German Surnames+German Football?

Catfish · 01 May 2005, 10:57 AM

Mattes and Kahler. Those are the last names in my family that are German. One of them is my current last name.

Did anyone ever play for German National Team or Bundesliga 1 or 2 club with a similar last name???

Thank you very much for any links or information that you can provide. Been workin on the old family tree again.

LordR · 01 May 2005, 11:03 AM

Nope.

http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/suche/?suche=kahler
http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/suche/?suche=mattes

Catfish · 01 May 2005, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by LordR

Nope.

http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/suche/?suche=kahler
http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/suche/?suche=mattes

Oh rats. Thought just maybe one of my distant relatives played football somewhere, somehow in Germany.
Thanks for lookin.

LordR · 01 May 2005, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

Oh rats. Thought just maybe one of my distant relatives played football somewhere, somehow in Germany.
Thanks for lookin.

No problem. Maybe the name was somehow changed when they immigrated, happened quite often.

Catfish · 01 May 2005, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by LordR

No problem. Maybe the name was somehow changed when they immigrated, happened quite often.

I have been told that is a very real possibility. I found a city council member in a really small town outside of Nurnberg with Mattes as a last name.

Germanshepherd · 01 May 2005, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Catfish

Mattes and Kahler. Those are the last names in my family that are German. One of them is my current last name.

Did anyone ever play for German National Team or Bundesliga 1 or 2 club with a similar last name???

Thank you very much for any links or information that you can provide. Been workin on the old family tree again.

There have been some players who are called similar to mattes.

For example there has been a player with the name Matthes (Paul) who has played for the german NT in 1908.

And if you look at it Mattes sounds also quite similar to Matthaeus! So who knows?

Do you look similar to him?:

SubPop77 · 01 May 2005, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Germanshepherd

There have been some players who are called similar to mattes.

For example there has been a player with the name Matthes (Paul) who has played for the german NT in 1908.

And if you look at it Mattes sounds also quite similar to Matthaeus! So who knows?

Do you look similar to him?:

Loddar!!

nyceuro · 04 May 2005, 09:31 AM

cool link on the names, my surname is Reiter, not too many names there.
allthough im sure you will find a ton of Mueller, Meyer and Schmidts in various forms.