Volkmar

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) (d. 969)
• Folkmar, German priest, one of the ringleaders in the Rhineland massacres (1096)
• Volkmar I of Corvey, abbot of Corvey from 916 to 942
• Volkmar I of Harzgau (d. bef. 961), Count in Harzgau
• Volkmar (bishop of Paderborn) (d. 983)
• Volkmar I (bishop of Brandenburg), bishop from 980
• Volkmar II of Harzgau (d. 1015), Count in Harzgau
• Volkmar II (bishop of Brandenburg) (d. 1102)
• Volkmar II of Corvey, abbot of Corvey from 1129 to 1138
• Volkmar (bishop of Minden) (d. 1094/1096), bishop from 1080
• Volkmar of Niederaltaich, abbot of Niederaltaich from 1280 to 1282
• Volkmar von Fürstenfeld (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