Use the list below to find your last name and learn about its meaning and origins.

Popular german names during ww2. Further design studies were drawn up culminating in the massive H-44 class but they were not serious proposals due to the infeasibility and expense of the ships. This name was at the height of its popularity at the end of the 19th century and has been in a downward trend ever since so that in. Adolph has 13 different forms.

Citation neededThe names of locations were often anglicised such as Peterborough given Aboriginal names Kobandilla Karawirra or named after notable soldiers. Nazi names this subject sounds more exciting than it is. The name became less used since Adolf Hitler rule in Germany and World War II.

It depended in what area one wasEach town had at least 1 breweryalthough the beer was watery stuff later in the warBut there were some big brewers that had distribution depots all over germanyPopular in the prussian are was Dortmunder Union Dortmunder Hansathen there was Wickühler from WuppertalPschorr BräuKulmbacher and a host of othersIn my home town it was Lohbush Breweryon Feb 24th 1945 the brewery took a few direct hits during. The first names that were most often given in Germany from 1933 to 1945 are by and large the same as those that were common before and after. If his wife inherited a farm he might change his name to her maiden name.

The first European surnames seem to have arisen in northern Italy around 1000 AD gradually spreading northward into the Germanic lands and the rest of Europe. Male Ernst Friedrich Hans Heinrich Hermann Karl Otto Paul Walter Wilhelm female Anna Bertha Elisabeth Emma Frieda Gertrud Margarethe Maria Marie Martha 1920s male Gerhard Günter Hans Heinz Helmut Herbert Karl Kurt Walter Werner. In the early 1900s German names with strong constants were popular such as Friedrich Heinrich and Wilhelm for boys names or Bertha Elisabeth Gertrud Frieda Margarethe and Maria.

Bismarck Tirpitz and Scharnhorst were sunk during the war and Gneisenau was scuttled in Gotenhafen in 1945. Another tricky thing about German last names. If a German moved onto someone elses farm it was not uncommon to change his last name to that of the farm.

Ad Addolf Addolph Adolf Adolfo Adulfus Adollf Adolphe Adolpho Adolphus Dolf Dolph and Dolphus. During World War I many German or German-sounding place names in Australia were changed due to anti-German sentiment. The presence of German-derived place names was seen as an affront to the war effort at the time.