Hans (name)

Hans is a Germanic male given name in Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, German, Norwegian, Icelandic and Swedish-speaking populations. It was originally short for Johannes (John),[2] but is now also recognized as a name in its own right for official purposes. The earliest documented usage was in 1356 in Sweden,[3] 1360 in Norway,[4] and the 14th century in Denmark.[5]

Hans
PronunciationUS: /ˈhɑːnz/ HAHNZ
UK: /ˈhænz/ HANZ
Danish: [ˈhænˀs]
German: [ˈhans]
Dutch: [ˈhans]
GenderMale
Name dayOctober 25 (Germany)
August 29 (Sweden)
June 24th (Norway, Estonia, Denmark)
December 27 (Finland)
Origin
Word/namePet form of Johannes
Meaning"God has been gracious"[1]
Region of originGerman, Dutch, Scandinavian
Other names
Pet form(s)Hampus
Related namesHanni, Hanno, Hánno, Hannu, Hánsa, Hansi, Hanski, Hanssi, Hanse, Hansu, Hensar, Hampe, Hanseraq, Hansinnguaq, Hasse

The name "Hansel" (German: Hänsel; IPA: /ˈhɛn.zəl/, [ˈhɛnzl̩]) is a diminutive, meaning "little Hans". Another diminutive with the same meaning is Hänschen (IPA: /ˈhɛns.çən/), found in the German proverb "Was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr", which translates roughly as: "What Hansel doesn't learn, Hans will never learn".

Alternate forms

Other variants include: Han, Hawns, Hanns, Hannes, Hanse, Hansi (also female), Hansie, Hansele, Hansal, Hensal, Hanserl, Hännschen, Hennes, Hännes, Hänneschen, Henning, Henner, Honsa, Johan, Johann, Jan, Jannes, Jo, Joha, Hanselmann, Hansje.

Pet, diminutive, alternative and other language forms are:

Feminine forms are:

  • Hansina, Hansine
  • Hanna/Hannah/Hanne (Norwegian)
  • Ioana
  • Jana
  • Jane
  • Joana (Portuguese and Catalan)
  • Jeanne (French)
  • Joanne
  • Joan
  • Johanna
  • Johanne (Norwegian)
  • Jean
  • Janice, Janet, both shortened as "Jan"
  • Non-English variants adopted as English names include Jeanette
  • Seònaid, Sinéad, Seònag

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Medicine

Military and paramilitary
  • Hans Aumeier (1906–1948), German Nazi SS deputy commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp executed for war crimes
  • Hans Berndtson (born 1945), Swedish Army lieutenant general
  • Hans Bothmann (1911–1946), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
  • Hans Dreyer (1930/31–2015), South African Police major general and head of Koevoet
  • Hans Hagnell (1919–2006), Swedish politician
  • Hans Helwig (1881–1952), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
  • Hans Horrevoets (1974–2006), Dutch sea sailor
  • Hans Hüttig (1894–1980), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
  • Hans Kalm (1889–1981), Estonian-born military officer
  • Hans Krebs (SS general) (1888–1947), Moravian-born Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes
  • Hans Loritz (1895–1946), German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
  • Hans von Luck (1911–1997), German officer
  • Hans Möser (1906–1948), German Nazi SS concentration camp officer executed for war crimes
  • Hans Osara (c. 1560–1601), Finnish lieutenant in the Cudgel War
  • Hans Oster (1887–1945), German brigadier general and deputy head of military intelligence
  • Hans Simonsson (1880–1965), Swedish Navy vice admiral

Music

Politics

Science
  • Hans Albert Einstein (1904–1973), Swiss-American professor of hydraulic engineering, son of Albert Einstein
  • Hans Ankum (1930–2019), Dutch legal scholar
  • Hans Avé Lallemant (1938–2016), Dutch-born American geologist
  • Hans Bethe (1906–2005), German-American nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate
  • Hans Bos (born 1950), Dutch biochemist and cancer researcher
  • Hans Capel (1936–2023), Dutch physicist
  • Hans Cohen (1923–2020), Dutch microbiologist
  • Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields
  • Hans Freeman (1929–2008), German-born Australian protein crystallographer who elucidated the structure of plastocyanin
  • Hans Geiger (1882–1945), German physicist, inventor of the Geiger counter
  • Hans Hass (1919–2013), Austrian diver, naturalist and film-maker
  • Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), German born, British physician and biochemist. Identified citric acid cycle
  • Hans Küng (1928–2021), Swiss Catholic theologian and author
  • Hans Lauda (1896–1974), Austrian industrialist
  • Hans Lowey, Austrian-American chemist
  • Hans Merensky (1871–1952), South African geologist
  • Hans Oeschger (1927–1998), Swiss climatologist
  • Hans Steffen (1865–1937), German geographer and explorer of Patagonia
  • Hans Trass (1928–2017), Estonian ecologist and botanist

Sports

Other fields
  • Hans Werner Aufrecht (born 1936), German automotive engineer, one of the founders of AMG Engine Production and Development
  • Hans Benno Bernoulli (1876–1959), Swiss architect
  • Hans Biebow (1902–1947), German chief of Nazi administration of the Łódź Ghetto, executed for war crimes
  • Hans Claessen (1563–1624), Dutch founder of the New Netherland Company
  • Hans von Dohnanyi (1902–1945), German jurist and resistance fighter
  • Hans Otto Hoheisen (1905–2003), South African conservationist and philanthropist
  • Hans Mayer (1907–2001), German literary scholar
  • Hannes Meyer (or Hans Emil Meyer, 1889–1954) Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus
  • Hans Niemann (born 2003), American chess player
  • Hans Scholl (1918–1943), German resistance fighter
  • Hans Wesemann (1895–1971), German journalist and Gestapo agent
  • Hans Wittwer (1894–1952), Swiss architect and Bauhaus teacher
  • Hans of Denmark, Scandinavian king under the Kalmar Union.
  • Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein.
  • Hans-Adam II, the reigning Prince of Liechtenstein, since 1989.

Fictional characters

See also

References
  1. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "John" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. Dahl, Árni (2005). Navnabókin. ISBN 9789991849393.
  3. Otterbjörk, Roland (1979). Svenska förnamn. ISBN 9789121109373.
  4. Stemshaug, Ola; Kruken, Kristoffer (1995). Norsk Personnamnleksikon. ISBN 978-8252120363.
  5. Meldgaard, Eva Villarsen (2004). Den store navnebog. ISBN 9788711160435.
  • Hans on BehindTheName.com
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