Ortrud
Ortrud is a female given name.
Origin and meaning
The name Ortrud is an old high German rare given name, the meaning of which is derived from "ort" = sword point and "trud" = power.
name day
variant
- Ortraud, Ortrude
Well-known namesake
- Ortrud Abeking (1904–1977), German actress and painter
- Ortrud Beginnen (1938–1999), German film and theater actress
- Ortrud Gutjahr (* 1954), German Germanist
- Ortrud von der Recke (1916–2000), German aristocrat and film actress
- Ortrud Schaale (1914–1986), German teacher in the Azores
- Ortrud Sturm (* 1959), German wood sculptor of abstract works of art
- Ortrud Wagner (* before 1895, † after 1921), German silent film actress
- Ortrud Westheider (* 1964), German art historian, museum director in Potsdam
Others
- Ortrud is a character in Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin .
- Ortrud is an asteroid of the main belt.