Adolf

Adolf or Adolph is a masculine first name and family name.

Origin and Meaning

The name comes from the Old High German and is composed of adal ( noble, nobly ) and wolf ( wolf). This may be understood as " noble wolf " or " noble wolf ", but many old Germanic personal name simply composed of two positive -to-understand elements without the composition as such must have a meaning.

Popularity

Both in Protestant Germany (because of Gustav Adolf ) and in the Catholic (because of Adolph Kolping ) Adolf had a certain popularity. But since the beginning of the 20th century decreased the frequency of name assignment. After a recovery starting in 1933, which lasted until 1942, broke the use of the name - probably in correlation to the popularity of Adolf Hitler - excessively. Since the early 1950s, the first name Adolf is awarded almost no newborn in German-speaking countries. By the dictator Adolf Hitler and also by other Nazis such as Adolf Eichmann, the name is very heavily loaded and is therefore almost no longer awarded.

Popular name was also in Sweden, where several kings bore the name. However, he was not in any decade since the 1920s among the ten most popular first name. Today (as of 2012), there are only about 3000 of that name. Since at least 1998, this name was given in each year is less than 10 newborn boys.

Name-day

Name Days are January 11 and June 17.

Variants

First name

The female form is Adolfine. More male variants are:

  • Adalwolf
  • Adolphe (French)
  • Adolfo ( Italian and Spanish)
  • Adolfas ( Lithuanian )
  • Athulf ( Gothic)
  • Ådjølf (Norwegian)
  • Aadolf ( Finnish)
  • Adolphus ( Latinized; mostly English)
  • Adelphus

Short forms

  • Ad, Ado, Adi
  • Dolf, Dolfi
  • Dölf
  • Dolph (English)

Family name

  • Adolphs
  • Adolphsen

Well-known bearers of the name

Nobles ruler

  • List of noble ruler named Adolf

First name

A

B

  • Adolf Bender (1903-1997), German painter
  • Adolf Berman (1906-1978), Polish- Israeli politician and activist
  • Adolph Bermpohl (1833-1887), founder of organized rescue system in Germany
  • Adolf Buchholz (1913-1978), German Communist and economic functionary of the GDR
  • Adolf Burger ( * 1917 ), an eyewitness to the counterfeiter's workshop of Sachsenhausen concentration camp
  • Adolf Butenandt (1903-1995), German chemist, Nobel Prize Winner 1939

C

  • Adolf Christian (1934-1999), Austrian cyclist
  • Adolf Clarenbachstift (around 1500-1529 ), German theologian, Protestant martyrs

D

  • Damaschkestraße Adolf (1865-1935), German educator and land reformers
  • Adolf Dassler (1900-1978), German entrepreneur, founder of Adidas

E

  • Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), SS -Sturmbannführer, convicted of crimes against the Jewish people, against humanity and war crimes
  • Adolf von Essen (1372-1439; Adolfus de Assindia ), Carthusians, has established the Rosary in the form known today

F

  • Adolf Fick (1829-1901) German physiologist, discoverer of the laws of diffusion
  • Adolf Fischer ( politician ) ( 1807-1893 ), Swiss politician and officer
  • Adolf Fischer ( painter) ( 1856-1908 ), Austrian painter and illustrator
  • Adolf Fischer ( anthropologist ) ( 1856-1914 ), Austrian art collector and independent scholar
  • Adolf Fischer (actor ) ( 1900-1984 ), German actor and producer
  • Adolf Fischer ( genealogist ) (* 1925), German genealogist

G

  • Glaßbrenner Adolf (1810-1876), German humorist and comedian
  • Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974), American painter of abstract expressionism
  • Adolf Grimme (1889-1963), German politician, resistance fighters of the " Red Orchestra " at the time of National Socialism

B

  • Adolf Haenni ( born 1955 ), Swiss motorcycle racer
  • Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930), Baltic German Protestant theologian
  • Adolf Heeb (* 1940), Liechtenstein cyclist and politician ( VU)
  • Adolf Hennecke (1905-1975), Miner, a model for the activist movement in the Soviet occupation zone (later GDR )
  • Adolf Hering (1863-1932), German painter and illustrator
  • Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Nazi politician, German dictator during the period of National Socialism
  • Adolph Hofner (1916-2000), American country musician
  • Adolf Holl ( b. 1930 ), Austrian theologian
  • Horchler Adolf (1849-1929), German local politicians and curators from Kempten ( Allgäu)
  • Horion Adolf (1888-1977), German Roman Catholic clergyman and entomologist
  • Adolf Hütter (born 1970 ), Austrian football player

K

  • Adolf Kiepert ( economist ) ( 1820-1892 ), German politician and farmer
  • Adolf Kiepert (publisher) ( 1845-1911 ), German book publisher, and author
  • Adolf Klimek (1895-1990), Czechoslovakian lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament
  • Adolph Knigge (1752-1796), German writer
  • Adolph Kolping (1813-1865), German Catholic priest, founder of the Kolping Society, beatified in 1991

L

  • Adolf Lippold (1926-2005), German historian
  • Adolf Loos (1870-1933), Austrian architect
  • Adolf Lucas (1862-1945), German jurist, District Administrator of Solingen
  • Adolf Lu Hitler Marak ( b. 1948 ), Indian politician

M

  • Adolf Mahr (1887-1951), Austrian archaeologist; later Nazi Rundfunkpropagandist
  • Adolf Maislinger (1903-1985), German prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp
  • Adolph Arthur Marx (1888-1964), American entertainer and actor
  • Adolph Menzel (1815-1905), German painter
  • Adolf Merckle (1934-2009), German entrepreneur
  • Adolf Muschg ( b. 1934 ), Swiss writer

O

  • Adolf Ogi ( born 1942 ), Swiss SVP politician, UN Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace
  • Adolf Ostertag (* 1939), German politician ( SPD), Member of the German Bundestag

R

  • Rading Adolf (1888-1957), German architect
  • Adolf Reich Wine (1898-1944), German educator, economist, politician and resistance fighter Culture
  • Adolf Sahala Rajagukguk (1938-2002), Indonesian General
  • Rettelbusch Adolf (1858-1934), German painter

S

  • Adolf Sauerland ( born 1955 ), former German local politician and mayor of Duisburg
  • Adolph Saurer (1841-1920), Swiss industrialist ( Adolph Saurer AG)
  • Adolf Scharf (1890-1965), Austrian Federal President
  • Adolf of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp (1600-1631), Duke 's son, Sub- coadjutor in the Diocese of Lübeck
  • Adolf Sommerauer (1909-1995), German television pastors

T

  • Adolf of Tecklenburg (1185-1224), German theologian and Bishop of Osnabrück

W

  • Adolf of Vienna, poet of the 14th century
  • Adolf Winkelmann ( Stenographer ) ( 1833-1856 ), German stenographer
  • Adolf Winkelmann ( physicist ) ( 1848-1910 ), German physicist
  • Adolf Winkelmann (physician) ( 1887-1947 ), German physician and SS -Hauptsturmführer
  • Adolf Winkelmann (director) ( born 1946 ), German film director and producer
  • Adolph Winkelmann ( politician ) ( 1813-1883 ), German jurist and politician
  • Adolf Wohlbrück (1896-1967), Austrian actor

Z

  • Adolf Ziegler ( painter) ( 1892-1959 ), German painter and high school teachers
  • Adolf Ziegler ( actor) ( 1899-1985 ), German actor and acting teacher

Other

  • Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981), German - British physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1953
  • Wilhelm Adolf Lette (1799-1868), German politician and jurist

Surname, Adolf form

  • Christopher Adolf ( b. 1976 ), athlete from Palau
  • Helen Adolf (1895-1998), German studies and writer
  • Hilde Adolf (1953-2002), German politician
  • Josef Adolf (1898-1951), Czech nordic combined
  • Ruth Adolf ( b. 1943 ), Swiss alpine skier
  • Adolf Thomas (* 1958), German right-wing extremist
  • Wilhelm Adolf ( 20th century), German luger 1920s

Name, form Adolph

  • Adolph Alexander (* 1965), German film director and screenwriter
  • Alfred Adolph (1895-1959), German politician
  • Alfred Adolph ( General ) ( born 1929 ), Chief of VEB collective combine Oberspree cable factory in the GDR
  • Arthur Adolph (1896-1956), German politician ( DStP )
  • Barbara Adolph (* 1931), German actress
  • Benno Adolph (1912-1967), German physician
  • Ernst Adolph (1873-1955), German Major General
  • Ernst Karl Adolph (1851-1934), German Major General
  • Gerhard Adolph ( b. 1937 ), German walker, actor and presenter
  • Gottlob Adolph (1685-1745), Protestant hymn writer
  • Adolph Johann Baptist (1657-1708), Jesuit and playwright
  • Jörg Adolph ( b. 1967 ), German filmmaker ( Documentary ), Producer and Editor
  • Karl Adolph (1869-1931), Austrian writer
  • Paul Adolph (1840-1914), Mayor of Frankfurt / Oder and member of the Prussian House of Lords
  • Renate Adolph (* 1954), German politician (The Left )
  • Roland Adolph (1946-1997), German theologian
  • Rudolf Adolph (1900-1984), German writer
  • Thomas Viktor Adolph (1914-1997), German journalist
  • Walter Adolph (1902-1975), German priest, vicar general
  • Wolfram Adolph ( b. 1964 ), German writer and journalist
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