Adolf
Adolf or Adolph is a male given name and family name .
Origin and meaning
The name comes from Old High German and is composed of adal (noble, elegant) and wolf ( wolf ). This can be understood together as “noble wolf” or “noble wolf”, but many old Germanic personal names are simply composed of two positive terms, without the composition as such having to have any meaning.
popularity
Both in Protestant Germany (because of Gustav Adolf and Adolph von Knigge ) and in Catholic (because of Adolph Kolping ) Adolf had a certain popularity. In 1890 the name was thirteenth on the popularity list of all male first names in Germany. But since the beginning of the 20th century the frequency of first names has been decreasing. After an upswing from 1933, which lasted until 1942, the use of the name - probably in relation to the popularity of Adolf Hitler - collapsed . Since the early 1950s, the first name Adolf was rarely given to newborns in German-speaking countries. The name is heavily burdened by the dictator Adolf Hitler and also by other National Socialists such as Adolf Eichmann .
The name was also popular in Sweden , where several kings bore the name. However, in no decade since the 1920s he was among the top ten most popular given names. In 2015 there were only around 2600 bearers of this name in Sweden. Since 1998 at the latest, fewer than ten newborn boys have been given this name each year.
name day
Name days are January 11th and June 17th .
variants
First name
The feminine form is Adolfine . Other male variants are:
- Adalwolf
- Adolphe (French)
- Adolfo (Italian and Spanish)
- Adolfas (Lithuanian)
- Athulf (Gothic)
- Ådjølf (Norwegian)
- Aadolf (Finnish)
- Æthelwulf (old English)
- Adolphus (Latinized; mostly English)
- Adelphus
Short forms
family name
Name bearer
Noble rulers
First name
A.
- Adolf Abel (architect) (1882–1968), German architect and university professor
- Adolf Abel (sculptor) (1902; presumably since April 1945), German sculptor and draftsman
- Adolf Abicht (medic) (1793–1860), German-Polish medic and university professor
- Adolf Abicht (District Administrator) (1872 – after 1919), German administrative lawyer and district administrator
- Adolf Abter (1887–1944), German director, screenwriter and film producer
- Adolf Achenbach (1825–1903), Prussian civil servant (Privy Council) and mining captain
- Adolf Adam (theologian) (1912–2005), German theologian and liturgist
- Adolf Adam (computer scientist) (1918–2004), Austrian computer scientist
- Adolf Aebersold (* 1909), Swiss walker
- Adolf Aeschbach (1888–1969), Swiss politician (SP)
- Adolf Ahlers (1864–1943), German businessman and honorary consul
- Adolf Anderssen (1818–1879), German chess player from Prussia
- Adolf Ansorg (1901–1978), German archivist and local history researcher
- Adolf Arndt (1904–1974), German lawyer, politician (SPD) and architecture critic
B.
- Adolf Bender (1903–1997), German painter
- Adolf Berman (1906–1978), Polish-Israeli politician and activist
- Adolph Bermpohl (navigation teacher) (1833–1887), initiator of organized sea rescue in Germany
- Adolf Born (1930–2016), Czech caricaturist and graphic artist
- Adolf Branald (1910–2008), Czech writer
- Adolf Buchholz (economic functionary) (1913–1978), German communist and economic functionary of the GDR
- Adolf Burger (1917–2016), eyewitness of the counterfeiting workshop of Sachsenhausen concentration camp
- Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995), German chemist, Nobel Prize winner in 1939
C.
- Adolf Christen (1811–1883), Bavarian court actor and director
- Adolf Christian (1934–1999), Austrian racing cyclist
- Adolf Clarenbach (around 1500–1529), German theologian, Protestant martyr
D.
- Adolf Damaschke (1865–1935), German educator and soil reformer
- Adolf Dassler (1900–1978), German entrepreneur, founder of Adidas
E.
- Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), SS-Sturmbannführer, convicted of crimes against the Jewish people, against humanity and war crimes
- Adolf Ernst (naturalist) (1832–1899), German naturalist
- Adolf von Ernst (1845–1907, until 1905 Adolf Ernst ), German engineer and university professor
- Adolf Ernst (actor) (1846–1927), German actor and director
- Adolf Ernst (politician) (* 1940), German politician (FDP)
- Adolf von Essen (1372–1439; Adolfus de Assindia), Carthusian, established the rosary in the form we know today
F.
- Adolf Fick (1829–1901) German physiologist, discoverer of the laws of diffusion
- Adolf Fischer (politician) (1807–1893), Swiss politician and officer
- Adolf Fischer (painter) (1856–1908), Austrian painter and illustrator
- Adolf Fischer (actor) (1900–1984), German actor and producer
- Adolf Fischer (genealogist) (1925–1995), German genealogist
- Adolf Fischer-Gurig (1860–1918), German painter
- Adolf Ludwig Follen (1794–1855), German writer and publisher
G
- Adolf Gabriel (1943–2015), German handball player, handball trainer and football official
- Adolf Galland (1912–1996), German air force officer and fighter pilot
- Adolf Gaspary (1849-1892), German Romanist
- Adolf Gaudy (1872–1956), Swiss architect
- Adolf Geck (1854–1942), German politician (SPD)
- Adolf Ginsberg (1856–1883), German painter
- Adolf Glaßbrenner (1810–1876), German humorist and comedian
- Adolf Gnauth (1840–1884), German architect
- Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974), American abstract expressionist painter
- Adolf Grimme (1889–1963), German politician, resistance fighter of the “Red Orchestra” during the Nazi era
- Adolf Gusserow (1836–1906), German gynecologist
- Adolf Guyer-Zeller (1839–1899), Swiss entrepreneur
H
- Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930), German-Baltic Protestant theologian
- Adolf Heeb (* 1940), Liechtenstein cyclist and politician (VU)
- Adolf Hennecke (1905–1975), miner, role model for the activist movement in the Soviet occupation zone (later GDR)
- Adolf Hering (1863–1932), German painter and illustrator
- Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), German NSDAP politician, Reich Chancellor and dictator during the Nazi era (1933–1945)
- Adolph Hofner (1916–2000), American country musician
- Adolf Holl (1930–2020), Austrian theologian
- Adolf Horchler (1849–1929), German local politician and home nurse from Kempten (Allgäu)
- Adolf Horion (1888–1977), German Roman Catholic clergyman and entomologist
- Adolf Hütter, called Adi Hütter (* 1970), Austrian football player
K
- Adolf Katzenmeier (1934–2016), German physiotherapist
- Adolf Keller (1872–1963), Swiss Protestant Reformed theologian
- Adolf Kiepert (economist) (1820–1892), German politician and farmer
- Adolf Kiepert (publisher) (1845–1911), German publisher and author
- Adolf Klimek (1895–1990), Czechoslovak lawyer, politician and member of parliament
- Adolf Kling (1893–1938), German politician
- Adolph Knigge (1752–1796), German writer
- Adolph Kolping (1813–1865), German Catholic priest, founder of the Kolping Society, beatified in 1991
- Adolf Küry (1870–1956), Christian Catholic bishop of Switzerland
L.
- Adolf Lippold (1926–2005), German ancient historian
- Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Austrian architect
- Adolf Lucas (1862–1945), German lawyer, district administrator of the district of Solingen
- Adolf Lu Hitler Marak (* 1948), Indian politician
M.
- Adolf Mahr (1887–1951), Austrian archaeologist; later a National Socialist radio propagandist
- Adolf Maislinger (1903–1985), German prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp
- Adolph Arthur Marx, known as Harpo Marx (1888–1964), American entertainer and actor
- Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), German painter
- Adolf Merckle (1934–2009), German entrepreneur
- Adolf Andreas Meyer, called Andy Borg (* 1960), Austrian pop singer and presenter
- Adolf Muschg (* 1934), Swiss writer
O
- Adolf Ogi (* 1942), Swiss SVP politician, UN special advisor for sport in the service of development and peace
- Adolf Ostertag (* 1939), German politician (SPD), member of the German Bundestag
P
- Adolf “Adi” Pinter (1948–2016), Austrian soccer coach, mental coach and politician
R.
- Adolf Rading (1888–1957), German architect
- Adolf Reichwein (1898–1944), German educator, economist, cultural politician and resistance fighter
- Adolf Rosenberger (1900–1967), German racing car driver and businessman
- Adolf Sahala Rajagukguk (1938–2002), Indonesian general
- Adolf Rettelbusch (1858–1934), German painter
S.
- Adolf Sauerland (* 1955), former German local politician and Lord Mayor of Duisburg
- Adolph Saurer (1841–1920), Swiss industrialist ( Adolph Saurer AG )
- Adolf Schärf (1890–1965), Austrian Federal President
- Adolf von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf (1600–1631), son of a duke, sub-coadjutor in the Diocese of Lübeck
- Adolf Sommerauer (1909–1995), German television chaplain
- Adolf Stoecker (1835–1909), German Protestant theologian and politician
T
- Adolf Tannert (1875–1961), German artistic gymnast
- Adolf Tannert (1839–1913), German silhouette artist
- Adolf von Tecklenburg (1185–1224), German theologian and bishop of Osnabrück
- Adolf von Thadden (1921–1996), German politician from various right-wing extremist parties
W.
- Adolf von Wien , poet of the 14th century
- Adolph Weber (politician) (1819–1893), German lawyer and politician
- Adolph Weber (Turner) (1875 – after 1904), German artistic gymnast
- Adolph Dietrich Weber ( Adolf Dietrich Weber ; 1753–1817), German legal scholar and university professor
- Adolf Werner (painter, 1827) (1827–1904), German painter
- Adolf Werner (soccer player) (1886–1975), German soccer player
- Adolf Winkelmann (stenographer) (1833–1856), German stenographer
- Adolf Winkelmann (physicist) (1848–1910), German physicist
- Adolf Winkelmann (District Administrator) (1875–1951), Prussian District Administrator of the Büren district
- Adolf Winkelmann (medic) (1887–1947), German doctor and SS-Hauptsturmführer
- Adolf Winkelmann (director) (* 1946), German film director and producer
- Adolph Winkelmann (politician) (1813–1883), German lawyer and politician
- Adolf Wohlbrück (1896–1967), Austrian actor
Z
- Adolf Ziegler (painter) (1892–1959), German painter and university professor
- Adolf Ziegler (actor) (1899–1985), German actor and acting teacher
Others
- Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), German-British physician and biochemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize
- Wilhelm Adolf Lette (1799–1868), German politician and lawyer
family name
- Alexander Adolph (* 1965), German director and screenwriter
- Alfred Adolph (politician) (born Alfred Adolf; 1895–1959), German politician
- Alfred Adolph (General Director) (* 1929), German engineer and industrial manager
- Arthur Adolph (1896–1956), German politician (DStP)
- Barbara Adolph (* 1931), German actress
- Benno Adolph (1912–1967), German physician
- Carl Adolph (1838–1890), German astronomer and mathematician
- Christopher Adolf (* 1976), athlete from Palau
- Ernst Adolph (1873–1955), German major general
- Ernst Karl Adolph (1851–1934), German major general
- Georg Ernst Adolph (1843–1922), German zoologist
- Gerhard Adolph (* 1937), German walker, actor and moderator
- Gottlob Adolph (1685–1745), Protestant hymn poet
- Hans Egon Adolf (? –1965), German marketing specialist (advertising) and publisher
- Heinrich Adolph (1836–1914), pastor from Lower Saxony
- Heinrich Adolph (theologian) (1885–1951), German Protestant theologian and university professor
- Helene Adolf (1895–1998), Germanist and writer
- Hilde Adolf (1953–2002), German politician
- Hubert Adolph (1926–2007), Austrian art historian
- Johann Baptist Adolph (1657–1708), Jesuit and stage poet
- Johannes Adolph (1882 - after 1957), German engineer and entrepreneur
- Jörg Adolph (* 1967), German filmmaker (documentary film), producer and film editor
- Josef Adolf (1898–1951), Czech Nordic combined skier
- Karl Adolph (1869–1931), Austrian writer
- Mona Spiegel-Adolf (1893–1983), Austrian-American pathologist and chemist
- Paul Adolph (politician) (1840–1914), German lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder)
- Paul Adolph (director) (1868–1941), German theater director
- Renate Adolph (* 1954), German politician (Die Linke)
- Roland Adolph (1946–1997), German theologian
- Rudolf Adolph (1900–1984), German writer
- Ruth Adolf (* 1943), Swiss ski racer
- Thomas Adolf (* 1958), German right-wing extremist
- Thomas Viktor Adolph (1914–1997), German journalist
- Walter Adolph (1902–1975), German priest, vicar general
- Wilhelm Adolf (20th century), German toboggan runner of the 1920s
- Wolfram Adolph (1964–2019), German publicist and journalist
See also
- Adolf pit , mine in Merkstein
- Adolf (Manga) , Japanese Manga series
- Adolphe
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adolf Stock: What, what's your name ?, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung No. 21, May 28, 2017, p. 13.
- ↑ Evaluation at favored-vornamen.de
- ↑ Statistics from the Swedish Statistics Office ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish)
- ↑ Name statistics on Allt för Föräldrar , accessed on July 22, 2016 (Swedish)
- ↑ Swedish Statistics Agency: Birth numbers 1998-2012, sorted alphabetically by name ( Memento from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
Frequency, regional distribution and age cohort distribution of the name Adolf in Slovenia