Pfaff (family name)
Pfaff is a German family name .
Origin and meaning
Pfaff, with its faded final vowel -e, is the southern German form of the job title " Pfaffe ".
The first bearer of the name of the various branches of the family was probably so named
- because he himself was a priest and the other bearers of the name were illegitimate children of a priest,
- because he was dealing with a priest, e.g. B. as an employee of such, or
- because he was acting like a priest.
Name bearer
A.
- Adam Pfaff (1820–1886), German historian and publicist
- Alfred Pfaff (politician) (1872–1954), German industrialist and politician (NSDAP), MdR
- Alfred Pfaff (1926–2008), German soccer player
- Anita Bose-Pfaff (* 1942), German economist, university lecturer and politician (SPD)
- August Pfaff (1872–1958), German engineer, entrepreneur and politician (DNVP)
B.
- Bernd Pfaff (1941–2015), German football official
- Bernhard Pfaff (* 1966), German economist, author and manager
- Bodo Pfaff-Greiffenhagen (* 1962), German politician (CDU)
C.
- Cäcilie Graf-Pfaff (1862–1939), German painter and graphic artist
- Carl Pfaff (1931–2017), Swiss historian
- Christian Pfaff (politician) (1770–1845), German trader and politician, mayor of Aschaffenburg
- Christian Pfaff (clergyman) (1811-1893), German pastor
- Christian Pfaff (actor) (* 1968), German actor
- Christoph Pfaff (* 1984), German journalist, see Christoph Karrasch
- Christoph Heinrich Pfaff (1773–1852), German physicist, chemist and university professor
- Christoph Matthäus Pfaff (1686–1760), German Protestant theologian
D.
- Dan Pfaff , American athletics coach
- Dieter Pfaff (1947–2013), German actor and director
- Dieter Pfaff (lawyer) (* 1934), German lawyer and university professor
E.
- Erich Pfaff (1930–2011), Romanian school principal and politician
- Ernst Pfaff (entrepreneur, 1941) (* 1941), German entrepreneur and company founder
- Ernst Pfaff (entrepreneur, 1954) (* 1954), German entrepreneur
- Eva Pfaff (* 1961), German tennis player
F.
- Ferenc Pfaff (also Franz Pfaff ; 1851–1913), Hungarian architect
- Florian Pfaff (* 1957), German officer
- Franz Pfaff (instrument maker) (1815–1895), German instrument maker, see Pfaff (instrument maker)
- Franz Pfaff (medic) (1860–1926), German chemist, doctor and pharmacologist
- Franz Pfaff (historian) (1886–1953), German medical historian and teacher
- Fridolin Pfaff (1543–1587/88), Swiss cabinet maker
- Fridrich Pfaff (1855–1917), German historian, Germanist and librarian
- Friedrich Pfaff (1825–1886), German geologist and mineralogist
- Friedrich Wigand Pfaff (1864–1946), German geologist
- Fritz Pfaff (1824–1892), German lawyer and attorney
G
- Georg Pfaff (1853–1917), German entrepreneur and sewing machine manufacturer
- Georg Pfaff (entomologist) (1889–1961), German doctor and entomologist
- Georg Michael Pfaff (1823–1893), German sewing machine manufacturer
- Gerhard Pfaff (* 1953), German chemist and professor of inorganic solid-state chemistry
- Günther Pfaff (* 1939), Austrian canoeist
H
- Hans Pfaff (painter) (1875 – after 1914), German painter and illustrator
- Hans Pfaff ( Johannes Georg Pfaff ; 1896–1971), Swiss pastor and author
- Hans Ulrich Vitalis Pfaff (1824–1872), German mathematician and university professor
- Heinrich Pfaff (politician) (1794–1845), German politician, MdL Württemberg
- Heinrich Pfaff (soccer coach) , German soccer coach
- Heinrich Ludwig Pfaff (1765–1794), German theologian, preacher and teacher
- Helga Pfaff (* 1929), German radio play author
- Hermann von Pfaff (1846–1933), German politician
- Hermann Pfaff (* 1954/1955), German business manager and association official
- Hildegard Pfaff (* 1952), German politician (SPD), MdL Hessen
- Holger Pfaff (* 1956), German sociologist
I.
- Ivan Pfaff (1925–2014), Czech historian
- Ivo Pfaff (1864–1925), Austrian legal historian
J
- Jean-Marie Pfaff (* 1953), Belgian football goalkeeper
- Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (* 1956), Swiss social anthropologist and university professor
- Johann Christoph Pfaff (1651–1720), German Lutheran theologian and philosopher
- Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765–1825), German mathematician
- Johann Leonhard Pfaff (1775–1848), German bishop of Fulda
- Johann Sebastian Barnabas Pfaff (1747–1794) was an electoral Mainz court sculptor.
- Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff (1774–1835), German mathematician
- Johanna Pfaff (* 1979), German screenwriter and director
- Josef Pfaff (1838–1902), initiator and co-founder of the Baden Farmers' Association
K
- Karl Pfaff (educator) (1795–1866), German educator, historian and father of a singer
- Karl Pfaff (archaeologist) (1856–1908), German teacher, archaeologist and conservator
- Karl Pfaff (entrepreneur) (1888–1952), German entrepreneur
- Karlheinz Pfaff (politician) (1926-2015), German politician (SPD)
- Karlheinz Pfaff (meteorologist) (* 1959), German meteorologist
- Karl Helmut Pfaff (1920–2013), German botanist
- Konrad Pfaff (writer) (1822–1861), German writer
- Konrad Pfaff (sociologist) (1922–2012), German professor of sociology
- Kristen Pfaff (1967–1994), American musician
L.
- Leopold Pfaff (1837–1914), Austrian civil law teacher
- Lina Pfaff (1854–1929), German entrepreneur
- Lislott Pfaff (1931–2017), Swiss translator from French into German
- Ludwig Pfaff (painter) (pseudonym Pfaff von Jägersburg ; 1819–1901), German painter and writer
- Ludwig Pfaff (entrepreneur) (1856–1922), German entrepreneur
- Luk Pfaff (* 1981), German actor
M.
- Marion Pfaff (* 1972 or 1973), German singer and reality TV participant, see Krümel (singer)
- Martin Pfaff (* 1939), German politician (SPD) and economist
- Maurus Pfaff (1910 – after 1979), German Benedictine and hymnologist
- Maximilian Pfaff (* 1979), German actor
- Michael Pfaff (* 1988), German ice hockey player
- Michael Muhammad Abduh Pfaff (* 1965), German ethnologist and Islamic official
N
- Nicolle Pfaff (* 1976), German educator
- Nikolaus Pfaff (1892–1951), German teacher and politician (KPD), MdR
O
- Otto Pfaff (1896–1983), German bookbinder and book artist
P
- Paul Pfaff (clergyman, 1865) (1865–1936), German Catholic clergyman, superior and author
- Paul Pfaff (clergyman, 1930) (1930-2006), German Catholic clergyman and choir director (founder of the St. Martins Choirboys Biberach, among others )
- Peter Pfaff (* 1956/1957), German orchestral musician, conductor, arranger and music school director
- Petra Pfaff (* 1960), German athlete
- Philipp Pfaff (1713–1766), German dentist; see History of Dentistry # Philipp Pfaff
R.
- Robert Pfaff-Giesberg (1899–1984), German ethnologist and museum director
- Rudolf Pfaff (* 1943), Austrian engineer, entrepreneur and business manager
S.
- Siegfried Pfaff (chemist) (1851–1928), German chemist
- Siegfried Pfaff (1931–2018), German radio play author and dramaturge
V
- Victor Pfaff (* 1941), German lawyer
- Volkert Pfaff (1870–1944), Baden Oberamtmann
W.
- Walter Pfaff (* 1949), Swiss theater director
- Werner Pfaff (* before 1956), German conductor and choir director
- Wilhelm von Pfaff (1840–1919), German infantry general
- Wilhelm Pfaff (botanist) (1859–1933), Austrian botanist and museum curator
- Wilhelm Pfaff (dentist) (1870–1942), German dentist and university professor
- William Pfaff (1928-2015), American author
- Wolfgang Pfaff (* 1933/1934), German lawyer, federal prosecutor and head of the Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution
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- ↑ Rosa cabbage, Volker carbon home: Duden family name. Mannheim 2005, ISBN 978-3-411-70852-9 , p. 505