Blecher (family name)
Blecher or Blöcher is a German family name .
Origin and meaning
The name "Blecher" comes from the family of occupational surnames in the metalworking trades and manufacturers of sheet metal objects . The oldest forms of this family are Klemperer and Klemper (t) . Elsewhere in the 17th century, the names Flaschner and Blechner developed for the same occupational group .
distribution
In general, the surname is particularly common in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia . The other names of the surname family are distributed as follows:
- Spengler: 2925 phone book entries throughout Germany
- Plumber: 54 phone book entries throughout Germany
Sheet metal
There are a total of 411 phone book entries with the name Blecher, which corresponds to about 1096 people. The largest relative and absolute distribution can be found in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district , with 88 phone book entries, followed by the Lahn-Dill district and the Wetterau district . Furthermore, 40 percent of the "Blechers" are distributed in North Rhine-Westphalia and around 38 percent in Hesse.
Blocks
There are a total of 420 phone book entries with the name Blöcher, which corresponds to about 1120 people. The largest relative and absolute distribution is found with 140 phone book entries in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district, followed by the Siegen-Wittgenstein district and the Lahn-Dill district. Furthermore, 57 percent of the "Blöchers" are distributed in Hesse and 25 percent in North Rhine-Westphalia.
variants
- Blöcher, Blechschmidt , Blech , Blocher , Bleher , Bleker
Well-known namesake
Form sheet metal
- Johann Heinrich Blecher (1803–1871), Hamburg locksmith and member of parliament
- M. Blecher (1909–1938), Romanian writer
- Peter Blecher (1934–2008), German marksman
- Taddy Blecher (* 1967), South African university professor and education activist
Form sheet metal
- Abraham Friedrich Blech (1762–1830), Protestant theologian and writer
- Benjamin Blech (* 1933), Orthodox rabbi in New York City
- Gustavus M. Blech (1870–1949), American surgeon and university professor
- Hans Christian Blech (1915–1993), German actor
- Harry Blech (1910–1999), British violinist and conductor
- Hermann Blech (1844–1910), German printer owner and founder of the Mülheimer Generalanzeiger
- Jörg Blech (* 1966), German science journalist and non-fiction author
- Klaus Blech (* 1928), German diplomat and former head of the office of the Federal President
- Leo Blech (1871–1958), German composer and conductor
- Martha Blech-Frank (1871–1962), German opera singer (soprano)
- Torben Blech (* 1995), German pole vaulter
Form Blechschmidt
- André Blechschmidt (* 1957), German state politician (left)
- Angelica Blechschmidt († 2018), German art director and editor-in-chief
- Bernd Blechschmidt (* 1961), German Nordic combined athlete
- Erich Blechschmidt (1904–1992), German anatomist
- Frank Blechschmidt (* 1961), German local and state politician (FDP)
- Manfred Blechschmidt (1923–2015), German writer
- Martin Blechschmidt (* 1970), German national sitting volleyball coach
- Paul Blechschmidt (1907–1961), German major general and politician (KPD, SED)
- Rainer Blechschmidt (* 1953), German soccer player
- Wilhelm Blechschmidt , Czechoslovak bobsleigh athlete
- Wolf Blechschmidt (around 1510 – around 1560), Saxon master builder
Form Blocher
- Christoph Blocher (* 1940), Swiss entrepreneur and politician (SVP)
- Eduard Blocher (1870–1942), Swiss publicist
- Eugen Blocher (1882–1964), Swiss lawyer and politician (SP)
- Felix Blocher (* 1956), Swiss archaeologist
- Henri Blocher (* 1937), French Protestant university professor and author
- Hermann Blocher (1872–1942), Swiss politician (SP), exponent of the abstinence movement
- Jacques Blocher (1909–1986), French Protestant theologian and university professor
- Judith Giovannelli-Blocher (* 1932), Swiss social worker and author
- Magdalena Martullo-Blocher (* 1969), Swiss entrepreneur and politician (SVP)
- Rudolf Blocher (1920–1995), Swiss military
- Sophie Blocher (1935–2002), Swiss pastor and social worker
Form blocks
- Detlef Blöcher (* 1953), physicist and director of DMG interpersonal
- Elsa Blöcher (1900–1995), German historian
- Stefan Blöcher (* 1960), German field hockey player
- Ulrich Blöcher (* 1973), German actor and speaker
Form bleher
- Heiko Bleher (* 1944), German adventurer and ichthyologist
- Pavel Bleher (* 1947), Russian-American
Form bleker
This variant of the surname is particularly common in the Netherlands .
- Gerrit Bleker (1593–1656), Dutch painter
- Henk Bleker (* 1953), Dutch politician
- Johanna Bleker (* 1940), German medical historian
- Lars Bleker (* 1994), German soccer player
- Marcus Bleker (* 1973), German American football player
literature
- Konrad Kunze : dtv-Atlas onomastics. First and last names in the German-speaking area . 4th edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-423-03266-9 , pp. 118-120 .
Web links
- geogen.de: relative and absolute distribution