Brief Life History of Anna
When Anna Graf was born on 27 May 1894, in Wengen, Lauterbrunnen, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Alexander Graf, was 32 and her mother, Anna Schlunegger, was 20. She married Emil Otto Germann on 18 January 1913. She died on 24 October 1939, at the age of 45.
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Spouse and Children
1895– Male
1894–1939 Female
Parents and Siblings
1862–1938 Male
1873–1933 Female
Siblings (4)
1893–1970 Male
1894–1939 Female
1896–1970 Female
1899– Male
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1914
Age 20
1919
Age 25
1920
Age 26
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Kurt, Otto, Erwin, Ernst, Fritz, Gerhard, Hermann, Horst, Manfred, Udo, Alois.
German (also Gräf): status name from Middle High German grāve, grābe, which was used as a title denoting various more or less aristocratic dignitaries and officials. In later times it became established as a title of nobility equivalent to the Romance count. The vocabulary word also denoted a variety of different minor local functionaries in different parts of Germany. In the Grand Duchy of Hesse, for example, it was used for the holder of the comparatively humble office of village headman (compare Mayer , Schulz , and Vogt ). The surname could have originated from any of these senses or be a metonymic occupational or status name for a servant or retainer of a count, or a nickname for someone who gave himself airs and graces. This surname is also found in many other European countries, for example in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of the corresponding Hungarian and Slavic surnames Gróf and Grof . Compare Graef .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name selected, like Herzog and other words denoting titles, because of their aristocratic connotations.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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