Famous People with Name Berthold

Berthold John Haas            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Berthold John Haas: (February 8, 1914 in Naperville, Illinois - June 23, 1999 in Tampa, Florida), is a former professional baseball player who played first base in the Major Leagues from 1933-1951.

Berthold Juneau Husting            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Berthold Juneau Husting: (March 6, 1878 - September 3, 1948) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with four different teams between 1900 and 1902. Listed at 5' 10.5", 185 lb., Husting batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

Berthold Goldschmidt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Berthold Goldschmidt: was a German composer who spent most of his life in England. The suppression of his work by Nazi Germany, as well as the disdain with which many Modernist critics elsewhere dismissed his "anachronistic" lyricism, stranded the composer in the wilderness for many years before he was given a revival in his final decade.

Berthold Graf Schenk Von Stauffenberg            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Berthold Graf Schenk Von Stauffenberg: was a German aristocrat, lawyer and conspirator in the July 20 Plot of 1944, along with his brother, Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, an army colonel. Claus had named his eldest son Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg after his brother.

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer: was an architect, author and one the top five highest-ranking Nazi German government officials (Himmler, Goebbels, Goring, Boremann and Speer), sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich".Speer was Hitler's chief architect before becoming his Minister for Armaments and War during the World War II. He reformed Germany's war production to the extent that it continued to increase year after year despite massive and devastating Allied bombing. After the war, he was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for his role in the Third Reich. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he was the only senior Nazi figure to admit guilt and express remorse, many refered to him as the " Good Nazi" and a book on his life was written with that title. Following his release in 1966, he became an author, writing two bestselling autobiographical works, and a third about the Third Reich.

Thomas Berthold            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Thomas Berthold: a German football coach and former defender.He played 322 games in the Bundesliga, scoring 22 goals for Eintracht Frankfurt between 1982 and 1987. From 1987 until 1991 he played in Italy: for Hellas Verona (1987–1989) and AS Roma (1989–1991). He then returned to Germany, signing for FC Bayern München (1991–1993) and VfB Stuttgart (1993–2000). Berthold's last season as an active player was with the Turkish league club Adanaspor for whom he played until 15 January 2001.

Arnold Adolph Berthold            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Arnold Adolph Berthold: a German physiologist and zoologist. He studied medicine in Göttingen in 1819 and wrote his thesis under the direction of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840). Berthold became a private lecturer in 1825 and began to teach physiology at the University of Göttingen where he spent the rest of his career. He is known as a pioneer in endocrinology due to his experiments on the role of the gonads in the development of secondary sexual characteristics. He published important works on reptiles and amphibians as well as on avian physiology. In the field of entomology, he authored Natiirliche Familien of Thierreichs (1827).