Rötzer
Rötzer is a German family name .
etymology
- Name of origin for the place name Rötz (Bavaria, Austria).
- Professional name for mhd. Rœẓe ("flax, hemp roast"), for someone who rotated the flax straw in the flat pond (roasting).
- Name of residence: "living at a flax roast".
family name
Rötzer is the family name of the following people:
- Andreas Rötzer (* 1971), German publisher
- Carl Roetzer , also Karl Rötzer, (* in the 19th century), German painter / glass painter in Kassel
- Florian Rötzer (* 1953), German journalist
- Franz Xaver Rötzer (* 1896), German teacher
- Hans Gerd Rötzer (* 1933), German literary scholar, university lecturer and non-fiction author
- Josef Rötzer (1920–2010), Austrian general practitioner
- Karl Rötzer (1862–1908), Austrian folk singer and writer
- Kurt Rötzer (1921–1984), Austrian long-distance runner
- Marie Rötzer (* 1967), Austrian theater director
- Richard Rötzer (* 1952), German writer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden, Familiennames, Dudenverlag, Mannheim-Leipzig-Wien-Zürich, 2005, p. 559.