title: Schwandner
text: # Schwandner
  
  Schwandner or Schwantner (to field and place name Schwand/Schwanden, where the forest was swung, e.g. wasted by fire) is a German language habitational surname. Notable people with the name include:
  
  * Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner (1938–2021), German architectural historian and classical archaeologist
  * Gerd Schwandner (born 1951), German surgeon and former politician
  
  ## Schwantner
  
  * Joseph Schwantner (born 1943), American composer and educator
  