Klemperer
Klemperer is a German-language occupational surname literally meaning "tinker". It is suggested that in the case of the conductor's immediate family the original name was Klopper - one who knocks on doors to get people to go to Synagogue - and was later changed to the better sounding Klemperer which rhymes with Emperor.
The surname may refer to:
- Members of the prominent German family:
- Otto Klemperer (1885-1973), Jewish German-born conductor, composer and father of Werner Klemperer
- Werner Klemperer (1920-2000), German-American actor, son of conductor Otto Klemperer with non-Jewish mother, best known for playing Colonel Klink in Hogan's Heroes, and musician
- Georg Klemperer (1865-1946), Jewish German medical consultant, brother of Victor and cousin to the conductor Otto Klemperer, advised his cousin in America concerning his brain tumour.
- Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), Jewish German businessman, journalist, author and literary critic (Professor of Literature)
- Otto Klemperer (physicist) (1899–1987), German physicist and cousin to the conductor Otto Klemperer
- Otto Klemperer (1885-1973), Jewish German-born conductor, composer and father of Werner Klemperer
- David Klemperer (born 1980), German beach volleyball player
- Felix Klemperer (1866-1932), German internist
- Gustav Klemperer von Klemenau (1852–1926), German banker
- James von Klemperer (born 1957), American architect
- Klemens von Klemperer (1916-2012), German-American historian
- Paul Klemperer (born 1956), English economist and Edgeworth Professor of Economics at Oxford University
- Ralph von Klemperer, German banker
- Viktor Klemperer von Klemenau (1876–1943), German banker
- Wilhelm Klemperer (1839–1912), rabbi
- William Klemperer, American chemist and Harvard University professor
- Wolfgang Klemperer (1893-1965), German-American physicist and aerospace engineer
See also
- 134348 Klemperer, a main-belt asteroid
- Klemperer – Ein Leben in Deutschland, a German TV series
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