Osmers

origin

The surname Osmers is a patronymic education to Osmer . It is a family name derived from the old German nickname Osmar to Old High German ôs (God) + to Old High German mâri (known, famous, respected). It is believed that Osmar is a subsidiary form of the Anglo-Saxon name Ansmar or Osmær. English missionaries who bore this name did missionary work around the year 800 in what is now northern Germany . The name Osmer was first recorded historically in the Domesday Book of 1086. At the time of Heinrich III . The name appears for the first time as a family name with William Osmere in the Pipe Rolls of Devonshire from 1230.

Name bearer

Diedrich Osmers (1904–1982), German politician
Frank C. Osmers (1907–1977), American politician
Friedemann Osmers (* 1945), German chief physician and politician (CDU), member of the Bremen parliament
Hans-Joachim Osmers (* 1948), German football referee
Harm Osmers (* 1985), German football referee

Individual evidence

↑ Search A - Z - German surnames. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
↑ Osmar . In: Academic dictionaries and encyclopedias . ( deacademic.com [accessed May 17, 2018]).
^ Anna Powell-Smith: Osmer | Domesday Book. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
^ Percy Hide Reaney, Richard Middlewood Wilson: A Dictionary of English Last Names . S. 2329 .

[1] Search A - Z - German surnames. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .

[2] Osmar . In: Academic dictionaries and encyclopedias . ( deacademic.com [accessed May 17, 2018]).

[3] Anna Powell-Smith: Osmer | Domesday Book. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .

[4] Percy Hide Reaney, Richard Middlewood Wilson: A Dictionary of English Last Names . S. 2329 .