Hempel (family name)

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Hempel is a family name of patronymic origin. The family name Hempel or Hampel goes back to the southern German baptismal name Heimpel , which in turn is a short or nickname of the old German Heimprecht, which is derived from the Germanic nickname Haganbert, Haginbold or Heinprecht .

It is available in a large number of variants and spellings, for example Heimpel , Hemple , Hemphill , Heppel , Hempe , Hampe , Hampel or Hämpel .

distribution

Around 15,000 people in Germany bear these names. Hempel is one of the 500 most frequently used family names. It is most strongly represented in Saxony (in Upper Lusatia ).

In Austria only about thirty families bear the name Hempel, in Switzerland about 20, in the USA there are about 1200 people, mostly in Texas .

Others

Five families with the name Hempel were ennobled before or around 1800. The Swedish (ennobled 1719), the Bavarian (1752), the Polish (1790) and the Prussian (1806) have expired. The family of the "Knights of Hempel", who came from Swabia and was ennobled in 1798, still exists in Austria today . One of its members is Josef von Hempel .

For the family name Hampel the following nobility can be proven: Baron von Hampel (17th century Chur-Brandenburg), Edler von Hampel (19th century Austrian Empire), Hampel Edler von Finkenfeld (19th century Kingdom of Bohemia), Hampel von Waffenthal (18th century Kingdom of Bohemia) and Hampel von Szatureö (19th century Kingdom of Hungary).

The origin of the German idiom “like in Hempels under the sofa”, which indicates great disorder, cannot be clearly deduced. She is associated with an actor from Berlin, Hempel, among others.

Name bearer

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  • Adolf Hempel (1915–1971), German officer in the air force of the Wehrmacht and the air force of the Bundeswehr
  • Amy Hempel (* 1951), American writer
  • Andreas Hempel (* 1958), German judoka and IJF referee

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  • Max Hempel (musician) (1877–1959), German musician and composer
  • Max Hempel , a pseudonym of Jan Appel (1890–1985), German revolutionary and politician (KPD, KAPD)
  • Mechthild Hempel (1925–2012), German painter and graphic artist

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  • Richard Hempel (1857–1930), German geodesist
  • Roland Hempel (* 1928), German soccer player
  • Rolf Hempel (1932–2016), German church musician, composer and university rector
  • Ronald Hempel (* 1955), German cyclist
  • Rose Hempel ( Rosemarie Hempel ; 1920–2009), German East Asian scholar
  • Rudi Hempel (1911–1947), German worker functionary and resistance fighter
  • Rudolf Hempel (1911 – after 2000), German Protestant clergyman, theologian, editor and writer

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  • Tobias Hempel (1738–1820), German politician, mayor of Zwickau

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottschald: German onenology. P. 310, 326
  2. ^ Family Heritage International, Bath / Ohio, 1993
  3. ↑ Matthäi Merian's Sel. Erben (Ed.): Theatrum Europaeum . Frankfurt am Main 1702, p. 796 .
  4. ^ Nobility diploma from Franz Joseph I (Emperor of Austria 1848-1916). ... for the retired titular lieutenant colonel Rudolph [Edlen von] Hampel (born 1814 in Olmütz). Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Schematism for the Imperial and Royal Army and for the Imperial and Royal Navy for 1908 . KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1907, p. 200 .
  6. ↑ Proof of 1,538 noble families of the Bohemian Crown in the Vavřínek Almanac. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Anton Strauss (ed.): Austrian observer . No. 354 . Vienna December 19, 1820.
  8. ↑ cf. Dictionary entry as in Hempels under the sofa in the Wiktionary