Albers (family name)
Albers is a German family name .
Origin and meaning
The name Albers is a patronymic form of the name Albrecht or Albert .
distribution
The family name Albers is the 148th most common surname in Germany with around 12,500 phone book entries . There are around 33,400 namesake. The name Albers is particularly common in north-western Germany . In Austria, however , the name is hardly widespread. For every twelve phone book entries there are only 32 potential namesake.
Possible options
Name bearer
A.
- Andreas Albers (* 1990), Danish soccer player
 - Anni Albers (1899–1994), German-American artist
 - Anton Albers the Elder (1765–1844), German-Swiss painter
 - Anton Albers the Younger (1877–1915), German painter
 - Anton Daniel Albers (1774–1841), Bremen merchant and senator
 
B.
- Bernd Albers (* 1957), German architect and university professor
 - Bernhard Albers (artist) (1883–1945), German painter and graphic artist
 - Bernhard Albers (publisher) (* 1951), German publisher
 - Bruno Albers (1866–1941), German Benedictine and church historian
 - Burkhard Albers (* 1959), German politician (SPD) and district administrator
 
C.
- Carsten Albers (* 1968), German English specialist
 - Christian Albers (1870–1944), German lawyer and politician
 - Christijan Albers (* 1979), Dutch racing driver
 
D.
- Detlev Albers (1943–2008), German political scientist and politician (SPD)
 - Diana Albers , American comic book author
 
E.
- Eef Albers (* 1951), Dutch guitarist
 - Ernst Albers (1891–1979), German veterinarian, civil servant and NSDAP local group leader from Quickborn
 
F.
- Focke Albers (* 1940), German botanist
 - Friedrich Albers (1881-1936), German politician (FVP, DDP, DStP)
 
G
- Gerd Albers (1919–2015), German architect and urban planner
 - Georg Wilhelm Albers (1800–1876), lawyer and Senator from Bremen
 - Gustav Fridolin Albers (1822-1894), German entomologist
 
H
- Hans Albers (1891–1960), German actor
 - Hans Albers (manager) (1925–1999), German chemist and industrial manager
 - Hans Albers (rugby player) , German rugby union player
 - Hans-Jürgen Albers (* 1943), German economist and educator
 - Hartmut Albers (* 1943), German lawyer and judge
 - Heide Grape-Albers (* 1945), German art historian
 - Heinrich Albers-Schönberg (1865–1921), German physician
 - Heinrich Christian Albers (1773–1833), German cartographer, inventor of the Albers cone projection
 - Henk Albers (1927–1987), Dutch comic artist
 - Henry Albers (1904–1987), German chemist
 - Herbert Albers (1908–2001), German gynecologist
 - Hermann Albers (* 1960), German farmer and President of the Federal Wind Energy Association
 - Hermine Albers (1894–1955), German social scientist
 - Hilarius Albers (1899–1971), German Dominican
 
I.
- Irene Albers (* 1967), German Romanist
 
J
- Jan Albers (lawyer) (1922–2006), German lawyer and court president
 - Jan Albers (hockey player) (* 1952), Dutch hockey player
 - Jan Albers (artist) (* 1971), German artist
 - Johann Albers (politician) (1890–1964), German politician (FDP)
 - Johann Abraham Albers (1772–1821), German doctor and obstetrician
 - Johann Christoph Albers (businessman) (1741–1800), German businessman
 - Johann Christoph Albers (Consul) (1776–1828), German merchant and consul
 - Johann Christoph Albers (malacologist) (1795–1857), German doctor, veterinarian and malacologist
 - Johann Friedrich Hermann Albers (1805–1867), German physician
 - Johann Heinrich Albers (1774–1855), German merchant and patron
 - Johannes Albers (1890–1963), German politician (CDU)
 - Josef Albers (1888–1976), German painter and art theorist
 - Julie Albers , American cellist
 - Jürgen Albers (* 1951), German artist and editor
 
K
- Karin Albers (* 1954), German film director, camerawoman, producer and photographer
 - Ken Albers (1924-2007), American singer
 
M.
- Maria Fölling-Albers (* 1946), German educationalist, elementary school didactician and university teacher
 - Marion Albers (* 1961), German legal scholar
 - Markus Albers (* 1969), German journalist
 - Martin Albers (* 1975), German kickboxer
 - Matt Albers (born 1983), American baseball player
 - Michael Albers (* 1966), German politician (SPD)
 
P
- Paul Albers (writer) (1852–1929), German lawyer and writer
 - Paul Albers (SS member) (1919–2009), German SS Obersturmführer
 - Paul Albers (ice hockey player) (born 1985), Canadian ice hockey player
 - Peter Albers (politician) (1901–1955), German politician (CDU)
 - Peter Albers (actor) (* 1958), German actor
 
R.
- Reinhold Albers (1835–1895), German pastor and teacher
 
S.
- Simón Albers (* 1983), German television and radio presenter
 - Sonja-Verena Albers , German microbiologist
 - Sönke Albers (* 1948), German economist
 - Susan Albers (* 1983), German singer, pianist and songwriter
 - Susanne Albers (* 1965), German computer scientist
 
T
- Theresia Albers (1872–1949), teacher and founder of the order
 
W.
- Wilhelm Albers (1859–1919), German general physician
 - Wolfgang Albers (politician) (* 1950), German politician (Die Linke)
 - Wolfgang Albers (Police President) (* 1955), German lawyer in the police administration
 
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family name Albers on the Geogen online service. Accessed January 10, 2010