Rüdiger (English ''Ruediger'', ''Rudiger'',

Roger Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ...

) is a German given name. The meaning comes from

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: ''hruod'' (fame) and ''ger'' (

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). The name became popular because of the character Rüdiger von Bechelaren from ''

Nibelung The term Nibelung (German) or Niflungr (Old Norse) is a personal or clan name with several competing and contradictory uses in Germanic heroic legend. It has an unclear etymology, but is often connected to the root ''nebel'', meaning mist. The te ...

''.

People named Rüdiger

* Aleksei Rüdiger (1929–2008), Patriarch Alexy II of the

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* Antonio Rüdiger (b. 1993), German footballer * Prince Rüdiger of Saxony (b. 1953), German prince * Maria Rüdiger-Belyaeva, mother of

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* Rüdiger Abramczik (b. 1956), German footballer * Rüdiger Gamm (b. 1971), German "mental calculator" *

Rüdiger von der Goltz Gustav Adolf Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz (8 December 1865 – 4 November 1946) was a German army general during the First World War. He commanded the Baltic Sea Division, which successfully intervened in the Finnish Civil War in the sp ...

(1865-1945), German army general during the First World War, one of the principal commanders of

Finnish Civil War The Finnish Civil War; . Other designations: Brethren War, Citizen War, Class War, Freedom War, Red Rebellion and Revolution, . According to 1,005 interviews done by the newspaper '' Aamulehti'', the most popular names were as follows: Civil ...

Latvian War of Independence The Latvian War of Independence ( lv, Latvijas Neatkarības karš), sometimes called Latvia's freedom battles () or the Latvian War of Liberation (), was a series of military conflicts in Latvia between 5 December 1918, after the newly proclaim ...

Battle of Cēsis (1919) The Battle of Cēsis ( lv, Cēsu kaujas; et, Võnnu lahing, Battle of Võnnu; german: Schlacht von Wenden, Battle of Wenden), fought near Cēsis (or Võnnu, Wenden) in June 1919, was a decisive battle in the Estonian War of Independence and th ...

and

Estonian War of Independence The Estonian War of Independence ( et, Vabadussõda, literally "Freedom War"), also known as the Estonian Liberation War, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the United Kingdom, against the Bolshevik wes ...

* Rüdiger Haas (b. 1969), German tennis player * Rüdiger Heining (b. 1968), German agrarscientist and economist *

Rüdiger Huzmann Rüdiger Huzmann (died 22 February 1090) was a German religious leader who served as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer from 1075 to his death. He was born into an old Speyer family with Salian connections and before became a canon at Speyer ...

(died 22 February 1090), Bishop of Speyer from 1075 to his death *

Rüdiger Nehberg Rüdiger Nehberg, also known as 'Sir Vival', (4 May 1935 – 1 April 2020) was a German human rights activist, author and survival expert. He was the founder and chairman of the anti-FGM organization TARGET, and chairman of the organizations Fr ...

(1935-2020), German human rights activist, author and survival expert *

Rüdiger Overmans Rüdiger Overmans (born 6 April 1954 in Düsseldorf) is a German military historian who specializes in World War II history. His book ''German Military Losses in World War II'', which he compiled as leader of a project sponsored by the Gerda H ...

, (born 1954), German historian specialized in World War II *

Rüdiger Safranski Rüdiger Safranski (born 1 January 1945) is a German philosopher and author. Life From 1965 to 1972, Safranski studied philosophy (among others with Theodor W. Adorno), German literature, history and history of art at Goethe University ...

(b. 1945), German philosopher and author. *

Rüdiger Schleicher Rüdiger Schleicher (14 January 1895 – 23 April 1945) was a German legal academic and German resistance to Nazism, resistance fighter against the Nazi Germany, Nazi régime. Life Born in Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg, Württemberg, Sch ...

(1895-1945), German resistance fighter *

Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (12 January 1638 – 4 January 1701) was military governor of Vienna from 1680, the city's defender during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, Imperial general during the Great Turkish War, and President of the ...

(1638–1701), Austrian politician, military general and chief of

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, one of the principal commanders of

Battle of Vienna The Battle of Vienna; pl, odsiecz wiedeńska, lit=Relief of Vienna or ''bitwa pod Wiedniem''; ota, Beç Ḳalʿası Muḥāṣarası, lit=siege of Beç; tr, İkinci Viyana Kuşatması, lit=second siege of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mo ...

Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg Prince Ernst Rüdiger Camillo von Starhemberg, often known simply as Prince Starhemberg, ( Eferding, 10 May 1899 – Schruns, 15 March 1956) was an Austrian nationalist and politician who helped introduce austrofascism and install a clerical ...

(1899-1956), Austrian nationalist and politician who helped introduce

austrofascism The Fatherland Front ( de-AT, Vaterländische Front, ''VF'') was the right-wing conservative, nationalist and corporatist ruling political organisation of the Federal State of Austria. It claimed to be a nonpartisan movement, and aimed to unite a ...

and install a clerico-fascist dictatorship in Austria, chancellor of

Federal State of Austria The Federal State of Austria ( de-AT, Bundesstaat Österreich; colloquially known as the , "Corporate State") was a continuation of the First Austrian Republic between 1934 and 1938 when it was a one-party state led by the clerical fascist F ...

Rüdiger Vogler Rüdiger Vogler (born 14 May 1942 in Warthausen, near Biberach an der Riß) is a German film and stage actor. Biography Rüdiger Vogler attended acting school in Heidelberg from 1963 to 1965. Later he played for six years at "''Theater am Turm ...

(b. 1942), German film actor

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People named Rüdiger

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