Elmar

This article deals with the German first name; for further meanings see Elmar (disambiguation) .

Elmar is a male name .

Origin and meaning

Elmar is a short form of the old Germanic male name Eilmar or Agilmar .

variants

• Eilmar, Egilmar , Agilmar, Almar, Elimar , Elmo , Elko, Elmer

name day

• Elmar should be in the 7./8. Century worked as a bishop and messenger of faith in the Liège area. The legendary tradition gives no information about his real life path. His relics were venerated in the collegiate church in Molhain, France, near Vireux-Wallerand (today's diocese of Reims ). The grave was destroyed during the French Revolution . Today an altar and a representation in the vault of the sanctuary still remember St. Elmar.
  • August 28th

• Elko ( Elmar ) von Lidlom was abbot in the Premonstratensian monastery Lidlom ( Friesland ) and was slain by the canons of his monastery in 1332 because of his severity.
  • March 22

Name bearer

First name

• Elmar Altvater (1938–2018), German political scientist and author
• Elmar Bereuter (* 1948), Austrian writer
• Elmar Borrmann (* 1957), German fencer
• Elmar Brähler (* 1946), German professor for medical psychology and medical sociology
• Elmar Brandt (* 1971), German voice imitator
• Elmar Brok (* 1946), German politician
• Elmar Dietz (1902–1996), German sculptor
• Elmar Edel (1914–1997), German Egyptologist and hetithologist
• Elmar Faber (1934–2017), German publisher
• Elmar Ferber (1944–2008), German filmmaker, author and publisher
• Elmar Fischer (bishop) (* 1936), Catholic bishop of the diocese of Feldkirch
• Elmar Fischer (director) (* 1968), German director
• Elmar Frings (1939–2002), German modern pentathlete
• Elmar Gehlen (* 1943), German actor and director
• Elmar Giemulla (* 1950), German lawyer and professor of aviation law
• Elmar Giglinger (* 1965), German journalist and film funding manager
• Elmar Goerden (* 1963), German director
• Elmar Gunsch (1931–2013), Austrian moderator
• Elmar Hillebrand (1925–2016), German sculptor
• Elmar Holenstein (* 1937), Swiss philosopher
• Elmar Hörig (* 1949), German moderator
• Elmar Jansen (1931–2017), German art historian
• Elmar Kraushaar (* 1950), German journalist and writer
• Elmar Krautkrämer (1927–2016), German historian
• Elmar Maria Kredel (1922–2008), Archbishop of Bamberg
• Elmar Kuhn (* 1944), German homeland researcher and author
• Elmar Ledergerber (* 1944), Swiss politician, Mayor of Zurich (2002–2009)
• Elmar Lipping (1906–1994), Estonian politician in exile
• Elmar Mäder (* 1963), former commander of the Papal Swiss Guard
• Elmar Məhərrəmov (* 1958), Azerbaijani chess player
• Elmar Mayer (economist) (1923–2019), German economist
• Elmar Mayer (politician) (* 1953), Austrian politician (SPÖ)
• Elmar Mayer-Baldasseroni (* 1977), Austrian writer and physician
• Elmar Mittler (* 1940), German librarian and professor of book and library studies
• Elmar Oberhauser (* 1947), Austrian journalist (ORF)
• Elmar Ottenthal (* 1951), Austrian theater director and theater director
• Elmar Pichler Rolle (* 1960), Italian journalist and politician from South Tyrol
• Elmar Pieroth (1934-2018), German entrepreneur and politician (CDU)
• Elmar Schloter (1936–2011), German organist and conductor
• Elmar Schmähling (* 1937), former German flotilla admiral and author
• Elmar Schneider (1945–2003), German politician
• Elmar Seebold (* 1934), German Germanist and linguist, lexicologist and runologist
• Elmar Theveßen (* 1967), German television journalist and author
• Elmar Tophoven (1923–1989), German literary translator
• Elmar Weiler (* 1949), Professor of Plant Physiology
• Elmar Wepper (* 1944), German actor
• Elmar Worgull (* 1949), German visual artist, art historian and art educator
• Elmar Zeitler (* 1927), German physicist

family name

• Carl Elmar or Karl Elmar (1815–1888), pseudonyms of the Austrian playwright Karl Swiedack

Fictional characters

• Elmar the Elephant , name of a children's book character by David McKee . Originally 'Elmer'.
• Elmar Elephant (also Elmar Elefant ), a Walt Disney short film from 1936
• Elmar , hero of an epic by Friedrich Wilhelm Weber
  • Based on the verse epic Dreizehnlinden by Friedrich Wilhelm Weber, the playwrights Otto Thissen (1894), Josef Faust and Franz Hillmann wrote the plays Elmar in five acts each. The Elmar form, revised by Otto Thissen for open-air theaters, was premiered in Oetigheim in 1911.

Trivia

Elmar was the name of a moose who was run over by an express train in May 2000. He had swum from Sweden to Denmark and had caused great elk enthusiasm in Denmark.