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Lösche is a German family name .

Origin and meaning

1. Lösche is a job name for Middle High German lösch (e) and Middle Low German losche > a kind of precious leather <for the manufacturer. This leather was red on one side and white on the other. It was mainly used for book covers.
2. Variants of the name are Losch, Losche, Lösch, Loesch and Loesche.

family name

Lösche or Loesche is the family name of the following people:

• Alexander Lösche (1910–2005), German production manager at DEFA
• Artur Lösche (1921–1995), German physicist
• Bruno Lösche (1898–1963), German politician (SPD)
• Carl Lösche (late 19th century), German organ builder
• Dietrich Lösche (archivist) (1925–1986), city archivist of Mühlhausen and non-fiction author
• Dietrich Lösche (architect) (1934–2019), German architect, head of the state building authorities in Hameln, Holzminden and Bückeburg
• Dora Lösche (1906–1985), German politician (USPD, SPD)
• Eduard Pechuel-Loesche (1840–1913), German geographer and Africa explorer
• Elisabeth Loesche (1896–1967), German politician (CDU, DP)
• Ernst Lösche (1923–2010), German ceramist
• Georg Loesche (1855–1932), German Protestant church historian
• Gustav Eduard Lösche (1821–1879), Saxon physicist and naturalist
• Horst Lösche (* 1944), German badminton player
• Kari Köster-Lösche (* 1946), German writer
• Karl Lösche (1878–1964), German sculptor
• Naëma Loesche (1854–1927), German writer
• Peter Lösche (1939–2016), German political scientist
• Sophia Lösche (1990–2018), German student and social activist
• Viktoria Lösche (* 1952), German poet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Duden Familiennames , Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-411-70852-2 , p. 434.