Zapp (family name)

Zapp is a German family name.

Origin and meaning

As an indirect professional name, the name denotes the profession of innkeeper. First mentions: Niclas czappe 1438 Liegnitz; Nickel czappe 1431 Görlitz; Wynczeppe 14th century in Breslau.

variants

• Tappe - Low German
• Tapper - Low German
• Zapf - Upper German
• Düpfel - Upper German
• Zafle - Upper German
• Zapfner - Middle High German
• Zappe - Central German

Compounds

• Sauerzapf
• Wine dispenser
• Wackerzapp - drunkard

Well-known namesake

• Adolf Zapp (1869–1941), German entrepreneur
• Arthur Zapp (1852–1925), German writer
• Carl Zapp (1867–1941), German entrepreneur
• Hartmut Zapp (* 1939), Professor of Church Law and Church Legal History at the University of Freiburg
• Herbert Zapp (1928-2004), banker
• Karl Zapp (1893–1955), German politician (SPD)
• Paul Zapp (1904–1999), SS and SD member, as leader of a special unit responsible for the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians
• Richard Zapp (1904–1964), German naval officer in World War II
• Walter Zapp (1905–2003), inventor of the Minox

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Bahlow: Silesian name book. Historical Commission for Silesia . Holzner Verlag, Kitzingen / Main 1953.
2. ^ Hans Bahlow: German name dictionary. Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0294-4 .