Famous People with Name Berthold

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.

Berthold Englisch            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Berthold Englisch: was a leading Austrian chess master.He won the tournaments at Leipzig 1879 (the 1st DSB Congress) and at Wiesbaden 1880 (ex-equo with Blackburne and A. Schwarz, ahead of Schallopp, Mason, Bird, Winawer, etc.).

Berthold Lasker            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Berthold Lasker: was a German chess master.He spent most of his life in Berlin, where he played in local tournaments. In 1881 he shared 1st with Siegbert Tarrasch, and took 2nd, behind Curt von Bardeleben, there. In 1883, he tied for 1st-4th and took 4th (playoff) - Hermann von Gottschall won. In 1887, he tied for 5-6th (Max Harmonist won).

Berthold Koch            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Berthold Koch: was a German chess master and journalist.Before World War II, he played in German championships at Bad Pyrmont 1933 (Efim Bogoljubow won), at Bad Aachen 1935 (Kurt Richter won), and at Bad Oeynhausen 1938 (Erich Eliskases won). After the war, he shared 11th at Düsseldorf 1951 (GER-ch, Rudolf Teschner won), and took 3rd at Leipzig 1953 (GER-ch, Wolfgang Unzicker won).

Berthold Delbrück            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Berthold Delbrück: was a German linguist who devoted himself to the study of the comparative syntax of the Indo-European languages.Delbrück was professor of Sanskrit and comparative linguistics at the University of Jena (1870-1912). In 1871 he published a study of the subjunctive and optative moods in Sanskrit and Greek, which was the first thoroughly methodical and complete treatment of a problem in comparative syntax. His great achievement, however, was preparing the three volumes on syntax in Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen (Outline of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages), published between 1893 and 1900.

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).