List of Famous people named Walther

Walther Kranz was a German classical philologist and historian of philosophy.

Carl Rudolf Walther vom Rath was a German lawyer, scientist, entrepreneur and politician. In 1890 he became a member of the supervisory board of the Farbwerke vorm. In 1902 he became the company's chairman, and in 1926, he became the first deputy chairman of the IG Farben supervisory board. From 1894 to 1898, he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. From 1909 to 1918, he was a member of the Herrenhaus.

Walther Funk was a German economist and Nazi official who served as Reich Minister for Economic Affairs from 1938 to 1945 and was tried and convicted as a major war criminal by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Sentenced to life in prison, he remained incarcerated until he was released on health grounds in 1957. He died three years later.

Walther von der Vogelweide was a Minnesänger, who composed and performed love-songs and political songs ("Sprüche") in Middle High German. Walther has been described as greatest German lyrical poet before Goethe; his hundred or so love-songs are widely regarded as the pinnacle of Minnesang, the medieval German love lyric, and his innovations breathed new life into the tradition of courtly love. He is also the first political poet writing in German, with a considerable body of encomium, satire, invective, and moralising.