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Drangmeister is a German family name .

Origin and meaning

The name Drangmeister (less often also used as Drankmeister or Drangemeister ) had developed from a nickname in Endeholz (municipality of Scharnhorst ), district of Celle , Lower Saxony . It is one of the oldest original family names in the rural Celle area.

There was one original bearer of the name (see graphic below: Drancmester , around 1350 in Endeholz ).

In the former meaning of potion master (see: mhd. Dranc, Tranc or mnd. Drang, Drank = drink), this name stood for: manufacturer of medicinal beverages or medicinal man.

The family name was established in the years 1428–1438 with notarizations in the treasury register of the Grand Voyage of Celle .

The first documented mention of the name - around 1389 - can be found by Stuart Jenks .

The name came into use around 1350, when a pandemic , the so-called Black Death , struck northern Germany.

distribution

The spread of the name Drangmeister from 1350 to 1700

Originated around the year 1350 on the farm "Endeholz Nr. 6", the name Drangmeister spread in the following 350 years as shown in the adjacent graphic - as far as name bearers could be determined for this period.

As recently as 2011, around 75% of the approx. 350 known name bearers lived within an Endeholz radius of only 50 km in length.

The founder of the name bearer population in the USA , a Drangmeister born in Scharnhorst (a neighboring village of Endeholz ), emigrated there in 1854.

variants

  • The spelling of names can be found in historical documents:
    Drancmester, Dranckmester, Drangmester, Dragmester, Dragemester, Drankmester, Dranckmeister, Drangmeister, Drankmeister, Drangemeister, Dracmeister, Drancmeister, Dragmeister, Dragemeister, Drinkmaster
  • Today's bearers of the name carry the name under the following expressions:
    Drangmeister, Drankmeister, Drangemeister

literature

  • Rudolf Grieser: The treasure register of the Grossvogtei Celle from 1438 and other sources on the population history of the districts of Celle, Fallingbostel, Soltau and Burgdorf between 1428 and 1442 . Hildesheim / Leipzig 1934 (reprint 1961)
  • Stuart Jenks: England, the Hanseatic League and Prussia: Trade and Diplomacy, 1377–1474 . Volume 1-3. Böhlau, Cologne 1992
  • Carl Koppmann (Hrsg.): The Recesse and other files of the Hanseatic Days from 1256–1430, Volume 1–8 , Leipzig 1870–1897
  • Thomas Vogtherr (Ed.): Document book of the city of Uelzen (= Lüneburg document book, 14th section). August Lax, Hildesheim 1988, ISBN 3-7848-3018-8
  • Adolf Meyer, Hans Türschmann (collaboration): Endeholz: Sources and representations on the history of the village and its inhabitants
  • Kerstin Rahn: Religious brotherhoods in the late medieval city of Braunschweig . Reichold, Hanover / Braunschweig 1994

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Walter Drangmeister A treatise on the meaning and origin of the names Drangmeister, Drankmeister and Drangemeister - or how a family name can be traced back almost 700 years . Catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Potion. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 21 : T – Treftig - (XI, 1st section, part 1). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1935 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  3. ↑ The sentence: "Determination of the family name ..." affects the definition according to the meaning and not the letter, so that the statement of this formulation does not come into conflict with the literal definition of the family name, which was only in the 18th / 19th Century began (see: Petrification date )! After it was entered in the treasury register of the Grand Bailiwick of Celle , the family operated under this name from then on.
  4. ↑ Geogen - GenWiki ( Memento from May 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )