The "Seemann" Page

This page lists people who share my surname Seemann, and provides information and links about the name itself.

People

Sources

Some of the information on this page was originally obtained using WWW search engines. The rest has been emailed to me by people who have found this page. If you would like to be added to the list, feel free to mail me a short email message with your details.

Origin of the name

The surname is of Germanic origin. In modern German it means "navigator", "sailor", or "seaman". The surname is really made up of two words, "See" and "Mann". In German, See means "lake" or "sea", or as a prefix, "naval", and Mann simply means "man".

Jürgen Seemann says: Based on my own research about my family I've been sure, that the surname "Seemann" had nothing connection to the word "sea" or "lake". Original was the surname write "Saemann" meaning a "farmer who sowed seed". Our Ancestors were all farmers. Since ca. 1500 had changed the spelling to "Seemann". Still today exists in Germany and Austria many families with the surname "Saemann". Something about my researches: the first ancestors of my familiy lived in Lübeck in the end of the 16. century. in the middle of the 18. century became my ancestor preacher at the "Münster"-church in Doberan. Since then my familiy lived in Mecklenburg.

Seemann Facts

• Michael Seemann schreibt: This is Michael Seemann writing and I want to tell you that there are a lot more SEEMANNs in my homecountry AUSTRIA, especially in the capitel-city Vienna! If you look up "Seemann" in the phonebook you will find five ore more pages of people named Seemann there.

• P. Seemann in Chile says: There are many other Seemann's in Chile, but thei have different ancestors (than me)

• J-M Seemann says: My ancestors came from Sweden during the 17th century .... there are a lot of Seemann's living in the east of France.

• Claudia Antonia Seemann Calleja says: In México there are a lot of Seemann families, all come from the same ancestors that came from Germany and arrived at Veracruz.

• Mette Seemann provided this amusing information: Now to the famous family abnormality: grab your nose with your left hand. Then stick your right elbow into the loop formed by your left arm. Slip your right hand all the way through, without letting go the firm grip round your nose - If you succeed: then you are a "real" Seemann.

• Donald McCune has provided this information about Carl Seemann: Torsten, I found a thirty-year-old edition of Schwann's Artist Guide and as of 1966, here's what.

  First, I discovered that I misremembered the name. The pianist Carl Seemann spells/spelled his name just as yours.

  Carl Seemann played and recorded extensively with the violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan during the mid-century decades. As of 1966, all Carl Seemann's recordings in current release were piano-violin (or violin-piano) duos with Schneiderhan, and all on DGG. They were:

  • The complete cycle of Beethoven pf-vn sonatas.
  • The complete cycle of Brahms vn-pf sonatas.
  • Vn-pf sonatas of Franck and Prokofiev (no. 2).

  I owned a single disk of the duo playing a miscellany of "modern" sonatas and short works for piano and violin, by Stravinsky, Bartok, Prokofiev, etc., probably recorded in the late 1950's. Seemann's musicianship was excellent and the pair played extremely well together.

Author: Torsten Seemann   Email: torsten@seemann.id.au