Brief Life History of Willi
When Willi Bauer was born on 24 July 1914, in Fellbach, Rems-Murr-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, his father, Emanuel Gotthilf Bauer, was 31 and his mother, Elise Sofie Kantenwein, was 29. He married Maria Karolina Gehrer on 2 May 1938, in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria. He died on 24 July 1988, in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria, at the age of 74, and was buried in Hard, Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria.
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1918
Armistice ending World War I.
1918
The Hapsburg Empire is overthrown. Austria became a republic.
1936
Berlin, Germany hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Erwin, Fritz, Helmut, Heinz, Manfred, Franz, Gerhard, Johannes, Wolfgang.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for a peasant or nickname meaning ‘neighbor, fellow citizen’, from Middle High German (ge)būr, Middle Low German būr, denoting an occupant of a būr, a small dwelling or building. This word later fell together with Middle High German būwære, an agent noun from Old High German būwan ‘to cultivate’, later also (at first in Low German dialects) ‘to build’. The precise meaning of the Jewish surname, which is of later formation, is unclear. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), the Netherlands, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic status names or surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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