Stühlmeyer

Medieval court linden tree in Grönegau (Osnabrück district)

Stühlmeyer is a German family name.

Origin and meaning

The name Stühlmeyer is an expanded form of the name Meier ( lat. Maior or maius "bigger, stronger, more important"). A Meier was originally an administrator. There was the caretaker ( maior domus ) in the feudal-political area and in the country the estate manager .

Stühlmeyer, originally chair maior - in Middle High German the Latin maior evolves to Meyer or Meier  - is documented in the Osnabrück area in the Middle Ages and denotes the office of chair administrator of the Gogericht there .

See also: Freigericht , Rechtslinde , Stuhlherr

Name bearer

• Barbara Stühlmeyer (* 1964), German author and scientist
• Heinrich Stühlmeyer (1907–1978), German custodian and cantor
• Ludger Stühlmeyer (* 1961), German cantor, composer and musicologist
• Patrick Stühlmeyer (* 1990), German show jumper
• Reinhold Stühlmeyer (1934–2012), German civil servant, trade unionist, politician and writer
• Thomas Stühlmeyer (* 1964), German pastoral theologian and pastor

variants

• Karl Stühmeyer (1866–1936) administrative officer, district administrator and chief of police

Web links

• Court chair in: German legal dictionary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Meierrecht . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 9 , issue 3/4 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-7400-0926-8 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
2. ↑ Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher : Etymological dictionary of German family names . Limburg a. d. Lahn, 1957, p. 249.
3. ↑ Source: Nüvener Mark , State Archive Osnabrück.
4. ↑ Heimatverein Melle (ed.): Knight seats and noble farms in Grönegau . In: Grönenberger Heimathefte , No. 11, Melle 1967.
5. ^ Bernhard Meyer: Families Stühlmeyer . Melle 2010, p. 12.
6. ^ Gogericht in: Early New High German Dictionary, Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen.