Wedekind
Wedekind is a German surname and male first name.
Variants
- Wittekind
- Wittekindt
- Widekind
- Widukind
Bearers of the name
It is known by the surname of the German family Wedekind ( family), which reached significance in the 19th century.
First name
- Wedekind I. Hoya († 1261, also: Wittekind ), 1253-1261 Bishop of Minden
Family name
- Anton Christian Wedekind (1763-1845), German historian
- Arnd Freiherr von Wedekind (1919-1943), German resistance fighter
- August Wedekind (1890-1955), German politician (SPD ) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
- August Wilhelm Wedekind (1807-1875), German portrait painter and photographer from Bremen
- Axel Wedekind ( * 1975), German actor
- Beate Wedekind ( * 1951), German journalist, author, event manager and television producer
- Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (1709-1777), German poet
- Claudia Wedekind ( b. 1942 ), actress
- Dieter Wedekind ( * 1922 ), German cameraman
- Donald Wedekind (1871-1908), German -Swiss writer
- Edgar Wedekind ( Edgar Leon Wedekind, 1870-1938 ), Chemist
- Eduard Wedekind (1805-1885), German politician and member of the German National Assembly
- Erika Wedekind (1868-1944), German opera singer
- Frank Wedekind (1864-1918), German writer and actor
- Georg von Wedekind (1761-1831), German physician and revolutionary
- Georg von Wedekind ( politician ) ( 1825-1899 ), Hessian politician and member of the Reichstag
- Georg Wilhelm von Wedekind (1796-1856), German Forstmann
- Hermann Wedekind (1910-1998), German operatic tenor, actor and director
- Imke Wedekind ( * 1984), German volleyball player
- Joachim Wedekind (1925-1963), German actor, radio playwright and screenwriter
- Johann Heinrich Wedekind (1674-1736), portrait painter
- Kadidja Wedekind (1911-1994), German writer, actress, critic, journalist and illustrator
- Charles Wedekind (1809-1881), German - Italian importer of oil and patron of the arts
- Meta Liebeskind, Est Forkel, born Wedekind (1765-1853), German writer and translator
- Pamela Wedekind (1906-1986), German actress and chanson singer
- Rudolf Wedekind ( theologian ) ( 1716-1778 ), German Protestant theologian and university lecturer
- Rudolf Wedekind ( paleontologist ) ( 1883-1961 ), German palaeontologist
- Rudolf Wedekind ( politician ) ( born 1938 ), German politician ( CDU)
- Tilly Wedekind (1886-1970), German actress
- Viola Wedekind (born 1978 ), actress
- Wilhelm von Wedekind (1830-1914), politician Hessian