Walther

Walther is a masculine given name and a surname. It is a German form of Walter, which is derived from the Old High German Walthari, containing the elements wald -"power", "brightness" or "forest" and hari -"warrior". The name was first popularized by the famous epic German hero Walther von Aquitaine and later with the Minnesänger Walther von der Vogelweide. Given name Walther Bauersfeld (1879–1959), German engineer who built the first projection planetarium Walther Bothe (1891–1957), German nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German World War II field marshal Walther Dahl (1916–1985), German World War II flying ace Walther von Dyck (1856–1934), German mathematician Walther Flemming (1843–1905), German biologist and a founder of cytogenetics Walther Funk (1890–1960), economist and Nazi official convicted of war crimes in the Nuremberg Trials Walther Hahm (1894–1951), German World War II general Walther Hewel (1904–1945), German diplomat and one of Hitler's few personal friends Walther Kossel (1888–1956), German physicist Walther von Lüttwitz (1859–1942), German general and a leader of the unsuccessful Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch against the Weimar Republic Walther Meissner (1882–1974), German technical physicist and discoverer of the Meissner effect Walther Müller (1905–1979), German physicist Walther Otto Müller (1833–1887), German botanist Walther Nehring (1892–1983), German World War II general Walther Nernst (1864–1941), German physical chemist and physicist; Nobel laureate in chemistry Walther Rathenau (1867–1922), German industrialist, politician, writer, statesman and Foreign Minister of Germany for the Weimar Republic Walther Ritz (1878–1909), Swiss theoretical physicist Walther Schroth (1882–1944), German World War II general Walther Schwieger (1885–1917), German World War I U-boat commander who sank the Lusitania Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, German World War II general Walther Stampfli (1884–1965), Swiss politician Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170–c.