Kornfuhrer Family History & Genealogy

Summary

The surname Kornfuhrer, which may also be spelled Kornführer or Kornfuehrer, originated in Germany.  The earliest mention of this surname may be in Upper Silesia in 1397 and the surname translates to "grain driver."  For more detailed information on the Kornfuhrer family see the history, origin, meaning and alternate spellings of the surname Kornfuhrer below. 

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Name Origin

The name Kornfuhrer (or Kornführer) means "grain driver" and, like many family names, it once was a job title referring to the grain driver of the village.  "Korn" means "grain" in German and British English -- wheat, rye, barley, oats.  (In British English the yellow stuff on a cob, which Americans call "corn", is called "maize".)  And "-führer" as a suffix in German means "driver" (except in German military titles as well as in Nazi titles).  Examples are "Flugzeugführer", a now archaic German word for "pilot", and "Lokomotivführer", the still currently used term for a "train/locomotive engineer".

Spellings & Pronunciations

Kornfuhrer may be spelled as Kornführer or Kornfuehrer.

Nationality & Ethnicity

The Kornfuhrer family originated in Germany.  The oldest mention of the family name Kornführer (or Kornfuhrer)is in a document from 1397 in Neustadt/Oberschlesien [Upper Silesia] -- see Hans Bahlow, Deutsches Nameslexikon. The Kornfuhrer family is primarily German.

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Early Kornfuhrers

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