Goehler

Göhler is a German-speaking family name .

Meaning and origin

Goehler:

1. Take over to mhd. Goln > sing out loud, hoot <for an exuberant person.
2. Name of origin for the place names Göhl (Schleswig-Holstein), Göhlen (Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg).
3. in the Saxon dialect for the charcoal maker, hence the name frequency in the Eastern Ore Mountains

Well-known namesake

Göhler or Goehler is the family name of the following people:

• Adrienne Goehler (* 1955), German scientist and state politician (Berlin) (independent)
• Antje Göhler (born Antje Riedel; * 1967), German chess player
• Fritz Göhler (1926–2007), German radio play director
• Georg Göhler (1878–1954), German composer, conductor, music educator and critic
• Gerhard Göhler (* 1941), German political scientist
• Hermann Göhler (1874–1959), German landscape painter, professor at the School of Applied Arts, then Karlsruhe State Art School
• Josef Göhler (1911–2001), German author and sports official
• Peter Göhler (* 1935), German literary scholar
• Roland Göhler (* 1943), German rower
• Siegfried Göhler (1916–1976), German actor
• Sigrid Göhler (* 1942), German actress
• Sven Göhler (* 1967), German balloonist
• Timo Göhler (* 1990), German athlete
• Wolfgang E. Goehler (1940–2009), German general and State Councilor from Bremen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Duden, Familiennames, Dudenverlag, Mannheim - Leipzig - Vienna - Zurich, 2005, p. 281