Kolbe (family name)

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Kolbe is a very old German family name that is found throughout the German-speaking area. It can also be found in Denmark , the USA , Canada , the Republic of South Africa , South America , and Australia . It is very likely that this name had different origins.

Origin and meaning

Nickname

Most of Kolbe's derivations can be traced back to nicknames .

Weapon or fool's stick

Takeover for a person who makes, carries (foot soldier) or uses ( pars pro toto ) this weapon (club ); therefore also attested as a nickname of knights (e.g. Kolbe nobility); with regard to the fool's stick: a foolish (or strange) person.

Old High German colbo, kolbo, cholbo, cholpo; Middle Low German kolve, Middle High German kolbe [m.]: mace, club, thick stick, handle with a thick end (see also infructescence of plants), bolt, rifle butt, mortar club; but also fool 's stick (fool's flask means whimsicalness , quirk ), shepherd's stick, playing stick, stick lantern; Related to the old Norwegian kólfr , old Swedish kolver , kolf , Danish kolbe , Icelandic kólfr (roots), Polish and Russian kolba , maybe also Lithuanian kulbe (arrow, throwing spear, club).

supporting documents

  • They truogen pistons and bends
  • Niemann ... now sees that one soldier is poking Wedekind in the neck with his butt
  • The one he hit with the butt broad face even wider Kortwich
  • ... in front of the Preuszenkolbe all run nimble Immermann
  • Who cares that two went out ('vors Dorf') and second or quarreled on the stone bridges, reiszen ('pull out') them piston or heavy ...
  • ... I vow to keep the art of honoring and instructing princes and lords, knights and servants after the fight has been declared, to learn to use a spear, sword, butt and epee fencing master's oath (L.Sollinger)
  • If every fool wore a piston, the wood would be dear to Simrock
  • One should make fools with a piston Luther, Simplicissimus (to louse means to make sensible , but also a joke from the Baders language, loosely translated as pulling the head with a hammer )
  • Nihtes guot wan daz, he tuot with sînem piston , d. H. Fools only think their own actions make sense
  • This fool is aiming, you deserve the pistol you Goethe

Hairstyle

Takeover for a person who stands out because of a special hairstyle or because it is missing, but perhaps also because of a special head shape.

Kolbe [f.], Dialect for head; North Bohemian: kulbe; Thuringian, Saxon, East German-Silesian: Kolbe , also head hair; also denotes a male hairstyle in the 16th century, in which the hair, combed down evenly, was cut horizontally over the forehead, ears and neck. The flask became shorter and shorter and later barely covered the ears; but also as the variant in which the hair is combed up over the forehead and laid back, it was peculiar to fools (see also 1.); also the upper surface of the head, especially when the hair is shaved off, cf. also Latin. calvus : bald. Important evidence of identity: In 1550 in Zittau a master stonemason Thomas Kolbe, who also owned Kölbel, Kölbichen, Kelbigen, Heub (e) l u. Heubt (= head) is called.

supporting documents

  • It begins to mix the piston , i. H. he gets gray hair
  • Once or twice he gave him a good blow ; Wieland
  • Then he wanted to louse him (Pope Luthern) the flask, which would blow his hair up his head ; Postreuter
  • Because you have to learn how to louse the fool's piston ; Luther, d. H. teach one with blows
  • What are you hanging down the pistons? Wieland
  • Dasz Schwarz Christoph was a tall person, had a black frilled flask ; scr. rer. siles.
  • Umme de tidt (1559) one staples erstlick, where everyone knows, started kolven to dragen ; Neocorus

shape

  • Take over for someone who stands out because of their coarse or squat figure.

Middle High German kolbe means club , i.e. a stocky , fat, coarse, coarse person

  • Takeover for someone who has bulging eyes.

Kulpen in Low German , külpen means to stare.

Job name

As a professional name , Kolbe can be derived from trapping.

From hunting: Kolbe is a spruce bush trimmed like a pyramid to catch birds on liming rods.

Variants of the name

  • Kolbe , Kolb , Colbe, Colb
  • Kolbo, Kolba, piston, Kolbel, Kolbell, Colbo
  • Kölbe, Kölber, Kölbel, Kölbl, Kölble, Kölb, Kölblin , Kölwel, Kölmel, Kölping
  • Kelber , Kolf, Kolve, Kolbil, Kolp
  • Culp , Kulpe, Külpe, Kulbe

Name bearer

A.

  • Albert Kolbe (1871–1941), German lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Stargard
  • Alfred Kolbe (1884–1950), Austrian lawyer and administrative officer

B.

C.

D.

E.

F.

G

  • Georg Kolbe (1877–1947), German sculptor
  • Gustav Kolbe (1809–1867), German administrative lawyer, director of KPM

H

I.

J

K

L.

M.

O

  • Otto Kolbe (1904 – around 1974), German painter, graphic artist and set designer

P

R.

S.

T

U

V

  • Victor Kolbe (1809–1888), manor owner, lawyer and member of the German Reichstag

W.

Other people

  • Adilbero Colbo 1135 in Cologne
  • Cuonrad Colbe 1152, Lords of Schipf
  • Conrad Colb 1165 Tavern in Worms
  • Ritter Litzelkolbe 1244 Wetzlar
  • Diether Kolbelin in Strasbourg in 1309
  • House to the piston 1356 in Strasbourg
  • Niklos Kolbe in 1396 in Glatz
  • Joh. To the piston 1437 in Worms
  • Swing-arm piston 1483 in Augsburg
  • Kolbenheyer (Eastern poet) means piston hammer, who makes wooden pistons
  • Rauschkolb
  • Oberleutnant Kolbe, pilot of the plane with which Werner Mölders perished.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c family name book, Naumann, H., VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1987
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Deutsches Namenlexikon, Bahlow, H., 1st edition, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1972
  3. ^ Old German dictionary, Schade, O., 2nd edition, Halle adS, Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1882
  4. ↑ a b c d Middle High German Concise Dictionary, M. Lexer, Leipzig, Verlag von Hirzel, 1872
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Trübner's German Dictionary, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1939-43
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o German dictionary, Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, Leipzig, published by S. Hirzel, 1873
  7. ↑ a b c The German family names, historical, geographical, linguistic, Heintze-Cascorbi, 7th edition, Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses GmbH, Halle / S., Berlin, 1933
  8. ↑ a b German onomastics - our family names, Gottschald, M., 5th edition, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1982
  9. ↑ a b c Universal encyclopedia of the past and present or the latest encyclopedic dictionary of the sciences, arts and trades, Pierer, Altenburg, Verlagbuchhandlung (1869)
  10. ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia, 17th Edition, FABrockhaus, Wiesbaden, 1970
  11. ↑ Meyer's Encyclopedic Lexicon, Vol. 14, Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich, 1975
  12. ↑ a b c d e f g Etymological dictionary of German family names, Brechenmacher, JK, 2nd edition, CAStarke Verlag, Limburg ad Lahn, 1960/63
  13. ↑ Werner Mölders - Flight to the sun - by Fritz von Forell