Sauter (family name)
Sauter is a family name.
Word origin
Sauter (spelling variant: Sautter ) and - without early New High German diphthonging - Suter (spelling and pronunciation variant: Sutter ) is an old German word for "seamstress, tailor, shoemaker", which died out in the 15th century and which is Latin via Middle High German sûtære, Old High German sũtāri sūtor “Schuster, Schuhmacher” goes back.
Name bearer
- AW Sauter (1911–1961), German graphic artist
- Achim Sauter (* 1946), German actor
- Alfred Sauter (* 1950), German politician (CSU)
- Andreas Sauter (* 1974), Swiss playwright and director
- Anton Sauter (1800–1881), Austrian botanist and physician
- Anton Sauter (badminton) (* 1942), Swiss badminton player
- Benedikt Sauter OSB (1835–1908), co-founder of the Benedictine Archabbey of Beuron and first abbot of the city monastery Emaus in Prague
- Christian Sauter (politician) (* 1980), German politician (FDP)
- Christian Sauter (* 1988), German soccer player
- Christoph Sauter (* 1991), German soccer player
- Dieter Sauter , German television journalist
- Eddie Sauter (1914–1981), American jazz musician and composer
- Ernest Sauter (1928–2013), German composer
- Ferdinand Sauter (1804-1854), Austrian poet
- Frank Sauter (* 1958), German politician (CDU)
- Franz Sauter (1928–2019), German politician (CDU)
- Fritz Sauter (lawyer) (1884/1886 – after 1949), German lawyer, defense attorney at the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals
- Fritz Sauter (physicist) (1906–1983), Austrian physicist
- Fritz Sauter (collector) (1915–1984), German geologist, fossil collector and museum founder
- Fritz Sauter (* 1930), Austrian chemist; see Friedrich Sauter
- Fritz Sauter (writer) (* 1952), Swiss writer and graphic artist
- Georg Sauter (1866–1937), German painter
- Gerhard Sauter (* 1935), Protestant theologian
- Hans Sauter (entomologist) (1871–1943), German entomologist
- Hans Sauter (sculptor) (1877–1961), German sculptor and cultural politician
- Hans Sauter (gymnast) (1925–2014), Austrian artistic gymnast and trainer
- Heinz von Sauter (1910–1988), Austrian writer and translator
- Hermann Sauter (1907–1985), German librarian
- Jim Sauter (* 1953), American jazz and improvisation musician
- Joachim Sauter (* 1959), German media artist and designer
- Johann Sauter (gymnast) , Austrian gymnast
- Johann Georg Sauter (1782–1856), German painter and engraver
- Johann Melchior Sauter (1686–1746), German dean and pastor
- Johann Nepomuk Sauter (1766-1840), German surgeon
- Johann Ulrich Sauter (1752–1824), Swiss politician
- Johannes Sauter (1891–1945), German legal philosopher
- Jonathan Sauter (1549–1612), Württemberg milliner, typist and arithmetic master, as well as draftsman, painter, engraver and etcher
- Josef Anton Sauter (1742–1817), professor of church and criminal law at the University of Freiburg
- Karl von Sauter (1839–1902), Württemberg state building officer and architect
- Karl Sauter (1870–1959), German major general
- Lilly von Sauter (1913–1972), Austrian poet, poet and translator
- Marina Sauter (* 1997), German biathlete
- Maureen Sauter (* 1986), German model and actress
- Michael Sauter (author) , writer
- Michael Sauter (screenwriter) , Swiss screenwriter
- Michael Sauter (composer) (* 1976), Swiss musician and composer
- Otto Sauter (* 1961), German trumpeter specializing in baroque music and piccolo trumpet
- Otto Sauter-Sarto (real name Otto Sauter ; 1889–1958), German actor
- Paul Sauter (* 1947), German soccer player and coach
- Peeter Sauter (* 1962), Estonian writer
- Regine Sauter (* 1966), Swiss politician
- Rudolf Sauter (1925–2013), German educationalist and dialect poet
- Rudolf Helmut Sauter (1895–1971), German painter and graphic artist
- Samuel Friedrich Sauter (1766–1846), German village school teacher and folk poet
- Siegfried Sauter (1916–2008), German photographer and member of the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39
- Stefan Sauter (* 1964), German mathematician
- Tobias Sauter (* 1983), German marathon runner
- Tomas Sauter (* 1974), Swiss jazz musician
- Ueli Sauter (* 1941), Swiss undertaker
- Werner Sauter (* 1950), German educator and non-fiction author
- Wilhelm Sauter (1896–1948), German painter and draftsman
- Willi Sauter (* 1928), Swiss entomologist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden. Surnames. Origin and meaning, edited by Rosa and Volker Kohlheim, Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2005, p. 571; Schweizerisches Idiotikon , Volume VII, Column 1477, Article Sūter .