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Jockel (also Jockl ) is considered a short or pet form of the name Jacob, Jörg or Joachim. In addition, Jockel found as a surname or as a standard term.
Jockel as first name
In the Odenwald Jacob Ihrig (1866-1941) was known as " robbery Acher Jockel ". In Geopark mountain road -Odenwald one finds the " Jockel - trail " around the home village of the " robbery Acher Jockel ". Along the way, tell stories about the boards Jockel. The most famous story of the " robbery Acher Jockels " is a meeting with one of the Counts of Erbach- Fuerstenau in Falk Gesäßer forest. The " robbery Acher Jockel " is perceived since the 1950s as the Odenwald " national hero ", other sources see it as modern village idiot of his time.
In the criminal history of the Ruhr was Joachim Kroll (1933-1991) as the serial killer " Jockel - the Ruhrkannibale " notorious.
The first name Jockel is also special from a nursery rhyme song known ( first verse ):
Other known under this name form carrier:
- Former Mayor of Mainz Jockel Fuchs (1919-2002)
- The actor Jockel Tschiersch ( b. 1957 )
- The watchmaker Jacob autumn Reith (1763-1845) - inventor of the " Jockele - clock ", a Black Forest clock that requires only a weight.
- The photographer Jockel Finck (1962-2006)
- President of the German Beach Soccer Association ( www.dbsv.net ) Jockel Lieske (1971 to date) - inventor of the " Jockel - Turns"
Jockel as a surname
" Jockel " but also exists as a surname, as proven in the Kaliningrad region and Bukovina since the 18th century.
Jockel course stands
Especially in youth language is a person who has done something stupid or said, referred to as ( poor or stupid ) Jockel (see Depp). Jockel is also the name of a foolish, inept people.
In medieval Latin a " Joculator " was a jester or juggler. Moderate professional buffoon and performer of comic scenes dominated the imitative - caricaturing animal and human figure as well as monologic parodies to popular secular themes. Joculatoren occurred - mostly in smaller groups - in public places, at fairs and festivals, and lived on alms their audience. Very popular were Joculatoren races, for which the Joculatoren each other in the presentation of comic types ( drunk moron ) sought to beat. In some scenes, also a female person acted as a partner, the " spilwip ". Joculatoren happy to take current events to the object for their performances, most of which were described as possenreißerisch - obscene, rarer than demanding satirizing.
In contrast, the sailor language Jockel called an auxiliary motor, far away cares in the front part of the ship structures during the vessel is in port for the electric current. It is both a connection with " stupid Jockel " possible because he is good except in an emergency to nothing more than " chug along " with or " joggeln ", which means as much as slow, chugging run or ride without haste jolting. Thus, the " Jockel group " together the technician on duty, as a running engine is to check every hour. In the Navy, a compressor " air Jockel " called and compressing air is called " jockeln air ".
The Tübingen Jockele
The Tübingen Jockele is a - as its model - a thoughtful and Overview preserving single figure in the Swabian- Alemannic carnival, based on the historical writings "In the Footsteps of the rafters " by Emil Ell and " cityscape in Transition" by Isolde Kurz. He wears a reminiscent of a carpenter gap black corduroy jacket with silver buttons and watch chain and always has a meter stick, an ax, the poking stick and a thick wound hemp rope here. In Tübingen, the Neckar rafters were " blocking Jockele, sonscht 's lousy at Elleboge " by the students with the Mocking Shout teased, which means as much as " Jockele brake, otherwise there is a bad elbow ." As the " elbow " referred to a arisen through carelessness jackknife -like jamming of each other vertauten rafts in the river.