Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein stands for:
- the Wittgensteiner Land , region in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Wittgenstein district , former district in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Wittgenstein Castle , castle above Bad Laasphe in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Wittgenstein Castle, lost castle in the Wartburg district
- Wittgenstein (film) , film from 1993
Wittgenstein is the family name of the following people:
Members of the Austrian industrialist family Wittgenstein :
- Hermann Christian Wittgenstein (1802–1878), from 1856 owner of the Mauer rulership near Vienna , father of Karl Wittgenstein
- Karl Wittgenstein (1847–1913), Austrian entrepreneur
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian philosopher and architect (son of Karl Wittgenstein)
- Paul Wittgenstein (pianist) (1887–1961), Austrian-American pianist
- Paul Wittgenstein (philosopher) (1907–1979), Austrian eccentric
Members of the Cologne patrician family von Wittgenstein:
- Melchior Dittmar von Wittgenstein , German politician, three times mayor of Cologne in the 1780s
- Heinrich von Wittgenstein (1797–1869), German entrepreneur and politician
- Johann Jakob von Wittgenstein (1754–1823), German lawyer, businessman, banker and politician
Further:
- Members of the Sayn-Wittgenstein family , see there for namesake
- August Wittgenstein (* 1981), German actor
- Werner Wittgenstein (1882–1965), German lawyer and mayor
- Widukind von Wittgenstein († 1272), abbot of the Grafschaft monastery
See also:
- List of the regents of Wittgenstein
- Haus Wittgenstein , house of Margarethe Stonborough-Wittgenstein in Vienna
- Palais Wittgenstein , the palace of Karl Wittgenstein in Vienna
- Berleburg Castle (Schlitz) , also called Villa Wittgenstein , mansion in Schlitz in Hesse
- Wittchenstein
- Wittgensteiner Platt , the dialect of the former Wittgenstein district
- Wittgenstein Prize , prize awarded by the Federal Ministry for Science and Research
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize , Prize of the Austrian Research Association
- Wittigstein
