Volkmar
Volkmar is a male given name of Germanic origin.
Origin and meaning
Old High German : People = folc = the people , mar / mari = famous => "The famous among the people" .
name day
Name bearer
Historical personalities
- Volkmar I (Corvey) , abbot of Corvey Monastery from 916 to 942
- Volkmar I. (Harzgau) († before 961), Count in Harzgau
- Volkmar (Paderborn) († 983), from 957 to 983 Bishop of Paderborn
- Volkmar I of Brandenburg , from 980 Bishop of Brandenburg
- Volkmar II. (Harzgau) (X September 1, 1015), Count in the Harzgau
- Volkmar II of Brandenburg († 1102), Bishop of Brandenburg
- Volkmar II (Corvey) , Abbot of Corvey from 1129 to 1138
- Volkmar von Minden († 1094 or 1096), from 1080, effectively from 1089 until his death (counter) bishop of Minden
- Volkmar (Niederaltaich) , abbot of Niederaltaich Monastery from 1280 to 1282
- Volkmar von Fürstenfeld († 1314), Cistercian monk and historian
First name
- Volkmar Andreae (1879–1962), Swiss conductor and composer
- Volkmar Böhm (1938–2007), German pop singer and event organizer
- Volkmar Deile (1943–2020), German theologian
- Volkmar Denner (* 1956), German physicist and a managing director of Robert Bosch GmbH
- Volkmar Dinstuhl (* 1972), German chess player
- Volkmar Döring (* 1952), German children's book illustrator, author and animator
- Volkmar Enderlein (* 1936), German art historian and archaeologist
- Volkmar Fritz (1938–2007), German biblical archaeologist
- Volkmar Gabert (1923-2003), German politician (SPD)
- Volkmar Gross (1927–1992), German artist
- Volkmar Groß (1948–2014), German soccer goalkeeper
- Volkmar Haase (1930–2012), German sculptor
- Volkmar Halbib (* 1964), German politician (SPD)
- Volkmar Harwanegg (* 1944), Austrian politician (SPÖ)
- Volkmar Herntrich (1908–1958), German resistance fighter
- Hans-Volkmar Herrmann (1922–1998), German archaeologist
- Volkmar Wolf von Hohnstein (1512–1580), penultimate ruler of the County of Hohnstein
- Volkmar Jaeger (1928–2019), German photographer
- Volkmar Klein (* 1960), German politician (CDU)
- Volkmar Kleinert (* 1938), German actor, speaker, dramaturge
- Volkmar Kretkowski (* 1938), German politician (SPD) and educator
- Volkmar Kunze (* 1954), German politician (LDPD, FDP)
- Volkmar Köhler (1930–2012), German politician (CDU)
- Volkmar W. Kübler (1941–2009), German lawyer, business and economist
- Volkmar Lachmann (1921–1945), German writer
- Volkmar Lehmann (* 1943), German Slavist
- Volkmar Michler (* 1964), German stock market journalist
- Volkmar Schneider (physician) (* 1940), German pathologist
- Volkmar Schneider (editor) (* 1949), German editor and author
- Volkmar Sigusch (* 1940), German doctor and sociologist
- Volkmar Staub (* 1952), German cabaret artist and author
- Volkmar Steininger (* 1970), German television and book author
- Karl Volkmar Stoy (1815–1885), German educator
- Volkmar Vogel (* 1959), German politician
- Volkmar Weiss (* 1944), German geneticist, social historian and genealogist
- Volkmar Zapf (* 1970), German basketball player
- Volkmar von Zühlsdorff (1912–2006), German lawyer, diplomat and publicist
family name
Form Volkmar
- Antonie Volkmar (1827–1903), German genre and portrait painter
- Christoph Volkmar (* 1977), German archivist and historian
- Dieter Schmidt-Volkmar (* 1940), German sports official
- Erich Volkmar (1879–1951), German judicial officer in the Reich Ministry of Justice, lecturer at the Berlin Administrative Academy, President of the Senate at the Reichserbhofgericht
- Erwin Volkmar (1906–1933), German boxer
- Günter Volkmar (1923–2006), German trade union official
- Gustav Volkmar (1809-1893), German Protestant theologian
- Joachim von Volkmar (Joachim von Volkmann; † 1662), Swedish general
- Johann Volkmar († 1617), German scholar and university professor
- Johann Georg Volkmar (1567–1596), German Lutheran theologian
- Johann Tobias Volkmar (1718–1787), German pastor and geographer
- Moritz Daniel Volkmar (1792–1864), German bill broker and banker
- Leopold Volkmar (1817–1864), German lawyer and historian
- Theodor Valentin Volkmar (1781–1847), German lawyer and Lord Mayor of Marburg
Form Folkmar
- Ulrich Folkmar (1902–1977), German actor, dubbing and radio play speaker
Literary figure
- Title hero of Max Eyth's youth work Volkmar. Historic-romantic poem , 1863
variants
See also
Wiktionary: Volkmar - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations