What is "hecker"

Hecker may refer to:

• Hecker (surname)
• Hecker, Illinois, United States, a small village
• Hecker (motorcycle), a former motorcycle manufacturer in Nürnberg, Germany
• Hecker Flour, flour company in U.S.

Hecker was a company in Nürnberg, Germany that manufactured motorcycles from 1922 until 1956.

Production began with engines supplied by Scharrer & Groß. In 1925 S & G started making their own motorcycles so Hecker switched to engines from 198cc to 548cc bought from JAP in London, England. In the late 1920s Hecker also manufactured a model with a 746cc V-twin engine from Motosacoche of Switzerland. In 1931 Germany's economic crisis led the company to switch to making lightweight motorcycles powered by Sachs engines. After the Second World War Hecker built lightweight motorcycles with ILO and Villiers engines. Production terminated in 1956.

Hecker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Chris Hecker, game programmer
• Ewald Hecker (1843-1909), German psychiatrist, originator of the concept of hebephrenia

• (1879-1954), German industrialist and Nazi SS-Brigadeführer

• Florian Hecker (1975-), German electronic musician, publishing mostly on Vienna's Mego label
• Friedrich Hecker (1811-1881), a German Forty-Eighter and veteran of the American Civil War
• Isaac Thomas Hecker (1818-1889), Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Paulist Fathers
• Jakob Hecker (1887-1969), German painter
• Johann Julius Hecker (1707-1768), a German educator who established the Berlin Realschule
• Justus Hecker (1795-1850), German medical historian
• Maximilian Hecker (1977-), German pop musician, publishing mostly on Berlin's Kitty-Yo label
• Robert Hecker (1965-) Guitarist for the Southern California punk band, Redd Kross
• Scott Hecker, sound editor
• Siegfried Hecker (born 1943), Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, professor at Stanford University
• Tim Hecker (1974-), Canadian electronic musician, also known as Jetone
• Hecker Brothers, publishers