List of Famous people named Wilhelm

Wilhelm Lehmbruck was a German sculptor.

Wilhelm von Gottberg is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany.

Wilhelm Friedrich Boger known as "The Tiger of Auschwitz" was a German police commissioner and concentration camp overseer. He was infamous for the appalling crimes which he had committed at Auschwitz under the command of the camp's Gestapo chief Maximilian Grabner.

Wilhelm Maybach (help·info) was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of Designers".

Wilhelm Heinrich Solf was a German scholar, diplomat, jurist and statesman.

Wilhelm Hauff was a Württembergian poet and novelist.

Ernst Wilhelm Borchert, or just Wilhelm Borchert, was a German actor. He was also a voice actor for audio books and films.

Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht was a German socialist and one of the principal founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). His political career was a pioneering project combining Marxist revolutionary theory with practical legal political activity. Under his leadership, the SPD grew from a tiny sect to become Germany's largest political party. He was the father of Karl Liebknecht and Theodor Liebknecht.

Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck was a German communist politician. In 1949, he became the first, and only President of the German Democratic Republic, and the office was abolished upon his death. His successor as head of state was the collective Council of State, whose chairman, and thus most prominent member, was SED First Secretary Walter Ulbricht.

Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb was a German field marshal and war criminal in World War II. Leeb was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Military Order of Max Joseph which granted him the title of nobility. In the Invasion of France, he commanded Army Group C, responsible for the breakthrough of the Maginot Line.