Because of that
This is why the family name of the following people is:
- Ildefons Herwegen (1874–1946), German Benedictine abbot, historian and liturgist
- Leo Herwegen (1886–1972), German politician (CDU), state minister in Saxony-Anhalt and victim of a show trial in the GDR
- Peter Herwegen (1814–1893), German painter, draftsman, lithographer