Mehnert

Mehnert is a German family name.

Origin and meaning

Mehnert is a derivation of Meinert , which in turn is a family name derived from a younger form of Meinhard or Meinhardt . Meinhard (t) is a family name that goes back to the same German nickname (magan / megin + harti, which means something like "The Powerful, Kühne"). Further variants are, for example, Menhard (t), Menne , Maynard , Menhart , Meinardus and Meinert .

Name bearer

• Achim Mehnert (1961–2018), German science fiction author
• Björn Mehnert (* 1976), German soccer player
• Claudia Mehnert (* 1972), German actress
• Dieter Mehnert (* 1932), German politician (SPD), member of the Berlin House of Representatives
• Elke Mehnert (* 1940), German specialist in German
• Florian Mehnert (* 1970), German artist
• Frank Mehnert (sculptor) (pseudonym Victor Frank or Viktor Frank ; 1909–1943), German sculptor and writer
• Frank Mehnert (architect) (* 1960), German architect and painter
• George Mehnert (1881-1948), American wrestler
• Gerhard Mehnert (1914–1983), German media scientist and Japanologist
• Günter Mehnert (1930–1998), German screenwriter
• Hellmut Mehnert (* 1928), German doctor
• Helmut Mehnert (* 1910), German pastor, functionary (CDU), MdV
• Johann Gottlieb Mehnert (around 1720 – after 1781), German organ builder in Stettin
• John Siegfried Mehnert (* around 1940), see Neue Heimat affair
• Karl Mehnert (politician, 1811) (1811–1885), German politician and manor owner, MdL Saxony
• Karl Mehnert (politician, 1872) (1872–1961), German politician (DDP, LDP), MdL Thuringia
• Karl Mehnert (General) (1883–1957), Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht, City Commandant of Dresden
• Karl-Heinz Mehnert (1938–2018), German art historian
• Karl Richard Mehnert (1913–1996), German mineralogist and university professor
• Klaus Mehnert (1906–1984), German political journalist
• Lothar Mehnert (1875–1926), German actor and theater director
• Lotti Mehnert (1936–2016), German film editor at DEFA
• Maximilian Mehnert (1861–1941), German politician, Member of the State Parliament (Saxony)
• Paul Mehnert (1852–1922), German politician, President of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament
• Peter Mehnert (1935–2019), German chemist and university professor
• Siegfried Mehnert (* 1963), German boxer
• Simona Mehnert (* 1956), Czech exhibition curator and art journalist
• Verena Mehnert (* 1980), German voice actor and radio presenter