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Old August 26th, 2009 #33
Karl Von Clausewitz!
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Originally Posted by RickHolland View Post
Clausewitz is not a germanic name, 99% of all names ending in witz, wetz come from from eastern part of Europe.

Clausewitz is a patronymic based on an ancestor's first name, usually from a father's first name.

It can be German of Polish origin or Polish Jewish or even German Jew of Polish origin.

Ending -itz is also typical for Slavic names which were changed into german or yiddish.

About the Claus name the earliest of all recordings are to be found in German charters and registers of the medieval period.

These include examples such as Henricus Claus of Eblingen in 1323, Wolframus Klusner of Goddelau in 1398, and Tobias Clausnitzer of Thun, christened there in 1619.
Surname database? You really are a daft little monkey aren't you?

Clausewitz is a typical Old Prussian last name, it's not remotely Polish in origin. While it is true that it's origin is from Baltic Slavic people, 600 years of German mass immigration, Germanization of the people...it's hardly wise to call it him a "Slav" or a "Slavic Jew" based on his last name alone.

I do find it ironic that you think a last name surpasses all biological knowledge of a person, given the dubious nature of your own.

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I am not so sure about that.
Google it you seem quite apt at it.