Rudloff
Rudloff is a German family name .
Origin and meaning of the name
The name Rudloff is a metathesis variant of Rudolf and is made up of the Old High German words hruod ("fame", "honor") and wolf ( wolf ). The patronymic family name refers to a bearer of the personal name in the ancestry.
Name bearer
- Arno Rudloff (1897–1971), German bookseller, author and police officer
- August Rudloff (1884–1966), German local politician, honorary citizen in Eisenach, resistance fighter
- Carl Friedrich Rudloff (1899–1962), German biologist and fruit growing scientist
- Carl-Hermann Rudloff (1890–1949), German architect
- Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer (* 1957), German lawyer, President of the DPMA
- Diether Rudloff (1926–1989), German art historian
- Ernst von Rudloff (* 1928), German architect and university professor
- Ernst August Rudloff (1712–1775), German lawyer, historian, Mecklenburg-Schwerin government councilor and landowner
- Franz Rudloff (1807–1891), member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Friedrich August von Rudloff (1751–1822), German administrative lawyer and historian
- Gertrud Rudloff-Hille (1900–1983), German art and theater historian
- Gregg Rudloff (1955–2019), American sound engineer and sound technician
- Günther Rudloff (1920–2005), German pharmaceutical wholesaler (RUWA Rudloff & Watermann GmbH & Co KG in Minden)
- Heinz Rudloff (* 1949), German soccer player
- Jan-Peter Rudloff , arachnologist
- Johannes Rudloff (1848–1934), German shipbuilding engineer
- Johannes von Rudloff (1897–1978), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Osnabrück and episcopal vicar in Hamburg
- Karl Gustav von Rudloff (1782–1871), Prussian major general
- Leo von Rudloff (1902–1982), German Benedictine abbot
- Marcel Rudloff (1923–1996), Alsatian lawyer, politician, member of the French Senate and Mayor of Strasbourg
- Maria von Rudloff (1899–1992), Dutch-German local politician (CDU)
- Richard Rudloff (1873–1945), evangelical priest, writer and local researcher in Prignitz
- Tex Rudloff (1926–2015), American sound engineer
- Wilhelm August Rudloff (1747–1823), German lawyer, Hanoverian statesman
- Wilhelm August von Rudloff (1780–1854), German lawyer, Legation Councilor, Royal Hanover General Post Director
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Bahlow: Deutsches Namenlexikon, Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach, 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0294-4