Walther

Walther fights Hartunc
Pronunciation	valt-her
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Old German
Meaning	"powerful warrior", "bright warrior" or "forest warrior"
Region of origin	Northern Europe
Other names
Related names	Walt, Walter, Valtyr, Wouter, Gauthier, Gualtiero, Gutierre, Gutierrez, Gautier

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. 1230), High German lyric poet
• Walther Wenck (1900–1982), youngest general in the German Army during World War II
• Walther Wever (general) (1887–1936), German general, commander of the Luftwaffe and proponent of strategic bombing
• Walther Wever (pilot) (1923–1945), German flying ace and son of the above

Surname

• Andrea Walther (born 1970), German mathematician
• Augustin Friedrich Walther (1688–1746), German anatomist
• Bernhard Walther (1430–1504), German astronomer for whom a lunar crater is named
• C. F. W. Walther (1811–1887), German-American first President of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and its most influential theologian
• Carl Walther (1858–1915), German gunsmith and founder of Walther Arms
• Christoph Walther (born 1950), German computer scientist
• Edgar Walther (1930-2013), Swiss chess player
• Eric Walther (born 1975), German pentathlete
• Erich Walther (1903–1947), German World War II general
• Frédéric Henri Walther (1761–1813), Alsatian-born general in Napoleon's army
• George Walther Sr. (1876–1961), American inventor
• George H. Walther (1828–1895), American politician
• Geraldine Walther (born 1950), American violist
• Gesine Walther (born 1962), German sprinter
• Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748), German organist and composer
• Johann Jakob Walther (composer) (1650–1704), German composer/violinist
• Johann Jakob Walther (1600–1679), German artist and botanical illustrator
• Johannes Walther (1860–1937), German geologist
• Kerstin Walther (born 1961), German sprinter
• Kirsten Walther (1933–1987), Danish actress
• Philipp Franz von Walther (1782–1849), German doctor
• Christoph Theodosius Walther (1699–1741), German missionary