When William A Wenzel was born on 29 June 1895, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, William Wenzel, was 26 and his mother, Florence Wenzel, was 26. He married Violet Lillig Hillenbrand on 24 August 1923, in Cook, Illinois, United States. He died on 11 February 1958, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Evergreen Park, Cook, Illinois, United States.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Fritz, Hans, Erna, Franz, Friedrich, Harro, Helmut, Benno, Bernhard, Dieter.
German and Danish: from the German personal name Wenzel, a pet form (with the diminutive suffix -l) of the Middle High German Wenze, a borrowing from Slavic, a short form of the personal name found in Old Czech as Vęceslav (see Vaclav ). The borrowing into German took place before Czech lost its nasal vowels. The surname of German origin is also found in some central European countries, e.g. in Czechia, where it is more commonly spelled in Slavicized forms Vencl and Vencel 1. Compare Vencill , Vensel , and Wentzel 1.
Germanized form of Slovenian Vencelj (see Vencel 2), a cognate of 1 above. Compare Wentzel 2.
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