Erhard
Erhard ( old high German era , "honor, reputation" and hard , "hard, strong") is a German given name. Today it is also a common surname in German-speaking countries.
The feast day of St. Erhard von Regensburg is celebrated on January 8th .
Name bearer
First name
- Erhard Auer (1874–1945), Minister of the Interior of the Free State of Bavaria and SPD party chairman in Bavaria
- Erhard Bodenschatz (1576–1636), German pastor, cantor and composer
- Erhard Bungeroth (* 1939), Judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 1988 to 2004
- Erhard Busek (* 1941), Austrian politician of the ÖVP
- Erhard Eppler (1926–2019), German politician (SPD) and from 1968 to 1974 Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation
- Erhard Etzlaub (~ 1460–1532), German cartographer, compass builder and astronomer from Nuremberg during the Dürer period
- Erhard Freitag , author and one of the most famous advocates of so-called "positive thinking"
- Erhard Hofeditz (* 1953), German soccer player
- Erhard Hübener (1881–1958), German politician (DDP, LDPD) and from December 1946 to October 1949 first Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt
- Erhard I. Jakobi , abbot of the Waldsassen monastery from 1486 to 1493
- Erhard Keller (* 1944), German speed skater and two-time Olympic champion
- Erhard König (1900–1966), German politician (KPD / SED) and official of the People's Police
- Erhard Krack (1931–2000), German politician (SED)
- Erhard Loretan (1959–2011), Swiss mountaineer
- Erhard Louven (* 1938), German economist
- Erhard Mauersberger (1903–1982), organist, music teacher and Thomaskantor
- Erhard Mayke (1896–1962), German speed skater
- Erhard Milch (1892–1972), German Army and Air Force officer (General Field Marshal since 1940) and State Secretary of the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) from 1933 to 1945
- Erhard Pumm (1945–2011), German trade union official and politician (SPD)
- Erhard Quack (1904–1983), German hymn poet and composer
- Erhard Scheibe (1927–2010), German philosopher of science
- Erhard Schmied (* 1957), German author and writer
- Erhard Schnepf (1495–1558), German theology professor, pastor and reformer
- Erhard von Queis (1490–1529), Bishop of Pomesania, pioneer of the Reformation in Prussia
- Erhard Riedlsperger (* 1960), Austrian screenwriter and director
- Erhard Schwandt (* 19 **), German writer and teacher
- Erhard Ueckermann (1924–1996), German hunting and forest scientist
- Erhard Wunderlich (1956–2012), German handball player
family name
- Alfred Erhard (1899–1945), German officer and major general in the Air Force
- Bodo-Maria Erhard ISch (* 1924), German Roman Catholic clergyman and Schoenstatt Father, Superior General of the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers (1968 to 1974)
- Benno Erhard (1923–2011), German lawyer and politician (CDU)
- Christian Daniel Erhard (1759–1813), German legal scholar and poet
- Friedrich Daniel Erhard (1800–1879), German forensic doctor and spa doctor
- Guido Erhard (1969–2002), German soccer player
- Heinrich Erhard (publisher) (1796–1873), German publisher
- Heinrich August Erhard (1793–1851), German archivist, physician and historian
- Hermann Erhard (1883–1968), German entrepreneur
- Hubert Erhard (1883–1959), German zoologist and science historian
- Johann Benjamin Erhard (1766–1827), German philosopher
- Johann Christoph Erhard (1795–1822), German painter and etcher
- Johann Theophil Erhard (1751–1822), German physician
- Johann Ulrich Erhard (1747–1718), German poet
- Josef Erhard (politician) (1847–1907), German innkeeper and politician (center)
- Josef Erhard (Ministerial Director) (* 1946), German ministerial official
- Julius Erhard (1820–1898), German manufacturer and collector
- Ludwig Erhard (technician) (1863–1940), German-Austrian technician, first director of the Technical Museum Vienna
- Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), German politician (independent, CDU), Federal Chancellor 1963–1966
- Luise Erhard (1893–1975), German economist and Chancellor's wife
- Marie Erhard (1846–1906), Austrian opera singer (soprano) and Saxon chamber singer
- Martin Erhard (trade unionist) (1918–2017), German trade unionist and politician (SPD), MdL Bavaria
- Martin Erhard (ice hockey referee) (1938–2013), German ice hockey referee
- Otto Erhard (1829–1888), German politician
- Rudolf Erhard (* 1951), German journalist and author
- Theodor Erhard (1839-1919), German electrophysicist
- Toni Erhard (* 2001), German motorcycle racer
- Werner Erhard (* 1935), American entrepreneur