Waldhauser
Waldhauser is a family name .
Origin and meaning of the name
The surname Waldhauser comes from a reinterpretation of the Babylonian - Hebrew first name Balaṭ-šarri-uṣur, Balthasar , "God protect his life" or "God protect the life of the king". In the biblical book of Daniel , בלטאשצר, בלטשאצר (Bélṭšaṣṣar), Greek Βαλτασαρ, Latin Baltassar is the Babylonian name of Daniel. Martin Luther translated it in 1534 as Beltsazar.
When the Chancellor Emperor Barbarossas brought the remains of the three kings to Cologne in 1164 , the saints became popular in Germany, and with it their names. Over the centuries the surname Waldhauser developed from Walthasar or Walthaser.
This family name should not be confused with the name of several places and people Waldhausen , or the district of the university town of Tübingen Waldhäuser Ost .
Family coat of arms
In green, two interlocked silver lintel rafters, topped with three silver-covered red roses. On the helmet with green-silver covers a silver-inseminated red rose between two silver-green buffalo horns divided over a corner.
Using one of Adam Waldhauser (1819–1867), great-grandfather of the applicant Hans Waldhauser, entrepreneur in Grünwald b. Munich, accepted and heraldically corrected coat of arms by the applicant in January 1983 with management authorization for all descendants in the male line of his great-grandfather Adam Waldhauser, as long as and as long as they still bear the family name of the coat of arms founder.
The Waldhauser family coat of arms is registered and thus protected in: Deutsche Wappenrolle, No. 8026/83, Volume 39, Page 90, published by the "Herold", Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Allied Sciences, Berlin.
Personalities
- Konrad von Waldhausen (also Konrad Waldhäuser or Waldhauser) was a preacher around 1360 and one of the first forerunners of the Hussites . In Poland and the Czech Republic he is usually called Konrád Waldhauser.
- Franz Waldhauser discovered in 1990 that melatonin, as a drug, shortens the early phases of sleep and extends REM sleep .
- Mathilde Waldhauser (1830–1849), German opera singer and soprano .
- General Thomas D. Waldhauser had commanded the 1st Marine Division since September 2007 . This is the oldest, most decorated and largest active of the four divisions of the US Marine Corps . It has a combat-ready troop strength of more than 19,000 soldiers. On July 18, 2016, he assumed command of AFRICOM ( African Command of the United States ).
- Ralph Waldhauser took over the program management at Radio Arabella Vienna in October 2007 .
According to Yad Vashem Online, at least 59 people with this surname died as victims of the Holocaust (Shoa).