Widukind

Widukind is a male name .

Origin and meaning

Widukind is composed of the old Saxon words for "wood, forest" and "child". The first part of the name is also the basis for the name Guido .

variants

• Wittekind
• Wittekindt
• Widekind
• Wedekind
• Weking
• Wedekin

distribution

The names Wedekind and Wittekind are particularly common as family names in southern Lower Saxony in the Alfeld (Leine) area , on the eastern side of the Weser in Ostfalen .

Well-known namesake

• Widukind (Saxony) (around 750 to after 785), Duke of the Saxons at the time of Charlemagne
• Widukind von Corvey (approx. 925 to after 973), monk and author of The History of Saxony
• Widukind von Rheda (approx. 1154 to 1189/1191), founder of the Marienfeld monastery, governor of the Freckenhorst and Liesborn monasteries
• Widukind von Wolfenbüttel , (approx. 1089 to around 1118), founder of the noble line of Wolfenbüttel-Asseburg
• Widukind Herrmann (born May 7, 1936 - January 18, 2011), German football referee and functionary
• Widukind Lenz (born February 4, 1919 - † February 25, 1995), German human geneticist.
• Widukind von Waldeck (* 13th century; † November 18, 1269), Bishop of Osnabrück
• Widukind von Wittgenstein († November 14, 1272), abbot of the Grafschaft monastery
• Widukind (pseudonym) - Richard Wilhelm Ludwig Moeller (born March 31, 1890 in Rostock; † December 16, 1945), was a German historian, teacher, politician (DDP) and author.