Guardian (family name)
Wächter or Waechter is a family name that is common in the German-speaking world .
origin
Like Wärter, Dankwart, Burgwart etc., the name goes back to the job title of the guard and thus the root word "wachen /wart" and corresponds outside the German-speaking area, for example, to the family names Guardian (English), Guardien (French) and Guardini (Ital.) as well as Gregor (Greek: the vigilant, guardian) and Küster / Köster (from Lat. Custos = the guardian).
It comes from the word ward ("Wächter, Hüter", cf. in today's German words like Sportwart, Zeugwart, etc.). Wächter / Wärter also comes in names such as Burckhard, Borckert, Borgwart ( Northern German nickname "Burkhardt", "borg-wart" ⇒ "Burg + Hüter, Wächter", first known occurrence: Burgward, around 900), Dankwart or Dankert (from Old High German The nickname "thank-hart" comes from: "Thanks, grace, wages + hard" for "Dankert", first known occurrence: Thancwardus, around 799, Tanchard, around 830, Danchart, around 1312, Danchardi, around 1337 (source e.g. .: Kohlheim, Rosa and Volker: surnames, origin and meaning of 20,000 surnames, Dudenverlag, Mannheim et al., 2000; Konrad Kunze : name lexicon, first names and surnames in German usage, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1998)). An origin seems to be the name switch - the Commission for dialect and Namenforschung Westphalia at the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe , according to - to have in Westphalia name formations from the Ravensberg (room Halle (Westphalia). , Bielefeld , Herford , who have been handed down earlier) allow a fairly reliable reconstruction of the original form of the name Olderdissen. An original settlement name could be given a description of the meaning “at the houses of Aldhard or Aldward”. It is a typically Germanic, two-part personal name, composed of the words ald ("old") and war ("guardian, guardian").
distribution
Although the name occurs relatively frequently in the German-speaking area, it is not as widespread as the family names Müller , Schuster or Becker, which are also derived from professional titles .
Name bearer
A.
- Adolf Wächter (politician) (1873–1954), German politician, Lord Mayor of Bamberg
- Adolf Wächter (bank manager) (1917–2013), German bank manager
- Alexander Waechter (* 1948), Austrian actor and director
- Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter (1852–1912), German diplomat
- Anne Wächter (* 1931), German nature and environmental conservationist
- Antoine Waechter (* 1949), French politician
- August von Wächter (diplomat, 1776) (1776-1852), German diplomat
- August von Wächter (1807–1879), German diplomat and politician
C.
- Constanze Wächter (* 1988), German actress
D.
- Detlef Wächter (* 1966), German diplomat
E.
- Eberhard von Wächter (1762–1852), German painter
- Eberhard Waechter (1929–1992), Austrian opera singer and opera director
- Edmund Wächter (* 1954), German flautist
- Eduard Wächter (1865–1947), German theologian
- Erich Wächter (politician) (1908–1971), German politician (CDU)
- Erich Wächter (conductor) (* 1945), German conductor
- Ernst Wächter (? –1968), German company founder
F.
- FK Waechter (1937–2005), German writer, author and caricaturist
- Felix Waechter (* 1971), German architect and university professor
- Felix von Waechter-Spittler (1851–1915), Württemberg regional court director and member of the state parliament
- Franz Wächter (* 1929), German soccer player
- Friedrich Wächter (1767–1840), Württemberg lawyer
G
- Gerhard Wächter (* 1946), German politician (CDU)
- Gerold Wächter (1906-1992), German farmer and politician (FDP)
H
- Hans Wächter (1920–2014), Swiss officer
- Hans Waechter (* 1936), German architect and university professor
- Hartmut Wächter (1938–2013), German business economist
- Heinrich Wächter (* 1950), German cook
- Herbert Wächter (1932–1996), German painter and graphic artist
- Hermann Wächter (politician, 1816) (1816–1903), German pastor and politician, MdL Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Hermann Wächter (politician, 1876) (1876–1954), German politician (economic party), MdL Thuringia
- Hermann Wächter (actor) (* 1937), German actor and author
J
- Joachim Wächter (1926–2017), German archivist
- Johann Wächter (1767–1827), Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian
- Johann Michael Wächter (1794-1853), Austrian opera singer
- Josef Wächter (writer) (1792–1880), Austrian (Transylvanian) writer and orphanage director
- Josef Wächter (1866–1949), Austrian Army Minister and General
- Julius Wächter (19th century), Bavarian politician
K
- Karina Wächter (* 1990), German politician (CDU), MdL
- Karl Waechter (entrepreneur) ( Karl Leonhard Waechter ; 1840–1913), German construction and railway entrepreneur
- Karl Wächter (journalist) (1925–2015), German journalist and editor
- Karl von Waechter-Spittler (1798–1874), German lawyer, civil servant and politician
- Karl Eberhard von Wächter (1758–1829), German lawyer, civil servant and politician
- Karl Georg von Wächter (1797–1880), German lawyer and university professor
- Katja Wächter (* 1982), German foil fencer
L.
- Leonhard Wächter (pseudonym Veit Weber ; 1762–1837), German writer
- Lilly Wächter (1899–1989), German pacifist (SPD, Democratic Women's Association)
- Lothar Wächter (* 1952), German Catholic theologian
- Ludwig Wächter (1922–2010), German Protestant theologian, Old Testament scholar and university professor
M.
- Martin Wächter (* 1960), German local politician (CDU) and full-time mayor
- Max Waechter (1837–1924), British merchant and philanthropist
- Maximilian von Wächter (1811-1884), German politician, mayor of Nuremberg
O
- Oskar von Wächter (1825–1902), lawyer, member of the Württemberg state parliament
- Otto Wächter (1901–1949), Austrian lawyer and politician (NSDAP)
P
- Paul Waechter (1846–1893), German optician and mechanic
- Peter Wächter (* 1941), Austrian violinist
- Philip Waechter (* 1968), German illustrator and writer
R.
- Rudolf Wächter (1868–1942), German entrepreneur and porcelain manufacturer
S.
- Stefan Wächter (* 1978), German soccer goalkeeper and goalkeeper coach
- Steve Wächter (* 1979), German opera singer
T
- Theodor Waechter (1858–1907), German politician, mayor of (Bad) Honnef 1889–1907
- Theodor von Wächter (1865–1943), German theologian and social democrat
- Tobias Wächter (* 1988), German track cyclist
- Torkel S. Wächter (* 1961), Swedish-German writer
W.
- Walter Wächter (1913–1983), German psychologist, university lecturer and professor
- Walter Wächter (sculptor) (1934–2004), Swiss sculptor
- Werner Wächter (1902–1946), German politician (NSDAP), Member of the Bundestag and party functionary
- Wilhelm Wächter (1870–1928), German botanist and publicist
- Wolfgang Wächter (philosopher) (* 1935), German philosopher and historian
- Wolfgang Wächter (restorer) (* before 1950), German book restorer and founder of the Center for Book Preservation of the German Library (University of Leipzig) and the Preservation Academy