Drögemüller (family name)
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Drögemüller is a German family name .
Origin and meaning
The name Drögemüller is made up of the Middle Low German word dröge ("dry", "dürr") and the job title Müller . An old church book from Suderburg can be taken from this: “In the past these people were only called Müller. But since there were so many millers in the village, the 'on the Drögen', i.e. dry, high-living millers, in contrast to the millers who lived more in the swampy Hardau lowlands , were called 'Drögemüller'! "In the Suderburg area, the Drögemüller family (initially in Spelling Drog (e) moller ) demonstrably resident since the 15th century. The family branches that exist today in Böddenstedt ( Uelzen district ) and Scharnhorst ( Celle district ) are descended from Peter Drögemüller from Hösseringen (* around 1575; † 1636), who was most likely a descendant of Ludeke Moller / Drogemoller (* around 1475).
variants
For the family name Drögemüller there are the alternative spellings Droegemueller, Drogemuller and Dragemuller, especially in the Anglo-American and English-speaking areas, and in Denmark the spelling Drøgemüller. The family name Drögmöller is etymologically related and can often be found in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
frequency
The name Drögemüller appears only 136 times in German telephone books - especially in northeastern Lower Saxony , in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein . This means that the name is seldom represented in Germany and it is less common than average.
coat of arms
The management authorization applies to all descendants of Hans Peter Drögemüller (1742–1773 Böddenstedt , Uelzen district ), as long as they still have the family name.
The blazon reads as follows: "In silver, a red sloping beam, accompanied by a red water mill wheel at the top and an eight-spoke red wagon wheel at the bottom . On the red and silver puffed helmet with red and silver covers a growing silver, hoofed and red-tongued red unicorn with a silver horn. "
The family coat of arms was entered in the German coat of arms , published by the HEROLD in Berlin (No. 11626/13).
Figures in literature and film
- Doctor Drögemüller , attending physician of Christian Buddenbrook from Hamburg - In: Thomas Mann (1901): Buddenbrooks : Decay of a family.
- Schulrat Drögemüller - In: Otto Ernst (1908): Semper the young man.
- Anita Drögemöller , call girl in the Ruhr area - In: Anita Drögemöller and the rest of the Ruhr (1976), crime film, director: Alfred Vohrer , actor and. a .: Monique van de Ven (as Anita), Harald Leipnitz , Brigitte Mira .
Street names
- Heinrich-Drögemüller-Weg, Sassenburg -Westerbeck, Gifhorn district .
Name bearer
- Alfred Drögemüller (1913–1988), German politician ( KPD / SED ), resistance fighter against the Nazi regime , editor and historian , ∞ Grete Schmidt (1911–2004).
- Cord Drögemüller , German veterinarian and professor of animal genetics at the University of Bern .
- Dorothea Drögemüller (* 1854), ∞ Hermann von Mengersen (1837–1887), Lord of Oldendorf , royal Prussian chief forester ; Great-grandson of the Prussian President Franz Traugott von Breitenbauch (1739–1796).
- Elfriede Drögemüller (1875–1913), ∞ Alfred Schmidt (1874–1947), German-Baltic manor owner on Waddemois ; Goddaughter of the British Vice Consul Baron Étienne Girard de Soucanton (1843–1910).
- Ellinor Drögemüller (* 1883), ∞ Gerhard von Hueck (1873–1940; 1. ∞ Virginie von Kotzebue , great-granddaughter of August von Kotzebue ), German-Baltic manor owner on Munnalas; Son of Revaler Mayor John von Hueck (1844–1925) and Sophie von Wistinghausen (1845–1907), c. Noble von Rennenkampff .
- Hans-Peter Drögemüller (1932–2015), German classical philologist and high school teacher .
- Inka Drögemüller (* 1969), German cultural scientist, deputy director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , former deputy director of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt .
- Jens Drögemüller (* 1969), German game designer and accountant .
- Ludwig Drögemüller (1840–1920), German merchant in Reval ; ∞ Antonie Hefftler (1846–1928), employee in the house of Prince Gorchakov .
- Max Drögemüller (1871–1915), German-Baltic manor owner and horse breeder on Alt- Märjamaa , ∞ Alice Bewer (1864–1932); 1. ∞ Gotthard Jacobowsky, doctor.
- Peter Drögemüller (* around 1560), German bailiff of Liebenburg and owner of the former Garßenhof manor .
- William Droegemueller (1906–1987), American pole vaulter and ophthalmologist , participant in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , ∞ Florence Scribner (1906–1995).
- William Droegemueller (* 1932), American doctor and professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina .
swell
- Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook (1964): Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Volume 32. CA Starke, p. 174.
- Tilman Grottian : History of the Suderburg community. Festschrift for the 1000th anniversary in 2004. Edition Anderweit, Suderburg-Hösseringen 2004, ISBN 3-931824-33-0 .
- Rolf Hillmer : History of the Suderburg community. Bahnsen, Böddenstedt, Graulingen, Hamerstorf, Hösseringen, Holxen, Oldendorf I, Räber (= writings on Uelzen local history. No. 6, ISSN 0941-1666 ). C. Becker, Uelzen 1986.
- Horst Naumann (1994): Book of family names. Falcons, p. 96.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim (ed., 2008): Duden. Lexicon of surnames. Origin and meaning of 20,000 surnames. Mannheim.
- ^ Karl Adolf Dietrich Oberdieck (1910): From the history of Suderburg - special edition of the "Kreis Zeitung", p. 51.
- ^ Rolf Hillmer (1986): History of the community Suderburg. Becker Verlag Uelzen.
- ^ Karl-Heinz Alpers (2002): Chronicle of the Drögemüller family, Böddenstedt, Uelzen district.
- ↑ Justus Perthes (1920): Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses - Deutscher Uradel, Volume 21.
- ↑ dspace.ut.ee/bitstream/handle/10062/17509/album_howen.pdf
- ↑ dspace.ut.ee/bitstream/handle/10062/17509/album_howen.pdf
- Jump up ↑ Gerhard von Pantzer (1988): Baltische Ahnen- und Stammtafeln, Volume 30, P. 7.