Helmut
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Helmut is a common given name
in the German language
. Variants include Hellmut, Helmuth
, and Hellmuth.
Its second part "Mut" is clearly German for "courage", "vigour", but there are different theories regarding the origin of the first part, relating it to historical language
s' words for "bright", "hell", "helmet", and "sword". In another Indo-European
language, Hindi
, heemuth means courage, so it is possible the German Helmut and the Hindi heemuth, both meaning courage, have a common proto-Indo-European root.
Helmut may refer to:
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
in the German language
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
. Variants include Hellmut, Helmuth
Helmuth
Helmuth is a male given name that may refer to:* Helmuth Duckadam , Romanian former footballer* Helmuth Ehrhardt, German psychiatrist* Helmuth Hübener , German opponent of the Third Reich...
, and Hellmuth.
Its second part "Mut" is clearly German for "courage", "vigour", but there are different theories regarding the origin of the first part, relating it to historical language
Historical language
Historical languages are languages that were spoken in a historical period. See:*Historical linguistics*List of languages by first written accounts*List of extinct languages*Classical language*Proto-language...
s' words for "bright", "hell", "helmet", and "sword". In another Indo-European
Indo-European
Indo-European may refer to:* Indo-European languages** Aryan race, a 19th century and early 20th century term for those peoples who are the native speakers of Indo-European languages...
language, Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
, heemuth means courage, so it is possible the German Helmut and the Hindi heemuth, both meaning courage, have a common proto-Indo-European root.
Helmut may refer to:
People
- Helmut AngulaHelmut AngulaHelmut Kangulohi Angula is a former Namibian Cabinet Minister and businessman. Currently, the Director of various private companies and a long time member of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of the ruling SWAPO Party .Angula was born in Ontananga, Oshikoto Region, and joined SWAPO in...
(born 1945), Namibian politician - Helmut BakaitisHelmut BakaitisHelmut Bakaitis is an Australian director, actor and screenwriter.Bakaitis was born in Lauban, Silesia, Germany to Lithuanian parents...
(born 1944), Australian director and actor - Helmut BergerHelmut BergerHelmut Berger is an Austrian-born German film and television actor. He is most famous for his work with Luchino Visconti, particularly in his performance as King Ludwig II of Bavaria in Ludwig, for which he received a special David di Donatello award.He appears primarily in European cinema, but...
(born 1944), Austrian actor - Helmut DantineHelmut DantineHelmut Dantine was a film actor remembered for playing many Nazis in thriller films of the 1940s. The Vienna-born actor appeared uncredited in Casablanca early in his career .Dantine's father was the head of the Austrian railway system...
(1917–1982), Austrian actor - Helmut DitschHelmut DitschHelmut Ditsch is an Argentine painter. Ditsch's work focuses on extreme natural phenomena such as mountains, desert, ice, and water. Due to knowledge gained during his time as an extreme mountain sportsman, he is able to portray a vast amount of passion and firsthand experience in his epic...
(born 1962), Argentine painter - Hellmut DiwaldHellmut DiwaldHellmut Diwald was a German historian and Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 1965 to 1985....
(1924–1993), German historian - Helmut FischerHelmut FischerHelmut Fischer was a popular award winning German actor.-Life:Helmut Fischer was the son of a businessman and a tailor and grew up in the Munich district of Neuhausen in Donnersbergerstraße 50a, where he also went to school...
(1926–1997), German actor - Hellmut von GerlachHellmut von GerlachHellmut Georg von Gerlach was a German journalist and politician.-Life:Hellmut von Gerlach, the son of landowner Max von Gerlach, was born in Mönchmotschelnitz in Silesia. He studied law at the universities of Gent, Strasbourg, Leipzig, and Berlin, and was a member of the Verein Deutscher Studenten...
(1866–1935), German journalist - Helmut GriemHelmut GriemHelmut Griem was a German actor.Griem was primarily a German-speaking stage actor, appearing at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Staatliches Schauspielbühnen in Berlin, in the Munich Kammerspiele, and finally in the...
(1932–2004), German actor - Helmut GröttrupHelmut GröttrupHelmut Gröttrup was a German electrical engineer and assistant of Wernher von Braun in the V-2 rocket-project. Gröttrup was responsible for the guidance system....
(1916–1981), German rocket scientist - Helmut HallerHelmut HallerHelmut Haller is a former footballer who represented West Germany at three World Cups.A playmaker and striker who made his international debut at age 19 in 1958, he played at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile, the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England and the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, earning a total...
(born 1939), German football player - Helmut HasseHelmut HasseHelmut Hasse was a German mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local classfield theory and diophantine geometry , and to local zeta functions.-Life:He was born in Kassel, and died in...
(1898–1979), German mathematician - Helmut JahnHelmut JahnHelmut Jahn is a German-American architect, well known for designs such as the US$800 million Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, the Messeturm in Frankfurt and the One Liberty Place, formerly the tallest building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Suvarnabhumi Airport, an international...
(born 1940), German-born American architect - Helmut KohlHelmut KohlHelmut Josef Michael Kohl is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998...
(born 1930), German politician - Helmut Köllen (1950–1977), German musician
- Helmut KriegerHelmut KriegerHelmut Krieger is a male former track and field shot putter from Poland, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He set his personal best in the men's shot put event in 1986.-Achievements:-References:*...
(born 1958), Polish shot putter - Helmut LachenmannHelmut LachenmannHelmut Lachenmann is a German composer associated with musique concrète instrumentale.-Life and works:...
(born 1935), German composer - Helmut LandsbergHelmut LandsbergHelmut Erich Landsberg was a noted and influential climatologist. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, February 9, 1906 and died December 6, 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland while attending a meeting of the World Meteorological Organization. Landsberg was an important figure in meteorology and...
(1906–1985), German scientist - Helmut Lang (born 1956), German fashion designer
- Helmut LemkeHelmut LemkeHelmut Lemke was a German politician and Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein . He was born in Kiel and died in Lübeck.- External links :...
(1907–1990), German politician - Helmut LottiHelmut LottiHelmut Lotti , is a Flemish Belgian tenor and singer-songwriter. Lotti performs in several styles and languages: Once an Elvis impersonator, he has sung African and Latino hit records, and he crossed over into classical music in the 1990s.-Life and music:The son of Luc Lotigiers and Rita Lagrou,...
(born 1969), Belgian singer - Helmut MarkoHelmut MarkoDr. Helmut Marko is a former racing driver from Austria.A friend of Jochen Rindt, he entered racing, and eventually participated in 10 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 15 August 1971...
(born 1943), Austrian racing driver - Helmut NewtonHelmut NewtonHelmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter was a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."-Early life:Newton was born in Berlin, the son of Klara...
(1920–2004), German-born Australian photographer - Helmut RahnHelmut RahnHelmut Rahn, known as Der Boss , was a German football player. He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in the final game of the 1954 FIFA World Cup .- Career :...
(1929–2003), German football player - Helmut SchelskyHelmut SchelskyHelmut Schelsky, , was a German sociologist, the most influential in post-World War II Germany, well into the 1970s.-Biography:...
(1912–1984), German sociologist - Helmut SchmidtHelmut SchmidtHelmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Prior to becoming chancellor, he had served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Finance. He had also served briefly as Minister of Economics and as acting...
(born 1918), German politician - Helmut SchoeckHelmut SchoeckHelmut Schoeck was an Austrian-German sociologist and writer, best known for his work "Envy. A Theory of Social Behaviour" .-Life:...
(1922–1993), Austrian sociologist - Helmut SchönHelmut SchönHelmut Schön was a German football player and manager. He is best remembered for his exceptional career as manager of West Germany....
(1915–1996), German football player and manager - Helmut SickHelmut SickHelmut Sick , was a German-Brazilian ornithologist.A prominent ornithologist in Brazil, Sick published more than 200 papers, including his most influential work: Ornitologia Brasileira, Uma Introdução , later translated into English as Birds in Brazil: A Natural History...
(1910–1991), Brazilian ornithologist - Helmut SonnenfeldtHelmut SonnenfeldtHelmut Sonnenfeldt is an American foreign policy expert.Born in 1926 in Berlin, Germany to Drs. Walther and Gertrud Sonnenfeldt, he spent his childhood in Gardelegen, Germany, where his parents had a family medical practice. In 1938, Sonnenfeldt was sent to Anna Essinger's Bunce Court School in...
(born 1926), American foreign policy expert - Helmut WalchaHelmut WalchaHelmut Walcha was a blind German organist who specialized in the works of the Dutch and German baroque masters and is known for his recordings of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach.- Biography :Born in Leipzig, Walcha was blinded at age 19 after vaccination for smallpox...
(1907–1991), German organist - Helmut ZahnHelmut ZahnHelmut Zahn was a German chemist who is often credited as the first to synthesised Insulin in 1963. His results synthesizing insulin were achieved almost simultaneously with that of Panayotis Katsoyannis at the University of Pittsburgh...
(1916–2004), German chemist - Helmut ZilkHelmut ZilkHelmut Zilk was an Austrian journalist and politician in the Austrian Social Democratic Party.- Biography :...
(1927–2008), Austrian politician
Fiction
- Helmut Grokenberger, fictional character in the 1991 film Night on EarthNight on EarthNight on Earth is a 1991 film directed by Jim Jarmusch.Night on Earth may also refer to:*Night on Earth , the soundtrack album from the Jarmusch film, written by Tom Waits....
- Helmet GrulerIron Cross (Marvel Comics)Iron Cross is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in Invaders #36 and was created by Roy Thomas and Frank Robbins.-Fictional character biography:...
, fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe - Helmut Zemo, fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
- Helmut, fictional character in the video game Road RashRoad RashRoad Rash is the name of a motorcycle-racing video game series by Electronic Arts, in which the player participates in violent illegal street races. The game was originally released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, but was ported to several other systems. Six different games were released from...