Piegler (family name)

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Piegler is a - albeit rare - civil family name in the German-speaking area.

Origin and meaning

There are 3 hypotheses about the origin of the name:

  1. The name is derived from "Bühler", which means the person who lives on the "hill". The Middle High German "bühel" arose from the word "Bühl".
  2. The name has its origin in the word Pigl. Pigl comes from Czech and, according to Czech naming books, is supposed to be derived from the word “pískat” = beep or whistle. Piegler would mean something like piper.
  3. Another explanation points to the Piegel area south of Leipzig (east of Pegau) (the place fell victim to lignite mining between 1971 and 1983; the corridor now belongs to the Neukieritzsch community ). The Piegler would then be those who come from this place.

Most likely the development of the name from Bühler, whereby the names Bichler, Biegler, Bigler, Pichler, Piechler, Pigler, Pigkler, Pickler, Pikler etc. have the same etymological origin. Bahlow describes southern Germany as the home of the Bühler. For the Swiss area he mentions Hainrich ab dem Bühel, which is documented near Bregenz in 1340, and for the Tyrolean area Eberle auf dem Pühel, which is mentioned there in 1489.

distribution

At the end of the 20th century, Halbert's Family Heritage, Inc. named 52 Piegler namesake in Austria, 18 in Germany, 4 in the USA, one in Italy and one in England. In 1986 the name appeared twenty-eight times in the Vienna telephone directory. A regional cluster can be found in Lower Austria and in Vogtland (Thuringia, Saxony, Bavaria). This distribution, as well as the occurrence of the name in different variations among the Salzburg exiles, suggests that Lower Austria is the cradle of the name and that the Counter-Reformation led to the fact that bearers of the name emigrated to areas that professed Protestantism. But the name can also be found among the Jews of Galicia, which was part of the Austrian Empire in the 19th century.

In summary, it can be said that the Piegler, a bourgeois sex, originally probably based in Lower Austria, over the centuries in war-related waves of migration across the Vogtland across Germany, but also beyond the Austrian borders to Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Italy, the Benelux countries and Great Britain, but also early on to the USA and are now distributed almost all over the globe. In 2002 this name was the 114,445th place of the most frequent names.

Related names and variants

  • Büchler , Bühler , Biegler , Biller , Pichler , Pilchert, Pilger, Puchert, Pühler are forms of this name that can be found in Hermann Gollub's register of exiles from Salzburg . It was only with the introduction of binding spelling in the century before last that the spelling of this rare name was finally determined.

Name bearer

  • Gustav Piegler (19th / 20th century) painter in Leipzig
  • Hannelore Piegler (* 1945), chief stewardess of the Lufthansa "Landshut" plane hijacked in October 1977
  • Heinrich Gottfried Piegler (1797–1849), German lighter manufacturer in the Biedermeier period
  • Josef Piegler (1919–1996), Councilor and Senate President of the Supreme Court, Vienna
  • Kurt Piegler (1900–1969), together with his brother Theodor P., factory owner in Schleiz and Nuremberg (great-grandson of Heinrich Gottfried Piegler )
  • Margarete Pigkler (15th / 16th century), mother of Heinrich the Loggerhead, robber baron and half-brother of Heinrich IV von Plauen
  • Theo Piegler (* 1944), neurologist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychosomatic specialist in Hamburg
  • Theodor Piegler (1904–1991), German metal goods manufacturer in Schleiz and Nuremberg (great-grandson of Heinrich Gottfried Piegler )

literature

  • Theo Piegler: Vogtland fates. Looking for traces in the history of the Piegler. Videel, Niebüll 2005. ISBN 3-89906-996-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Gottschald (Ed.): German name customer . De Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-155966-7 .
  2. ↑ Josef K. Brechenmacher (Ed.): Etymological dictionary of German family names . CA Starke, Glücksburg 1963, ISBN 978-3-7980-0355-2 .
  3. ↑ Hans Bahlow (Ed.): German Name Lexicon . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1972, ISBN 3-518-36565-7 .
  4. ^ A Beider (Ed.): A Dictionary of Jewish Surname from Galicia . Avotaynu, New haven 2004, ISBN 1-886223-19-X .
  5. ↑ Theo Piegler (ed.): Vogtländische fates . tape 1 . Videel, Niebüll 2005, ISBN 3-89906-996-X , p. 17th ff .
  6. ↑ Meaning of the name Piegler. In: ancestry.de. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  7. ^ Herrmann Gollub (ed.): Stud book of the East Prussian Salzburg residents. Salzburger Verein eV, Bielefeld 1999.
  8. ↑ Hannelore Piegler (ed.): The kidnapping . Molden, Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 978-3-217-00944-8 .
  9. ^ NN: Farewell to President of the Senate d. OHG i. R. Dr. Josef Piegler . In: Österreichische Richterzeitung . No. 4 , 1996.
  10. ↑ Berthold Schmidt (ed.): Burgrave Heinrich IV. Zu Meißen, Colonel Chancellor of the Crown of Bohemia and his government in the Vogtlande . Gera 1888.
  11. ↑ Who is Who in the Federal Republic of Germany . 4th edition. Who is Who, Zug (Switzerland) 1996, ISBN 3-7290-0020-9 , p. 2315 .
  12. ↑ Christina Rückert: The chief doctor leaves, the therapist stays. In: Bergedorfer Zeitung. Bergedorfer Buchdruckerei v. Ed. Wagner GmbH, Hamburg, December 28, 2009, accessed on June 9, 2020 .