Schieck
Schieck is a German-speaking family name .
Origin and meaning
The Upper German family name Schieck goes back to the Middle High German schiec , crooked or wrong. It is a property name that relates, for example, to the gait or body shape / posture of the original name bearer.
As the first documentary mention, Hans Bahlow mentions a Bert Schiek 1300 in Württemberg , in the Schiegg spelling a Heinrich Schiegg 1409 also in Württemberg. Today the family name is mostly common in Saxony and Baden-Württemberg.
variants
- Schiek with around 1260 namesake with a focus on Baden-Württemberg
- Schiegg with around 230 namesake in Germany in the Unterallgäu district and 540 namesake in Switzerland, with a focus on the canton of Thurgau .
Name bearer
Spelling Schieck
- Franz Schieck (1871–1946), German doctor and professor of ophthalmology
- Heinz Schieck (1923–1991), major general of the NVA
- Konrad Schieck (1942–1999), musician and composer
- Jürgen Schieck (* 1946), German soccer player
- Ralph Schieck (* 1954), German politician and badminton player
- Walther Schieck (1874–1946), German politician (DVP)
Spelling Schiek
- Burkhard Schiek (1938–2013), German university professor for high frequency measurement technology
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schiek (1790–1870), microscope maker in Berlin
- Manfred Schiek (1935–1965), German motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- Otto Schiek (1898–1980), German politician (KPD)
- Sebastian Schiek (* 1990), German soccer player
- Volker Schiek (* 1950), German politician (SPD)
Spelling Schiegg
- Ulrich Schiegg (1752–1810), German Benedictine, mathematician, astronomer and surveyor
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hans Bahlow : German Name Lexicon. Family and first names explained according to their origin and meaning. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1972 ( Suhrkamp-Taschenbücher 65).
- ↑ Entry under Geogen; Directory of telephone lines by family name
- ↑ Konrad Schieck. In: www.konrad-schieck.de. Retrieved June 29, 2016 .