Pfaff (surname)
Pfaff is a German family name.
Origin and Meaning
Pfaff is with his geschwundenen Auslautvokal -e, the South German form of the title " priest ".
The first bearer of the name of the various branches of the family was probably so named,
- Because he was a priest and the other bearers of the name were illegitimate child of a priest,
- Because he had to do with a priest, for example, as an employee of such or
- Because he behaved like a priest.
Well-known bearers of the name
- Adam Pfaff (1820-1886), German historian and journalist
- Alfred Pfaff ( politician ) ( 1872-1954 ), German industrialist and politician (NSDAP ), MdR
- Alfred Pfaff (1926-2008), German football player
- Carl Pfaff ( born 1931 ), Swiss historian
- Christian Pfaff (1770-1845), German dealer
- Christian Pfaff (actor ) ( born 1968 ), German actor
- Christoph Heinrich Pfaff (1772-1852), German physicist, chemist and university teacher
- Christoph Matthäus Pfaff (1686-1760), German Protestant theologian
- Dieter Pfaff (1947-2013), German actor and director
- Dieter Pfaff ( lawyer) ( born 1934 ), German jurist, professor at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich
- Erich Pfaff (1930-2011), Romanian professor of architectural history; was the first chairman of the Democratic Forum of Germans in the Banat
- Eva Pfaff (* 1961), German tennis player
- Florian Pfaff ( born 1957 ), German officer in the German Army and pacifist
- Fridolin Pfaff ( 1543-1587/88 ), Swiss cabinetmakers
- Fridrich Pfaff (1855-1917), German historian, specialist in German and librarian
- Friedrich Pfaff (1825-1886), German geologist and mineralogist
- Georg Michael Pfaff (1823-1893), German sewing machine manufacturer
- Günther Pfaff ( b. 1939 ), Austrian canoeist
- Hans Pfaff ( Johannes Georg Pfaff, 1896-1971 ), Swiss pastor and author
- Hans Ulrich Pfaff Vitalis (1824-1872), German mathematician and professor
- Heinrich Pfaff ( politician ) ( 1794-1845 ), German town mayor and a member of the Württemberg Estates
- Heinrich Pfaff ( football coach ), German football coach
- Ludwig Heinrich Pfaff (1765-1794), German Protestant theologian, preacher and teacher
- Helga Pfaff ( born 1929 ), German radio playwright
- Hermann Pfaff (1846-1933), German politician
- Hildegard Pfaff ( born 1952 ), Hessian State Parliament (SPD )
- Holger Pfaff ( born 1956 ), German sociologist
- Ivo Pfaff (1864-1925), Austrian historian of law
- Jean -Marie Pfaff ( born 1953 ), Belgian football goalkeeper
- Joanna Pfaff- Czarnecka ( b. 1956 ), Professor of Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University
- Johann Christoph Pfaff (1651-1720), German Lutheran theologian and philosopher
- Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765-1825), German mathematician
- Johann Leonhard Pfaff (1775-1848), German bishop of Fulda
- Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff (1774-1835), German mathematician
- Karl Pfaff (1795-1866), educator, historian and singer father
- Kristen Pfaff (1967-1994), American musician
- Leopold Pfaff (1837-1914), Austrian Zivilrechtslehrervereinigung
- Lina Pfaff (1854-1929), German entrepreneur
- Luke Pfaff ( born 1981 ), German actor
- Martin Pfaff ( born 1939 ), German politician ( SPD) and economist
- Michael Pfaff (* 1988), German ice hockey player
- Nicholas Pfaff (1892-1951), German teacher and politician ( KPD), MdR
- Petra Pfaff ( born 1960 ), German track and field athlete
- Philipp Pfaff (1713-1766), German dentist and pioneer of Dentistry
- Siegfried Pfaff (1851-1928), German chemist
- Siegfried Pfaff ( born 1931 ), German radio play author and playwright
- Victor Pfaff (* 1941), German lawyer
- William Pfaff ( born 1928 ), American author