Schreckberg (family name)
Schreckberg is a German family name .
Origin and meaning
Etymology : house name or toponym , e.g. B. after the village district of Schreckenberg von Ruppichteroth in the Rhein-Sieg district
distribution
Most common percentage occurrence of the surname "Schreckenberg" in Germany:
- North Rhine-Westphalia:
- (about 2/3% of all "Schreckenberg" in Germany)
- More than 100 phone book entries each in: Hochsauerlandkreis, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Paderborn and Hagen
- further agglomerations in the Rhineland, the Ruhr area and in East Westphalia
- Brandenburg: Barnim district
- Berlin
- Bremen
- Hamburg
- Hesse:
- Waldeck-Frankenberg, Kassel, Darmstadt, Giessen, Wetterau
- Bavaria:
- Munich, Rosenheim, Augsburg, Nuremberg
- Baden-Württemberg:
- Böblingen, Tübingen, Ludwigsburg
- Lower Saxony
- Holzminden, Vechta, Delmenhorst, Wolfsburg, Hildesheim, Rotenburg (Wümme), Oldenburg, Wesermarsch, Helmstedt
- Saarland
- Schleswig-Holstein:
- Lübeck, Ostholstein, Rendsburg, Steinburg, Stormarn
variants
- Schreckbergs
- Schreckberger
Well-known namesake
- Wilhelm Schreckenberg (1925–2006), German historian and educator
- Heinz Schreckenberg (1928–2017), German historian and Judaist
- Michael Schreckenberg (physicist) (* 1956), German physicist and university professor
- Michael Schreckenberg (author) (* 1971), German writer
literature
- Gerhard Gessner (ed.): On the ancestral history of the Heinz Schreckenberg family in the Westphalia, Rhineland, East Holland, eastern Belgium Degener, Insingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7686-5198-1 , 264 pp.