Wikipedia / Lothar
Wikipedia / Lothar
Lothar is a Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish masculine given name, while Lotár is a Hungarian masculine given name. Both names are modern forms of the Germanic Chlothar (which is a blended form of Hlūdaz, meaning "fame", and Harjaz, meaning "army"). Notable people with this name include:
Surname
Eli Lothar (more commonly "Lotar", born Eliazar Lotar Theodorescu; 1905–1969), French and Romanian photographer and cinematographer
Ernst Lothar (1890–1974), Moravian-Austrian writer
Hanns Lothar or Hanns Lothar Neutze (1929–1967), German actor
Mark Lothar (1902–1985), German composer
Rudolf Lothar (1865–1943), Hungarian-born Austrian writer
Susanne Lothar (1960–2012), German actress
Given name
Lothar Ahrendt (born 1936), interior minister of the German Democratic Republic
Lothar Albrich (1905–1978), Romanian hurdler
Lothar Baier (1942–2004), German author
Lothar Baumgarten (1944–2018), German artist
Lothar Berg (1930–2015), German mathematician
Lothar Bolz (1903–1986), East German politician
Lothar Brühne (1900–1958), German film score composer
Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918–2007), German author
Lothar Collatz (1910–1990), German mathematician
Lothar Dräger (1927–2016), German comic writer
Lothar Emmerich (1941–2003), German football player and manager
Lothar von Faber (1817–1896), German industrialist
Lothar Forcart (1902–1990), Swiss zoologist
Lothar Geisler (1936–2019), German football player
Lothar Hause (born 1955), East German football player
Lothar Kolditz (1929–2025), German chemist and politician
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 de Maizière (born 1940), last Prime Minister of East Germany (1990)
Lothar Malskat (1913–1988), German painter and art restorer
Lothar Matthäus (born 1961), German football player and manager, 1990 World Cup winner
Lothar Matthes (1947–2025), German diver
Lothar Meggendorfer (1847–1925), German illustrator
Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), German chemist
Lothar Mendes (1894–1974), German screenwriter and film director
Lothar Metz (1939–2021), German wrestler and Olympic medalist
Lothar Milde (born 1934), East German athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw
Lothar Müthel (1896–1964), German stage and film actor and director
Lothar Osterburg (born 1961), German artist
Lothar Rendulic (1887–1971), Austrian war criminal and army group commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II
Lothar von Richthofen (1894–1922), fighter ace and younger brother of top-scoring ace Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron)
Lothar Sippel (born 1965), German football player
Lothar Späth (1937–2016), German politician
Lothar Spranger, East German footballer
Lothar von Trotha (1848–1920), German military commander who instigated the Herero massacre
Lothar Ulsaß (1940–1999), German football player
Lothar Wolleh (1930–1979), German photographer
Fictional characters
Lothar (Legends of Chima), a character in Legends of Chima
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
Lothar – a robot in The Metabarons
Lothar – a powerful Planewalker wizard in the Planescape setting for Dungeons & Dragons, likewise appearing in the game Planescape: Torment
Lothar of the Hill People – a character in an SNL skit played by Mike Myers
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