Welle can refer to: The German word for wave used by the Wehrmacht to designate groups of divisions recruited in a given period of time. the river Wel in Poland the former Roman Catholic missionary Prefecture Apostolic of Welle in Congo Welle, Germany, a village in the district of Harburg, Lower Saxony, Germany The Wave (2008 film) (Die Welle), a 2008 German film based on the Third Wave experiment Deutsche Welle, Germany's international broadcast station Alan Welle (born 1945), American politician and businessman