Strickler

Strickler is a Swiss family name.

Origin and Meaning

The name goes back to the Strickler Dromonym for respectively the rope line. This was tantamount to according to the form of a line extending straight path or path Tückes. This specifically refers to a path between the places Wädenswil and Einsiedeln. Today is the place of residence of the original ancestors of the Strickler family is the place Samstagern. For the first time the name Strickler found in 1384 in a document mentioning.

Dissemination

Until the 16th century, the spread of the name was limited to the vicinity of the church today huts, Schoenberg and Hirzel. During the persecution of the Anabaptists in Switzerland and recording disposition of the former Elector Palatine Karl Ludwig I, to compensate for the losses of the Thirty Years War and to promote reconstruction, wandered among others Strickler also some of the Palatinate.

Well-known bearers of the name

• Albert Strickler (1887-1963), Swiss Water engineers and co-author of the Flies formula according Gauckler - Manning - Strickler
• John Strickler (1835-1910), State Archivist in the canton of Zurich and author