Wiebke
Wiebke , also: Wibke , Wibeke , is a female given name . Further variants are Wibbke, Wubbke, Wübbke, Wübbecke, Wybke, Vibbeke, Vipcke; Danish Vibeke , Swedish Viveka . In the forms of Wiebke and Wiepke, it also occasionally appears as a surname .
origin
Wiebke is a diminutive ( diminutive ) of not more common Low German and Frisian female first name Wiebe, Wieba . This is a short form of names that are formed with Wig- (Old High German, Old Low German wīg 'Kampf, Krieg'), for example from Wigberta and Wigburg .
Namesake
The namesake are Saint Wigbert (August 13, Anglo-Saxon, followed the call of Winfried Bonifatius and was a missionary in Hesse and Thuringia. First abbot of the Fritzlar Monastery in Hesse, founded in 732. † August 13, 780) and Saint Wiborada (2. May, hermit in a cell in St. Gallen and counselor for everyone who was looking for help. Died under ax blows by Hungarian warriors. † May 2, 926).
Name days: August 13th, May 2nd
Well-known namesake
Wibke
- Wibke Apholt (* 1971), Swiss paraglider pilot
- Wibke von Bonin (* 1936), German art historian and television editor for the visual arts
- Wibke Brems (* 1981), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Wibke Bruhns (1938–2019), German journalist and novelist
- Wibke Meister (* 1995), German soccer player
Wiebke
- Wiebke Adam-Schwarz (* 1968), German actress
- Wiebke Ahrndt (* 1963), German ethnologist and university professor
- Wiebke Bartsch (* 1968), German object, installation and textile artist
- Wiebke Binder (* 1980), German television presenter
- Wiebke von Carolsfeld (* 1966), German film editor, film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Wiebke Drenckhan (* 1977), German physicist
- Wiebke Eden (* 1968), German writer
- Wiebke Esdar (* 1984), German politician (SPD)
- Wiebke Frost (* 1962), German actress
- Wiebke Hendriksen (* 1951), German table tennis player
- Wiebke Hoogklimmer (* 1960 in Hanover), German contralto
- Wiebke Kethorn (* 1985), German handball player
- Wiebke Lehmkuhl (* 1983), German opera singer with an alto voice
- Wiebke Lorenz (* 1972), German journalist and novelist
- Wiebke Muhsal (* 1986), German politician (AfD)
- Wiebke Offer (* 1992), German volleyball player
- Wiebke Puls (* 1973), German actress and singer
- Wiebke Putz-Osterloh (* 1946), German psychologist
- Wiebke Scheschonka , German theater actress and voice actress
- Wiebke Siem (* 1954), German artist
- Wiebke Silge (* 1996), German volleyball player
- Wiebke Steffen (1946–2017), German criminologist
- Wiebke von Thadden (* 1931), German writer
- Wiebke tom Dieck (* 1973), German pianist
- Wiebke Ullmann (* 1988), German athlete
- Wiebke Zielke (* 1979), German actress
Surname
- Karsten Wiebke (1938-2020), German veterinarian and politician (SPD)
Others
- Orkan Wiebke (1990) claimed dozens of lives and caused billions in property damage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden. Lexicon of first names. Origin, meaning and use of several thousand first names. 2., rework. and exp. Ed. By Günther Drosdowski. Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 1974 (Duden-Taschenbücher 4), p. 215, or 3., revised. and exp. Ed. By Rosa and Volker Kohlheim, ibid. 1998, p. 257.