Ansgar (name)

Ansgar is the German form of a Germanic male personal name.

Origin and Meaning of the Name

Old High German: Gods peer ( ans = deity; gari = spear ).

Variants

  • Ansar ( Low German ), Oskar ( Scandinavian), Anscharius, Anskarius, Ansger
  • Asgeir ( more qv)
  • Ásgeir
  • Asger

Dissemination

His most widely used today found in north-west Germany, especially in predominantly Catholic areas such as the Münster and the Emsland, the name.

Name-day

February 3

Well-known bearers of the name

  • St. Ansgar ( 801-865 ), Archbishop of Scandinavia, Hamburg and Bremen
  • Ansgar Beckermann (* 1945), German philosopher
  • Ansgar Bethge (1924-2008), German naval officer
  • Ansgar Brinkmann (born 1969 ), German football player
  • Ansgar Denner (* 1960), German physicist
  • Ansgar Dreher (1912-1990), German Benedictine monk and artist
  • Ansgar Focke (* 1982 ), German politician
  • Ansgar Frerich (* 1977), German -recording mixer and cultural workers
  • Ansgar Prince ( born 1930 ), German journalist
  • Ansgar Gabrielsen ( born 1955 ), Norwegian politician
  • Ansgar Haag (* 1955), German theater director, stage director and dramaturg
  • Ansgar Hense (* 1965), German Staatskirchenrechtler
  • Ansgar Heveling (* 1972), German politician
  • Ansgar Hoersting (born 1965 ), President of the Federation of Free Evangelical Churches in Germany
  • Ansgar Hüning (* 1966), German singer
  • Ansgar Jüngel (* 1966), German mathematician
  • Ansgar Koshel (1943-2007), German Roman Catholic theologian
  • Ansgar Lange ( b. 1971 ), German political scientist and publicist
  • Ansgar Mayer ( * 1972 ), German journalist
  • Knut Ansgar Nelson (1906-1990), Roman Catholic bishop of Stockholm
  • Ansgar Nierhoff (1941-2010), German sculptor
  • Ansgar Nünning (* 1959), German Anglist and literary scholar
  • Ansgar Ohly (* 1965), German legal scholar
  • Ansgar Pichen (1913-1945), head of the camp kitchen in the concentration camp Bergen- Belsen
  • Ansgar Puff (* 1956), German auxiliary bishop
  • Ansgar Rau ( * 1959), German radio journalist
  • Ansgar Rieks ( born 1959 ), Major General of the Air Force of the Armed Forces
  • Ansgar Schopp Meyer ( * 1857-1922 ), Major General of the Air Force of the Armed Forces
  • Ansgar Pan (* 1969), German football official
  • Ansgar Skriver (* 1934-1997 ), German journalist
  • Ansgar Staudinger (* 1968), German professor of law
  • Ansgar Striepens (* 1965), German jazz musician
  • Ansgar Trächtler (* 1964), Chair of Control Engineering and Mechatronics at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn
  • Ansgar Maria van Treeck (* 1957), German photographer
  • Ansgar Varnhagen (* 1979), German track and field athlete
  • Wallenhorst (* 1967), German church musician, concert organist and theologian
  • Ansgar Wessling (* 1961), German rower
  • Ansgar Weymann (* 1945), German sociologist
  • Ansgar Zerfaß (* 1965), German communication and media studies
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