Sommer

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Sommer is the German word for the season "summer".

In architecture, "Sommer" or "summer" is a girder or main beam of a floor; if supported on two storey posts and open below, it is called a bressummer or breastsummer.

Used as a family name it may refer to:

• Alfred Sommer (ophthalmologist) (b. 1943), American academic
• António de Sommer Champalimaud
• Barbara Sommer (b. 1948), German politician (CDU)
• Bert Sommer (1949-1990), American musician and actor
• Bertold Sommer (*b. 1937), German justice
• Daniel Sommer
• Elke Sommer (b. 1940), German actress
• Eva Dorothea Sommer (later Eva Dorothea Ehrenberg) (1891-1964), the wife of historian Victor Ehrenberg (historian).
• Frederick Sommer
• Günter Sommer (b. 1943), German Jazz musician
• Hans Sommer, Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmführer)
• Heinrich Hieronymus Sommer (1804-1861)
• Hilde Sommer (b. 1917), German athlete
• Inken Sommer (b. 1937), German actress
• Jakob Karl Ernst Sommer (or Carl Sommer) (1911-1981)
• Johann Friedrich Joseph Sommer (1793-1856), lawyer, scientist and publicist
• Johann Jakob Sommer (1850-1925)
• Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer (1881-1952)
• Johannes Sommer (or Summer) (died before 1595)
• Juergen Sommer (b. 1969) U.S. soccer goalkeeper
• Marc Oliver Sommer (b. 1962), German manager
• Margarete Sommer (1893-1965)
• Michael Sommer (b. 1952), chairman of Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (Federation of German Trade Unions)
• Raymond Sommer (1906-1950), French racing driver
• Renate Sommer (b. 1958), German politician (CDU)
• Robert Sommer
• Robert Sommer (psychologist)
• Ron Sommer (b. 1949), German manager
• Sigi Sommer (1914-1996), German author and journalist
• Theo Sommer (b. 1930), German journalist
• Vladimir Sommer
• William Sommer
• Wolfgang Sommer (b. 1951), actor, director and author

Sommer is also the name of the fictional consultor of the German youth magazine Bravo (so called Dr. Sommer Team)

[edit] See also

• Summer, Zommer