Friedemann

Friedemann is used both as a male first name and as a family name .

Origin and meaning

As Frithuman or Fridman, the name is documented for the 14th century at the latest.

Its first element is Old High German fridu , peace, protection, security. Its original meaning is probably less to be sought in the modern and possibly ethically colored meaning of the word peace . It is more likely to relate to enclosed property; it can have a legal or a sacred component.

The second part of the name househusband is probably back to Old High German one , man, man, warrior; However, it is very likely that it only has the function of a diminutive (diminutive diminutive). Friedemann (like Fridolin) can be a pet form of names like Friedbert, Friedhelm or Friedrich.

name day

There does not seem to be a clearly defined name day. For example, from November 29th, going back to Friedrich von Regensburg , March 5th and July 18th with reference to the name day of Friedrich are reported.

Well-known namesake

First name

• Friedemann Bedürftig (1940–2010), German journalist and author
• Friedemann Berger (1940–2009), German writer
• Friedemann Beyer (* 1955), German editor and publicist
• Friedemann Buddensiek (* 1967), German philosopher
• Friedemann Dähn (* 1958), German cellist, experimental musician and media artist
• Friedemann Derschmidt (* 1967), Austrian artist
• Friedemann Friese (* 1970), German game designer
• Friedemann Fromm (* 1963), German director and screenwriter
• Friedemann Gottschick the Elder (* 1928), German church musician and university professor
• Friedemann Graef (* 1949), German musician
• Friedemann Grieshaber (* 1968), German sculptor and draftsman
• Friedemann Hahn (* 1949), German painter
• Friedemann Hinz (* 1975), German punk musician and singer
• Friedemann Immer , German classical trumpeter
• Friedemann Kupsa (* 1943), Austrian cellist
• Friedemann Layer (1941–2019), Austrian conductor, general music director of the Mannheim National Theater
• Friedemann Mattern (* 1955), German computer scientist
• Ernst Friedemann Freiherr von Münchhausen (1865–1936), German local politician
• Friedemann Nauck (* 1955), German palliative medicine specialist
• Friedemann W. Nerdinger (* 1950), German psychologist
• Friedemann Pfäfflin (* 1945), German psychiatrist, psychotherapist and university professor
• Friedemann Rex (* 1931), German science historian
• Friedemann Schrenk (* 1956), German paleoanthropologist
• Friedemann Schulz (1945–2016), German radio play and screenwriter
• Friedemann Schulz von Thun (* 1944), German communication scientist
• Friedemann Steiger (* 1938), German theologian and writer
• Friedemann von Stockhausen (* 1945), German painter, photographer and university lecturer
• Friedemann Strube (* 1939), German music publisher
• Friedemann Weise (* 1973), German songwriter, satirist and author
• Friedemann Johannes Wieland (* 1969), German organist and cantor
• Friedemann Witecka (* 1951), German guitarist, appears under the name Friedemann on

Middle name

• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784), German composer and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach
• Ernst-Friedemann Freiherr von Münchhausen (1906–2002), German lawyer and administrative officer
• Louis Friedemann Thiele (* 1981), German actor and voice actor

family name

• Arturo Friedemann (1893–?), Chilean cyclist
• Carl Friedemann (1862–1952), German-Swiss composer, conductor and musician
• Friedrich Traugott Friedemann (1793–1853), archive director and member of the Nassau state parliament
• Gunnar Friedemann (1909–1944), Estonian chess master
• Hans Friedemann (around 1600), sculptor of the Erfurt Renaissance and early Baroque sculptures
• Herbert Friedemann , German pool player
• Jens Friedemann (* 1965), German soccer player and coach
• Karl Friedemann (resistance fighter) (1906–2000), German resistance fighter and worker functionary
• Karl Friedemann (soccer player) (1924-2016), German soccer player (GDR)
• Käte Friedemann (1874–?), German literary scholar
• Lilli Friedemann (1906–1991), German violinist, improviser and teacher
• Matthias Friedemann (* 1984), German cyclist
• Maria Friedemann (1912–1999), German lawyer and politician (CDU)
• Max Friedemann (1905–1986), German communist in the Resistance
• Olga Friedemann (1857–1935), German women's rights activist and housekeeping manager
• Ulrich Friedemann (1877–1949), German doctor and infectiologist

Fictional characters

• Edmund Friedemann Dräcker , fictional German diplomat
• Friedemann , protagonist in the children's book of the same name by Simone Hennig and Sabine Büchner
• Johannes Friedemann , main character in Thomas Mann's novella Der kleine Herr Friedemann

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: German Historical First Name Book . Berlin 1996-2006.
2. ^ Ernst Förstemann: Old German name book. First volume, Munich, reprint of the second edition 1966, column 535.
3. ^ Adolf Bach: The German personal names. Vol. 1, Heidelberg 1952 ² , p. 223.
4. ^ Henning Kaufmann: Old German personal names, supplementary volume on Ernst Förstemann: Old German name book. First volume, Munich, reprint of the second edition 1966, p. 247.
5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Complete business calendar : to the year ... 1845 Verlag Seidel, 1845
7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.