Pohl

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title: "Pohl" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["german-language-surnames"] topic_path: "geography/germany" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohl" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Pohl is a German surname of several possible origins.

Notable people with the surname include:

Anton Carl Ferdinand Pohl (1819–1887), German-Austrian music historian, archivist, and composer
Richard Pohl (1826–1896), German composer and music author
Franz Pohl (1864–1920), outsider artist
Joseph Pohl (1864–1939), German botanical artist
Adolph Joseph Pohl (1872–1930), Austrian artist and academic sculptor
Klaus Pohl (1883–1958), Austrian film actor
Max Pohl (1885–1935), Austrian stage and film actor
Hermine "Hertha" Pohl (1889–1954), German writer
Frederick J. Pohl (1889–1991), American playwright, literary critic, editor, and author

Caroline Pohl (1851–1908), brothel proprietor and local identity of the Little Lon district in Melbourne, Australia
Hugo von Pohl (1855–1916), German admiral
Oswald Pohl (1892–1951), German SS officer executed for war crimes
Maximilian Ritter von Pohl (1893–1951), German army and air force (Luftwaffe) officer
Erich Pohl (1894–1948), German international footballer

Anna Neethling-Pohl (1906–1992), South African actress, performer and film producer
Louis Pohl (1915–1999), American artist
Frederik Pohl (1919–2013), American science fiction writer
Witta Pohl (1937–2011), German actress

Herbert A. Pohl (Herbert Ackland, 1916–1986), discoverer of dielectrophoretic cell separation technology
Erika Pohl-Ströher (1919–2016), German business executive, heiress, and collector of minerals
William Francis Pohl (1937–1988), American mathematician
Robert Otto Pohl (1929–2024), German-American physicist

Hermann Pohl (fl. 1910–1930), member of the Thule Society and the founder of the Germanenorden, ariosophic lodge in c. 1910–1930
Reynaldo Galindo Pohl (1918–2012), Salvadoran lawyer and diplomat
Karl Otto Pohl (1929–2015), German economist and Bundesbank head
Gerhard Pohl (1937–2012), German politician
Emmanuel Clive Pohl (An Australian businessman (investment manager) and philanthropist)

Jürgen Pohl (born 1964), German politician
Ines Pohl (b. 1967), German journalist
James L. Pohl (fl. 1978–), American lawyer and officer in the United States Army
Emmanuel Clive Pohl, (born 1953), Businessman and Philanthropist

Kalle Pohl (1951), German comedian and actor
Emily Pohl-Weary (1973), Canadian novelist, poet and university professor
Lucie Pohl (1983), German-American actress and stand-up comedian
Martin Pohl (1986), Czech rapper professionally known as Řezník
Avery Kristen Pohl (2001), American actress and ballerina, best known for her portrayal of Esme Prince on the American soap opera General Hospital
Markus Pohl (fl. 2005–), German musician and member of the German power metal band Mystic Prophecy

Dieter Pohl (physicist) (1938), German/Swiss physicist
Peter Pohl (1940), Swedish writer and mathematician
Heinz-Dieter Pohl (1942), Austrian linguist
Klaus Pohl (computer scientist) (1960), German professor of software systems engineering
Jason Pohl (1981), chopper designer

John Pohl (1979), American professional ice hockey player
Kristin Elizabeth "Krissy" Wendell-Pohl (1981), American women's ice hockey player
Petr Pohl (1986), Czech professional ice hockey player
Patrick Pohl (1990), German professional ice hockey forward

Günther Pohl (1939), German long-distance and ultramarathon runner
Klaus-Jürgen Pohl (1941), German former wrestler
Hans-Peter Pohl (1965), German former winter sports athlete and Olympic skier in the Nordic combined discipline
Stephanie Gaumnitz (née Pohl; 1987), German retired racing cyclist
Michael Pohl (1989), German athlete

Ernest Pohl Stadium, also called Górnik Zabrze Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium in Zabrze, Poland, named for Ernest Pohl

[https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=pohl Pohl Name Meaning], [[ancestry.com]] citing ''Dictionary of American Family Names'', 2013, Oxford University Press

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