Wesemann
Wesemann is a German family name.
origin
One of the earliest documented mentions of the name goes back to Curd Wesemann, who was titled in 1401 as "the archbishop of Mainz and the city urfehde and in future wants to seek justice before the bailiff of Rusteberg and the council of Duderstadt". It is probably a dwelling name in -mann, Wese- is a Middle Low German form of meadow, so it means something like “Located on the meadow”.
Name bearer
- Alfred Wesemann (1874–?), Austrian painter
- Arnd Wesemann (* 1961), German theater scholar and freelance journalist
- Clemens Wesemann (1874–1942), Mayor of Bocholt 1908–1920
- Eberhard Wesemann (* 1944), German publisher, editor and translator
- Fried Wesemann (1915–2001), German journalist and SPD functionary
- Friedrich-Karl Wesemann (1893–?), German sea captain
- Gustav Wesemann (1879 – after 1931), German manager of the arms industry
- Hans Wesemann (1895–1971), German journalist and Gestapo agent
- Hans Otto Wesemann (1903–1976), German journalist, director of Deutsche Welle
- Helmuth Wesemann (1918–2003), German photographer
- Lars Wesemann (* 1964), German chemist; Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen
- Steffen Wesemann (* 1971), German-Swiss racing cyclist
- Wolfgang Wesemann (* 1949), German racing cyclist
- Wolfgang Wesemann (physicist) , director of the higher technical school for optics in Cologne