Völkner (family name)
Völkner or Voelkner is a German family name .
Origin and meaning
The family name Völkner originated from the weak genitive form Volken (derived from Volko or another nickname with Volk- , e.g. Volkmar ) and the suffix -er indicating affiliation or ancestry . The family name is most widespread in Central Germany and formerly in Western Pomerania , West Prussia and East Prussia . The family name has been attested since the first half of the 12th century by Octavian Völkner from Poland , who went down in the history of Vienna as the first master builder of St. Stephen's Cathedral .
variants
- Germany: Volkner , Völckner , Voelckner
- Poland: Felkner
- Russia: Фёлькнер (see Völkner (noble family) )
- USA: Feltner (also Felkner and Felknor)
Name bearer
- Benno Voelkner (1900–1974), German writer
- Brian Völkner (* 1992), German actor
- Christian Friedrich Völkner (1831–1905), German organ builder in Western Pomerania
- Carl Sylvius Völkner (around 1819–1865), German missionary in New Zealand
- Floris Völkner (* 1976), German hockey player
- Gerhard Völkner (* 1925), German trade unionist
- Hans Voelkner (1928–2002), GDR agent and resistance fighter
- Iris Völkner (* 1960), German rower
- Käte Voelkner (1906–1943), German resistance fighter in the Résistance
- Paul Voelkner (around 1870 - after 1945), German organ builder in Dünnow / Hinterpommern and Bromberg / West Prussia
- Wolfgang Voelkner (* 1933), German engineer and university professor
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kohlheim, Rosa Kohlheim, Volker: Duden, surnames: origin and meaning of 20,000 surnames . Brockhaus Duden New Media, 2006, OCLC 845368301 .
- ↑ Gen-Evolu: Distribution maps for first and last names | onomastik.com. Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Chronicle of the City of Vienna and its citizens, from the earliest times to the present: Ed. By d. Redaction of the Austrian soldier friend . C. Gerold, 1852 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Bogusław Kreja: Księga nazwisk Ziemi Gdańskiej . Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 1998, ISBN 83-7017-765-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Conrad Wade Feltner: The Feltner Family . CW Feltner, 1979, OCLC 11916143 ( limited preview in Google Book search).