List of Famous people named Gertrud

Name Gertrud is among the most common names in Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Similar names: Gertrude. Here are some famous Gertruds:

Gertrud Herrbruck

First Name Gertrud
Born on July 27, 1926
Died on June 7, 2021 (aged 94)

Gertrud Herrbruck was a German backstroke swimmer who won a silver medal in the 100 m backstroke at the 1950 European Aquatics Championships. She also participated in the 1952 Summer Olympics and finished sixth in the same event. She won several German Championships. She was born in Pirmasens in July 1926 and died in June 2021 at the age of 94.

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Gertrud Luckner

First Name Gertrud
Born on September 26, 1900
Died on August 31, 1995 (aged 94)

Gertrud Luckner was a Christian social worker involved in the German resistance to Nazism. A member of the banned German Catholic Peace Movement, she organised food packages for Jews deported to Poland, and travelled Germany giving assistance to Jewish families. On one such journey, she was arrested, and spent the remainder of the war in Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was named as righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1966.

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Gertrud Grunow

First Name Gertrud
Born on January 1, 1870
Died on January 1, 1944 (aged 74)
Born in Germany

Gertrud Grunow was a German musician and educationalist who formulated theories on the relationships between sound, colour and movement and was a specialist in vocal pedagogy. She taught courses in the "theory of harmonisation" at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where she was the school's first woman teacher and the only woman teacher during the school's Weimar years.

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Gertrud Kolmar

First Name Gertrud
Born on December 10, 1894
Died on January 1, 1943 (aged 48)
Born in Germany

Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner, known by the literary pseudonym Gertrud Kolmar, was a German lyric poet and writer. She was born in Berlin and died, after her arrest and deportation as a Jew, in Auschwitz, a victim of the Nazi Final Solution. Though she was a cousin of Walter Benjamin, little is known of her life. She is considered one of the finest poets in the German language.

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Gertrud of Lorraine

First Name Gertrud
Born on January 1, 1082
Died on May 23, 1144 (aged 62)

Petronilla of Lorraine was Countess of Holland by marriage to Floris II, Count of Holland, and regent of the County of Holland during the minority of her son Dirk VI in 1121-1129. She was a daughter of Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine and Hedwig of Formbach.

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Gertrud von Österreich-Toskana

First Name Gertrud
Born on November 19, 1900
Died on December 20, 1962 (aged 62)
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Gertrud von Babenberg

First Name Gertrud
Born on November 30, 1209
Died on January 1, 1241 (aged 31)
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Gertrud Scholtz-Klink

Gertrud Emma Treusch
First Name Gertrud
Born on February 9, 1902
Died on March 24, 1999 (aged 97)

Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, née Treusch, later known as Maria Stuckebrock, was a Nazi Party member and leader of the National Socialist Women's League (NS-Frauenschaft) in Nazi Germany.

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Gertrud Wilhelmine von Hindenburg

First Name Gertrud
Born on December 4, 1860
Died on May 14, 1921 (aged 60)

Gertrud Wilhelmine von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a German noblewoman and philanthropist. She was the wife of Paul von Hindenburg, the Chief of the German Army Command in the second half of the First World War and President of Germany.

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Gertrud Rask

First Name Gertrud
Born on January 1, 1673
Died on December 21, 1735 (aged 62)

Gertrud Rask was the first wife of the Danish-Norwegian missionary to Greenland Hans Egede and was the mother of the missionary and translator Paul Egede.

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