Goth_(surname)

Goth (surname)

Goth (surname)

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Goth, Göth (also Goeth) or Góth is a surname of German and Hungarian origin.

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The German-language surname is a variant of Goethe (also Göthe), which belongs to the group of surnames derived from given names, in this case given names in Got-, in most cases likely Gottfried (c.f. Götz). The name is comparatively rare; the German phonebook (as of 2013) has 179 entries for Göth and 28 entries for Goeth.[1]

Notable people with the surname

Goth

Göth or Goeth

  • Amon Göth (1908–1946), Austrian Nazi commandant of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp and executed war criminal
    • Jennifer Teege, née Göth (born 1970) daughter of Monika Hertwig
      • Monika Hertwig [de], née Göth (born 1945) daughter of Amon Göth and subject of the 2006 documentary Inheritance
  • Eduard Göth [de] (1898–1944), Austrian teacher and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
  • Georg Göth [de] (1803–1873), Austrian historian and naturalist
  • Martin Göth [de] (born 1957), German composer
  • Ottilie Goeth [de] (1836–1926), German-American author

Góth

  • Móric Góth [hu] (1873–1944), Hungarian painter, father of Sárika Góth
  • Sándor Góth [hu] (1869–1946), Hungarian actor and director
  • Sárika Góth (1880–1953), Hungarian-Dutch painter, daughter of Móric Góth

Fictional characters

  • Goth family, characters in The Sims video game franchise

See also

References

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