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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Swiss and South German: literally ‘old master’, hence an older person of high status, as distinguished from a younger member of his family; also a name for a servant in the retinue of such a person.
  2. Swiss and South German: habitational name from a place so called near Leipzig.
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