Ratzinger
Ratzinger is a German family name .
Origin and meaning
The name is derived from the Bavarian place name Ratzing or a patronymic for the given name "Razo" or "Ratzo".
Well-known namesake
- Georg Ratzinger (politician) (1844–1899), German Roman Catholic priest, publicist and politician
- Georg Ratzinger (church musician) (1924–2020), German Roman Catholic priest and church musician
- Joseph Ratzinger (* 1927), from 2005 to 2013 as Pope Benedict XVI. Head of the Roman Catholic Church
- Moritz Ratzinger (1849–1930), Bavarian lieutenant general, commandant of the Ingolstadt fortress
- Rudolf Ratzinger (* 1966), German musician, see Wumpscut
- Nicole VS Ratzinger-Sakel (* 1981), German economist and university professor ( University of Hamburg )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gottschald: German onenology. 6th edition, de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-018032-9 .
- ↑ Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher : Etymological dictionary of German family names. Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1957.