When Wilhelm Theodor Oppermann was born on 15 March 1924, in Paderborn, Paderborn, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, his father, Theodor Hermann Fritz Oppermann, was 33 and his mother, Maria Schürmann, was 29. In 1985, at the age of 61, his occupation is listed as volksschullehrer in Wewer, Paderborn, Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He died on 6 October 1985, in his hometown, at the age of 61, and was buried in Wewer, Paderborn, Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Some characteristic forenames: German Armin, Christoph, Erwin, Heinz, Siegfried, Theresia.
North German: occupational name for a churchwarden or sexton, with particular reference to his task of taking the collection, Middle Low German opperman, from opper(gilt) ‘donation’ (oppern ‘to donate, to sacrifice’, Late Latin operari) + man ‘man’. Compare Opperman and Upperman .
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