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Schenk is a common German and Dutch occupational surname derived from schenken (=to pour out or serve) and referring to the medieval profession of cup-bearer or wine server (later also to tavern keeper). 1 People with this surname include:
- Ard Schenk (born 1944), Dutch speed skater (see also: Ard Schenk Award)
- August Schenk (born 1815), German botanist and paleobotanist
- Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (1914–2000), American children's writer and illustrator
- Bel Schenk (born 1975), Australian poet
- Bert Schenk (born 1970), German boxer
- Berthold von Schenk (1895–1974), American Lutheran pastor
- Christian Schenk (born 1965), East German decathlete
- Dieter Schenk (born 1937), German author and police officer
- Francis Joseph Schenk (1901–1969), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
- Franziska Schenk (born 1974), German speed skater
- Georg Schenk von Limpurg, (1470–1522), Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
- Hanne Schenk (born 1984), Swiss bobsledder
- Hans Schenk (born 1949), Dutch footballer
- Heinz Schenk (1924-2014), German television moderator
- Henk Schenk (born 1945), Dutch-born American wrestler
- Isobel Schenk (1898–1980), Australian Christian missionary
- Johan Schenk (1660 – after 1712), Dutch musician and composer
- Johann Baptist Schenk (1753–1836), Austrian composer
- Josephus Schenk (born 1980), Dutch darts player
- Juliane Schenk (born 1982), German badminton player
- Juraj Schenk (born 1948), Slovak government minister
- Karl Schenk (1823–1895), Swiss pastor and politician
- Leopold Schenk (1840–1902), Austrian embryologist
- Lynn Schenk (born 1945), American (Californian) politician
- Nick Schenk (born 1965), American screenwriter
- Otto Schenk (born 1930), Austrian actor
- Pavel Schenk (born 1941), Czech volleyball player
- Peter Schenk the Elder (1660–1712), German-born Dutch engraver and cartographer
- Peter Schenk the Younger (1693–1775), Dutch engraver and map publisher
- Rodolphe Samuel Schenk (1888–1969), Australian Christian missionary
- Xandro Schenk (born 1993), Dutch footballer
- Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), German army officer, aristocrat and resistance member
- For his relatives, see the Stauffenberg family
Usage examples of "schenk".
Sergeant Schenk remarked, pushing the prisoner through the cloth-covered entrance of a vacant hut.
Sergeant Schenk, too, had joined the game and though the terrorist did not understand a word of what was being yelled at him in German, the men entertained themselves with filthy oaths and wisecracks just to keep up spirit: Finally the prisoner tumbled and fell on the hard ground and remained folded up with his hands protecting his loins and his head between his knees.
Xuey, Schenk, and four men departed on a long reconnaissance trip into the hills south of the settlement, where I suspected the guerrillas had had their camp along the creek.
And I wondered how Xuey, Sergeant Schenk, and the party were faring out in the hills, for they carried not even burlaps.
Sergeant Schenk had discovered the Viet Minh camp and had made a diagram of the area.
From a cliff above the cascade, Schenk and Xuey observed the camp for over two hours.
The camp, Schenk explained, was so cleverly arranged that it was almost impossible to move a large body of troops against it.
We crossed the stream and the road three miles west of the village, following the trail which Xuey and Schenk had already surveyed.
Leaving Suoi with the men in a secluded depression, Xuey, Schenk, Schulze, and I proceeded to the cliff and settled down near the precipice, where jutting boulders covered with shrubs permitted us to survey the enemy base at leisure.
There was no bamboo around and Sergeant Schenk had to fetch some from a thicket two miles away.
Sergeant Schenk, who was watching the action below the cliff from a narrow parapet, now glanced up and nodded.
Xuey, Sergeant Schenk, and one platoon occupied the vacant gun emplacements of the Viet Minh.
Xuey waved boldly to them as they passed the first gun emplacement, now manned by Schenk and six troops.
My men were preparing a defense perimeter with Sergeant Krebitz, Schenk, Corporal Altreiter, and even Kurt Zeisl, our medical officer, shouting orders, running from position to position to bolster the men.
Sergeant Schenk uttered a savage yell as he smashed the head of a terrorist with a swinging blow, then stabbed another one with such force that not only the bayonet but also a part of the muzzle entered the wound.