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

1. ↑ Duden, Familiennames, Dudenverlag, Mannheim-Leipzig-Wien-Zürich, 2005, p. 559.