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Erkert is a German and Austrian family name . Variants are Erckert and Ergert .
origin
The geographical origin of the family name is assumed to be in the Franconian Alb ( Altmühltal ). There the family name can be associated with several localities, such as Erkertshofen , Erggertshofen ( Markt Breitenbrunn ) and Ergertshausen .
Well-known namesake
- Friedrich Erkert, Austrian Lieutenant Colonel (1796)
- Roderich von Erckert , also von Erkert , (1821–1900), Russian officer and ethnographer
- Viktor von Erckert (1823–1870), Prussian officer, holder of the order Pour le Mérite (1866), as colonel commander of the guards fusiliers (1869–1870); he fell at St. Privat in the Franco-Prussian War
- Friedrich von Erckert (1869–1908), officer in the protection force and pioneer of the camel rider troop
- Friedrich Karl von Erkert (1869–1923), German diplomat
- Karl Erckert (1894–1955), Austrian officer and South Tyrolean politician