Uwe
Uwe is a male name .
origin
The origin of the name is unclear. Some consider Uwe to be a short form of names that begin with Ul- or Ud- (for example Ulrich ) and go back to Old High German uodal , "Erb-, Stammgut, Erbbesitz". Others consider the name to be an "independent Frisian short form of names that were formed from Old Island North Frisian * ova (to Germanic * ov , to be active, to put into work ')". According to Wilfried Seibicke , Uwe is a "Frisian Lall name, etymology unclear". In foreign name pages and name books there is a reference to the Scandinavian name Ove , of which Uwe is said to be a subsidiary form. Ove is then explained as “the slang form of Aghi , a short form of various names of Old Norse origin with the element ag 'sharpness (of the sword)' or 'terror'”. Occasionally there is also the claim that the name is identical to Oswald (from ans 'god' and waltan 'rule').
distribution
The name Uwe quickly became popular in Germany from the 1920s. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, it was consistently one of the ten most popular boys' first names of the respective year, as well as from the second half of the 1950s to the early 1960s. Then its spread sank. Since the early 1980s, hardly any children have been named Uwe.
name day
Name bearer
First name (selection)
- Uwe Abel (* 1966), German soccer player
- Uwe Anton (* 1956), German writer and translator
- Uwe Ampler (* 1964), German racing cyclist
- Uwe Barschel (1944–1987), German politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
- Uwe Bein (* 1960), German soccer player
- Uwe Beyer (1945–1993), German athlete
- Uwe Bohm (* 1962), German actor
- Uwe Boll (* 1965), German director and producer
- Uwe Böhnhardt (1977–2011), right-wing terrorist
- Uwe Brandner (1941–2018), German film director and writer
- Uwe Busse (* 1960), German pop singer, songwriter and producer
- Uwe Clausen (* 1964), professor for transport systems and logistics at the Technical University of Dortmund
- Uwe Conradt (* 1977), German politician (CDU), director of the State Media Authority in Saarland
- Uwe Corsepius (* 1960), Head of the European Department in the Federal Chancellery
- Uwe Dallmeier (1924–1985), German stage and folk actor
- Uwe Dreher (1960–2016), German soccer player
- Uwe Ecker (* 1960), German jazz drummer
- Uwe Frankenberger (* 1955), German politician
- Uwe Friedrichsen (1934–2016), German actor
- Uwe Gensheimer (* 1986), German handball player
- Uwe Hacker (1941–1995), German actor
- Uwe Hübner (* 1961), German television and radio presenter
- Uwe Jacob (* 1956), German policeman, police chief of Cologne
- Uwe Jellinek (* 1953), German actor and voice actor
- Uwe Johnson (1934–1984), German writer
- Uwe Kamps (* 1964), German soccer goalkeeper
- Uwe Kockisch (* 1944), German actor
- Uwe Kröger (* 1943), German television journalist
- Uwe Kröger (* 1964), German musical performer
- Uwe Krupp (* 1965), German ice hockey player and coach of the German national ice hockey team
- Uwe Jens Lornsen (1793–1838), Frisian politician
- Uwe Lüthje (1931–2003), German-Austrian economist
- Uwe Lyko (aka " Herbert Knebel ") (* 1954), German cabaret artist and comedian
- Uwe Müller (* 1963), German soccer goalkeeper
- Uwe Mundlos (1973-2011), right-wing terrorist
- Uwe Nolte (* 1969), German artist
- Uwe Ochsenknecht (* 1956), German actor and musician
- Uwe Peschel (* 1968), German racing cyclist
- Uwe Preuss (* 1961), German actor
- Uwe Raab (* 1962), German racing cyclist
- Uwe Rahn (* 1962), German soccer player
- Uwe Rapolder (* 1958), German soccer coach
- Uwe Reimer (1948–2004), German author
- Uwe Reinders (* 1955), German soccer player and coach
- Uwe Schmidt (historian) (1931–2008), German teacher and historian
- Uwe Schmidt (politician, 1945) (* 1945), German politician (CDU), MdA Berlin
- Uwe Schmidt (politician, 1947) (* 1947), German politician (SPD), MdL Brandenburg
- Uwe Schmidt (politician, 1954) (* 1954), German politician (SPD), district administrator in Kassel
- Uwe Schmidt (sociologist) (* 1960), German sociologist and university lecturer for university research
- Uwe Schmidt (soccer player) (* 1964), German soccer player
- Uwe Schmidt (horticultural technician) (* before 1965), German horticultural technician and university professor for biosystems technology
- Uwe Schmidt (politician, 1966) (* 1966), German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- Uwe Schmidt (musician) (* 1968), German musician
- Uwe Schmidt (singer-songwriter) (* 1976), Austrian singer, songwriter and musician
- Uwe Eduard Schmidt (* 1960), German forest scientist and university professor
- Uwe Schmitt (journalist) (* 1955), German journalist and drummer
- Uwe Schmitt (athlete) (1961–1995), German athlete
- Uwe Schünemann (* 1964), German politician (CDU)
- Uwe Seeler (* 1936), German soccer player
- Uwe Steimle (* 1963), German cabaret artist and actor
- Uwe Streb (* 1963), German speed skater
- Uwe Tellkamp (* 1968), German doctor and writer
- Uwe Timm (* 1940), German writer
- Uwe Timm (1932–2014), German author, publisher
- Uwe Vorkötter (* 1953), German journalist
- Uwe Wegmann (* 1964), German soccer player
- Uwe Wesp (* 1942), German meteorologist and moderator
- Uwe Zimmermann (* 1947), German mathematician
- Uwe Zimmermann (* 1962), German soccer player
family name
- Bruno Fischer-Uwe (1915–1992), German painter and university professor
See also
- UWE-1 , UWE-2 and UWE-3 , Cubesat experimental satellites from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
- Uwe (ship, 1914) , barge, sunk on the Elbe in 1975 after a collision
- alternatively Uve
literature
- Elke Gerr, The large first name book . "Everything about first names: origin, historical meaning, variants, derivatives, foreign language versions and name days, sorted according to different cultures". Humboldt-Verlag, Hannover 2008. ISBN 978-3-89994-183-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Burkart: New Lexicon of Given Names, Cologne 2002
- ↑ Rosa and Volker Kohlheim: The large first name dictionary ; Duden-Verlag Mannheim 2003
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: German Historical Name Book ; Berlin 1996-2006
- ↑ Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges: Dictionary of First Names ; Oxford 1990; The German word “Ecke” is related to the first translation, the second can be found like this (Gothic agan , 'to be afraid') in Förstemann. Ernst Förstemann: Old German name book , first volume; Munich, reprint of the second edition in 1966; Sp. 14
- ↑ Heimeran's name booklet, Munich 5th edition, 1942
- ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"