Oehler (family name)
Oehler or Öhler is a German family name.
Origin and meaning
The name is derived from the profession of oil hammer or oil miller .
Name bearer
- Adalbert Oehler (1860–1943), German local politician (Halberstadt, Krefeld, Düsseldorf) and administrative lawyer
- Alfred Oehler (entrepreneur) (1852–1900), Swiss mechanical engineer and entrepreneur
- Alfred Oehler (1883–1974), Swiss entrepreneur, son of Alfred Oehler (1852–1900)
- Andreas Oehler (* 1960), German economist and professor of business administration, especially finance
- Anton von Oehler (1810–1879), German Catholic vicar general
- August Oehler (1881–1920), Austrian philologist and author
- Christian Oehler (1909–1986), German painter, draftsman, lithographer and glass painter
- Christoph Friedrich Oehler (1881 Leonberg - 1964 Oberwil), German-Swiss painter
- David Friedrich Oehler (1725–1797), founder of the first Crimmitschau cloth manufacture (1748)
- Dietrich Oehler (1915–2005), German legal scholar
- Edgar Oehler (* 1942), Swiss entrepreneur and politician (CVP)
- Eduard Oehler (1837–1909), Offenbach industrialist
- Eduard Hans Oehler (1881–1941), explorer, plant collector, Africa explorer and, together with Fritz Klute, first climber of Mawenzi
- Elisabeth Oehler-Heimerdinger (1884–1955), German missionary and writer
- Frank Oehler (* 1964), German chef
- Friedrich Karl Oehler (1844–1910), Protestant theologian and prelate
- Gustav Friedrich Oehler (1812–1872), German theologian
- Hans Oehler (1888–1967), Swiss publicist, publisher and sympathizer of National Socialism
- Heinz Oehler (1920–1973), German trade unionist
- Henry Oehler (1916–1991), American handball player
- Jochen Oehler (1942–2017), German behavioral and neurobiologist
- Johann Oehler (1857–1921), Austrian ancient historian, epigraphist and high school teacher
- Karin Oehler (* 1950), German jazz singer
- Karl Oehler (1836–1909), German industrialist, see Teerfarbenwerk Oehler # 1850–1905 K. Oehler Anilin- und Anilinfarbenfabrik
- Karl Oehler (soccer player) (* 1923), German soccer player
- Karl Gottlieb Reinhard Oehler (1797–1874), German-Swiss chemist, educator and entrepreneur
- Karl Josef Oehler (1889–1917), German pilot
- Klaus Oehler (* 1928), German philosopher
- Kurt Theodor Oehler (* 1942), Swiss psychotherapist and book author
- Markus Öhler (* 1967), Austrian Protestant theologian
- Max Oehler (1875–1946), German officer, author and head of the Nietzsche archive
- Max Oehler (painter) (1881–1943), Thuringian painter
- Max Oehler (* 2001), German handball player
- Oskar Oehler (1858–1936), German clarinetist and musical instrument maker
- Otto Oehler (1913–1941), American handball player
- Raimund Oehler (1852–1935), German ancient historian and teacher
- Richard Oehler (1878–1948), German librarian and Nietzsche editor
- Rudolf Joachim Oehler (born October 23, 1908), only son of Eduard Oehler (1837–1909) with Viktoria Budzbanowska (1874–1943)
- Thomas Öhler (* 1983), Austrian bike trial rider
- Viktoria Oehler-Budzbanowska (1874–1943), second wife and widow of Eduard Oehler (1837–1909)
- Walter Claus-Oehler (1897–1941), German football player
- Walther Oehler (1888–1968), German rear admiral
- Wolfgang Oehler (* 1943), German lawyer