Kastner (family name)
Kastner is a family name in the German-speaking area that is derived from the historical occupation of Kastner .
The first known bearer of the name today was Hans Kastner mit dem Flug († 1102), patrician of Amberg .
Other spellings are Castner and Kastener , Czech borrowed Kasnar . Emigrants to North America have partly Americanized the spelling in Costner , Cosner and Chostner . Whether the family name Kästner is just a regionally different expression or is derived from the profession of carpenter (box maker) is assessed differently.
Spread of the name
Around 13,500 people in Germany and Austria bear this name.
Name bearer
A.
- Adelheid Kastner (* 1962), Austrian doctor and psychiatrist
- Adolf Kastner (1889–1963), German specialist in German, historian and high school teacher
- Albert Kastner (1883–1952), Austrian entrepreneur (-> Kastner & Öhler )
- Alfred Kastner (musician) (1870–1948), Austrian harpist, composer and music teacher
- Alfred Kastner (soccer player) (1927-2015), German soccer player
B.
- Benedikt Kastner (* 1986), German ice hockey player
- Boris Kastner-Jirka (* 1969), Austrian sports presenter
- Bruno Kastner (1890–1932), German actor
D.
- Daniel Kastner (* 1981), Austrian soccer player
E.
- Eduard Kastner (* 1950), German media entrepreneur
- Eduard Fedor Kastner (1859–1935), Austrian writer
- Eleonore Kastner (1910–2015), German hairdresser
- Elliott Kastner (1930-2010), American film producer
- Else Kastner-Michalitschke (1866–1939), Austrian writer
- Emerich Kastner (1847–1916), Austrian music writer
- Ernst Kastner (* 1931), German district administrator
- Eugen Kastner (1897–1945), Austrian architect
F.
- Frank Kastner (* 1969), German soccer player
- Franz Kastner (* 1943), Austrian musician, conductor and Kapellmeister
- Frédéric Kastner (1852–1882), French physicist and inventor
- Fritz Kastner (1913–2000), Austrian spatial planner and university professor
G
- Georg Kastner (* 1969), Austrian historian
- Georges Kastner (1810–1867), Franco-German composer and music writer, see Johann Georg Kastner
- Günter Schmidt-Kastner (1926–2018), German engineer and biochemist
- Gustav Kastner-Kirdorf (1881–1945), German Air Force General
H
- Hanns Kastner (* 1960), Austrian architect and real estate economist of German origin
- Hans Kastner , German painter and gilder
- Heinrich Kastner (1909–1973), German journalist, local history researcher, local curator and musician
- Hermann Kastner (1886–1957), German politician (LDPD)
- Hugo Kastner (1921–2004), Austrian graphic artist, author and translator
J
- Joachim Peter Kastner (* 1947), German sculptor, university professor and author
- Johann Kastner (painter) ( Johann Evangelist Kastner ; 1772 / 1776–1827), Austrian painter
- Johann Kastner (athlete) , German athlete
- Johann Baptist Kastner (1775–1841), German theologian
- Johann Georg Kastner (1810–1867), German-French composer and music writer
- Jörg Kastner (* 1962), German writer
- Josef Kastner the Elder (1810–1872), Austrian painter and restorer
- Josef Kastner the Younger ( Josef Alexius Kastner ; 1844–1923), Austrian painter
- Josef Kastner (politician) (1904–1959), German politician (BVP, CSU)
- Josef Fritz Kastner (1888–1968), Austrian prehistoric
K
- Karin Praniess-Kastner (* 1963), Austrian politician (ÖVP)
- Karl Kastner (natural scientist) (1847–1907), Austrian teacher and paleontologist
- Karl Kastner (entrepreneur) (1849–1921), Austrian department store founder, see Kastner & Öhler
- Karl Kastner (clergyman) (1886–1957), German Catholic clergyman, liturgist and church historian
- Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783–1857), German naturalist
L.
- Léonie Kastner-Boursault (1820–1888), French wife of Jean-Georges Kastner
- Lisl Tirsch-Kastner (1894–1984), German actress
M.
- Macário Santiago Kastner (1908–1992), Portuguese musicologist and musician
- Manfred Kastner (1943–1988), German painter and sculptor
- Marc Aaron Kastner (* 1945), Canadian-American physicist
- Marie-Theres Kastner (* 1950), German politician (CDU)
- Maximilian Kastner (* 1993), German ice hockey player
N
- Nikola Kastner (* 1983), German actress
- Norbert Kastner (* 1959), German politician
O
- Oona Kastner (* 1965), German improvisation musician
- Otfried Kastner (1899–1988), Austrian art historian, local researcher and university professor
- Otto Kastner (1880–1938), German physician
P
- Peter Kastner (psychologist, 1952) (1952–2013), German psychologist and writer
- Peter Kastner (psychologist, 1955) (* 1955), German psychologist and university professor
R.
- Richard Kastner (1875–1959), co-owner of the Austrian department store chain Kastner & Öhler
- Rold Kastner , pseudonym of Rudolf Birkl (1918–2003), German politician (CSU) and journalist
- Rudolf Kastner (music writer) (1879–1948), Austrian music writer
- Rudolf Kastner (entrepreneur) (1884–1966), Austrian engineer, entrepreneur and peace activist
- Rudolf Kastner (1906–1957), Hungarian community leader and journalist, see Rudolf Kasztner
- Rupert Kastner (1880–1947), Austrian politician (GDVP)
- Ruth Kastner (* 1951), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Ruth E. Kastner (* 1955), American physicist
S.
- Sebastian Kastner († 1577), German Benedictine and abbot
- Simon Kastner († 1442), abbot at Ebersberg Monastery
- Susanne Kastner (* 1946), German politician (SPD)
W.
- Walter Kastner (1920–?), German soccer player
- Walther Kastner (1902–1994), Austrian lawyer, manager and patron
- Wilhelm Kastner (1824–1898), German lawyer and politician, MdR
- Winifred Kastner (1903-1987), Australian social worker
- Wolfgang Kastner (1939–2003), Swiss classical philologist of German origin
- Wolfram P. Kastner (* 1947), German artist
additional
- Kastner Group , Austrian food trading company
- Kastner & Öhler , Austrian department store chain
- Kastnerville , former name of Sebringville , a settlement in Ontario, Canada
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hans Bahlow: German names dictionary . 1972. p. 274.
- ↑ Michael Schwaiger: Chronica or short description of the electoral city of Amberg, located in the Upper Palatinate in Beiern . Witteberg 1564, fol. 8r. Digitized at the Amberg Provincial Library .
- ↑ Hans Nikol: The Kastner von Amberg and the Hammer Unterschnaittenbach. The Upper Palatinate , Volume 64, p. 289.
- ↑ a b c Kastner in the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm
- ^ Charles Lynn Costner, Melanie Costner Snyder: The Ancestors and Descendants of Adam Kastner (Costner) 1709–1767 . 2nd edition. Tennessee Valley Pub., Knoxville, Tennessee 1997, LCCN 97-067347 .
See also
Web links
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