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Name Born Died Notes 20 Apr 1936: Werner von Fritsch: 1880: 1939: Commander-in-Chief of the Oberkommando des Heeres: 1 Nov 1938: Ludwig Beck: 1880: 1944: Chief of the German General Staff: 1 Jan 1939: Wilhelm Adam: 1877: 1949: Commander-in-Chief of the Heeresgruppe 2 in Kassel (1938) 1 Oct 1939: Johannes Blaskowitz: 1883: 1948
The common names Schmidt and Schmitz lead in the central German-speaking and eastern Low German-speaking areas. Meyer is particularly common in the Low German-speaking regions, especially in Lower Saxony (where it is more common than Müller). Bauer leads in eastern Upper German-speaking Bavaria. Rarer names tend to accumulate in the north and ...
The name is from MHG trache (dragon) and felse ("rock, cliff, stronghold on a mountain"); the form in the Þiðreks saga may show Middle Low German influence. [69] The Þiðreks saga locates the giant Ecke here. The name only occurs in the Þiðreks saga, but other indications suggest that the Ecke legend was placed on the Rhine in German ...
We included male, female and unisex names, as well as bold ones, traditional old German names, adorable options and stylish, trendy ideas. That way, you have a wide range of options to consider ...
Guido Mieth/Getty Images. This name of German origin has a strong sound and a meaning to match: “battle woman.” 21. Helga. Helga is an Old Norse name with a Germanic meaning of “holy ...
Traditionally, there are dialectal differences between the regions of German-speaking Europe, especially visible in the forms of hypocorisms.These differences are still perceptible in the list of most popular names, even though they are marginalized by super-regional fashionable trends: As of 2012, the top ten given names of Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany) and of Schleswig-Holstein ...
Born 26 July 1900. A German lawyer; head of the Einsatzkommando 4/I during the invasion of Poland; SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of the police and the SS and police leader in Salzburg Austria and Bolzano Italy. Postwar part of the Gehlen Org. Not prosecuted for war Crimes. Died 7 December 1980. 107161 June 1934 1903386 Ernst Damzog
More than 1,000 such names have been preserved in local records. [3] and in local toponyms. [4] Many of the Germanic names were composite, with the second element usually a noun with the same gender of the bearer. Others were hypocorisms formed from a composite name or deriving from it. [5] Less frequently, a name was a noun or an adjective.