Helmut is a German name. Variants include Hellmut,
Helmuth, and
Hellmuth.
From
old German, the first element deriving from either ''heil'' ("healthy") or ''hiltja'' ("battle"), and the second from ''muot'' ("spirit, mind, mood").
Helmut may refer to:
People
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Helmut Angula (born 1945), Namibian politician
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Helmut Ashley
Helmut Ashley or Helmuth Ashley (17 September 1919 – 2 July 2021) was an Austrian cinematographer, television and film director.
Ashley turned 100 in September 2019 and died in Munich in July 2021, at the age of 101.
Selected filmography
Fi ...
(1919–2021), Austrian director and cinematographer
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Helmut Bakaitis (born 1944), Australian director and actor
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Helmut Berger
Helmut Berger (; born Helmut Steinberger; 29 May 1944) is an Austrian actor, known for his portrayal of narcissistic and sexually-ambiguous characters. He was one of the stars of the European cinema in the late 1960s and 1970s, and is regarded ...
(born 1944), Austrian actor
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Helmut Dantine (1917–1982), Austrian actor
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Helmut Deutsch
Helmut Erich Deutsch (born 24 December 1945) is an Austrian classical pianist, specialising in chamber music and lieder accompaniment.
Deutsch was born in Vienna, where he studied piano, composition and musicology at the Vienna Music Academy from ...
(born 1945), Austrian classical pianist
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Helmut Ditsch (born 1962), Argentine painter
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Hellmut Diwald (1924–1993), German historian
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Helmut Donner (born 1941), Austrian high jumper
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Helmut Fischer
Helmut Fischer (15 November 1926 – 14 June 1997) was a popular, award-winning German actor.
Life
Helmut Fischer was the son of a businessman and a tailor who grew up in the Munich district of ''Neuhausen'' at '' Donnersbergerstraße 50a'', ...
(1926–1997), German actor
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Hellmut von Gerlach
Hellmut Georg von Gerlach (2 February 1866 – 1 August 1935) 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 universiti ...
(1866–1935), German journalist
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Helmut Goebbels (1935–1945), only son of Joseph Goebbels
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Helmut Griem (1932–2004), German actor
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Helmut Gröttrup (1916–1981), German rocket scientist
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Helmut Haller (1939–2012), German football player
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Helmut Hasse
Helmut Hasse (; 25 August 1898 – 26 December 1979) 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 class field theory and ...
(1898–1979), German mathematician
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Hellmut Hattler (born 1952), German musician
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Helmut Haussmann
Helmut Haussmann (born 18 May 1943) is a German academic and politician. He served as minister of economy from 1988 to 1991.
Early life and education
Haussmann was born in Tübingen on 18 May 1943. He holds a degree in economics and social scien ...
(born 1943), German academic and politician
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Helmut Hirsch (born 1916) German student executed for opposing the Nazi government
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Helmut Jahn (1940–2021), German-born American architect
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Helmut Kohl
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (; 3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longes ...
(1930–2017), German politician
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Helmut Köllen (1950–1977), German musician
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Helmut Krieger (born 1958), Polish shot putter
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Helmut Lachenmann
Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music. His work has been associated with "instrumental musique concrète".
Life and works
Lachenmann was born in Stuttgart and after the end of ...
(born 1935), German composer
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Helmut Landsberg (1906–1985), German scientist
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Helmut Lang (artist)
Helmut Lang (born 10 March 1956) is an Austrian artist and former fashion designer and mentor who lives and works in New York and on Long Island.
Career
In 1986, Lang showed his first Helmut Lang runway collection in Paris at Centre Georges ...
(born 1956), German fashion designer
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Helmut Lemke
Helmut Lemke (29 September 1907 – 15 April 1990) was a German politician of the NSDAP and CDU, and Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein (1963–1971). He was born in Kiel and died in Lübeck
Lübeck (; Low German also ), officia ...
(1907–1990), German politician
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Helmut Lotti
Helmut Lotti (born Helmut Barthold Johannes Alma Lotigiers; 22 October 1969), is a Belgian tenorGoldsmith B (2009)Belgian tenor Helmut Lotti wants to find his own style ''WDEZ''. Retrieved 23 April 2010. and singer-songwriter. Lotti performs in ...
(born 1969), Belgian singer
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Helmut Marko
Helmut Marko (born 27 April 1943) is an Austrian former professional racing driver and current advisor to the Red Bull GmbH Formula One teams, and head of Red Bull's driver development program.
Biography
Marko was born in Graz, Austria. He was ...
(born 1943), Austrian racing driver
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Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 192023 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. The ''New York Times'' described him as a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-a ...
(1920–2004), German-born Australian photographer
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Helmut Norpoth (born 1943), German-born political scientist
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Helmut Oberlander (born 1924), Ukrainian former Canadian who was a member of the Einsatzgruppen death squads of Nazi Germany in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II
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Helmut Rahn (1929–2003), German football player
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Helmut Rohde (1925-2016), German politician
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Helmut Schelsky (1912–1984), German sociologist
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Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.
Before becoming Ch ...
(1918–2015), German politician, chancellor
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Helmut Schoeck
Helmut Schoeck (Graz, 3 July 1922 – 2 February 1993) was an Austrian-German sociologist and writer best known for his work '' Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior'' (''Der Neid: Eine Theorie der Gesellschaft'').
Life
Schoeck, born in Graz, spent ...
(1922–1993), Austrian sociologist
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Helmut Schön (1915–1996), German football player and manager
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Helmut Sick
Helmut Sick (10 January 1910 – 5 March 1991) was a German- Brazilian ornithologist.
Sick was born in Leipzig, Germany. He emigrated to Brazil in 1939.
A prominent ornithologist in Brazil, Sick published more than 200 papers, including his mos ...
(1910–1991), Brazilian ornithologist
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Helmut Sonnenfeldt (1926–2012), American foreign policy expert
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Helmut Vetter (1910–1949), German Nazi SS officer at Auschwitz concentration camp executed for war crimes
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Helmut Walcha
Arthur Emil Helmut Walcha (27 October 1907 – 11 August 1991) was a German organist, harpsichordist, music teacher and composer who specialized in the works of the Dutch and German baroque masters.
Blind since his teenage years, he is known f ...
(1907–1991), German organist
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Helmut Zahn
Helmut Zahn (born June 13, 1916 in Erlangen; died November 14, 2004 in Aachen) was a German chemist who is often credited as the first to synthesize Insulin in 1963. His results synthesizing insulin were achieved almost simultaneously with that of ...
(1916–2004), German chemist
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Helmut Zilk
Helmut Zilk (9 June 1927, Vienna – 24 October 2008, Vienna) was an Austrian journalist and politician in the Austrian Social Democratic Party. He served as mayor of Vienna between 1984 and 1994.
Biography
Born in Vienna, Zilk was Mayor ...
(1927–2008), Austrian politician
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Cacau (born 1981), German-Brazilian football player, nicknamed ''Helmut''
Fictional characters
*Helmut Grokenberger, fictional character in the 1991 film ''
Night on Earth''
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Iron Cross (Helmut Gruler), fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
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Baron Helmut Zemo
Helmut Zemo is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly as an adversary of the superhero Captain America and the Avengers. He is the son of Baron Heinrich Zemo and the thirteenth Baron Ze ...
, fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
*Helmut Heindenburg, fictional character in 1996 Colombian telenovela ''
Guajira''
*Helmut, fictional character in the video game ''
Road Rash''
*Helmut Kruger, fictional fashion model in the video game
''Hitman'' (2016)
*Baron Helmut Schnitzelnazi, from the comedy skit ''
Key & Peele''
*Helmut Spargle, a character from
Futurama
''Futurama'' is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of the professional slacker Philip J. Fry, who is cryogenically preserved for 1000 years ...
See also
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Hellmuth
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Helmuth
References
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German masculine given names