Bodo (first name)

Bodo is a male given name that is mainly used in the German-speaking area and came back into fashion through the Romantic era (around the beginning of the 19th century ).

Minor forms

• Botho
• Boto

Onomastics

The name is derived from the Old Saxon word bodo , which meant master . It is wrongly attributed to the Old High German word boto ( messenger ).

name day

• February 2nd

Name bearer

Form Bodo

• Bodo Abel (* 1948), German economist
• Bodo von Borries (1905–1956), co-inventor of the electron microscope
• Bodo Christ (1941–2016), German physician and anatomist
• Bodo Ebhardt (1865–1945), German architect, architectural historian and castle researcher
• Bogislaw Bodo von Flemming (1671–1732), lieutenant general in Electoral Saxony
• Bodo H. Hauser (1946-2004), German journalist and presenter (ZDF)
• Bodo von Harbou (1880–1943), colonel and resistance fighter against Hitler
• Bodo Hechelhammer (* 1968), German historian
• Bodo Henkel (* 1952), German presenter and voice actor
• Bodo von Hodenberg (1604–1650), German poet
• Bodo von Hodenberg (1826–1907), German diplomat and politician
• Bodo Hombach (* 1952), German politician and manager
• Bodo Illgner (* 1967), German football player (goalkeeper)
• Bodo Kirchhoff (* 1948), German writer
• Bodo Kraft (* 1951), German painter and draftsman
• Bodo Klimpel (* 1963), German politician
• Bodo Lampe (* 1955), German physicist and writer
• Bodo Morshäuser (* 1953), German writer
• Bodo Nowodworski (* 1949), German politician
• Bodo Olthoff (* 1940), East Frisian painter and graphic artist
• Bodo Pieroth (* 1945), German legal scholar
• Bodo Primus (* 1938), German actor
• Bodo Ramelow (* 1956), German politician (Die Linke), former Prime Minister of Thuringia
• Bodo Rudwaleit (* 1957), GDR national soccer player (goalkeeper)
• Bodo Schäfer (* 1960), German author, speaker and entrepreneur
• Bodo Schmidt (* 1950), German chess player
• Bodo Schmidt (* 1965), German soccer player (KSV Hessen Kassel)
• Bodo Schmidt (* 1967), German soccer player (Borussia Dortmund, 1. FC Cologne)
• Bodo Seidenthal (* 1947), German politician (SPD)
• Bodo Spiethoff (1875–1948), German dermatologist and university professor
• Bodo Spiethoff (1918–2000), German economist and writer
• Bodo Staiger (1949–2019), German musician and producer
• Bodo von Suckow (1830–1904), Prussian lieutenant general
• Bodo Tümmler (* 1943), German athlete
• Bodo Wartke (* 1977), German cabaret artist
• Bodo Wolf (* 1944), German actor and voice actor
• Bodo Zimmermann (1886–1963), German officer
• Bodo Zimmermann (1902–1945), German painter and graphic artist

Form Botho

• Botho Brachmann (* 1930), German archivist and historian
• Botho Henning Elster (1894–1952), German officer, most recently major general in World War II
• Botho zu Eulenburg (1831–1912), Prussian politician
• Botho Sigwart zu Eulenburg (1884–1915), German composer of the late Romantic period
• Botho Graef (1857–1917), German classical archaeologist and art historian
• Botho von Hülsen (1815–1886), theater director of the Royal Prussian Drama and President of the German Stage Association
• Botho Jung (1927–2014), German television and radio presenter
• Botho Laserstein (1901–1955), German judge and publicist
• Botho Lucas (1923–2012), German accordionist, composer and choir director
• Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1927–2008), German politician (CDU), honorary president of the German Red Cross
• Botho zu Stolberg (1467–1538), German regent
• Botho zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1805–1881), German historian and castle researcher
• Botho Strauss (* 1944), German writer
• Botho Walldorf (* 1945), German photographer and local history researcher
• Botho von Wedel (1862–1943), German diplomat

Fictional people

• Bodo Bach , German comedian
• Botho von Rienäcker, figure in Theodor Fontane's work Irrungen, Wirrungen

Nickname

• Bodo (* 1963), German metal bassist, see Thomas Smuszynski

Song title

• Bodo with the excavator of Mike Krüger
• Bodo Ballermann by Udo Lindenberg