Tschannen
Tschannen is a family name that is particularly common in German-speaking Switzerland . The family name can be explained as a «descendant of Tschan». Tschan is the German-Swiss form of the French nickname Jean (German: Johannes) and was demonstrably used as a first name in the canton of Bern until the 16th century. Tschannen indicates the genitive with the ending -en.
Tschannen is an old Swiss bourgeois family in Wohlen near Bern , Radelfingen and Rümligen . Various family coats of arms have been used since the 18th century.
Name bearer
- Fritz Tschannen (1920–2011), Swiss musician and ski jumper
- Pierre Tschannen (* 1952), Swiss lawyer
- Stefan Tschannen (* 1984), Swiss ice hockey player
- Werner Tschannen , Swiss goalkeeper
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schweizerisches Idiotikon Volume XIV, https://digital.idiotikon.ch/idtkn/id14.htm#!page/141743/mode/1up
- ↑ Legal sources of the canton of Bern (first part city rights, volume 4, first and second half, publisher Hermann Rennfahrt, 1955 and 1956), https://www.ssrq-sds-fds.ch/online/BE_I_4.1/BE_I_4. 1.pdf
- ↑ Legal sources of the Canton of Bern (Part Two, Rights of the Landscape, Fifth Volume, The Law of the Official District of Laupen, Ed. Hermann Rennfahrt, 1952), https://www.ssrq-sds-fds.ch/online/BE_II_5/BE_II_5.pdf
- ^ Family name book of Switzerland, http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/famn/index.php
- ↑ Online inventory of the State Archives of the Canton of Bern, State Collections, Family Coat of Arms , http://www.query.sta.be.ch/detail.aspx?ID=460059