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Help[Surname] Re: Stortenbeker
in reply to a message by Louise
Störte(n)be(c)ker is a German surname. It contains a whole sentence: "(Ich) stürze den Becher" (I gulp down the cup). It probably started out as a nickname for a drinker.
Th pirate Klaus Störtebeker from Wismar was beheaded in 1401 in Hamburg.
Source: Rosa und Volker Kohlheim, Familiennamen, DUDEN Mannheim, 2000
Th pirate Klaus Störtebeker from Wismar was beheaded in 1401 in Hamburg.
Source: Rosa und Volker Kohlheim, Familiennamen, DUDEN Mannheim, 2000
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