Boetefeur
Boetefeur is a German family name .
origin
The name is a professional name derived from the profession of fire man (stoker). The name consists of the Low German words "böten" = to kindle, turn on, poke and "for" = fire.
The name also appears in the forms "Bötefeuer", "Bötefür", "Fürböter". Bötefür also has the meaning of incitator in Low German , like Boutefeu in French .
Known occurrences: The Boetefeur merchant family existed in Hamburg in the 17th and 18th centuries, and they provided numerous council members and members of the senior elders. Johann Joachim Boetefeur was senator from 1695-1761, Joachim Boetefeur was president of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce from 1709 to 1710 . One of his great-great-grandsons was Johann Friedrich Albrecht August Meyer .
Name bearer
- Karl Bötefür (1875 – after 1945), officer, colonial official and district administrator
- Markus Bötefür (* 1965), historian and writer
literature
- Herbert Fürböter (Ed.): Children's time - Glinder time 1936-1951 . Books On Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-3116-9 .
- Friedrich Georg Buek (ed.): The Hamburg upper elders, their civil effectiveness and their families . Perthes-Besser, Hamburg 1857 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Karl Wilheim Berghaus : The vocabulary of the Sassen. Volume I: AH, Berlin: Eisenschmidt 1880, p. 198