Pugner
Pügner is a German family name .
Origin and Interpretation
The first mention of the name Pügner in today's spelling can be found in the shock tax book of Crottendorf in the Erzgebirge, in which a Christoph Pügner is mentioned in 1648. His mother is mentioned in 1622 as Thomas Büchnerin and even earlier in 1612 in the land tax list as Thomas Püchnerin. The following development of the name can be observed: 1612 Püchner - 1622 Büchner - 1648 Pügner.
Such variations in shape are not uncommon in family name development. Since family names were usually passed down orally, such a discontinuity in writing and phonetic image is understandable.
Crottendorf is located in the Western Ore Mountains language area. The local dialect - unlike the dialects in the rest of Saxony - must be counted among the East Franconian dialects. If one looks at the spelling forms Püchner, Büchner and Pügner under these circumstances, it is completely clear that all these forms are pronounced as “büchner”, if not even as “biechner”. When names were written down in the office, the respective clerk was faced with the task of fixing the oral form of the name in writing.
Let us assume the following scenario: A citizen of Crottendorf stands in front of the clerk who calls himself a “büchner” or “biechner”. As a scholar, the clerk was well aware of the dialectic character of the area and knew: / p / is articulated in local dialects as / b / (e.g. “barg” for park) and / g / is regularly pronounced as / ch / (e.g. "spiechl" for mirror). The scribe - consciously or unconsciously - constructed a correctly condemned form of name as Pügner and wrote it into the relevant document.
The form of the name Pügner can therefore be clearly classified as the form of a law firm, which a High German scribe created "hyper-correct" from another form of name that is regarded as dialect, namely "büchner".
The acceptance of the name Büchner as the basic form of the name is confirmed by the frequency of the name (more than 3000 times in German telephone books) and its areal distribution, especially in the northern Bavarian district of Coburg and in the southern Thuringian district of Sonneberg, which goes well with the settlement of the Western Ore Mountains covers.
Summary: The rare family name Pügner is a hyper-correct spoof German from the often attested family name Büchner. Both today's and historical names indicate that this transformation must have taken place in and around Crottendorf / Westerzgebirge.
(according to information from Judith Schwanke, MA, Gesellschaft für Namenkunde eV)
Spellings
Further spellings of the family name are:
- Büchner (see above)
- Bügner (a few in the KB von Crottendorf beginning in 1660)
- Buchner (1602 a Hans Buchner is mentioned in the oldest original document in the Crottendorfer archive, "Von Wäldern und Gehölzen", from 1602.)
- Püchner (1612 in the land tax list of Crottendorf), (1663 as a member of the privileged free rifle company of Crottendorf)
Geographical distribution
Pugners now live all over Germany. The majority of the Pügner clan is still based in the Ore Mountains , as can easily be seen from the Germany-wide telephone directory. There you will find 77 entries of the name. An average of 2.8 people is expected per connection, so that including the people who are not in the telephone book, one can conclude that there are around 250-350 Pügner namesake in Germany. A Pü (ue) gner family now lives in the USA. They are descendants of Hermann Moritz Pügner , who emigrated from Crottendorf to Amana, Iowa in 1883 .
Well-known namesake
Christian Friedrich Pügner
Electoral Saxon forest servant, chief forester in Geyer / Erzgebirge. It is mentioned in the literature in connection with the "Siege of Scharfenstein Castle" in 1795 by the game shooter Karl Stülpner.
Oskar Albin Pügner
Oskar Albin Pügner (1864–1936), who emigrated from Crottendorf to the USA in May 1884, achieved local fame. He was a music professor in Massillon / Ohio and one of the best clarinet players in the USA of his time. Oscar Puegner was an all-round musical genius, played the violin, cello, horn and clarinet. He was a member of the "Grand Army Band of Canton", which was known nationwide as "Mc Kinley's Own", as it accompanied the future President Mc Kinley on his campaign tours. Between 1900 and 1901 he leads the "Light Artillery Band" in FT. Wayne / Indiana. He celebrated one of his greatest triumphs as a guest conductor with the US Navy Band. Oscar was director of the Dalton Eleventh Regiment Band from 1910 until his death in 1936.
coat of arms
Blason : “Split of green and gold with three-mountain, in it a turtle, in mixed up tinctures . In front a golden spruce growing out of the Dreiberg, in the back a green house brand with a turned four-cross head shaft and cross-foot rung. A red-tongued golden deer growing on top of the helmet with gold-green blankets. "
Declaration of the coat of arms: The tinctures of the coat of arms were chosen by the founder. The three mountain and the spruce symbolize the Ore Mountains, the turtle was taken from the local coat of arms of Crottendorf, the place of origin of almost all ancestors of the family. The deer of the crest represents the professions of the early ancestors, almost all of which had to do with the forest, e.g. B. Wildner and Pechsteiger (supervised the Pecher who collected resin for the Pechieder).