Lino Strauss was born on 25 August 1907, in Estrela, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He married Olga Hauschild on 22 June 1929, in Estrela, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He died in 2007, in his hometown, at the age of 100, and was buried in Cemitério, Estrela, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Manfred, Otto, Erwin, Inge, Gerda, Gerhard, Hannelore, Heinrich, Helmut, Wolfgang, Albrecht.
German: nickname for an awkward or belligerent person, from Middle High German strūz ‘quarrel, complaint’.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German strūze, German Strauss ‘ostrich’, hence a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of an ostrich, or (among the German nobility) a nickname for someone whose coat-of-arms featured an ostrich, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird. In some cases the Jewish surname was artificial. This surname (in any of the possible senses; see also 1 above and 3 below) is also found in some other European countries, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine), the Netherlands, Poland, and Czechia.
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