Schulte

Schulte is a German surname, derived from the word Schultheiß.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 70.2% of all known bearers of the surname Schulte were residents of Germany (frequency 1:1,137), 24.2% of the United States (1:14,838) and 2.1% of the Netherlands (1:8,136).

In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,137) in the following states:

• 1. North Rhine-Westphalia (1:368)
• 2. Lower Saxony (1:630)

People

• Aloysius Schulte, St. Ambrose University president
• Dieter Schulte (born 1940), German labor leader
• Eduard Schulte (1891–1966), prominent German industrialist
• Edward J. Schulte (1890–1975), American architect
• Eike Wilm Schulte (born 1939), German operatic baritone
• Francis B. Schulte (1926–2016), American archbishop
• Frank Schulte (1882–1949), American baseball player
• Fred Schulte (1901–1983), center fielder in Major League Baseball
• Greg Schulte, American sportscaster
• Gregory Schulte, American ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency
• Henry Schulte, college football coach
• Johann Friedrich von Schulte (1827–1914), German legal historian and professor of canon law
• Johnny Schulte (1896–1978), professional baseball player
• Michael Schulte (born 1990), German singer and songwriter
• Paxton Schulte (born 1972), professional ice hockey player
• Wildfire Schulte (1882–1949), American right fielder and left-handed slugger in Major League Baseball

Schulte in hyphenated surnames

• Julius Schulte-Frohlinde (1894–1968), Nazi German architect
• Heike Schulte-Mattler (born 1959), German athlete

See also

• Schulte, Kansas, an unincorporated community in Kansas, United States
• Schulte Hills, a group of hills in Antarctica