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Zimmermann is a German occupational surname which is literally an older German term for a carpenter. The modern German terms for the occupation of carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used.
Zimmer in German means room or archaically a chamber within a structure. The German man or mann is, in English the extra n is ignored, man or worker. Combining the two German words you get a worker of wood or literally translated room man or room worker.
Zimmermann, as a surname is often confused with Zimmerman. The loss or addition of the double "n" may imply many things. This may include linguistic, racial, ethnic, religious or other cultural variations.
Many German names were often Anglicized or simplified by immigration officials upon entry into the United States. With Zimmermann the double 'n' Zimmermann was often seen as redundant in countries where English was spoken. As a part of routine, German names were often Anglicized or simplified later by immigrants to better fit in. Zimmerman became Carpenter for example. Sometimes this was done by immigration officials upon entry into the United States when the immigrant did not know how to spell their name and that variant became the legal name.
Zimmermann is a German-language surname.
Zimmermann may also refer to:
- Zimmermann (piano), a German piano company
- Zimmermann (publisher), a German sheet-music publisher
Zimmermann is a German piano maker and brand name.
Musikverlag Zimmermann is a German music publisher that claims to be the first specialized publisher for instrumental methods. Until 1933, it was also a manufacturer of brass, string, wind musical instruments as well as mechanical musical instruments. Formed in 1876 in Saint Petersburg it also published Russian composers, including works by Nicolai Medtner, Mily Balakirev, Sergei Lyapunov, Alexander Taneyev, Alexander Gretchaninov and foreign musicians such as Leonardo De Lorenzo and Riccardo Drigo. With subsidiaries in Moscow, Riga, Leipzig and London, the company was one of the largest music dealers in Europe.
The company joined with Robert Lienau Musikverlag in 1991.
Usage examples of "zimmermann".
He knew he had to establish the truth of Castleford's death, and that he had to persuade Wolfgang Zimmermann to help him.
Again, there was the persistence of some secret amusement in Zimmermann, as if the disappointment of his political hopes in the collapse of the Berlin Treaty had left him detached from, and amused at, the antics of the body politic.
Beside Zimmermann on the passenger seat, Massinger saw a heaped, neat pile of folders, envelopes and ring-binders.
Someone was framing the head of SIS just as someone had tried to frame Zimmermann as a Russian agent.
There was hope, too, if Zimmermann despised his doubts about Aubrey —?
I know Wolf Zimmermann for some years now… I was attached to the Chancellery Security Section, you understand?
Disch had been disloyal in his own way, perhaps only since Zimmermann had spoken to him.
But, at moments when she was off-guard, as when Zimmermann consulted his watch, it leapt at her with unabated strength.
What Zimmermann had divined from his own conversation with Disch had become clear to Massinger, too.
The Massingers were in Bonn with Zimmermann - the woman, Clara Elsenreith, was in Vienna.
They were some of the last guests enjoying - no, not that word, Zimmermann instructed himself… enduring a late supper.
Margaret, Zimmermann could tell, was alert but stubbornly refusing to accept the importance of the subject he had broached.
She shrugged, as if Zimmermann bored her, but there was a gleam of calculation and alert cunning in her eyes.
She had killed babies, children, women as a matter of course, of routine - something more chilling to Zimmermann when he had first read the depositions than the gratuitous, hideous way her activities had reached above and beyond the call of duty.
Like most of those built in Germany since the war, the prison always appeared to Zimmermann like a grim pastiche of a Costa Brava hotel.