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