Schröder
also Schroeder, Schröter
The northern tailor — the cutter of the Low German plain.
- Origin
- German
- Famous bearer
- Gerhard Schröder (b. 1944), Chancellor of Germany 1998–2005
- Register
- German family
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Current mission
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Help rebuild the Schröder clan →What does the Schröder name mean?
A Low German trade-name of the northern plain — in most districts a tailor (from schroden, to cut), the northern counterpart of the upper-German Schneider. The spelling Schroeder carries it into the diaspora.
The history of Schröder
Where the south says Schneider, the north says Schröder: the same cutting of cloth, named in Low German. It belongs to the northern plain, from Westphalia across to Mecklenburg, and went west with the heavy north-German emigration to America, usually as Schroeder.
Its best-known modern bearer is Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of reunified Germany from 1998 to 2005, a butcher's stepson from Lower Saxony who climbed from real poverty to the chancellery — the kind of ascent the plain trade-names quietly make possible.
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Notable bearers of the Schröder name
- Gerhard Schröder (b. 1944), Chancellor of Germany 1998–2005