Siegfried
Siegfried is a male first name.
Origin and Meaning of the Name
- Old High German: Sigu ( victory ) and Fridu (peace, safety, security ).
Name-day
Variants
- Sigi, Siggi ( German ), Sigge ( Swabian )
- Sigfried
- Sigfrid ( Old High German, Scandinavian )
- Sigfrido ( Italian, Spanish)
- Sigfredo ( Spanish)
- Sigitas ( Lithuanian )
- Sigurd, Sigurdur ( nordic)
- Sigfridolinche ( altschweizerisch )
Well-known bearers of the name
- Siegfried (Holy ) ( † around 1067) ( Sigfrid, Sigurd ) Växjö, saint of Sweden
- Siegfried ( Guines ) ( 10th century ), founder of the House Guines
- Siegfried I. ( Luxembourg ) ( 919-998 ), Count of Luxembourg
- Siegfried I ( Weimar Orlamünde ) (c. 1075-1113 ), Count of Weimar- Orlamünde
- Siegfried I ( Spanheim ) (c. 1010-1065 ), Count of Spanheim, ancestor of the noble family Spanheim
- Siegfried I ( Lebenau ) ( † 1132 ), Count of Lebenau
- Siegfried I ( Merseburg ) (* 895, † 937) was Count of Merseburg and founder of the monastery of Groningen / Bode
- Siegfried I ( Vianden ) (c. 1154-1171 ), Count of Vianden
- Siegfried I of Anhalt († 1184 ), bishop of Brandenburg, Archbishop of Bremen
- Siegfried I ( Wittgenstein ) (from ( Battenberg ) Wittgenstein) ( † after 1283)
- Siegfried II ( Lebenau ) ( † around 1163 ), Count of Lebenau
- Siegfried II ( Augsburg), was from 1088 to 1096 Bishop of Augsburg
- Siegfried II ( Merseburg ), ( * 940, † after 980 ) Graf was Hassegau and of Merseburg
- Siegfried II of Wolfsölden, 1127-1146 Bishop of Speyer
- Siegfried II of cross- ford († 1310), Bishop of Hildesheim
- Siegfried II (Weimar - Orlamünde ), Count
- Siegfried III. ( Lebenau ) ( † 1191 ), Count of Lebenau
- Siegfried III. (Weimar - Orlamünde ), Count
- Siegfried III. of Boyneburg, Count
- Siegfried IV of Boyneburg, Count
- Siegfried IV ( Lebenau ) ( † 1210), Count of Lebenau
- Siegfried II (Brandenburg ) ( † 1220 ), bishop of Brandenburg 1216-1220
- Siegfried II of Eppstein (around 1165-1230 ), Archbishop of Mainz, Elector and Arch-Chancellor
- Siegfried III. of Eppstein (1194-1249), Archbishop of Mainz, Elector and Arch-Chancellor
- Siegfried III. of Venningen
- Siegfried von Brilon ( * before 1334 † after 1353 ), Knight in Brilon
- Sigefridus ( Goldsmith ) (or Zigefridus, also known as Master Sigefridus ), goldsmith at the beginning of the 14th century
- Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold (1819-1884), German mathematician
- Siegfried Egger tree (* 1972 ), Austrian chess player and coach
- Siegfried von Blomberg ( † 1374 ), 1370-1374 Archbishop of Riga
- Siegfried Buback (1920-1977), Attorney General murdered by the RAF
- Siegfried Dessauer (1874-1945), German actor, manager, film director and screenwriter
- Siegfried Fischbacher ( born 1939 ), Tamer, part of Siegfried and Roy
- Siegfried von Gelnhausen († 1321 ), 1298-1321 Bishop of Chur
- Siegfried Gottwald ( born 1943 ), German mathematician, logician and historian of science
- Siegfried Gräter (* 1939), German football goalkeeper
- Siegfried Grossmann (* 1930), German physicist
- Siegfried Hausner (1952-1975), member of the RAF
- Sigfried Held (* 1942), German football player
- Siegfried Jacobsohn (1881-1926), German journalist and theater critic
- Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), German journalist, sociologist and film historian
- Siegfried Lenz ( born 1926 ), German writer
- Siegfried Lowitz (1914-1999), German actor
- Siegfried Marcus (1831-1898), an Austrian engineer and inventor
- Siegfried Rauhut (* 1938), German Enduro athletes
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), British writer
- Siegfried Schauzu (* 1939), German motorcycle racer
- Siegfried Schopflocher (1877-1953), German - Canadian Bahai
- Siegfried of Truhendingen († 1150 ), 1146-1150 Bishop of Würzburg
- Siegfried Unseld (1924-2002), publisher and director of the Suhrkamp publishing house
- Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930), poet - composer, son of Richard Wagner
- SO Wagner, Siegfried actually Oswald Wagner (1902-1975), German actor, author, radio speaker, radio plays and theater director
- Siegfried von Wied (1145-1162), Count of Wied County
Siegfried in art
- Siegfried the Dragon Slayer ( Nibelungs )
- Siegfried, Count Palatine to Mayen ( Genoveva Sage)
- Siegfried in Richard Wagner's tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, the title role of the opera Siegfried and a character in the opera Götterdämmerung.
- Siegfried's grave as a cultural-historical discourse: Kaiser Friedrich III. and the passage grave at Worms
- Male first name
- Germanic personal name