What is "ackermann"

Acker comes from German or Old English, meaning "field". It is related to the word " acre", and therefore Ackermann means "fieldman".

Notable people with the surname include:

• Anton Ackermann (1905–1973), German foreign minister
• Barbara Ackermann, American politician
• Christian Ackermann (died 1710), Estonian sculptor
• Colin Ackermann (born 1991), South African cricketer
• Dorothea Ackermann (1752–1821), German actress
• Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann (1761–1835), Bohemian public servant
• Franz Ackermann (born 1963), German abstract artist
• Georg Ackermann (disambiguation)
• Gustav Adolph Ackermann (1791–1872), German lawyer
• Haider Ackermann (born 1971), French fashion designer
• Hans Ackermann (16th century), German dramatist
• Henri Ackermann (1922–2014), Luxembourgian racing cyclist
• Jacob Fidelis Ackermann (1765–1815), German doctor
• Jens Ackermann (born 1975), German politician
• Jessie Ackermann (1857–1951), social reformer, feminist, writer, traveller
• Johan Ackermann (born 1970), South African rugby union player
• Johan Christian Ackermann (1740–1795), Swedish landscape gardener
• Johann Adam Ackermann (1780–1853), German landscape painter
• Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann (1756–1801), German doctor
• Josef Ackermann (disambiguation), several people with this name, including:
  • Josef Ackermann (born 1948), Swiss banker and former chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank
• Kirk von Ackermann (died 2003), American contractor and murder victim
• Klaus Ackermann (born 1946), German footballer
• Konrad Ernst Ackermann (1710–1771), German actor
• Leopold Ackermann (Petrus Fouresius, 1771–1831), biblical archaeologist
• Liliane Ackermann (1938–2007), French scientist and author
• Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813–1890), French poet
• Lourens Ackermann (born 1934), South African judge
• Manfred Ackermann (1898–1991), Austrian politician and trade union official
• Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann (1757–1775), German actress
• Max Ackermann (1887–1975), German artist
• Oliver Ackermann, American musician
• Otto Ackermann (disambiguation)
• Rita Ackermann (born 1968), Hungarian-American artist
• Ronny Ackermann (born 1977), German skier
• Rosemarie Ackermann (born 1952), German high jumper
• Rudolph Ackermann (1764–1834), German-born English publisher, printer, and inventor
• Silke Ackermann, German museum curator and historian of science
• Sophie Charlotte Ackermann (1714–1792), German actress
• Stefan Ackermann, German singer
• Stephan Ackermann (born 1963), German bishop
• Stephanus Ackermann (born 1985), Namibian cricketer
• Theodor Ackermann (1825–1896), German pathologist
• Uwe Ackermann (born 1960), East German hurdler
• Wilhelm Ackermann (1896–1962), German mathematician
• Wilhelm Heinrich Ackermann (1789–1848), German teacher

See Ackermann (surname) for many people with this name.

Ackermann may also refer to the following things:

• Several mathematical objects named after Wilhelm Ackermann
  • Ackermann function
  • Ackermann ordinal
  • Ackermann set theory
• Ackermann steering geometry, in engineering
• Der Ackermann aus Böhmen, or "The Ploughman from Bohemia", a work of poetry in Early New High German by Johannes von Tepl, written around 1401