Kolbe (family name)
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.
- Bodo Kolbe (* 1949), German musician
C.
- Carl Kolbe (chemist) (1855–1909), German chemist
- Carl Friedrich Ludwig Kolbe (1790–1870), German pastor and classical philologist
- Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder ( Eichen-Kolbe ; 1759–1835), German painter and author
- Cheslin Kolbe (* 1993), South African rugby union player
D.
- Daniela Kolbe (* 1980), German politician (SPD)
E.
- Edmund Kolbe (1898–1983), German painter
- Emma Kolbe (1850–1913), Samoan-American entrepreneur and plantation owner
- Ernst Kolbe (1876–1945), German painter and lithographer
- Étienne Kolbe (1809–1834), German painter
F.
- Fjodor Nikititsch Kolbe (* 1861), Russian architect
- Fritz Kolbe (1900–1971), German resistance fighter
- Fritz-Ulrich Kolbe (1955–2010), German educationalist
G
- Georg Kolbe (1877–1947), German sculptor
- Gustav Kolbe (1809–1867), German administrative lawyer, director of KPM
H
- Hans Kolbe (District Administrator) (1882–1957), German naval officer and Schleswig-Holstein district administrator
- Hans Kolbe (1927–2013), German entrepreneur
- Hans-Georg Kolbe (1925–2005), German ancient historian
- Hartmut Kolbe (* 1938), German ornithologist
- Heinrich Christoph Kolbe (1771–1836), German painter
- Herbert Kolbe (1942–2014), German journalist and author
- Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), German chemist
- Hermann Julius Kolbe (1855–1939), German entomologist
I.
- Ivo Kolbe , German American football player
J
- Jim Kolbe (* 1942), American politician
- Joachim Kolbe (1949–2003), German politician (SPD)
- Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg (1643–1712), Prussian politician
- Josef Kolbe (mathematician) (1825–1897), Austrian mathematician and university professor
- Josef Kolbe (officer) (1873–1941), Austrian officer and author
- Josef Kolbe (politician) (1885–1954), Austrian politician
- Josefine Kolbe , Austrian table tennis player
- Jürgen Kolbe (1940–2008), German Germanist, writer and local politician
K
- Karl Kolbe (cartographer) (1777–1842), German cartographer
- Karl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder (1759–1835), German painter, graphic artist and writer, see Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder
- Karl Wilhelm Kolbe the Younger (1781-1853), German painter
- Karolin Kolbe (* 1993), German writer
- Karsten Kolbe (* 1987), German politician (Die Linke), MdL
L.
- Leopold Kolbe , Austrian author
- Ludwig Kolbe (1813–1880), Hessian button manufacturer and politician
M.
- Manfred Kolbe (Mayor) (* 1934), German local politician
- Manfred Kolbe (* 1953), German politician (CDU)
- Martin Kolbe (* 1957), German jazz guitarist
- Max Kolbe (1859–1925), German teacher and member of the Reichstag
- Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941), Polish Franciscan and martyr
O
- Otto Kolbe (1904 – around 1974), German painter, graphic artist and set designer
P
- Paul Kolbe (1848–1933), German military writer
- Peter Kolbe (1675–1726), German teacher and ethnologist, see Peter Kolb
- Peter Kolbe (ice hockey player) (* 1939), German ice hockey goalkeeper
- Peter-Michael Kolbe (* 1953), German rower
R.
- Regina Kolbe (1950–2015), German politician (SPD)
- Rudolf Kolbe (1873–1947), German architect and craftsman
S.
- Sebastian Kolbe (* 1978), German lawyer and university professor
- Stefan Kolbe (Mayor) (* 1965), German local politician (CSU)
- Stefan Kolbe (* 1972), German documentary filmmaker
T
- Tanja Kolbe (* 1990), German figure skater
- Thomas H. Kolbe (* 1968), German geospatial scientist and university professor
U
- Uwe Kolbe (author) (* 1957), German poet and prose author
- Uwe Kolbe (film producer) (* 1966), German film producer
V
- Victor Kolbe (1809–1888), manor owner, lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
W.
- Walter Kolbe (1914 – after 1983), German composer, organist and music teacher
- Walther Kolbe (historian) (1876–1943), German ancient historian
- Walther Kolbe (politician) (1899–1953), German politician (CDU)
- Wilhelm Kolbe (theologian, 1826) (1826–1888), German theologian and pastor
- Wilhelm Kolbe (theologian, 1866) (1866– ??), German theologian and historian
- Winrich Kolbe (also Rick Kolbe ; 1940–2012), American television director and television producer
- Wolfgang Kolbe (1929–2000), German entomologist
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
- ↑ a b c family name book, Naumann, H., VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1987
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Deutsches Namenlexikon, Bahlow, H., 1st edition, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1972
- ^ Old German dictionary, Schade, O., 2nd edition, Halle adS, Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1882
- ↑ a b c d Middle High German Concise Dictionary, M. Lexer, Leipzig, Verlag von Hirzel, 1872
- ↑ a b c d e f g Trübner's German Dictionary, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1939-43
- ↑ 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
- ↑ a b c The German family names, historical, geographical, linguistic, Heintze-Cascorbi, 7th edition, Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses GmbH, Halle / S., Berlin, 1933
- ↑ a b German onomastics - our family names, Gottschald, M., 5th edition, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1982
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia, 17th Edition, FABrockhaus, Wiesbaden, 1970
- ↑ Meyer's Encyclopedic Lexicon, Vol. 14, Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich, 1975
- ↑ a b c d e f g Etymological dictionary of German family names, Brechenmacher, JK, 2nd edition, CAStarke Verlag, Limburg ad Lahn, 1960/63
- ↑ Werner Mölders - Flight to the sun - by Fritz von Forell