Pepper (family name)
Pfeffer is a German-speaking family name .
Origin and meaning
The surname Pfeffer is an indirect professional name, i. H. the surname Pfeffer refers to the goods that the bearer of the name traded. The family names Pfeffer , Peffer , Pfefferkorn or Pefferkorn have been used by spice dealers. The name variant Peffer comes from dialect areas in which the Old High German sound shift from / p / to / pf / did not take place (so-called West Central German form).
variants
- Pepper
- Peppercorn , peppercorn
Name bearer
A.
- Anna Margareta Pfeffer (1679–1746), German poet
- Anna Pfeffer (* 1945), Hungarian canoeist
- Anton Pfeffer (* 1965), Austrian football player
C.
- Camilla Pfeffer (* 1993), German rhythmic gymnast
- Charlotte Pfeffer (1881–1970), German rhythmist
D.
- David Pfeffer (* 1982), German singer
E.
- Erich Pfeffer (* 1958), German general
- Ernst Pfeffer (1939–2017), German agricultural scientist
F.
- Florian Pfeffer (* 1970), German graphic designer and university professor
- Franz Pfeffer (historian) (1901–1966), Austrian historian, cultural worker and journalist
- Franz Pfeffer (diplomat) (* 1926), German diplomat
- Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1888–1968), German officer and politician (NSDAP)
- Friedrich Pfeffer (1888–1946), German lawyer, civil servant and politician (DVP)
- Fritz Pfeffer (1889–1944), German dentist and victim of National Socialism
G
- Georg Pfeffer (zoologist) (1854–1931), German zoologist
- Georg Pfeffer (ethnologist) (1943–2020), German ethnologist
- Georg Wilhelm Pfeffer (1812–1870), German officer
- Günther Pfeffer (1914–1966), German submarine commander
H
- Hans Pfeffer-Schrage (* 1957), German lawyer and judge
- Harald Pfeffer (* before 1954), German ski jumper
- Heinrich Pfeffer (* 1952), German architect, 1999–2001 President of the Federal Association of BDA
- Herbert Pfeffer (* 1927), German athlete
I.
- Ilse Pfeffer (* 1955), Austrian politician (SPÖ)
J
- Jeffrey Pfeffer (* 1946), American economist and university professor
- Johann Pfeffer (theologian) (around 1415–1493), German priest, theologian and university professor
- Johann Pfeffer (sculptor) († around 1687), German sculptor in Königsberg
- Johann David Pfeffer (1769–1842), German minstrel
- Josef Pfeffer (1912–1945), Austrian employee and resistance fighter, murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
- Joseph Pfeffer (brewer) , German brewer and entrepreneur
- Joseph Pfeffer (1879–1960), German politician, mayor of Lörrach
- Jürgen Pfeffer (* 1976), computer scientist and university professor
K
- Karl Pfeffer (1903–1975), Austrian politician (SPÖ)
- Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch (1888–1971), German general and SS-Obergruppenführer
- Karl Heinz Pfeffer (1906–1971), German sociologist and folklorist
- Karl-Heinz Pfeffer (physician) (1912–1975), German internist
- Karl-Heinz Pfeffer (* 1939), German geographer
- Katharina Pfeffer (* 1951), Austrian politician (SPÖ)
- Klaus Pfeffer (architect) (* 1931), German architect
- Klaus Pfeffer (clergyman) (* 1963), German clergyman
- Klaus Dieter Pfeffer (* 1962), German doctor and university professor
L.
- Leo Pfeffer (1910–1993), American lawyer
- Leopold Christian Pfeffer (1910–2004), Austrian painter
M.
- Max Pfeffer (1883–1955), German artillery general
N
- Nicolai Pfeffer (* 1985), German clarinetist
- Nora Pfeffer (1919–2012), Russian-German writer
O
- Otto Pfeffer (1888–1964), German publisher
P
- Paul Pfeffer (1651–1736), German lawyer, politician and song poet
- Peter Pfeffer (* 1969), German engineer and university professor
R.
- Robert Pfeffer (sculptor) (1885–1953), Austrian sculptor, ore caster and medalist
- Robert Pfeffer (1941–1979), German journalist
- Rudolf Pfeffer (1864–1940), Austrian field marshal lieutenant
S.
- Sascha Pfeffer (* 1986), German soccer player
- Sebastian Pfeffer (* 1937), German sculptor and Lüftlmaler
- Susan Beth Pfeffer (* 1948), American author
- Susanne Pfeffer (* 1973), German art historian and curator
T
- Thomas Pfeffer (marksman) (* 1957), German marksman
- Thomas Pfeffer (ice hockey player) (* 1980), Austrian ice hockey player
W.
- Werner Pfeffer (* 1951), Austrian installation artist and event manager
- Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920), German botanist and plant physiologist
Z
- Zach Pfeffer (born 1995), American football player
Web links
Wiktionary: Pepper - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ^ Konrad Kunze: dtv-Atlas onenology. First and last names in the German-speaking area , 3rd edition. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 2000, pp. 137, 163.
- ^ Konrad Kunze: dtv-Atlas onenology. First and last names in the German-speaking area , 3rd edition. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 2000, p. 163.