Klotz (surname)
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Klotz is a surname can refer to:
- Klotz (violin makers)Klotz (violin makers)Klotz is a family of violin makers. Members of the Klotz family have made violins in Mittenwald, Germany from the mid-17th century to the present. Dictionaries of violin makers list more than 25 artisans by this name...
, a family of German violin makers (also spelt Kloz and Cloz).
- the last name of the following people:
- Adolf Klotz, Croatian linguist and writer
- August KlotzAugust KlotzAugust Klotz was a German schizophrenic outsider artist and one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill....
, German artist - Christian Adolf Klotz (1738-1771), German philosopher and writer.
- Christopher KlotzChristopher KlotzChristopher Klotz is a retired American soccer player.-College:Klotz played club soccer for the Irvine Strikers and played four years of college soccer at the University of California, Irvine from 2002 to 2005, where he earned All Big West and Scholar Athlete Honors...
, American soccer player. - Clemens KlotzClemens KlotzClemens Klotz was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. After beginning his career focusing on residential designs in the Cologne area, Klotz received a series of prestigious commissions from the National Socialist Party's German Labor Front...
, German architect. - Clyde KlotzClyde KlotzClyde Klotz is a Canadian television art director and production designer. He worked as assistant art director on several TV series filmed in Vancouver, such as The Hitchhiker, 21 Jump Street and The X-Files; and as an illustrator on the films This Boy's Life and Look Who's Talking Too.His recent...
, art director. - Florence KlotzFlorence KlotzFlorence Klotz was an American costume designer on Broadway and film.-Biography:Originally named as Kathrina Klotz, she later changed her name to "Florence" and was often nicknamed "Flossie"....
, costume designer. - Frank KlotzFrank KlotzFrank G. Klotz, is a former United States Air Force lieutenant general who last served as the commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana...
, US Air Force general - Henry W. Klotz, Sr.Henry W. Klotz, Sr.Henry W. Klotz, Sr. was the proprietor of a house and a service station on First Street, Russell, Arkansas, that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas....
, American service station proprietor. - Karlheinz KlotzKarlheinz KlotzKarlheinz Klotz was a West German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.He competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Jobst Hirscht, Gerhard Wucherer and Klaus Ehl.-References:...
, German sprinter. - Louis Klotz, Basketball player nicknamed "Red".
- Louis-Lucien KlotzLouis-Lucien KlotzLouis-Lucien Klotz was a French journalist and politician. He was the French Minister of Finance during World War I.-Early life:...
, French politician. - Martin KlotzMartin KlotzMartin Klotz was an Austrian mountaineer. With his brother Sepp he led the first party to reach the summit of Großglockner, the highest mountain in Austria....
, Austrian mountaineer. - Mathias KlotzMathias KlotzMathias Klotz Germain is a Chilean architect, born in Viña del Mar on 13 April 1965. Studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he graduated in 1991...
, Chilean architect. - Nicolas KlotzNicolas Klotz-Filmography:*Rendez-vous avec Marguerite 1983*The Bengali Night 1988 with Hugh Grant, Shabana Azmi and Soumitra Chatterjee*La Nuit sacrée 1993 with Goran Bregović*Chants of Sand and Stars 1996*Pariah 2000*The Wound 2004*Dans la peau de.....
, French film director. - Otto Julius KlotzOtto Julius KlotzOtto Julius Klotz OLS, DLS, DTS was a Canadian astronomer and Dominion Surveyor.He was born in Preston , Upper Canada, the son of Otto Klotz and Elise Wilhelm, Klotz was educated at Galt Grammar School, and later headed to University of Toronto, and finished his degree in Civil Engineering at the...
, Canadian astronomer and Dominion Surveyor. - Reinhold KlotzReinhold KlotzReinhold Klotz , German classical scholar, was born near Chemnitz in Saxony on the 13th of March 1807. In 1849 he was appointed professor in the University of Leipzig in succession to Gottfried Hermann, and held this post until his death on the 10th of August 1870...
, German classical scholar. - Robert KlotzRobert KlotzRobert Klotz was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:Robert Klotz was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He attended the country schools...
(1819-1895), American politician. - Ulrike KlotzUlrike KlotzUlrike Klotz is a former gymnast who competed for East Germany. She won a bronze medal in the floor exercise at the Montreal 1985 Worlds and also won team bronze, a feat the GDR team repeated at the World Championships in 1987 and at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in 1988...
, German gymnast.
- the last name of the following fictional characters:
- Hans Klotz, from the French television series Code Lyoko
- Roger Klotz, from the American television series Doug.