Schweikert
Schweikert is a family name derived from the Old High German nickname Swindger . Here swinde means "strong", "swift" or "agile". The word ger means “spear”.
Further spellings of Schweikert are also Schwickart , Schweickert , Schweickart , Schweikhert, Schweikhardt , Schweickhardt , Schweikardt , Schwickert , Schweigert and Schwieger.
Swindger is also used sporadically as a male first name in the present (source: Internet search ). In the case of historical personalities, the spelling is often not clear, e.g. B. Schweickhardt von Sickingen or Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg also write Schweikard .
Well-known representatives of this family name are:
- David Schweikert (* 1962), American politician
- Frank Schweikert (* 1963), German journalist and entrepreneur.
- Georg August Benjamin Schweikert (1774–1845), German physician and pioneer of homeopathy
- Johann Gustav Schweikert (1816–1903), German physician and homeopath
- Julius Schweikert (1807–1876), German physician and pioneer of homeopathy
- Lieselotte Schweikert (* 1937), German politician (FDP)
- Margarete Schweikert (1887–1957), German composer, violinist, pianist, violin teacher and music critic
- Rudi Schweikert (* 1952), German writer and academic journalist
- Ruth Schweikert (* 1965), Swiss writer
- Stefan Schweikert (* 1965), German author
- Ulrike Schweikert (* 1966), German writer (pseudonym: Rike Speemann )
- Uwe Schweikert (* 1941), German Germanist, musicologist and historian as well as employee of the JB Metzler'sche publishing house
- Werner Schweikert (1933–2005), German entrepreneur, book collector, bibliographer and publisher