When Emil Albert Preuss was born on 19 September 1901, in Kraupischken, Ragnit, East Prussia, Prussia, Germany, his father, August Preuss, was 43 and his mother, Emilie Seehaus, was 27. He died in 2003, at the age of 102.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Eckhard, Erwin, Gerda, Horst, Gunter, Ilse, Klaus, Lothar, Monika, Rainer.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from Prussia (German Preussen), a former state of northern Germany, so called from the ethnic name of a Baltic people (see Prus ) displaced by the Germans during the 13th century, or an ethnic name for a member of this people.
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