Ofner
Ofner and Offner are German and Austrian family names .
origin of the name
In the alpine region, the field name oven was used to describe the rock faces heated by the sun. The Celtic sacrificial priests who made sacrifices of any kind to the Celtic gods in holy places (e.g. in groves, near springs and on rock faces) were called Ofnet .
The name is also derived from the city name Ofen , today's Buda in Budapest . The old city of Ofen was founded as a German city around 1150 . Residents of this city were often referred to as Ofner , also the surrounding mountain area, the Ofner Bergland .
Furthermore, the name Ofner comes from
- the professional name of Ofenmacher , von Ofener, Latin clibanarius
- the professional name baker , von Ofener, lat. pfister, furnarius; peck
- the professional name furnace heater , from Ofener, lat. frisius
frequency
The name Ofner is one of the more common family names in Austria . There are over 1,296 entries in the Austrian telephone directory for the spelling “Ofner” alone (as of 2005); with the Offner variant it is around 1,500. In Germany there are 188 entries in the telephone directory and only 82 in Switzerland .
Name bearer
Ofner
- Christian Ofner (* 1993), Austrian ice hockey player
- Dirk Ofner (1963–2008), Austrian writer
- Günther Ofner (politician) (* 1941), Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of parliament and mayor
- Günther Ofner (lawyer) (* 1956), Austrian lawyer and manager
- Günter Ofner (* 1958), Austrian genealogist, journalist, author, environmentalist and politician
- Harald Ofner (* 1932), Austrian lawyer and politician (FPÖ), member of the National Council
- Harald Ofner (ice hockey player) (* 1983), Austrian ice hockey player
- Harald Franz Ofner (* 1963), Austrian educationalist and publicist
- Helmut Ofner (* 1961), Austrian lawyer and university professor
- Hermann Ofner (1849–1917), lawyer, Austrian politician (liberal) and mayor of St. Pölten
- Herwig Ofner (* 1983), Austrian actor
- Johann Ofner (1816–1887), lawyer, Austrian politician (liberal) and Mayor of St. Pölten
- Josef Ofner (local history researcher) (1903–1973), Austrian local history researcher
- Josef Ofner (politician) (* 1979), Austrian politician (FPÖ, BZÖ)
- Johann Ofner (farmer representative) (1876–1947), farmer, Austrian politician (Christian social) and mayor of Grabensee (municipality of Asperhofen) in Lower Austria, district farmer chamber chairman
- Julius Ofner (1845–1924), Austrian lawyer and politician
- Katrin Ofner (* 1990), Austrian freestyle skier
- Klaus Ofner (* 1968), Austrian Nordic combined athlete
- Patrick Ofner (* 1993), Austrian tennis player
- Sebastian Ofner (* 1996), Austrian tennis player
- Ursula Ofner (* 1967), Austrian actress
- Simone Helfenschneider-Ofner (* 1982), Austrian triathlete
Opener
- Alfred Offner (1879–1947), Austrian painter, graphic artist and poster artist
- Karl Offner (* 1939), German educator, psychologist and bryologist
- Richard Offner (1889–1965), Austrian art historian
- Offner , German organ building family
Place name
Ofner is also the place name of:
- Ofner (municipality of Weistrach) , district in the municipality of Weistrach , district of Amstetten, Lower Austria
literature
- German Name Research, Volume 1: Called Names and Family Names, Volume 2: Place and field names by Ernst Schwarz, Göttingen 1950
- German boyhood in the Ofner Bergland, Eugen Bonomi 1937
- Ofen and Ofner Bergland, Munich 1982