Zimmermann

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Zimmermann Family Name
Meaning	Carpenter, room builder
Related names	Zimmer, Zimmerman, Carpenter (surname), Carpentier, Charpentier
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with "Zimmermann"

Zimmermann (German for carpenter) and often is confused with Zimmerman. The loss or addition of the double "n" may imply many things. This may include racial, ethnic, religious or other cultural variations commonly found in Europe.^[1]

Zimmermann is a surname German occupational name for a carpenter from the Middle High German zimbermann (a compound of zimber, zim(m)er ‘timber’, ‘wood’ + mann ‘man’), German Zimmermann.^[1]

• A Y-DNA Project exists for this surname.

Zimmermann may refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 Companies 3 Other 4 See also 5 References

[edit] People

• Andréa Zimmermann (b. 1976), Swiss ski mountaineer
• Arthur Zimmermann (1864–1940), German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1917
• Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970), German composer
• Dan Zimmermann (born 1966), German drummer for power metal band Gamma Ray
• Dominikus Zimmermann (1685–1766), Rococo architect
• Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743–1815), German geographer and zoologist
• Elizabeth Zimmermann (1910–1999), British-born knitter and writer
• Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, birth name of Ethel Merman (1908–1984), American singer and actress
• Frank Peter Zimmermann (born 1965), German violinist
• Herbert Zimmermann (1917–1966), German football commentator
• Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann (1728–1795), Swiss philosopher and physician
• Johann Jacob Zimmermann (1644–1693), German nonconformist
• Margherita Zimmermann (born 1942), Argentinian mezzo-soprano
• Marie Zimmermann (1878–1972), American designer
• Philip R. Zimmermann (born 1954), creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) e-mail encryption software
• Raquel Zimmermann (born 1983), Brazilian fashion model
• Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann (1815–1893), German artist
• Tabea Zimmermann (born 1966), German violist
• Udo Zimmermann (born 1943), German composer
• Walter Zimmermann (born 1949), German composer
• Warren Zimmermann (1934–2004), American ambassador

[edit] Companies

• Zimmermann (piano), German piano company
• Zimmermann (publisher), German sheet-music publisher

[edit] Other

• The Zimmermann Telegram, dispatched on January 19, 1917 to the German ambassador in Mexico at the height of World War I
• Zimmermann-Sassaman key-signing protocol, in cryptography
• Zimmermann reaction, chemical reaction to test for ketosteroids

[edit] See also

• All pages with titles containing "Zimmermann"

[edit] References

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