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