Jakob Albert Ludwig Tretter was born on 25 August 1874, in Bavaria, Germany as the son of Franz Josef Tretter and Katharina Mees. He lived in Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany in 1874.
German: nickname and occupational name from Middle High German treter ‘dancer, clown’, an agent derivative of treten ‘to step or dance’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Yiddish treter, German Treter ‘grape presser’.
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