- Frenzel
Family name
name = Frenzel
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pronunciation = Frenzel
meaning =patronymic name meaning "son of Franciscus"
region = German
origin =Rhineland
related names =Frentzel ,Frencel andFrencl
footnotes = [ [http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html 1990 Census Name Files ] ]Frenzel is a German
family name that originated in theRhineland , and today is prevalent amongVolga German s and in east-central Germany, focused onDresden . It is apatronymic name meaning "son of Franciscus".There are several historical figures named Frenzel:
*Alfred Frenzel - Cold War-era Czechoslovakian spy
*Anton Frenzel (1790-1873), bishop of Ermland
*Bartholomäus Frenzel (mention 1576), German poet
*Bill Frenzel - Minnesota Congressman
*Elisabeth Frenzel (born 1915), German literary notable
*Ernst Frenzel (born 1904), German banker, SA brigade leader and Reichstag delegate
*Fritz Frenzel (1855-1915), German writer and publisher (alias August Bäbchen)
*Gotfried Frenzel (born 1929), German art historian and restorer
*Hans Frenzel (1921-1989), German broadcast director
*Herbert Frenzel (novelist) , German novelist
*Herbert A. Frenzel (1908-1995), German theatre notable
*Hermann Robert Frenzel (1850-?), German organist and technical writer
*Hermann Walter Gotthold Frenzel (1895-?), German HNO physician and Luftwaffe officer, inventor of the Frenzel Maneuvers to balance pressure
*Ivo Frenzel (born 1924), German author, "Daten deutscher Dichtung"
*Johann Gottlieb Frenzel (1715-1780), German lawyer, historian and philosopher
*Johann Gottlieb Abraham Frenzel (1782-1855), German coppersmith
* Karl Frenzel (1827-1914), German writer and critic
*Karl Frenzel - SS-Oberscharführer, one of Sobibor's SS commanders
*Oskar Frenzel (1855-1915), German animal and landscape painter
*Paul Frenzel (1824-1872), German animal and landscape painter
*Walther Frenzel (1884-1970), German engineer and professor of textile chemistry
**as well as one of the sailors lost on the U.S.S. Arizona on December 7, 1941Further, there are several businesses named Frenzel, among them a
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