What is "wackernagel"

People with the surname Wackernagel include:

• Barbara Wackernagel-Jacobs (born 1950), a German politician
• Christof Wackernagel (born 1951), German actor and author, terrorist of the RAF
• Elisabeth Wackernagel (born 1947), a German politician ( CDU)
• Katharina Wackernagel (born 1978), a German actress
• Lars Wackernagel (born 1975), German cyclist
• Martin Wackernagel (1881 - 1962), a Swiss art historian
• Mathis Wackernagel (born 1962), a Swiss-born sustainability advocate
• Philipp Wackernagel (1800 - 1877), hymnologist
• (Karl Heinrich) Wilhelm Wackernagel (1806, Berlin - 1869), a German-Swiss philologist, Germanist, father of Jacob
  • Jacob (Jakob) Wackernagel (1853 - 1938), a Swiss Indo-Europeanist and scholar of Sanskrit
    • Wackernagel's Law, named after Jacob