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Hecht is a German and a Jewish family name .
Origin and Distribution
The name comes from Herold , an official messenger of a liege lord in the Middle Ages. The family name is common among the Jewish population in North America. Yiddish ( Hebrew העכט der hekht ) means spear, arm. In Israel the name is known from the Hecht Synagogue in Jerusalem , named after Chic Hecht .
Name bearer
A.
- Abraham Hecht (1922–2013), American rabbi
- Albert S. Hecht (1874–1966), American architect
- Alfred Hecht (1907–1991), British entrepreneur (picture framing) and art collector
- Andreas Hecht (* 1990), German music producer and songwriter
- Anthony Hecht (1923-2004), American poet
- Anton Hecht (1786–1837), Swiss painter
- Arno Hecht (pathologist) (1932–2014), until 1993 German university professor in Leipzig
- Arno Hecht (musician) , American saxophonist
- Arnold Hecht († 1411), mayor of the right city of Danzig from 1407 to 1411
- August Hecht (1863–1943), German leather manufacturer, collector and local researcher
- Axel Hecht (1944–2013), German art journalist
B.
- Béatrice Hecht-El Minshawi (* 1947), German expert on intercultural life
- Ben Hecht (1894–1964), American screenwriter and writer
- Bert Hecht (* 1968), German physicist and university professor
- Burkhard Hecht (* before 1952), German educational scientist, didactician and university professor
C.
- Carl Ferdinand Hecht (1785–1845), German Protestant pastor, theologian and hymnologist
- Charlotte Hecht-Buchholz (* 1934), German agricultural and crop scientist
- Chic Hecht (1928–2006), American politician, senator and ambassador
- Christian Hecht (* 1965), German art historian
- Christian Heinrich Hecht (1735–1801), German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and chronicler
- Cornelia Hecht (* 1968), German historian
D.
- Daniel Friedrich Hecht (1777–1833), German mathematician and surveyor
- Dirk Hecht (* 1968), German archaeologist and archivist
- Duvall Hecht (* 1930), American rower
E.
- Edgar Hecht (art dealer) (1895–1945), German art dealer
- Edgar Hecht (1904–1956), German-Israeli architect, see Edgar Hed
- Eduard Hecht ( Edward H .; 1832–1887), British pianist, conductor and composer of German origin (active in Manchester since 1854)
- Emil Hecht (architect) (1840–1910), German architect
- Emil Hecht (actor) (1857–1916), German actor and director
- Erik-Uwe Hecht (* 1969), German singer and musician, see Eric Fish
- Ernest Hecht (1929–2018), British publisher and philanthropist of Czech origin
- Ernst Hecht (soccer player) (1908–?), German soccer player
- Ernst Georg Julius Hecht (1775–1840), German lawyer
- Erwin Hecht OMI (1933–2016), Oblate of the Immaculate Virgin Mary and Bishop of Kimberley in South Africa
- Eugene Hecht (* 1931), American physicist
- Evelyn Hecht-Galinski (* 1949), German publicist
F.
- Felix Hecht (banker) (1847–1909), German banker and patron
- Felix Hecht (lawyer) (1883–1944), German lawyer, antiques / art dealer and Nazi victim ( Sachsenhausen concentration camp , Theresienstadt concentration camp ; murdered in Auschwitz )
- Florian Hecht (* 1993), German volleyball player
- Franz E. Hecht (1909–1997 / 2000), German geologist and university professor
- Franz Xaver Hecht (1885–1953), German Catholic religious chaplain ( SAC ) and canon lawyer
- Friedrich Hecht (sculptor) (1865–1915), German sculptor and painter
- Friedrich Hecht (chemist) (1903–1980), Austrian chemist and writer
- Friedrich Hecht (politician) (1918-2019), German politician (SED)
- Fritz Hecht (1881–1969), German manufacturer
G
- Georg Hecht (pedagogue) (1872–1951), German high school teacher and place name researcher
- Georg Hecht (literary critic) (1885–1915), German doctor, literary historian, critic, essayist and translator
- Gerhard Hecht (pharmacologist) (1900–1981), German pharmacologist and toxicologist
- Gerhard Hecht (boxer) (1923-2005), German boxer
- Gerhard Hecht (politician) (1934–2009), German politician (SPD)
- Gerhard Hecht (game designer) (* 1966), German game designer
- Gina Hecht (* 1953), American actress
- Gottfried Konrad Hecht (1771–1837), German civil servant and botanist
- Günter Hecht (1935–2013), German geologist
- Günther Hecht (zoologist) (1902 – after 1940), German zoologist, consultant in the racial policy office of the NSDAP and author of National Socialist treatises
- Günther Hecht (1937–2020), German physicist and university professor
- Günther Hecht (entrepreneur) (1946–2017), German entrepreneur and company founder
- Guntram Hecht (1923–2018), German music teacher, organist and composer
- Gustav Hecht (composer) (1851-1932), German composer
- Gustav Hecht (Oberamtmann) (1872–1959), German administrative officer
- Gusti Hecht (1903–1950), German architect and journalist
H
- Hans Hecht (1876–1946), German English and university lecturer
- Hans-Joachim Hecht (* 1939), German chess grandmaster
- Harold Hecht (1907–1985), American film producer
- Hartmut Hecht (* 1949), German physicist, philosopher, Leibnitz editor
- Heiko Hecht (* 1977), German state politician (Hamburg) (CDU)
- Heinrich Hecht (mill builder) , German mill builder and inventor
- Heinrich Hecht (1880–1961), German physicist, see Karl Heinrich Hecht
- Heinrich Hecht (photographer) (* 1955), German photographer
- Helene Hecht (1854–1940), German patron and Nazi victim
- Herbert Huber-Hecht (* 1964), Austrian painter and draftsman
- Hermann Hecht (1877–1969), German shipping entrepreneur
- Hugo Hecht (1883–1970), American dermatologist and university professor of Czech origin
I.
- Ilse Hecht (1907–1988), German English scholar and translator
- Inge Hecht (1949–2019), German politician (SPD)
- Ingeborg Hecht (1921–2011), German writer
- Irene Hecht-Cserhalmi (1871–1908), Hungarian writer
J
- Jacob Hecht (1879–1963), German-Swiss shipping entrepreneur
- Jennifer Michael Hecht (* 1965), American philosophy historian, university professor and writer
- Jessica Hecht (born 1965), American actress
- Jessica CE Gienow-Hecht (* 1964), German historian
- Jochen Hecht (* 1977), German ice hockey player
- Johann Baptist Hecht (1876–1956), German Catholic clergyman and cathedral vicar
- Johann Julius von Hecht , (1721–1792), Prussian privy councilor and minister in the Lower Saxony Empire
- Johann Julius Albrecht Hecht (1731–1804), Prussian civil servant
- Josef Hecht (1882–1956), German teacher and preservationist
- Joseph Hecht (1891–1951), Polish painter and graphic artist
- Julius Hecht (1879–1945), Austrian architect
- Jürgen Hecht (* 1969), German rower
K
- Karl Hecht (physicist) (1903–1994), German physicist and physics teacher
- Karl Hecht (physiologist) (* 1924), German physiologist
- Karl Heinrich Hecht (1880–1961), German physicist
- Konrad Hecht (1918–1980), German architect
L.
- Ladislav Hecht (1909-2004), Slovakian, later American tennis player
- Ludwig Hecht (1866–1943), German doctor (died in Theresienstadt concentration camp )
- Ludwig Heinrich Friedrich von Hecht (1774–1854), Prussian, later Bavarian civil servant
M.
- Martin Hecht (presenter) (* 1940), German radio presenter
- Martin Hecht (author) (* 1964), German author and journalist
- Martin Hecht (Chancellor) (* 1966), German industrial engineer and university chancellor
- Mathias Hecht (* 1980), Swiss triathlete
- Max Hecht (philologist) (1857 – after 1902), German classical philologist and psycholinguist
- Max Knobler Hecht (1925–2002), American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and university professor
- Michael Hecht (* 1965), German soccer player
O
- Otto Hecht (1900–1973), German entomologist
P
- Paul Hecht (physician) ( Paul Ludwig Hecht ; 1894–1978), German internist
- Paul Hecht (writer) (1927–1996), American musicologist and writer
- Paul Hecht (actor) (born 1941), British-Canadian actor
- Peter Hecht (clergyman) (1582–1661), German pastor
- Peter Hecht (art historian) ( Peter Alexander Hecht ; * 1951), Dutch art historian and university professor
- Peter Hecht (artist) (* 1961), German painter, sculptor and musician
R.
- Raymond Hecht (* 1968), German athlete
- René Hecht (* 1961), German volleyball player
- Reuben Hecht (1909–1993), Israeli-Swiss entrepreneur and political advisor
- Richard Hecht (1925–1999), German politician Free Voters
- Robert Hecht (1881–1938), Austrian lawyer and top civil servant
- Robert E. Hecht (1919–2012), American antique dealer
- Rudolf Hecht (1886 – after 1968), German lawyer and judge
S.
- Samuel Hecht (1830–1907), founder of the US department store chain Hecht’s
- Stefan Hecht (* 1974), German chemist
T
- Theodor Hecht (printer) (1650–1720), German printer
- Theodor Hecht (architect) (1850–1917), German architect
- Thomas Hecht (* 1960), American pianist, composer and professor
V
- Victor Hecht (1847–1904), alpinist
- Viktoria Hecht (1840–1890), German tolerant and stigmatized
W.
- Walter Hecht (1896–1960), Austrian botanist
- Werner Hecht (1926–2017), German literary and theater scholar
- Wilhelm Hecht (1843–1920), German wood cutter and etcher
- Winfried Hecht (* 1941), German historian
- Wolfgang Hecht (1928–1984), German Germanist and art historian
X
- Xaver Hecht (1757–1835), Swiss painter
Others
- (10484) Hecht , an asteroid discovered in 1983 in the main asteroid belt
- Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum , Haifa, Israel
- Hecht’s , former US department store chain (1857-2006)
- Villa Hecht , stately building (around 1898) in the Berlin district of Grunewald
See also
Wiktionary: Hecht - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
