Förster

Förster or Foerster is a German surname meaning "forester". (It has often been Anglicised as Forster). Notable people of this name include:

Arnold Förster (1810–1884), a German entomologist
August Förster (physician) (1822–1865), a German anatomist and pathologist
Bernd Förster (born 1956), a German footballer (brother of Karlheinz)
Christoph Förster (1693–1745), a German composer
Eckart Förster, a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846–1935), the sister of Friedrich Nietzsche
Emmanuel Aloys Förster (1748–1823), a musician and teacher in Vienna
Ernst Joachim Förster (1800–1885), a German art critic
Franz Förster (1819–1878), a German jurist
Friedrich August Förster (1829–1897), a German piano maker and entrepreneur, August Förster (de)
Friedrich Christoph Förster (1791–1868), a German historian and poet
Friedrich Förster (1908–1999), a German spec. NDT, Фёрстер, Фридрих (ru)
Heiko Mathias Förster (born 1966), German conductor
Heinrich Förster (bishop) (1800–1881), a German Roman Catholic bishop
Helmuth Förster (1889–1965), a Luftwaffe general during World War II
Karl Förster (1784–1841), a German poet and translator
Karlheinz Förster (born 1958), a German football player (brother of Bernd)
Kerstin Förster (born 1965), a German rower (wife of Olaf)
Ludwig Förster (1797–1863), an architect
Olaf Förster (born 1962), a German rower (husband of Kerstin)
Theodor Förster (1910–1974), a physicist and chemist, discoverer of Förster resonance energy transfer

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Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), an Austro-American founder of cybernetics
Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859–1951), a Czech composer of classical music
Otfrid Foerster (1873–1941), a German neurologist
Wendelin Förster (or Foerster) (1844–1915), German philologist and Arthurian scholar
Wilhelm Julius Förster (or Foerster) (1832–1921), a German astronomer