The German word for English " knight " is Ritter, the Dutch ridder, the Swedish riddare, which is the cognate of English " rider "-but which carries vast social implications absent from the English word.

The Germanic languages feature terms cognate to the English rider: German Ritter, and Dutch and Scandinavian ridder.

Famous are the complete Maximilian armor for horse and rider and a 15th-century German " nobles only " decapitation broadsword.

Godefroot brought in Danish rider Bjarne Riis, the third place finisher of the 1995 Tour and he went on to win the 1996 Tour de France, with the then 22-year old German support rider Jan Ullrich finishing in second place.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, Hoy competed in the three-day eventing competition, both as an individual rider and as part of the German team.

In the first round of show jumping, the third and final event, Hoy ( the final jumper for the German team, as the best placed German rider ) did not knock any fences down.

* Liselott Linsenhoff ( 1927 – 1999 ) German dressage rider, multiple Olympic champion, VDO founder Adolf Schindling's daughter.

* Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff ( 1960-) German dressage rider, founder of the Linsenhoff UNICEF foundation

German rider Jens Voigt joined the team until the 2003 season, winning a Tour stage and spending a day in the yellow jersey in 2000.

The German rider, Erik Zabel, asked € 75, 000, which Sercu said was beyond his budget.

Wrocław, Poland ), being the son of Konrad Freiherr von Wangenheim, a German aristocratic who became a well-known horse rider at the Olympic Games 1936 in Berlin as Gold Medalist in Team Eventing.

However, amid much controversy the result was appealed, as video evidence showed that the gold medalist, German rider Bettina Hoy, had crossed the start line twice, and thus incurred twelve penalty points.

Under German rider Otto Becker, the stallion has also received medals in the past 2 Summer Olympic Games.

The German team, despite the elimination of one of their top rider, Horst Karsten and Sioux, still managed to finish with a bronze medal, behind Great Britain ( gold ) and the USA ( silver ).

* Carl Freiherr von Langen ( 1887 – 1934 ), German horse rider who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics

* ( 1850, Stabelwitz () – 1931, Berlin ), German officer, horse rider, writer, journalist and pacifist

The current indoor record for puissance is held by German rider Franke Sloothaak, who in June 1991 jumped in Chaudfontaine, Belgium on Optiebeurs Golo, breaking his previous record set on Leonardo.

The museum also displays masterpieces of German Expressionism: representing painters of two early 20th century German artist groups, Die Brücke ( The bridge ) and Der Blaue Reiter ( The blue rider ), whose members included, among others, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde and Franz Marc, August Macke, Paul Klee, Alexej von Jawlensky and Wassily Kandinsky.

* Documents of the Arian Controversy ( 2007, German and original languages only, Berlin and New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2007 )

* 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist ( b. 1889 )

* 1945 – Walter Model, German field marshal ( b. 1891 )

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

* Walter Benz ( b. 1931 ), German mathematician known for his work on geometric planes

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

The Heinrich Walter classification scheme, developed by Heinrich Walter, a German ecologist, differs from both the Whittaker and Holdridge schemes because it takes into account the seasonality of temperature and precipitation.

* 1945 – Walter Momper, German politician

* 1907 – Walter Wolf, German politician ( d. 1977 )

In Germany, the term was used mainly by proponents of closer adaptation to US policies, chiefly Franz Josef Strauss, but was initially coined in scholarly debate, and made known by the German political scientists Walter Hallstein and Richard Löwenthal, reflecting feared effects of withdrawal of US troops from Germany.

In 1961, the East German government under Walter Ulbricht erected a barbed-wire barrier around West Berlin, officially called the antifaschistischer Schutzwall ( anti-fascist protective barrier ).

Hain was expanded in subsequent editions, by Walter A. Copinger and Dietrich Reichling, but it is being superseded by the authoritative modern listing, a German catalogue, the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, which has been under way since 1925 and is still being compiled at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

* 1862 – Walter Johannes Damrosch, German composer ( d. 1950 )

* 1919 – Walter Scheel, German politician, President of Germany

* 1891 – Walter Model, German field marshal ( d. 1945 )

* 1990 – Walter Sedlmayr, German actor ( b. 1926 )

* 1892 – Walter Benjamin, German critic and writer ( d. 1940 )

* 1960 – Fritz Walter, German footballer

* 1886 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist ( d. 1976 )

Composer Walter Niemann declared " The fact that Brahms began his creative activity with the German folk song and closed with the Bible reveals ... the true religious creed of this great man of the people.

He began his architectural career as an apprentice at the studio of Peter Behrens from 1908 to 1912, where he was exposed to the current design theories and to progressive German culture, working alongside Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.

* Walter Model ( 1891 – 1945 ), German Field Marshal of World War II

* 1883 – Walter Gropius, German architect, founded the Bauhaus school ( d. 1969 )