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Hermann or Herrmann is a German given name (meaning "army man" or "warrior"), and might refer to:
People
- HerrmannArminiusArminius , also known as Armin or Hermann was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest...
or Hermann der Cherusker, "Arminius", Germanic leader opposed to Roman conquest and victor of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Surname
- Alexander HerrmannAlexander HerrmannAlexander Herrmann was a French magician, better known as Herrmann the Great. He was part of the Herrmann family name that is known as the "first-family of magic". Those who witnessed Herrmann the Great perform considered him the greatest magician they ever saw...
, German magician known as "The Great Herrmann." - Arnulf HerrmannArnulf HerrmannArnulf Herrmann is a German composer.After studying piano with Gernot Sieber at the Richard Strauss Conservatorium Munich he enrolled at the Musikhochschule Dresden, where he studied composition with Wilfried Krätzschmar and piano with Arkadi Zenzipér...
, German composer (b. 1968) - Bernard HerrmannBernard HerrmannBernard Herrmann was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo...
, American composer - Boris HerrmannBoris Herrmann- Sailing career :In 2001 Boris Herrmann was the youngest participant in the Mini Transat race, a single-handed yacht race across the Atlantic. He came to finish eleventh which earned him his first larger appearance in the yachting press. In 2006 Herrmann finished second in the European...
, German sailor - Johann Wilhelm HerrmannWilhelm HerrmannJohann Wilhelm Herrmann was a Reformed German theologian.Hermann taught at Halle before becoming professor at Marburg. Influenced by Kant and Ritschl, his theology was in the idealist tradition, seeing God as the power of goodness. Jesus was to be seen as an exemplary man. Even if Jesus never...
, German theologian - Ed HerrmannEd HerrmannEdward Martin Herrmann is a former American professional baseball player. He played in the Major Leagues as a catcher for the Chicago White Sox, the New York Yankees, the California Angels, the Houston Astros and the Montreal Expos from 1967 to 1978...
, American baseball player - Edward HerrmannEdward HerrmannEdward Kirk Herrmann is a U.S. television and film actor. He is best known for his Emmy-nominated portrayals of Franklin D...
, American actor - Fernand HerrmannFernand HerrmannFernand Herrmann was a French silent film actor.He starred in some 26 films between 1914 and 1925.He appeared in films such as the Louis Feuillade-directed Les Vampires serials that ran in installments from 1915 to 1916 and Barabbas in 1920.- External links :...
, French silent film actor - Jacob HerrmannJacob HerrmannJacob Herrmann was a German rugby union player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the German rugby union team, which won the silver medal. Germany was represented at the tournament by the FC 1880 Frankfurt rather than an official national team.-External links:* *...
, German rugby union international - Jakob HermannJakob HermannJakob Hermann was a mathematician who worked on problems in classical mechanics. He is the author of Phoronomia, an early treatise on Mechanics. In 1729, he proclaimed that it was as easy to graph a locus on the polar coordinate system as it was to graph it on the Cartesian coordinate system...
, Swiss mathematician (1678-1733) - Johann HermannJohann HermannJohann, or Jean, Hermann was a French physician and naturalist. He was professor of medicine at the University of Strasbourg. He was the author of Tabula affinitatum animalium and Observationes zoologicae quibus novae complures, published posthumously in 1804...
, French zoologist - Johann Gottfried Jakob HermannJohann Gottfried Jakob HermannJohann Gottfried Jakob Hermann was a German classical scholar and philologist.-Biography:He was born at Leipzig. Entering its university at the age of fourteen, Hermann at first studied law, which he soon abandoned for the classics...
, German classical scholar and philologist - Judith HermannJudith Hermann- Life :Hermann was born in West Berlin in the St. Joseph hospital. She grew up in the West Berlin neighborhood of Neukölln and remained there until the mid-nineties, when she moved to the district of Prenzlauer Berg in the former East Berlin....
, German short story writer - Michael HerrmannMichael HerrmannMichael Herrmann is a German culture and music administrator. He founded the Rheingau Musik Festival in 1987 and is its Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer.-Professional career:...
, German festival director - Ned HerrmannNed HerrmannWilliam Edward "Ned" Herrmann is known for his research in creative thinking and whole-brain methods.He spent the last 20 years dedicating his life to applying brain dominance theory to teaching, learning, increasing self-understanding and enhancing creative thinking capabilities on both an...
, is known for his research in creative thinking and whole-brain methods - Peter HermannPeter HermannPeter Hermann is a German-American actor and writer. He is married to actress Mariska Hargitay, with whom he has three children.-Career:Hermann had brief stints on a variety of television shows that include the soap opera, Guiding Light , the ABC Family show, Beautiful People and the Lifetime...
(b. 1967), German-American actor and writer - Peter HermannPeter Hermann (cyclist)Peter Hermann is a retired male track cyclist from Liechtenstein, who competed for his native country in three events at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. His best result was finishing in 21st place in the Men's 1,000 metres Time Trial.-References:*...
(b. 1963), Liechtenstein track cyclist - Wálter HerrmannWálter HerrmannWalter Herrmann Heinrich is an Argentine professional basketball player. He is listed at 6'9" and 225 lbs. He was a key member of the Argentinian national basketball team that won the gold medal during the 2004 Olympic Basketball Tournament...
, Argentinian basketball player - Walter HerrmannWalter Herrmann (physicist)Walter Herrmann was a German nuclear physicist who worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II...
(b. 1910), German nuclear physicist
Given name
- Hermann AbertHermann AbertHermann Abert was a German historian of music.-Life:Abert was born in Stuttgart, the son of Johann Josef Abert , the Hofkapellmeister of that city....
(1871-1927), German historian of music - Hermann BalkHermann BalkHermann Balk , also known as Hermann von Balk or Hermann Balke, was a Knight-Brother of the Teutonic Order and its first Landmeister, or Provincial Master, in both Prussia and Livonia. From 1219 to 1227, he served as the Deutschmeister in the Order's Province of Alemannia...
(died 1239), Teutonic knight - Hermann BaumgartenHermann BaumgartenHermann Baumgarten was a German historian and a political publicist whose work had a major impact on liberalism during the unification of Germany...
(1825-1893), a German historian and political publicist - Hermann Billung, a Margrave of Saxony
- Hermann BondiHermann BondiSir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady-state theory of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory, but his most lasting legacy will probably be his important...
(1919-2005), Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist - Hermann BurmeisterHermann BurmeisterKarl Hermann Konrad Burmeister was a German zoologist, entomologist, and herpetologist.Burmeister was born in Stralsund and became a professor of Zoology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1837 to 1861...
(1807-1892), German zoologist - Hermann EbbinghausHermann EbbinghausHermann Ebbinghaus was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve...
(1850–1909) - Hermann FegeleinHermann FegeleinSS-Obergruppenführer Hans Georg Otto Hermann Fegelein was a General of the Waffen-SS in Nazi Germany, a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage, brother-in-law to Eva Braun through his marriage to her sister, Gretl, and husband of the sister-in-law to Adolf Hitler through Hitler's marriage to Eva...
(1906-1945), Waffen-SS General - Hermann FressantHermann FressantHermann Fressant was a 14th-century town clerk in the German city of Ulm. He was probably born in Augsburg. His claim to fame is the late Middle High German verse tale of marital fidelity, Der Hellerwertwitz . A philandering merchant is advised to pretend that he has become a pauper...
, 14th century writer - Hermann Goldschmidt (1802-1866), German-French astronomer who discovered the asteroid Lutetia
- Hermann GöringHermann GöringHermann Wilhelm Göring, was a German politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. He was a veteran of World War I as an ace fighter pilot, and a recipient of the coveted Pour le Mérite, also known as "The Blue Max"...
, a leading German Nazi official - Hermann GrassmannHermann GrassmannHermann Günther Grassmann was a German polymath, renowned in his day as a linguist and now also admired as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, neohumanist, general scholar, and publisher...
(1809-1877), German linguist and mathematician - Hermann GundertHermann GundertRev. Dr. Hermann Gundert was a German missionary and scholar, who compiled a Malayalam grammar book, Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam , the first Malayalam-English dictionary , and translated the Bible into Malayalam. He worked primarily at Tellicherry on the Malabar coast, in Kerala, India...
, a German missionary who compiled the first Malayalam-English dictionary - Hermann HarmsHermann HarmsHermann August Theodor Harms was a German taxonomist and botanist. In 1938 he revised the pitcher plant genus Nepenthes, dividing it into three subgenera: Anurosperma, Eunepenthes and Mesonepenthes....
(1870-1942), German botanist - Hermann von HelmholtzHermann von HelmholtzHermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science...
(1821-1894), German physicist - Hermann HesseHermann HesseHermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature...
, a German-born poet, novelist, and painter - Hermann HothHermann HothHermann "Papa" Hoth was an officer in the German military from 1903 to 1945. He attained the rank of Generaloberst during World War II. He fought in France, but is most noted for his later exploits as a panzer commander on the Eastern Front...
(1885-1971), German military officer - Hermann HreiðarssonHermann HreiðarssonHermann Hreiðarsson is an Icelandic football player who plays for Football League Championship club Portsmouth as a left back...
, footballer of Icelandic descent - Hermann HuppenHermann HuppenHermann Huppen is a Belgian comic book artist. He is better known under his pen-name Hermann. He is most famous for his post-apocalyptic comic Jeremiah which was made into a television series.-Biography:...
(born 1938), a Belgian comic book artist - Hermann LangHermann LangHermann Lang was a German champion race car driver.Born in the Bad Cannstatt district of Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, at age fourteen Hermann Lang had to go to work to help support his family following the death of his father...
(1909-1987), German race car driver - Hermann MaierHermann MaierHermann Maier is an Austrian former alpine ski racer. Maier ranks among the finest alpine ski racers in history, having won four overall World Cup titles , two Olympic gold medals , and three World Championship titles...
, an Austrian skier - Hermann MerkinHermann MerkinHermann Merkin was a Jewish-American businessman and philanthropist.-Biography:...
(1907-1999), Jewish-American businessman - Hermann MinkowskiHermann MinkowskiHermann Minkowski was a German mathematician of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.- Life and work :Hermann Minkowski was born...
, a Lithuanian mathematician who devised the idea of four-dimensional spacetime - Hermann MüllerHermann MüllerHermann Müller may refer to:* Hermann Müller , German botanist with whom Darwin corresponded* Hermann Müller , Swiss botanist...
, the name of several individuals - Hermann MuthesiusHermann MuthesiusAdam Gottlieb Hermann Muthesius , known as Hermann Muthesius, was a German architect, author and diplomat, perhaps best known for promoting many of the ideas of the English Arts and Crafts movement within Germany and for his subsequent influence on early pioneers of German architectural modernism...
(1861-1927), German architect - Hermann OberthHermann OberthHermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics.- Early life :...
(1894-1989), Romanian and German physicist - Hermann PanzoHermann PanzoHermann Panzo was a French athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres. He was twice French 100 metre champion....
(1958-1999), a French sprinter - Hermann PreyHermann PreyHermann Prey was a German lyric baritone. He is most famous for lieder and for light comic baritone roles in opera.-Biography:...
(1929-1998), German lyric baritone - Hermann RauschningHermann RauschningHermann Rauschning was a GermanConservative Revolutionary who briefly joined the Nazis before breaking with them. In 1934 he renounced Nazi party membership and defected to the United States where he denounced Nazism...
, a German conservative and reactionary, opponent of the Nazi party - Hermann von SalzaHermann von SalzaHermann von Salza was the fourth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1210 to 1239...
, a Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights - Hermann ScherchenHermann ScherchenHermann Scherchen was a German conductor.-Life:Scherchen was originally a violist and played among the violas of the Bluthner Orchestra of Berlin while still in his teens...
(1891-1966), German conductor - Hermann SchlegelHermann SchlegelHermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...
(1804-1884), German ornithologist - Hermann von SiemensHermann von SiemensHermann von Siemens was a German industrialist who became head of the German electrical and electronics company Siemens AG in 1941 and served until 1956. He was the son of Arnold von Siemens and wife Ellen von Helmholtz and paternal grandson of Ernst Werner von Siemens and first wife Mathilde...
(1885-1986), former head of German electronics company Siemens AG - Hermann WendlandHermann WendlandHermann Wendland was a German botanist and gardener.He was a noted authority on the family Arecaceae , on which he published a major monograph which formed the basis for the modern classification of the family, including many of the generic names currently in use.The South American palm genus...
(1825-1903), German botanist - Hermann WeylHermann WeylHermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland and then Princeton, he is associated with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski.His...
(1885-1955), German mathematician - Hermann A. WidemannHermann A. WidemannHermann Adam Widemann was a businessman from Germany who was a judge and member of the cabinet of the Kingdom of Hawaii.-Life:Hermann Adam Widemann was born in Hanover, Germany on December 24, 1822.As a teenager he went to work on a whaling ship...
(1822-1899), a German businessman and Kingdom of Hawaii cabinet member - Hermann WilkenHermann WilkenHermann Wilken , also known as Hermann Witekind and with the pseudonym of Augustin Lercheimer, was a German humanist and mathematician.-Biography:...
(1522-1603), German humanist and mathematician - Hermann WinterhalterHermann WinterhalterHermann Fidel Winterhalter was a German painter, younger brother of the portrait painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter .- Life :...
(1808-1891), German painter - Hermann ZapfHermann ZapfHermann Zapf is a German typeface designer who lives in Darmstadt, Germany. He is married to calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf von Hesse....
(born 1918), German typeface designer
Other
- Auftrag Hermann (Mission Start), the German term for starting a military mission (as for the so-called Operation Hermann)
- Hermann, MissouriHermann, MissouriHermann is a city designated in 1842 as the county seat of Gasconade County, Missouri, United States. It is near the center of the Missouri Rhineland and south of the Missouri River. The population was 2,674 at the 2000 census....
, a town on the Missouri River in the United States- Hermann AVAHermann AVAThe Hermann AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in Gasconade County, Missouri, and entirely contained within the larger Ozark Mountain AVA. The wine appellation is located on the southern side of the Missouri River near the town of Hermann, about halfway between St. Louis and Jefferson City...
, Missouri wine region
- Hermann AVA
- Hermannstadt, German exonym for the city of SibiuSibiuSibiu is a city in Transylvania, Romania with a population of 154,548. Located some 282 km north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the river Olt...
, Romania - Hermann's Tortoise
- The German SC1000 bombSC1000 bombThe SC 1000 bomb was an air-dropped general-purpose demolition bomb used by Germany in World War II. Over 1,000 lb Amatol. Weighing 1,000 kg, it was nicknamed the Hermann by the British in reference to the portly Luftwaffe commander, Hermann Göring. Many of them were dropped on the...
of WWII was nicknamed the "Hermann" by the British, in reference to Göring