Ekkehard

Ekkehard is a German male given name ; Name day is June 28th .

Origin and meaning

The name is made up of the Old High German words ekka '(sword) corner, cutting edge' and hard , hard, strong, firm 'and thus means' the strong sword'.

variants

• Eckert , Eggert
• Ekkehart, Ekkehardt
• Ekkhard, Ekkhart, Ekkhardt
• Ekkard, Ekkart, Ekkardt
• Eccard
• Eckat, corner ,
• Eckehard, Eckehart, Eckehardt
• Eckhard , Eckhart , Eckhardt
• Eckard , Eckart , Eckardt
• Ecki
• Edsart, Edsardt, Edsard
• Edzart, Edzardt, Edzard
• Edsert, Edserdt, Edserd
• Eginhard, Eike , Einhard
• Ekehard, Ekehart, Ekehardt
• Ekard, Ekart, Ekardt
• Ekhard, Ekhart, Ekhardt
• Ekke, Egge , Ekki

Well-known namesake

Historical clergy

• Ekkehard I. (910–973), monk and dean in St. Gallen
• Ekkehard II († 990), monk and chaplain in St. Gallen
• Ekkehard II of Nellenburg (around 1035–1088), Benedictine abbot of the Reichenau monastery
• Ekkehart III. (11th century), clergyman in Sankt Gallen in the first decades of the 11th century
• Ekkehard IV. (Around 980 – after 1057), monk in St. Gallen
• Ekkehard († 1465), Abbot of Münsterschwarzach
• Ekkehard († 1023), Bishop of Prague
• Ekkehard († 1200), Bishop of Gurk
• Ekkehard Rabil († 1240), Bishop of Merseburg
• Ekkehard von Aura (Uraugiensis) († 1125), Benedictine, abbot and chronicler
• Ekkehard von Huysburg († 1084), Benedictine abbot of the Huysburg monastery

Other namesake

Variant of Ekkehard

• Ekkehard I. (around 960–1002), Margrave of Meissen
• Ekkehard II (around 985-1046), Margrave of Meissen
• Ekkehard I. von Scheyern
• Ekkehard II of Scheyern
• Ekkehard Becker-Eberhard (* 1952), German lawyer
• Ekkehard Böhmer (1929–2014), German television show director
• Ekkehard Fritsch (1921–1987), German actor
• Ekkehard Gries (1936–2001), German lawyer and politician (SPD)
• Ekkehard Göpelt (1945–2016), German singer
• Ekkehard Grundmann (* 1921), German pathologist
• Ekkehard Jost (1938–2017), German musicologist
• Ekkehard Kaufmann (1923–2010), German lawyer, legal historian and university professor
• Ekkehard Klemm (* 1958), German conductor
• Ekkehard Klug (* 1956), German politician
• Ekkehard König (* 1941), German philologist
• Ekkehard Lieberam (* 1937), German constitutional lawyer and publicist
• Ekkehard Martens (* 1943), German philosopher
• Ekkehard Mühlenberg (* 1938), German Protestant theologian and church historian
• Ekkehard Schall (1930-2005), German actor
• Ekkehard Schulz (* 1941), German manager
• Ekkehard Schwartz (1926–2005), German forest scientist
• Ekkehard W. Stegemann (* 1945), German Protestant theologian
• Ekkehard Wachmann (* 1937), German entomologist
• Ekkehard Voigt (1939–2018), German politician
• Ekkehard Weber (* 1940), Austrian ancient historian
• Ekkehard Westermann (1940-2015), German historian
• Ekkehard von Braunmühl (* 1940), German publicist and child rights activist, founder of anti-education

Variant of Ekkehart

• Ekkehart Frieling (* 1942), German psychologist and ergonomist
• Ekkehart Krippendorff (1934–2018), German political scientist
• Ekkehart Kröner (1919–2000), German theoretical physicist
• Ekkehart Schlicht (* 1945), German economist and university professor
• Ekkehart Stark (* 1947), German painter and graphic artist
• Ekkehart Stein (1932–2008), German constitutional lawyer
• Ekkehart Vetter (* 1956), German Protestant theologian

Fictional people

• Ekkehardt Talkötter , character from the crime series Wilsberg

Other meanings

Ekkehard is also the title of a novel by Joseph Victor von Scheffel .

Ekkehard is an opera by Johann Joseph Abert from 1878 with a libretto by Adolf Kröner based on the novel by Joseph Victor von Scheffel .

E. Ekkehard is the pseudonym of Heinrich Kraeger (1870-1945), professor of literary history.

swell

1. ↑ Albert Heintze : The German family names . 2nd Edition. 1903, p. 96 f .
2. ↑ Dissertation, 2008, p. 318 (PDF; 6.8 MB); further evidence in the article by Heinrich Kraeger

See also

• Ekkehardiner