Werner

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Werner is a male German given name and a family name .

Origin and meaning

The second element of Wern (h) er is Old High German heri , "Quantity, Heer (sharp)". The origin of the first element is controversial: it is probably based on the Old High German waron , “(be ) reserve , careful”, or the related warnon , “to be careful, to be careful” (cf. “to warn”), actually “on” see something, perceive something ”. It is unclear whether the tribal name of the Warnen belongs here. According to another interpretation, this part of the name goes back to Old High German weren , "to fight". The combination of the two parts of the name probably means nothing else; Name members were often combined arbitrarily in the early Middle Ages.

distribution

Werner was a moderately popular name in the early 20th century, but its popularity grew rapidly. From the beginning of the 1910s to the end of the 1930s and again in the late 1940s and early 1950s, it was one of the ten most frequently given names of the respective year. Its prevalence fell sharply in the 1960s, and since the early 1970s, boys have hardly been called Werner.

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First name Werner

middle Ages

  • Werner , Reich banner bearer and count in Hesse
  • Werner I. (≈1150–1215), founder of the family of the Counts of Battenberg and Wittgenstein
  • Werner I. von Habsburg (975 / 80-1028), Bishop of Strasbourg 1002-28
  • Werner I. (1030-1096), Count of Habsburg
  • Werner I. (≈1000–1040), count in Hesse, count of Winterthur, bearer of the imperial banner
  • Werner I. von Veltheim (around 1100), nephew of Bishop Burchard II. Von Halberstadt
  • Werner I. († 1068), from 1045 to 1068 abbot in the monastery of St. Blasien
  • Werner I. (≈760 / 65–814), came from the group of founders around the monasteries Hornbach and Mettlach (Bliesgau)
  • Werner I. von Falkenstein (≈1234 / 37–1300), nobleman of the Falkenstein family
  • Werner II , Count of Habsburg
  • Werner II. (≈1020-1053), Gaugraf in Hesse and Neckargau, bearer of the imperial banner
  • Werner II of Achalm (≈1048 / 49–1079), Bishop of Strasbourg 1065–79
  • Werner II of Alvensleben (before 1429–1472 / 77), lord of the castle on Gardelegen, electoral Brandenburg council and court marshal
  • Werner III. (≈1040 / 45-1065), Gaugraf in Hesse, Neckargau and Niederlahngau, bearer of the Reich banner
  • Walaho IV. , Also Werner IV. , († probably before 890), Count in Wormsgau after 840
  • Werner IV. (≈1060–1121), Gaugraf in Hesse and Neckargau, Burgrave of Worms, bearer of the imperial banner
  • Werner († 973), Count of Zülpichgau
  • Werner von Homberg (1284–1320), minstrel and knight
  • Werner von Küssenberg († 1178), from 1170 to 1178 abbot in the monastery of St. Blasien
  • Werner von Kyburg († 1030), count from the Kyburg family
  • Werner († 1317), Bishop of Lavant
  • Werner von Merseburg († 1093), Bishop of Merseburg from 1063 to 1093
  • Werner von Minden († 1170), Bishop of Minden from 1153 to 1170
  • Werner von Oberwesel (1271–1287), alleged victim of a ritual murder
  • Werner (≈899 - 920 or 935), Graf im Nahegau, Speyergau and Wormsgau around 890/910
  • Werner von Staufen (* around 1170/75; † 1213 at the earliest), from 1206 to 1209 Bishop of Constance
  • Werner von Steußlingen (also Wernher, Wezelin, Wezelo, Werinher, Wessilo, Wezel ; † 1078), Catholic Archbishop of Magdeburg
  • Werner von Steußlingen († 1151), from 1132 to 1151 Bishop of Münster

Modern times

First name Wernher

First name Verner

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Wiktionary: Werner  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ So Henning Kaufmann: Altdeutsche Personalennamen, supplementary volume (on Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsches Namenbuch, first volume, Munich, reprint of the second edition 1966), p. 386; on the other hand Wilfried Seibicke: German Historical Name Book, Berlin 1996–2006; Perhaps the two stems have also mixed up: for example Rosa and Volker Kohlheim: Das große Forenamelexikon, Duden-Verlag Mannheim 2003
  2. ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"
  3. ↑ Vercors: Le Silence de la mer . Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris 1942.