Wolfgang

Wolfgang is a German male first name.

Origin and Meaning

Wolfgang is composed of Germanic * Wulfa, Wolf, and Old High German gang, gang, walking.

Jacob Grimm understands the wolf here as a magical, sacred animal, which foretells the victory in battle, and according to Wolfgang as a "hero name ".

The Germans feared and revered the wolf as equally strong and courageous fighter. " In a devastating predator, the man felt transformed when he went into the battle; then he was even a wolf. '" There may be a warrior drew to a wolf fur over, in the belief that the power and danger of the animal thereby transferring all on him. Perhaps he also had a peculiar way of walking the wolf or crawl.

In Germanic mythology, the two wolves Geri and Freki accompany the supreme god Odin; which certainly had influence on the naming. Originally a Namengebungsmotiv but Bach suspects a desire of parents for their child: " ... that he would be given by a name spell the admired characteristics of the animal (...)".

Dissemination

The earliest evidence ( Vulfgang ) date from the 8th century. Also found in Reichenauer brotherhood book (in the first half of the 9th century began ) an earlier evidence of the name in the upper German spelling Vuolfkanc. But only by the cult of Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg ( 10th century ) was the name widely used. Between the 15th and 17th centuries became Wolfgang especially in southern Germany and Austria one of the most popular names for boys, later he was often given in memory of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( or Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ). In the 20th century the name came again into fashion, the high point was around 1960.

Name-day

The name-day is October 31.

Well-known bearers of the name

A

  • Wolfgang Abendroth (1906-1985), German political scientist and legal scholar
  • Wolfgang Adenberg (* 1967), German musical author, lyricist and translator
  • Wolfgang Ambros ( born 1952 ), Austrian singer-songwriter

B

  • Wolfgang Back (* 1943), German television editor
  • Wolfgang Bahro (* 1960), German actor and cabaret artist
  • Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips (1928-1961), German Formula 1 racing driver
  • Wolfgang Böhm ( * 1936), German agronomist
  • Wolfgang Borchert (1921-1947), German writer
  • Wolfgang Boetsch ( born 1938 ), former German Minister of Posts (1993-1997)
  • Wolfgang Brandstetter ( * 1957 ), Austrian Minister of Justice
  • Wolfgang Brendel ( b. 1947 ), German baritone
  • Wolfgang Büttner (1912-1990), German actor

C

  • Wolfgang Cerny ( born 1984 ), German actor
  • Wolfgang Clement ( born 1940 ), German politician ( SPD)
  • Wolfgang von Closen (* 1503, † 1561), 1555-1561 Bishop of Passau

D

  • Wolfgang Dauner ( born 1935 ), German pianist, composer, jazz musician
  • Wolfgang de Beer (born 1964 ), former German football goalkeeper

F

  • Wolfgang fig ( * 1949 ), German football player
  • Wolfgang Filc (* 1943), German university professor
  • Wolfgang Fortner (1907-1987), German composer, composition teacher and conductor

G

  • Wolfgang Gerhardt (* 1943), German politician ( FDP)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet
  • Wolfgang Glück ( born 1929 ), Austrian writer
  • Wolfgang Griesert ( b. 1957 ), mayor of Osnabrück
  • Wolfgang Grupp (* 1942), German entrepreneur
  • Wolfgang Güllich (1960-1992), German professional climbing

B

  • Wolfgang Haas ( born 1948 ), Archbishop of Fürsteintums Liechtenstein
  • Wolfgang G. Haas ( born 1946 ), German musician and publisher
  • Wolfgang Heilemann (* 1942), German photographer
  • Wolfgang R. Heizmann (* 1949), German microbiologist
  • Wolfgang Herrendorf (1965-2013), German writer
  • Wolfgang Hesl (* 1986), German football player
  • Wolfgang Hess ( born 1937 ), Swiss voice actors
  • Wolfgang Hofer ( pseudonym Wolfgang; * 1950 ), Austrian pop singer and songwriter
  • Wolfgang hollow leg (* 1953), German writer
  • Wolfgang Hübner ( director) ( born 1931 ), German actor, director and screenwriter
  • Wolfgang Hübner ( philologist ) (* 1939), German classical scholar

J

  • Wolfgang Joop ( born 1944 ), German fashion designer

K

  • Wolfgang Kemp ( born 1946 ), German art historian and university teacher
  • Wolfgang Kessler (economist ) ( born 1956 ), German economist and university professor
  • Wolfgang Ketterle ( born 1957 ), German physicist
  • Wolfgang Kieling (1924-1985), German actor
  • Wolfgang Kilian (engraver ) ( 1581-1663 ), German engraver
  • Wolfgang Kilian ( lawyer) ( born 1939 ), German jurist and legal informatics
  • Wolfgang Klein ( politician ) ( born 1943 ), German politician ( SPD)
  • Wolfgang Klein (actor ) ( born 1952 ), German actor
  • Wolfgang Klein ( Manager ) (* 1964), German Bank Manager
  • Wolfgang Koeppen (1906-1996), German writer
  • Wolfgang Kolneder (1943-2010), an Austrian theater director
  • Wolfgang Kosack (* 1943), German Egyptologist and linguist Koptologe
  • Wolfgang Krebs (actor ) ( born 1959 ), German theater actor and director
  • Wolfgang Krebs ( comedian ) (born 1966 ), German cabaret artist
  • Wolfgang Kriwanek (1949-2003), German musician, see wool Kriwanek
  • Wolfgang Kubach ' (1936-2007), German sculptor, see Kubach - Wilmsen
  • Wolfgang Kubicki (* 1952), German politician ( FDP)
  • Wolfgang Kulenkampff (* 1941), German freight forwarding agent and manager

L

  • Wolfgang Laib ( b. 1950 ), German artist
  • Wolfgang Leonhard ( born 1921 ), German historian
  • Wolfgang Günter Lerch (* 1946), German journalist, orientalist and author
  • Wolfgang Lesowsky (1942-2010), Austrian director, actor and author
  • Wolfgang Love ( engineer) ( 1911-2005 ), German aeronautical engineer
  • Wolfgang Love ( pharmacist ) (* 1917), German pharmacist
  • Wolfgang Liebeneiner (1905-1987), German actor and director
  • Wolfgang Lippert (* 1952), German Moderator

M

  • Wolfgang Marius (1469-1544), abbot of the monastery Alder Brook
  • Wolfgang Menzel (1798-1873), German poet
  • Wolfgang Michel ( Japanese studies ) (* 1946), German language and cultural scientists
  • Wolfgang Michel (musician ) ( born 1960 ), German conductor
  • Wolfgang Mocker (1954-2009), German writer of aphorisms
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), composer of the Classical

N

  • Wolfgang Neuss (1923-1989), German cabaret artist and actor
  • Wolfgang Niedecken (* 1951), German musician
  • Wolfgang Nissen (1925-2008), former Surgeon General of the Air Force and 7th President of the German Society for Aviation and Space Medicine

O

  • Wolfgang Ortmann's (* 1958), German economist
  • Wolfgang Overath ( born 1943 ), German footballer, world champion in 1974

P

  • Wolfgang Paul ( physicist ) ( 1913-1993 ), German physicist and Nobel laureate
  • Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Wolfgang Petersen ( born 1941 ), German film director and producer
  • Wolfgang Petry (* 1951), German pop star
  • Wolfgang Puck ( * 1949 ), Austrian cooking

R

  • Wolfgang Riechmann (1947-1978), German musician
  • Wolfgang Römer (* 1936), German lawyer
  • Wolfgang Rohde ( born 1950 ), German musician and drummer ( Die Toten Hosen )
  • Wolfgang Rudolph ( b. 1944 ), German television presenter

S

  • Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013), German conductor and pianist
  • Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1900-1974), German classical scholar
  • Wolfgang Schäuble ( born 1942 ), German politician ( CDU)
  • Wolfgang Schlüter (musician ) ( born 1933), German jazz musician (vibraphone and percussion)
  • Wolfgang Schneiderhan (musician ) ( 1915-2002 ), Austrian violinist
  • Wolfgang Schneiderhan (General ) (* 1946), German General
  • Wolfgang Schorlau (* 1951), German writer
  • Chancellor ( b. 1945 ), Austrian politician ( ÖVP)
  • Wolfgang Schuster ( * 1949 ), German politician ( CDU)
  • Wolfgang Schwalm (* 1954), German folk music artist, member of the Wildhearts
  • Wolfgang Seeliger (* 1946), German conductor
  • Wolfgang Seidenberg (born 1962 ), German actor
  • Wolfgang soaps ( * 1956 ), German organist, composer and music professor
  • Wolfgang Spier (1920-2011), German actor
  • Wolfgang Staudte (1906-1984), German film director
  • Wolfgang floor ( physician) ( 1874-1956 ), German ophthalmologist
  • Wolfgang floor ( surgeon ) ( 1943-2012 ), a surgeon and Chief of Plastic Surgery at the LMU in the Pettenkoferstraße
  • Wolfgang floor ( journalist) ( born 1959 ), German journalist, media consultant and university teacher
  • Wolfgang G. Stock (* 1953), German Information Science
  • Wolfgang Stumph ( born 1946 ), German actor and cabaret artist
  • Wolfgang Sühnholz ( b. 1946 ), football coach
  • Wolfgang Szepansky (1910-2008), German resistance fighter, writer and painter

T

  • Thierse (* 1943), German politician ( SPD)
  • Wolfgang Thiess (1911-1943), communist resistance fighters
  • Wolfgang Tiefensee (* 1955), German politician ( SPD)

U

  • Wolfgang Uchatius (* 1970), German journalist

V

  • Wolfgang Volz (* 1930), German television and film actor
  • Wolfgang of Regensburg ( * ca 924 ), Bishop of Regensburg, canonized in 1052, patron saint of Bavaria, 975, Wolfgang a cathedral school with choir, today the cathedral choir, † 994

W

  • Wolfgang Wagner (1919-2010), German film director and festival director
  • Wolfgang Christoph Steward of Waldburg (1643-1688), Major General kurbrandenburgischer
  • Wolfgang Weiser (1928-1996), Austrian actor
  • Wolfgang Wiltschko (* 1938), zoologist and ethologist
  • Wolfgang Wind streets (1914-1974), German singer (tenor )
  • Wolfgang von Wurzbach (1879-1957), Austrian linguist, literary scholar and collector

Z

  • Wolfgang Ziebart ( born 1950 ), former CEO of Infineon
  • Wolfgang Zöller (* 1942), German politician
  • Wolfgang tax collector ( b. 1928 ), German professor of law

Others

  • Wolfgang (Pfalz -Zweibrücken ) ( 1526-1569 ), Duke
  • Wolfgang Wilhelm (Pfalz -Neuburg ) ( 1578-1653 ), Duke
  • Wolfgang (Pfalz - Neumarkt ), Count Palatine
  • Wolfgang ( Anhalt- Köthen ) ( 1492-1566 ), prince from 1508 to 1562
  • Wolfgang (Braunschweig - Grubenhagen ) ( 1531-1595 ), 1567-1595 Prince in the Principality Grubenhagen
  • Wolfgang ( Ortenbourg ) ( † 1519), Count Empire 1490-1519
  • Wolfgang Funzfichler, part of the fictional stage pair Wolfgang & Anneliese

Similar Names

  • Wolf,
  • Wolf Bert,
  • Wolf Dieter,
  • Wolf Dietrich,
  • Wolfger,
  • Wolfgerd,
  • Günter Wolf,
  • Wolfhard,
  • Wolf Heinrich,
  • Wolfhelm,
  • Horst Wolf,
  • Jürgen Wolf,
  • Wolfmar,
  • Wolfrad,
  • Tungsten,
  • Wolfsried,
  • Wolfrun,
  • Wolly

Variants

  • Farkas ( Hungarian)
  • Lope ( Spanish)
  • Loup (French)
  • Lupo ( Italian)
  • Lupus (Latin )
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