Wiegand
Wiegand is a male given name and a family name .
Origin and meaning
There are two explanations of the name Wiegand in the literature.
- It originated from the Old High German verb wîgan "to fight" or from the associated participle form wîgant and thus means "the fighter". The word comes from the root word TIG "fight".
- It originated from the older first name Wignand , which is composed of the name elements wîg "fight" and nand "daring, daring".
variants
- Wîgand ( Anglo-Saxon , Old High German , Middle High German , Middle Low German )
- Weigand ( early New High German )
- Wiegand ( mhd. - nhd. )
- others: Weiand, Weyand, Weygand, Weigend, Wigand , Wiegandt .
- Weigel, Waigel, Weigelt, Weigl
- Wienand
- Vygandas , Vygantas (Lithuanian)
Buildings
- Wiegand House in Berlin-Dahlem, seat of the headquarters of the German Archaeological Institute
Others
- Wiegand effect
- Glassmaker family from the Thuringian Slate Mountains with reference to today's companies Wiegand-Glas and Oberland-Glas
Name bearer
- Wiegand Pabsch (* 1932 in Glatz), German diplomat
Wiegand as a family name
A.
- Anton Wiegand (1847–1925), Hessian landowner and member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- August Wiegand (1864–1945), German theologian
- August Wiegand (composer) (1849–1904), German organist and composer
- Auguste Wiegand (around 1830–1870), opera singer (soprano)
B.
- Barbara Schäfer-Wiegand (* 1934), German educator and politician, see Barbara Schäfer (politician)
- Bernd Wiegand (* 1957), German politician
- Bodo Wiegand (* 1954), German entrepreneur and lean management expert
- Bodo Wiegand-Hoffmeister (* 1966), German lawyer and rector of the University of Wismar
- Britta Wiegand (* 1968), German television presenter
C.
- Carl Wiegand (1877– ??), German artistic gymnast
- Carl Friedrich Wiegand (1877–1942), German writer, poet and dramaturge.
- Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983), American journalist and artist
- Christine Wiegand (1965–2016), German film and television director and screenwriter, as well as painter and photographer
- Weekend (rapper) , Christoph Wiegand (* 1986), German rapper
- Clyde E. Wiegand (1915-1996), American physicist
E.
- Eduard Wiegand (1815–1877), liberal member of the Electorate of Hesse
- Eduard Wiegand , head of the Lippe State Library, the Lippe State Archives and the Lippe State Museum, member of the NSDAP
- Erika Maria Wiegand (1921–2009), German artist and sculptor
- Ernest H. Wiegand (1886–1973), American horticultural scientist
F.
- Florian Wiegand , German cultural manager
- Frank Wiegand (* 1943), German swimmer
- Frank-Michael Wiegand (* 1952), German state politician (Hamburg) (FDP)
- Friedrich Wiegand (1860–1934), German theologian and university professor
G
- Gerd Wiegand (1922–1994), German architect
- Gottfried Wiegand (1926–2005), German draftsman
H
- Heinrich Wiegand (singer) (1842–1899), German opera singer (bass)
- Heinrich Wiegand (shipowner) (1855–1909), German lawyer and shipping company director
- Heinrich Wiegand (writer) (1895–1934), German writer
- Heinrich Wiegand (engineer) (1906–1998), German engineer
- Herbert Wiegand , German biathlete
- Herbert Ernst Wiegand (1936–2018), German specialist in German
- Hermann Wiegand (* 1951), German Middle and Neo-Latin
- Hertha Wiegand (1890–1944), German doctor and victim of the Holocaust
J
- Johannes Wiegand (1874–1940), German educator and theater director
- John R. Wiegand (*?), American physicist ( Wiegand effect , Wiegand sensor )
- Josef Wiegand († 2014), German entrepreneur
- Julius Wiegand (1880–1956), German literary historian and writer
K
- Karl von Wiegand (1874–1961), American journalist and war correspondent
- Katrin Wiegand (* 1968), German playwright
- Klaus Wiegand (* 1941), Major General of the National People's Army (NVA)
- Klaus-Dieter Wiegand (1945–2011), German railway engineer and surveyor
L.
- Laurenz Wiegand (* 1994), German-Swiss actor
- Lisa Wiegand (* 1969), American camerawoman
M.
- Magda Wiegand-Dehn (1867–1938), German textile artist
- Martin Wiegand (* 1967), German basketball player
- Matthias Wiegand (* 1954), German cyclist
- Michael Wiegand (* 1948), German professor of psychiatry and sleep medicine
N
- Nikola Wiegand (1963-2005), German basketball player
O
- Otto Wiegand (publisher) (1795–1870), German bookseller and publisher
- Otto Wiegand (Turner) (1875– ??), German gymnast
- Otto Wiegand , German entrepreneur, see Wiegand glass
- Otto Wiegand (author) (1926–2013), German editor and author
- Otto Friedrich Wiegand , German librarian and author
- Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Wiegand (1885–1963), German politician
R.
- Rolf-Dieter Meyer-Wiegand (1929–2006), landscape painter
- Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand (1926–2014), German Germanist and legal historian
S.
- Sepp Wiegand (* 1991), German rally driver
- Sieglinde Wiegand (1929–2018), German actress and director
- Simone Wiegand (* 1969), German lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- Stefan Wiegand (* 1998), German actor
- Stefanie Wiegand (* 1969), German geologist and state politician (North Rhine-Westphalia) (SPD)
- Sylvia Wiegand (* 1945), American mathematician
T
- Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936), German archaeologist
- Thomas Wiegand (photographer) (* 1960), German photographer and art historian
- Thomas Wiegand (electrical engineer) (* 1970), German electrical engineer
V
- Volker Georg Wiegand (* 1949), German cardiologist
W.
- Wayne A. Wiegand (* 1946), American literary scholar
- Wilfried Wiegand (1937–2020), German journalist and art historian
- Wilhelm Wiegand (1803–1881), educator and philologist
- Wilhelm Wiegand (1851–1915), historian
- Willy Wiegand (1884–1961), German publisher and type designer
- Wolfgang Wiegand (* 1940), German legal scholar
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Bahlow, Deutsches Namenlexikon, Suhrkamp, 1985, ISBN 3-518-36565-7
- ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Weitershaus, The new big name book, Mosaik Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-576-10540-9