Erckenbrecht
Erckenbrecht is a family name.
Erkan means real; brecht means shiny. The name was originally a given name, which also occurs in the forms Erkanbold, Erkenfried or Erkanger. In Basel, the name appeared as early as 1141, in Moravia in the 14th and 15th centuries immigrants from Lübeck and Rostock bore the name. The family name appeared more frequently in the Kraichgau in the 15th and 16th centuries. The American President Eisenhower had ancestors named Erckenbrecht from Großgartach , Prince Consort Hendrik had Erckenbrecht ancestors from Bad Wimpfen .
Bear the name:
- Dietrich Erckenbrecht (born around 1554), Obervogt der Reichenau, raised to the nobility in 1586
- Dietrich Erckenbrecht (around 1592–1656), high official of the Counts of Hanau
- Georg Erckenbrecht (around 1530–1575), Stiftskeller in Sinsheim
- Irmela Erckenbrecht (* 1958), German writer and book translator
- Johann Georg Erckenbrecht (around 1590–1652), Venningen bailiff at Steinsberg Castle, later city school governor and monastery attendant in Sinsheim
- Johann Georg Erckenbrecht (1634–1694), mayor and monastery attendant in Sinsheim, official cellar in Hilsbach, administrator in the Reichenberg castle, senior official schultheiß in Mosbach
- Johann Jakob Erckenbrecht (around 1627–1669), mayor and monastery attendant in Sinsheim, later mayor of Bretten
- Johann Werner Erckenbrecht (around 1550 – around 1613), town clerk and imperial notary in Sinsheim
- Konrad Erckenbrecht (1751–1820), mayor in Eppingen
- Ulrich Erckenbrecht (* 1947), German writer, philosopher and private scholar
literature
- Marieluise Erckenbrecht: The Erckenbrecht of Sinsheim. From the story of a family of civil servants in Kraichgau , in Kraichgau 10, 1987, pp. 148–158.
- Marieluise Erckenbrecht: Chronicle of the Erckenbrecht family , Göttingen 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erckenbrecht 1987, p. 148.