Wetterhahn

Wetterhahn
Family name
Meaning	weather vane, weathercock (Dutch: Weerhaan, Windhaan)
Region of origin	Germany
Language(s) of origin	German
Related names	Wehrhahn (< MLG wederhane, Dutch: Weerhaan); Wetter; Hahn; Brausewetter , Bösewetter, Kiesewetter, Schönwetter (de), Trübswetter Similar surnames Windvogel ("kite")

Wetterhahn means weather vane in German (also German: Wetterfahne, Windfahne, Windrichtungsgeber, Anemoskop):

• Doris Wetterhahn (de) (1921, Gießen - 1983), Jewish German female educator
• Karen Wetterhahn (1949–1997), US female chemist

Wehrhahn

Wehrhahn is a Low German variation:

• Karl Wehrhahn, a scholar, see Legend
• Karl Wehrhahn GmbH & Co. KG^[1]
• (der) Wehrhahn Verlag (de), an academic publisher of Hanover, founded 1996 by Matthias Wehrhahn
• Michael Wehrhahn, American actor^[2]

Also a place name of Düsseldorf

• (die) Wehrhahn-Linie ("Wehrhahn Line"), an U-Bahn railway track of Düsseldorf^[3]

• (der) Bahnhof Düsseldorf Wehrhahn (de)

Wehrhan

Wehrhan is a variation:

• Christoph Friedrich Wehrhan (1761–1808), German preacher and writer
• Karl Wehrhan (de) (1871–1939), German scholar, writer and linguist
• Otto Friedrich Wehrhan (1795–1860), German theologian and writer

Werhahn

Werhahn is a variation, and a family name of Neuss:

• Agnes Werhahn (de) (born 1957)
• Heinz Martin Werhahn (1921–2000), German palaeographer, historian and librarian
• Peter Wilhelm Werhahn (de) (? - 1871)

• Peter Werhahn (de) (1842 - 1922), banker from Neuss; son of Peter Wilhelm Werhahn

• Wilhelm Werhahn (de) (1880, Neuss - 1964), German banker and entrepreneur from Neuss; son of Peter Werhahn

• the Wilh. Werhahn KG (de), Neuss

• Wilhelm Cornelius Werhahn (de) (1891, Neuss - 1945), German entrepreneur

References

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