Werder (family name)
Werder is a German and Dutch family name .
Origin and meaning
The name is derived from the field form Werder, "elevated land surrounded by bodies of water or damp stretches of land".
distribution
Like the toponym , the name in its variants is common throughout the German-speaking area, as well as in the Dutch-speaking area. Werder as a family name also occurs in Switzerland, especially in the cantons of Zug and Aargau.
variants
- Waerder, Warder, Warden
- Become, become, become, become man
- Werderits, Werderitsch
- Werth, Werthe, Werther
- Wörth
- Weerts
Name bearer
The namesake include members of the Brandenburg aristocratic family Werder as well as several lower Saxon noble families of the same name . These names are from Werder or von dem Werder , formerly also in the Latin form de Insula .
- Albert von Werder (1852–1936), Prussian general of the cavalry
- August von Werder (1808–1887), Prussian general
- August von Werder (organ builder) (1819–1882), German organ builder
- Axel von Werder (* 1956), German business economist and university lecturer
- Bernhard von Werder (1823–1907), Prussian infantry general
- Diederich von dem Werder (1584–1657), German translator, epic poet and poet
- Ernst Werder , pseudonym of Ernst Kreowski (1859–1920), German journalist and working-class writer
- Felix Werder (1922–2012), German-Australian composer and music critic
- Ferdinand von Werder (1785–1861), Prussian lieutenant general
- Franz Karl von Werder (1788–1869), German infantry general
- Friedrich von Werder (1891–1968), German lawyer and police officer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand von Werder (1786–1854), Prussian lieutenant general and commandant of Stralsund
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Werder (1747–1820), Prussian major general
- Hans Werder , pseudonym of Anna von Bonin (1856–1933), German writer
- Hans von Werder (1867–1923), Prussian colonel, brigade commander and knight of the Pour le Mérite
- Hans Werder (manager) (* 1946), Swiss manager
- Hans Ernst Christoph von Werder (1771–1837), Prussian lieutenant general
- Hans Ernst Dietrich von Werder (1740–1800), Minister at the General Directorate
- Hans Klaus von Werder (1892–1972), German officer, personal adjutant to Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia
- Hans Wilhelm von Werder (1834–1897), German infantry general
- Ilse Werder (* 1925), German editor and non-fiction author
- Johann von Werder (1783–1854), Prussian major general
- Johann III. von Werder († 1466), Bishop of Merseburg
- Johann Ludwig Werder (1808–1885), German inventor
- Jules Werder (19th – 20th centuries), Swiss printer and publisher
- Karl Werder (1806-1893), German philosopher and poet
- Lorenz Werder (1646–1720), Swiss mayor
- Ludwig Timon Moritz von Werder (1780–1852), royal Prussian major general
- Lutz von Werder (* 1939), German philosopher, educator and sociologist
- Nikolaus von Werder (1856–1917), German administrative lawyer and politician
- Rasa von Werder (* 1945), German-American stripper, bodybuilder and founder of her own church
- Ulrich Werder (* 1951), German soccer player
- Urs Werder († 1499), Swiss glass painter
- Wolf Bernhard von Werder († 1741), Saxon-Weißenfels castle captain, stable master and manor owner