Mensch... a Jewish name?

[Chris Boonzaier]

I am researching an Imperial officer who left goverment employ in 1934... His name was mensch.

Does anyone know if this is usually a Jewish name in Germany?

Googling the name comes up with millions of unrelated hits.

Thanks

Chris

[Naxos]

don't think so - if you check here: http://gedbas.genealogy.net/suchen.jsp?nachname=Mensch you notice that most of them were baptized -

Hardy

[Ulsterman]

there is a book of jewish participants in the great War -@ 148,000 names or so. i think Dave Danner has a link to it somewhere earlier.

(Or my memory is faulty-only Jewish war dead?).

[Guest Rick Research]

Chris-- my WW1 reserve Oberleutnant Lautenschlager was chucked out of the Bavarian civil service at the same time and he was Protestant and later recalled as a Major dR zV during the war.

Could have been purely political, or a wife who was the "problem" or just refused to swear the oath to Hitler....

[Chris Boonzaier]

Part one of the Mensch group can be found on the october 15 update..

http://www.kaiserscross.com/85801/home.html