Krüger
also Krueger, Kröger
The innkeeper — keeper of the village's one warm room.
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The seat of Krüger
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Current mission
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Help rebuild the Krüger clan →What does the Krüger name mean?
A Low German trade-name — in the north and east the innkeeper or tavern-keeper, from Krug, a tavern (in some districts a potter, from Krug, a jug). Thick across the northern plain, Brandenburg and the old eastern provinces.
The history of Krüger
In the Low German north the Krug was the village inn, and the Krüger the man who kept it — the one warm, lit, public room for miles, where news, beer, marriages and quarrels were all transacted. To keep the Krug was to hold the social centre of the parish, and the name crowds the records of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg and the east.
Carried abroad with the heavy eastern emigration, it is borne worldwide as Krueger — and the most famous Krüger of all, Paul Kruger, the bearded Boer president who fought the British Empire to a standstill and gave his name to a national park, descends from exactly this north-German stock, by way of the Cape.
Explore With Your Ancestors · Beta
Pick any year from 500 to 1945 and any place on earth — the Krüger country, or a shore no Krüger ever reached. The chronicler sets the scene; the deeds are yours.