Hans Peter

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Hans-Peter or Hanspeter is a male German given name .

Origin and meaning

Association of names:

  • Hans : Short form for John , Hebrew Jochanan 'God is gracious / God has shown grace'
  • Peter : first name of Greek origin meaning 'rock'

While the shape "Hanspeter" was created around the end of the 19th century by contraction of the two components, the shape "Hans-Peter" became popular as a double name , especially in the 1930s to 1950s.

The emphasis of the name can be on Hans or on Peter .

variants

  • Hans-Peter / Hanspeter
  • Hanns-Peter / Hannspeter
  • Hannes-Peter / Hannespeter (rare)
  • Hape (short form)
  • Johannes-Peter (long form, rare)

Immigrant forms can be found, for example, as Hanspetar (Czech, Slovak, Slovene, also German) or Hans-Petter / Hanspetter in Scandinavian.

Well-known namesake (all variants)

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  • Hans-Peter Pohl (* 1965), former German winter sportsman and Olympic champion
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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Konrad Kunze: dtv-Atlas onenology. First and last names in the German-speaking area. Munich 1998, p. 53; see also Renata Cibulková: The German first names - overview of the development tendencies of naming from the Middle Ages to the present. Brno 2010.
  2. ^ Wilfried Seibicke: Historical German first name book . tape 2 : F-K. . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-016196-6 , p. 280 .