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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 ...
Pages in category "German masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 348 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The German government rejected the French suggestion of a parallel occupation. On 3 April, German regular troops of the Reichswehr, under General Oskar von Watter, entered the neutral zone in force, and experienced little difficulty in dealing with the armed leftist workers. The revolutionary headquarters at Mülheim were taken on April 4 ...
Ebba Tesdorpf (1851–1920) Heinz Tetzner (1920–2007) Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721–1782) Arthur Thiele (1860–1936) Ludwig Thiersch (1825–1909) Hans Thoma (1839–1924) Paul Thumann (1834–1908) Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1722–1789) Johann Jacob Tischbein (1725–1791) Johann Valentin Tischbein (1715–1768) Ernst Toepfer (1877–1955)
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
Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), German-Polish-British tennis player, highest world ranking # 6; Birgit Prinz (born 1977), football player; Lina Radke (1903–1983), athlete; Teodor Regedziński (also known as Theodor Reger) (1894–1954), Polish chess master of German origin; father's name was Reger; Otto Rehhagel (born 1938), football player and ...
With family names originating locally, many names display particular characteristics of the local dialects, such as the south German, Austrian and Swiss diminutive endings -l-el, -erl, -le or -li as in Kleibl, Schäuble or Nägeli (from 'Nagel', nail). The same is true for regional variants in the naming of professions.
Pages in category "German-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,631 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .