Guderian
Guderian is a German family name.
Origin, meaning, pronunciation
The name Guderian (in older sources also Guderjan , Guderjahn , Guderiahn , Gudrian ) is of Low German origin and means something like "good Johannes " (nd. Jan ). Originally it was articulated in three syllables and emphasized on the first syllable (i.e. [ˈɡuːdəʀjan] or [ˈɡuːdəʀjaːn]), and only later based on Latin or Greek names such as Fabian (us) or Damian (cf. Grobian ) Spoken with hiat instead of an open a and thus in four syllables, with the word accent shifting to the second syllable.
This strange affectation affects at least the Prussian military family Guderian and their best-known offspring Heinz Guderian (1888–1954) and resulted in the fact that he was often wrongly suspected of Armenian ancestors in the Soviet Union because of his strange name . This duck is still popular today, not least in Armenia and the Armenian diaspora; In his autobiography, the oil magnate Nubar Gulbenkian (1896–1972) even claimed that the Wehrmacht tank general had been brought to Germany by missionaries from his Armenian homeland as a child. In fact, the Guderian family comes from the area around Schneidemühl (Polish: Piła ) and Schönlanke (Polish: Trzcianka ) in the then Prussian province of Posen , where numerous German-speaking settlers of this name have been recorded since the 17th century, and originally probably from Neumark or Western Pomerania , at least not from the Caucasus .
Name bearer
- Claudia Guderian (* 1952), German author, journalist and photographer
- Dietmar Guderian (* 1939), German professor
- Friedrich Guderian (1858–1914), Prussian lieutenant general
- Heinz Guderian (1888–1954), German colonel general, "inventor" of the German tank weapon
- Heinz Günther Guderian (1914–2004), German major general
- Nele Guderian (* 1997), young German actress
- Ragna Guderian (* 1971), German actress and director
literature
- Hans Guderian: The Guderians: Story of a family from the east . CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1996, ISBN 978-3-7980-0530-3 .
- Hans Guderian: Guderian . In: German gender book . Volume 214. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 2002, pp. 3-7.
Web links
- guderian.org - family history website operated by Hans Guderian.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef K. Brechenmacher : Etymological dictionary of German family names . CA Starke Verlag, Glücksburg 1957–1963, p. 603.
- ^ Anthony Beevor : The Second World War . Little, Brown & Co., New York and Boston 2012, p. 202.
- ↑ S. about https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Heinz_Guderian&oldid=714763567#Origin_of_Name
- ↑ An anecdote to this effect describes e.g. B. Vartan Gregorian: The Road to Home: My Life and Times . Simon and Schuster 2008, p. 26.
- ^ Nubar S. Gulbenkian: Portrait in Oil: The Autobiography of Nubar Gulbenkian . Simon and Schuster, New York 1965, p. 317.
- ↑ Hans Guderian: Guderian ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2017 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. . In: German gender book . Volume 214. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 2002, pp. 3-7.
