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|  | hello...i am having a tuff time finding the origin of the last name:Volman,Vollmann
something like that...reason being is that my wife wants to know if she is part jewish.....ive been looking all day but i cant seem to find anything....please if anybody has anything on this do let me know...youl make my wife happy
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seriusly... only reply if ya know it is important...
another thing is actually vollmann
and google dont work...ivebeen there all day... |
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| | Looks like a German (or Austrian, or Swiss) name to me. It literally means "full man". |
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| | thanks guys.....very helpfull stuff...she found out it was german....now shes disapinted...buut oh well...thanks alot  |
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| | Why would she be disappointed (not trying to make this a political topic, so let's avoid that)?
Germany is a very beautiful country and the people are quite friendly. |
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| | haha...dont know...shes a misteriuos woman 
but shes fine now....she is german and russian...i guess something she dont like about one of them sides...i couldnt tell ya 
but your help is apreciated.... |
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| | | Germany is a very beautiful country and the people are quite friendly. |
The country is beautiful. Not every spot, of course. But you can say it's nice and clean. The people........ well, I don't want to become political, I only say: live a few years here, especially in east Germany, then we talk again. |
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| | fuckyou.org...
seriusly... only reply if ya know it is important...
another thing is actually vollmann
and google dont work...ivebeen there all day... |
Yes and no. Vollmann is a German name. But usually, German surnames which are ending with 'man' or 'mann' used to have a jewish origin. Of course that ending does not make you automatically a jew, it's only indication that there was someone jewish in the family line. |
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| | | The country is beautiful. Not every spot, of course. But you can say it's nice and clean. The people........ well, I don't want to become political, I only say: live a few years here, especially in east Germany, then we talk again. |
Well, Ossies are different from Wessies. But still, the Ossies I know are friendly. My friend's girlfriend comes from East-Berlin. Different, but nice.  |
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| | | Well, Ossies are different from Wessies. But still, the Ossies I know are friendly. My friend's girlfriend comes from East-Berlin. Different, but nice. |
Well, Berlin is our capital, a world city, usually people there are more open minded. Right now I'm on a visit in Sachsen, East Germany, that's 700 km from my home location in West Germany. One of my best friends is from East Germany too. Right now there is music festival in called Back to the Future with 25 Punk Rock, RocknRoll and Ska bands from all over Europe here. It's awesome. 98% of the festival people are punks, they are really cool and the majority of them is east German. But we also encountered a lot of Nazi-Skins on our way there. And believe me, they are not really cool. This is a big problem of the East, the villages and small towns in East Germany are bursting full of this human scum. Another thing is, the people of West Germany have to pay a special tax for the reconstruction and progress of East Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the re-unification of Germany. We are doing this since 1990. The government at that time said that this special tax would only last for 10 years until the east of Germany has reached western standards. But now it's mid 2006 and we are still paying for East Germany, and they have made no real progress so far and the unemployment rate is the highest in Germany. And the thing which is most annoying for the people in West Germany is, that the people in east Germany are complaining that they haven't reached the living standard of West Germany yet and give the West the fault for it, but do as good as nothing for it's progress. I know this was very political for a videogame forum, but I wanted to give you a little political background what I meant with my statement about East Germany. |
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| | I find it quite interesting actually. Despite only living as far away as England and having visited Germany with my parents a few times when I was younger, I had no idea that there were differences between the two sides. I guess in England we live a sheltered life! |
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