Lothar

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Lothar is Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish masculine given name, while Lotár is Hungarian masculine given name. Both names are modern forms of the Germanic Chlothar (which is a blended form of , meaning "fame", and Harjaz, meaning "army"),[1][2] or Lothaire. People with this name include:

Surname[]

  • Ernst Lothar (1890–1974), German writer
  • Hanns Lothar or Hanns Lothar Neutze (1929–1967), German actor
  • Mark Lothar (1902–1985), German composer
  • Rudolf Lothar (1865–after 1933), German writer
  • Susanne Lothar (1960-2012), German actress

Given name[]

  • Lothar Ahrendt (born 1936), former interior minister of the German Democratic Republic
  • Lothar Bolz (1903-1986), East German politician
  • Lothar Collatz (1910–1990), German mathematician
  • Lothar Hause (born 1955), East German football player
  • Lothar Kreyssig, German bureaucrat and opposer of Aktion T4
  • Lothar Kurbjuweit (born 1950), East German football player
  • Lothar Lindtner (1917–2005), Norwegian actor
  • Lothar Machtan (born 1949), German historian, writer
  • Lothar Malskat (1913–1988), German painter and art restorer
  • Lothar Matthäus (born 1961), German football player and manager, 1990 World Cup winner
  • Lothar Matthes (born 1947), German diver
  • Lothar de Maizière, last Prime Minister of East Germany (1990)
  • Lothar Meyer (1830-1895), German chemist
  • Lothar Milde (born 1934), East German athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw
  • Lothar Mendes (1894–1974), German screenwriter and film director
  • Lothar Metz (born 1939), German wrestler and Olympic medalist
  • Lothar Müthel (1896–1964), German stage and film actor and director
  • Lothar Rendulic (1887-1971), German Nazi General in the Wehrmacht, one of the principal commanders of Courland Pocket, Lapland War, Continuation War, Operation Kutuzov and Prague Offensive
  • Lothar von Richthofen (1894–1922), fighter ace and younger brother of top-scoring ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron)
  • Lothar Späth (1937–2016), German politician
  • Lothar Spranger, East German footballer
  • Lothar von Trotha (1848–1920), a German military commander who instigated the Herero massacre

Fictional characters[]

  • Lothar – comic character, sidekick to Mandrake the Magician created by Lee Falk
  • Lothar – a gatekeeper in the 2016 Indian film Mohenjo Daro
  • Lothar – a Nazi spy for Germany, sidekick to Nazi spy Neville Sinclair in the Rocketeer
  • Lothar - character in E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman
  • Lothar Weiser – a spy for Socialist East Germany in Arnaldur Indriðason's book, The Draining Lake
  • Anduin Lothar – a historical warrior in the Warcraft Universe
  • - a robot in The Metabarons
  • Lothar of the Hill People - recurring Saturday Night Live sketch character played by Mike Myers
  • Lothar – a powerful Planewalker wizard in the Planescape setting for Dungeons & Dragons, likewise appearing in the game Planescape: Torment

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Lothar". Name-doctor.com. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  2. ^ "Lothár". Name-doctor.com. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
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