Klemperer

Klemperer is a family name of Yiddish origin. The writer and philologist Victor Klemperer writes in LTI - Notebook of a Philologist (Chapter XII, "Punctuation") that "Klemperer" originally meant the "knocker" in the Eastern Jewish community, the community servant who in the morning at the doors of the pious knocks to remind her of her early prayer.

Name bearer

• David Klemperer (* 1980), German beach volleyball player
• David Klemperer (physician) (* 1953), German internist, lecturer and author
• Eva Klemperer (née Schlemmer ; 1882–1951), concert pianist and painter
• Felix Klemperer (1866–1932), German internist
• Georg Klemperer (1865–1946), German internist and nutrition researcher
• Gustav Klemperer von Klemenau (1852–1926), German banker
• Hadwig Klemperer (1926–2010), German philologist and editor
• Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012), German-American historian
• Otto Klemperer ( Otto Nossan Klemperer ; 1885–1973), German conductor and composer
• Otto Klemperer (physicist) ( Otto Ernst Heinrich Klemperer ; 1899–1987), German-British physicist
• Ralph Klemperer von Klemenau (1884–1956), German manager
• Victor Klemperer (1881–1960), German writer and literary scholar
• Victor Klemperer von Klemenau (1876–1943), German banker
• Werner Klemperer (1920–2000), German-American actor and musician
• Wilhelm Klemperer (1839–1912), rabbi
• William A. Klemperer (1927–2017), American chemist
• Wolfgang Klemperer (1893–1965), engineer and aviation pioneer

See also

• Klemperer - A Life in Germany , twelve-part German television film drama from 1999