Hans Peter
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)
- A.
- Hans-Peter Annen (* 1950), German diplomat
- Hans-Peter Archner (* 1954), German radio editor
- B.
- Hans-Peter Bartels (* 1961), German politician
- Hans-Peter Berger junior (* 1981), Austrian soccer player
- Hans-Peter Boy (* 1964), former German soccer player
- Hans-Peter Braun (musician) (* 1950), German university professor, church musician, cantor, organist and composer
- Hans-Peter Braun (biologist) (* 1962), German biologist, plant geneticist and university professor
- Hans-Peter Briegel (* 1955), former German soccer player
- Hans-Peter Buschheuer (* 1953), German journalist
- D.
- Hans-Peter Dellwing (* 1950), former German soccer referee
- Hans-Peter Dürr (1929–2014), German physicist
- F.
- Hans-Peter Feldmann (* 1941), German artist
- Hans-Peter Ferner (* 1956), German athlete and Olympic participant
- Hanspeter Fischer (1930–2009), Swiss politician (SVP)
- Hans-Peter Friedrich (* 1957), German politician
- G
- Hans-Peter Geerdes (* 1964) alias HP Baxxter , frontman of the Eurodance band Scooter
- Hans-Peter Gies (* 1947), former German athlete
- Hans-Peter Glanzer (* 1960), Austrian diplomat
- H
- Hans-Peter Haferkamp (* 1966), German lawyer and university professor
- Hans-Peter Hammel (* 1947), Swiss author, columnist and moderator and Basel city original
- Hanspeter Heinz (* 1939), German Roman Catholic theologian
- Hanns-Peter Herz (1927–2012), German journalist and politician
- Hans-Peter Hoogen (* 1947), German gay activist
- K
- Hans-Peter Kaul (1943–2014), German international lawyer
- Hans-Peter Kemper (* 1944), German politician, former member of the German Bundestag
- Hape Kerkeling (* 1964), German comedian, author, presenter, actor, singer and voice actor
- Hans-Peter von Kirchbach (* 1941), German officer
- Hans-Peter Kirchberg (* 1956), German conductor and pianist
- Hans-Peter Kirchhof (* 1938), German judge
- Hans-Peter Koepchen (1939–1999), German touring car driver
- Hans Peter Korff (* 1942), German film, theater and television actor
- L.
- Hans-Peter Lanig (* 1935), former German ski racer
- Hanspeter Latour (* 1947), Swiss football coach
- Hans-Peter Lehmann (* 1934) German director and general manager
- Hans-Peter Lehnhoff (* 1963), former German soccer player
- Hans-Peter Liese (* 1965), German politician
- Hans-Peter Lindstrøm , Norwegian producer, DJ and musician
- M.
- Hans-Peter Martin (* 1957), Austrian politician
- Hans-Peter Mayer (* 1944), German MEP
- Hans-Peter Minetti (1926–2006), German actor
- N
- Hans-Peter Nolting (* 1945), German psychologist
- O
- Hans-Peter Obwaller (* 1971), Austrian racing cyclist
- P
- Hans-Peter Pohl (* 1965), former German winter sportsman and Olympic champion
- Q
- R.
- Hans-Peter Raddatz (* 1941), German orientalist and publicist
- Hans-Peter Rehm (* 1942), German chess composer
- Hans-Peter Reinecke (1941–2005), German actor
- Hans-Peter Repnik (* 1947), German politician
- Hans-Peter Röthlin (* 1941), Roman Catholic church functionary
- S.
- Hans-Peter Schneider (* 1937), German constitutional law teacher
- Hans-Peter Schütt , professor of philosophy at the University of Karlsruhe
- Hans-Peter Schwarz (1934–2017), German contemporary historian and political scientist
- Hans-Peter Schwarz (* 1945), German art historian
- Hans-Peter Schwintowski (* 1947), German legal scholar
- Hans-Peter Schwöbel (* 1945), Professor of Sociology
- Hans-Peter Seidel (* 1958), German professor
- Hans-Peter Steinacher (* 1968), Austrian tornado sailor
- T
- Johannes-Peter Timm , also Hannespeter Timm (* 1942), German linguist and foreign language didactician
- Hans-Peter Trojek (* 1968), German journalist
- Hans-Peter Tschudi (1913–2002), Swiss politician
- U
- Hans-Peter Uerpmann (* 1941), German archaeozoologist
- Hans-Peter Uhl (1944–2019), German politician
- V
- Hans-Peter Villis (* 1958), German manager
- W.
- Hans-Peter Waldhoff (* 1953), German sociologist
- Hans-Peter Wild (* 1941), German entrepreneur and lawyer
- Hans-Peter Will (1899–1990), German politician
- Hannspeter Winter (1941–2006), Austrian physicist
- Hans-Peter Wodarz (* 1948), German chef
- Z
- Hans-Peter Zaugg (* 1952), Swiss football coach
- Hans-Peter Zenner (* 1947), German specialist author
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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 .