-1980), Austrian chemist

G

  • Gerhard Hecht ( boxer ) ( 1923-2005 ), German Boxer
  • Gerhard Hecht ( politician ) ( 1934-2009 ), German politician ( SPD)
  • Gina Hecht ( born 1953 ), American actress
  • Günther Hecht (* 1937), German physicist and university teacher
  • Guntram Hecht (* 1923), German music teacher, organist and composer
  • Gusti Hecht (1895-1950), German architect and journalist

B

  • Hans -Joachim Hecht ( b. 1939 ), German chess grandmaster
  • Harold Hecht (1907-1985), American film producer
  • Heiko Hecht ( b. 1977 ), German state politicians (Hamburg ) ( CDU)
  • Heinrich Hecht ( millwright ), German mill builder and inventor
  • Heinrich Hecht (1880-1961), German physicist, see Karl Heinrich Hecht
  • Heinrich Hecht ( photographer) ( born 1955 ), German photographer
  • Hermann Hecht (1877-1969), German shipping entrepreneurs
  • Hugo Hecht (1883-1970), American dermatologist and professor of Czech origin

I

  • Inge Hecht (* 1949), German politician (SPD )
  • Ingeborg Hecht (1921-2011), German writer

J

  • Jacob Hecht (1879-1963), German -Swiss shipping entrepreneurs
  • Jennifer Michael Hecht (born 1965 ), American historian of philosophy, university teacher and writer
  • Jessica Hecht (born 1965 ), American actress
  • Jochen Hecht ( born 1977 ), German ice hockey player
  • Joseph Hecht (1882-1956), German teacher and conservationist
  • Joseph Hecht (1891-1951), Polish painter and graphic artist

K

  • Karl Hecht ( physicist ) ( 1903-1994 ), German physicist and physics didactics
  • Karl Hecht ( physiologist ) (* 1924), German physiologist
  • Karl Heinrich Hecht (1880-1961), German physicist
  • Konrad Hecht (1918-1980), German architect

L

M

  • Martin Hecht (Moderator), German radio host
  • Martin Hecht ( author) (born 1964 ), German writer and journalist
  • Martin Hecht ( Chancellor ) (* 1966), German industrial engineer and university chancellor
  • Mathias Hecht ( born 1980 ), Swiss triathlete
  • Michael Hecht (* 1965), German football player

R

  • Raymond Hecht ( born 1968 ), German track and field athlete
  • René Hecht (* 1961), German volleyball player
  • Reuben Hecht (1909-1993), israelisch-/schweizer entrepreneur and political advisor
  • Robert Hecht (1881-1938), an Austrian lawyer and top official
  • Robert E. Hecht (1919-2012), American antiquities dealer

S

  • Stefan Hecht (* 1974), German chemist

T

  • Theodore Hecht (printer ) ( 1650-1720 ), German printer
  • Theodore Hecht (architect ) ( 1850-1917 ), German architect

V

  • Victor Hecht (1847-1904), Alpinist
  • Victoria Hecht (1840-1890), German sufferer and stigmatized

W

  • Walter Pike (1896-1960), Austrian botanist
  • Werner Hecht (* 1926), German literature and theater studies
  • William Hecht (1843-1920), German wood engraver and etcher
Evelyn Hecht-Galinski Hans-Joachim Hecht Józef Hecht Michael Hecht (footballer)
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