Famous People with Name Wilhelm

Wilhelm "Willi" Tiefel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm "Willi" Tiefel: was a German footballer.He played for the teams Union Niederrad, Eintracht Frankfurt, Berliner SV 92 and BSC Brandenburg. He also played 7 times for Germany, starting in 1935.

Wilhelm Cohn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Cohn: was a German chess master.He participated in some strong tournaments. In 1897, he tied for 13-14th in Berlin (Rudolf Charousek won). In 1898, he tied for 2nd-4th in Cologne (11th DSB Kongress; Amos Burn won). In 1899, he tied for 10-11th in London (Emanuel Lasker won). In 1900, he took 6th in Munich (12th DSB Kongress; Geza Maroczy, Harry Pillsbury and Carl Schlechter won). In 1902, he took 13th in Hanover (13th DSB Kongress; Dawid Janowski won).

Wilhelm Ernst            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Ernst: was a German chess master.He was a winner at Weidenau 1937. He played several times in German Chess Championship; took 2nd, behind Kurt Richter, at Aachen 1935, took 11th at Bad Oeynhausen 1937 (Georg Kieninger won), took 16th at Bad Oeynhausen 1939 (Erich Eliskases won), tied for 8-11th at Bad Oeynhausen 1941 (Paul Felix Schmidt and Klaus Junge won), tied for 13-14th at Weidenau 1947 (Kieninger won), tied for 12-14th at Essen 1948 (Wolfgang Unzicker won),[1] and shared 11th at Duesseldorf 1951 (Rudolf Teschner won).

Wilhelm Heinrich Hilse            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Heinrich Hilse: was a German chess master.He tied for 12-13th at Coburg 1904 (DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A, Augustin Neumann won), shared 1st at Bremen 1906 (Quadrangular), took 4th at Hannover 1907 (Quadrangular), won at Barmbek 1911 (Quadrangular), and took 13th at Mannheim 1914 (DSB-Congress, Hauptturnier A, B. Hallegua won).

Wilhelm Hanstein            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Hanstein: was a German chess player and writer.Hanstein was one of the Berlin Pleiades. He helped found Berliner Schachzeitung, later to become Deutsche Schachzeitung. He was a civil servant.

Karl Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karl Wilhelm: was a German choral director. He is best known as the composer of the song "Die Wacht am Rhein." He was a student of Aloys Schmitt and A. André. From 1841 to 1864 he was the director of the Krefeld Liedertafel. In Krefeld in 1854 he set to words "Die Wacht am Rhein," the poem Max Schneckenburger wrote in 1840. In recognition of the success and the national importance of this song, he received numerous honors and on 24 June 1871 he received a personal acknowledgment from Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck.

Richard Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Richard Wilhelm: was a German track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he was eliminated in the first round of the 3500 metre walk competition.

Friedrich Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Friedrich Wilhelm: was a German-born American businessman. Von Frantzius was born on in Sawdin, West Prussia to parents Arthur and Ida (Ehlert) von Frantzius.[1][2] Von Frantzius was educated at Marlenwerder and Graudenz in West Russia from 1872 to 1885. He worked for three

Manuel Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Manuel Wilhelm: is a German international rugby union player, playing for the RG Heidelberg in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. Manuel Wilhelm plays rugby since 1986, first for RG Heidelberg, later he spent one season with league rival SC Ne

Otto Friedrich Wilhelm            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Otto Friedrich Wilhelm: was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party.In 1951 he became member of the liberal FDP, and from 1972 to 1998 he represented this party in the Federal Diet, the Bundestag. He was also chairman of the FDP from 1988 until 1993.