Wotan (disambiguation)

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Wotan or Wōden was a major deity in continental German and Anglo-Saxon paganism.

Wotan may also refer to:

• Odin, the Norse variant of Wōden
• Wotan Wilke Möhring (born 1967), German actor
• Wotan, a character based on the god in Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen
• "Wotan", an essay on the god by Carl Jung included in Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928–1930
• Operation Wotan, a World War II German panzer operation with the goal of capturing Moscow in 1941
• The start codeword for Operation Barbarossa

Brand names and vehicles

• MV Wotan, a German tanker in service 1913-14 and 1915–19
• Wotan I, also known as X-Gerät and Wotan, a German World War II radio navigation project
• Wotan II, also known as Y-Gerät, another German radio navigation project

Popular culture

• WOTAN, a villain in the Doctor Who franchise
• Wotan (comics), a villain who fought Doctor Fate and the Golden Age Green Lantern

See also

• Wotanism (W.O.T.A.N. or Will Of The Aryan Nation), a white separatist movement promulgated by David Lane
• Wotanism (disambiguation)
• Woden (disambiguation)
• Odin (disambiguation)