Wedekind
Wedekind is a German surname and male first name .
variants
Name bearer
The family name is known through the German family Wedekind (family) , which gained importance in the 19th century.
First name
- Wedekind I. von Hoya (also Wittekind ; † 1261), Bishop of Minden
family name
- Anton Christian Wedekind (1763–1845), German historian
- Arnd Freiherr von Wedekind (1919–1943), German resistance fighter
- August Wedekind (1890–1955), German politician (SPD), MdL Lower Saxony
- August Wilhelm Wedekind (1807–1875), German painter and photographer, see August Wilhelm Wedeking
- Axel Wedekind (* 1975), German actor
- Beate Wedekind (* 1951), German journalist, author and television producer
- Christoph Friedrich Wedekind (1709–1777), German poet
- Claudia Wedekind (1942–2015), German actress
- Dieter Wedekind (1922–2014), German cameraman
- Donald Wedekind (1871–1908), German-Swiss writer
- Edgar Wedekind ( Edgar Leon Wedekind , 1870–1938), German chemist
- Eduard Wedekind (1805–1885), German politician
- Eduard Ludwig Wedekind , German historian and chronicler
- Emilie Wedekind-Kammerer (1840–1916), German actress and singer
- Erika Wedekind (1868–1944), German opera singer (soprano)
- Frank Wedekind (1864–1918), German writer and actor
- Frank Wedekind (violinist) (* 1966), German violinist
- Franz Ignaz Wedekind (1710–1782), German legal scholar
- Georg von Wedekind (physician) (1761–1831), German physician and revolutionary
- Georg von Wedekind (politician) (1825–1899), German politician, MdR
- Georg Joseph Wedekind (1739–1789), German legal scholar
- Georg Wilhelm von Wedekind (1796-1856), German forester
- Gregor Wedekind (* 1963), German art historian
- Günther Wedekind (* 1929), German cameraman
- Hartmut Wedekind (computer scientist) (* 1935), German computer scientist and university professor
- Hartmut Wedekind (swimmer) (born 1964), German swimmer
- Hermann Wedekind (1910–1998), German singer (tenor), actor and director
- Imke Wedekind (* 1984), German volleyball player
- Joachim Wedekind (1925–1963), German actor, radio play author and screenwriter
- Johann Heinrich Wedekind (1674–1736), German painter
- Kadidja Wedekind (1911–1994), German writer, actress and illustrator
- Karl Wedekind (1809–1881), German-Italian merchant and art patron
- Kurt Wedekind , German gymnast
- Pamela Wedekind (1906–1986), German actress and singer
- Rudolf Wedekind (theologian) (1716–1778), German Protestant theologian and university professor
- Rudolf Wedekind (paleontologist) (1883–1961), German paleontologist
- Rudolf Wedekind (politician) (1938-2016), German politician (CDU)
- Sophie Margarethe Dorothea Wedekind , maiden name of Meta Forkel-Liebeskind (1765–1853), German writer and translator
- Tilly Wedekind (1886–1970), German actress
- Viola Wedekind (* 1978), German actress
- Wilhelm von Wedekind (1830–1914), German politician
See also
- Wedekind Creek , creek in Washington, USA
- Palazzo Wedekind , a historically significant palazzo in Rome
- Wedekindhaus , an important monument in Hildesheim