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Volkmar, Folkmar or Folcmar is a given name, Volkmar later also a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

  • Folcmar (bishop of Utrecht) (died 990)
  • Folcmar (archbishop of Cologne) [de] (d. 969)
  • Folkmar, German priest, one of the ringleaders in the Rhineland massacres (1096)
  • Volkmar I of Corvey [de], abbot of Corvey from 916 to 942
  • Volkmar I of Harzgau [de] (d. bef. 961), Count in Harzgau
  • Volkmar (bishop of Paderborn) [de] (d. 983)
  • Volkmar I (bishop of Brandenburg) [de], bishop from 980
  • Volkmar II of Harzgau [de] (d. 1015), Count in Harzgau
  • Volkmar II (bishop of Brandenburg) [de] (d. 1102)
  • Volkmar II of Corvey [de], abbot of Corvey from 1129 to 1138
  • Volkmar (bishop of Minden) [de] (d. 1094/1096), bishop from 1080
  • Volkmar of Niederaltaich [de], abbot of Niederaltaich from 1280 to 1282
  • Volkmar von Fürstenfeld [de] (d. 1314), Cistercian historian
  • Volkmar Andreae (1879–1962), Swiss conductor and composer
  • Volkmar Leimert (born 1940), German composer and dramaturg
  • Volkmar Sigusch (1940–2023), German physician and sociologist
  • Volkmar Weiss (born 1944), German scientist and writer
  • Volkmar Wentzel (1915–2006), German-born American photographer
  • Volkmar Würtz (born 1938), German fencer

Surname

  • Fred R. Volkmar, American psychiatrist
  • Theodor Valentin Volkmar (1781–1847), German jurist and politician

Fictional characters

  • Volkmar the Grim, a character in the tabletop game of Warhammer
  • Count Volkmar of Gretz, a line of heritage in James A. Michener's The Source

See also

  • Volkmer
  • Volckmar
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