Zimmermann is a

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for a

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. The modern German terms for the occupation of carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used. ''Zimmer'' in German means room or archaically a chamber within a structure. The German ''man'' or ''mann'' (in English the extra ''n'' is ignored) is man or worker. The combination of the two means "a worker of wood", "room man" or room worker.Combined from several sources including: ''Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary'', 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books, and ''Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition'' by Oxford University Press. Zimmermann, as a surname is often confused with Zimmerman. The loss or addition of the double "n" may imply many things. This may include linguistic, racial, ethnic, religious or other cultural variations.Zimmerman - Zimmermann name history - http://www.ancestry.com/facts/zimmerman-family-history.ashx Many German names were often Anglicized or simplified by immigration officials upon entry into the United States. With Zimmermann the double 'n' Zimmermann was often seen as redundant in countries where English was spoken. As a part of routine, German names were often Anglicized or simplified later by immigrants to better fit in. Zimmerman became Carpenter for example. Sometimes this was done by immigration officials upon entry into the United States when the immigrant did not know how to spell their name and that variant became the legal name.

Notable people with the surname

* Adolphus Zimmermann (1812–1891), American politician *

Alain Zimmermann Alain Zimmermann (born 1967) is the Chief Executive Officer of Swiss luxury watch manufacturer Baume & Mercier (belonging to the Richemont Group). His experience in the luxury industry spans over 20 years, having previously held positions in L’ ...

(born 1967), German businessman *

Alexandra Zimmermann Alexandra Zimmermann is a conservation scientist specialising in conflict resolution in wildlife conservation based in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. She is known for founding the IUCN Human-Wildlife Conflict Task Force and is also a researcher ...

, British conservation scientist *

Arthur Zimmermann Arthur Zimmermann (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1940) was State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire from 22 November 1916 until his resignation on 6 August 1917. His name is associated with the Zimmermann Telegram during World War ...

(1864–1940), German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1917 * Bodo Zimmermann (1886–1963), a German general during World War II *

Dominikus Zimmermann Dominikus Zimmermann (30 June 1685, Gaispoint – 16 November 1766, Wies) was a German Rococo architect and stuccoist. Life Dominikus Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint near Wessobrunn in 1685 and became a Baumeister (Architect) and a stu ...

(1685–1766), rococo architect *

Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann Eberhardt August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (August 17, 1743, Uelzen – July 4, 1815, Braunschweig) was a German geographer and zoologist. He studied natural philosophy and mathematics in Leiden, Halle, Berlin, and Göttingen, and in 1766 was ...

(1743–1815), German geographer and zoologist *

Elizabeth Zimmermann Elizabeth Zimmermann (9 August 1910 – 30 November 1999) was a British-born hand knitting teacher and designer. She revolutionized the modern practice of knitting through her books and instructional series on American public television. Thou ...

(1910–1999), British-born knitter and writer *

Evan Zimmermann Evan Zimmermann is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist. He was the president and CEO of Antiquorum, a Swiss auction house, established in 1974, that specializes in watches.

(born 1968), American businessman * Friedrich Zimmermann (1925–2012), German politician *

Hubert Zimmermann Hubert Zimmermann (15 November 1941 – 9 November 2012) was a French software engineer and a pioneer of computer networking. Biography Zimmermann was educated at École Polytechnique and Télécom ParisTech, École Nationale Supérieure des Tél ...

(1941–2012), French Computer Networks scientist and entrepreneur * Jens Zimmermann (disambiguation) * Jérémie Zimmermann, (born 1978) co-founder of the Paris-based

La Quadrature du Net La Quadrature du Net ('' Squaring the Net'' in French) is a French advocacy group that promotes digital rights and freedoms for its citizens. It advocates for French and European legislation to respect the founding principles of the Internet, m ...

* Jeri Lynn Zimmermann (born 1968), better known as

Jeri Ryan Jeri Lynn Ryan (née Zimmermann; born February 22, 1968) is an American actress who played the former Borg drone Seven of Nine in '' Star Trek: Voyager'', for which she was nominated four times for a Saturn Award and won in 2001. She has reprised ...

, actress *

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann / Johann Georg Zimmermann (8 December 1728, in Brugg, Aargau7 October 1795, in Hanover) was a Swiss philosophical writer, naturalist, and physician. He was the private physician of George III and later Frederi ...

(1728–1795), Swiss philosopher and physician *

Johann Jacob Zimmermann Johann Jacob Zimmermann (November 25, 1642 – 1693) was a German nonconformist theologian, millenarian, mathematician, and astronomer. Life Zimmermann was born in Vaihingen, Württemberg (now Germany) on November 25, 1642."Who Do You Think Y ...

(1644–1693), German nonconformist *

Joseph Zimmermann (engineer) Joseph Zimmermann (1912 – March 31, 2004) was an engineer, born in Kenosha, Wisconsin who invented the first answering machine, called the "Electronic Secretary". Zimmermann graduated from Marquette University in 1935 with a degree in electric ...

(1912–2004), American inventor of the first successful

answering machine An answering machine, answerphone or message machine, also known as telephone messaging machine (or TAM) in the United Kingdom, UK and some Commonwealth countries, ansaphone or ansafone (from a trade name), or telephone answering device (TAD), ...

Lydia Zimmermann Lydia Martina Zimmermann Kuoni (born 30 December 1966 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish Catalan actress and film director.Aroca, María Victoria. Lydia Zimmermann, sencillez escogida�Archive. ''S Moda El País'' (in Spanish). 7 Janua ...

(born 1966), Spanish filmmaker *

Marie Zimmermann Marie Zimmermann (June 17, 1879 – June 17, 1972) was an American designer and maker of jewelry and metalwork. She is noted for fine craftsmanship and innovative design in a variety of different mediums and styles. Calling herself “a craftsman ...

(1878–1972), American designer * Paul Zimmermann (1895–1980), German SS-Brigadeführer *

Paul Zimmermann (blacksmith) Paul Zimmermann A.W.C.B. (born 1939) is a German blacksmith who created contemporary forge work. Zimmermann is considered one of the first German blacksmiths to move towards innovative and contemporary forms in the trade. Forms and shapes which h ...

(born 1939), German blacksmith who created contemporary forge work * Paul Zimmermann (born 1964), French computational mathematician * Philip R. Zimmermann (born 1954), creator of

Pretty Good Privacy Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partition ...

(PGP) e-mail encryption software *

Pia Zimmermann Pia Zimmermann (born 17 September 1956) is a German politician. Born in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, she represents ''Die Linke'' ( The Left). She was a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony from 2013 until 2021. Life Zimmerman ...

(born 1956), German politician *

Raquel Zimmermann Raquel Zimmermann (born May 6, 1983) is a Brazilian model. Raquel was announced as a Revlon ambassador in January 2018. Biography Zimmermann was born in Bom Retiro do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Raquel reports that she practices the Transcendent ...

(born 1983), Brazilian fashion model *

Reinhard Zimmermann Reinhard Zimmermann (born 10 October 1952) is a German jurist and a director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. Since 2011 he has been the President of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Life Zimm ...

(born 1952), German jurist * Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann (1815–1893), German artist *

Sabine Zimmermann (TV host) Sabine Zimmermann (22 July 1951 – 1 May 2020) was a German television host and producer, mainly known for her involvement with popular crime-solving programme ''Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst''. Biography Zimmermann was the adopted daughter o ...

(1951–2020), German TV host * Sabine Zimmermann (politician) (born 1960), German politician *

Walter Max Zimmerman Walter Max Zimmermann (May 9, 1892 – June 30, 1980) was a German botanist and systematist. Zimmernann’s notions of classifying life objectively based on phylogenetic methods and on evolutionarily important characters were foundational for moder ...

(1892–1980), German botanist *

Warren Zimmermann Warren Zimmermann (November 16, 1934 – February 3, 2004) was an American career diplomat best known as the last US ambassador to SFR Yugoslavia before its disintegration in a series of civil wars. Zimmermann was a member of the Yale Class ...

(1934–2004), American ambassador * Wolfhart Zimmermann (1928–2016), German theoretical physicist

Composers

* Anton Zimmermann (1741–1781), Austrian composer living and working in

Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approximately 140% of ...

Bernd Alois Zimmermann Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918 – 10 August 1970) was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera ''Die Soldaten'', which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. As a ...

(1918–1970), German composer of the opera ''

Die Soldaten ' (''The Soldiers'') is a four-act opera in German by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, based on the 1776 play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. In a letter accompanying his newly printed play (23 July 1776, aged 24) that he sent to his best friend, the Ge ...

'' *

Udo Zimmermann Udo Zimmermann (6 October 1943 – 22 October 2021) was a German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor. He worked as a professor of composition, founded a centre for contemporary music in Dresden, and was director of the Leipzig ...

(1943–2021), German composer from

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

, not related *

Walter Zimmermann Walter Zimmermann (born 15 April 1949) is a German composer associated with the Cologne School. Born in Schwabach, Germany, Zimmermann studied composition in Germany with Werner Heider and Mauricio Kagel, the theory of musical intelligence at ...

(born 1949), German composer from

Schwabach Schwabach () is a German city of about 40,000 inhabitants near Nuremberg in the centre of the region of Franconia in the north of Bavaria. The city is an autonomous administrative district (''kreisfreie Stadt''). Schwabach is also the name of th ...

, not related

Musicians

Dan Zimmermann Daniel Hans Erwin Zimmermann (born 30 October 1966 in Nürnberg, West Germany) is a retired heavy metal drummer. Dan is best known as having been the drummer of German power metal bands Gamma Ray and Freedom Call from 1997 to 2012. He was a fo ...

(born 1966), German drummer for power metal band

Gamma Ray A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol γ or \gamma), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei. It consists of the shortest wavelength electromagnetic waves, typically ...

* Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, birth name of Ethel Merman (1908–1984), American singer and actress *

Frank Peter Zimmermann Frank Peter Zimmermann (born 27 February 1965) is a German violinist. Childhood He was born in Duisburg, West Germany, and started playing the violin when he was five years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10. Since he ...

(born 1965), German violinist *Josef Zimmermann, ** German

Cologne Cathedral Cologne Cathedral (german: Kölner Dom, officially ', English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese ...

organist ** German weight lifter * Margarita Zimmermann (born 1942), Argentinian

mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (; ; meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middl ...

* Robert Allen Zimmerman (born 1941), American musician, best known as Bob Dylan *

Tabea Zimmermann Tabea Zimmermann (born 8 October 1966) is a German violist. Born in Lahr, she began learning to play the viola at the age of three, and commenced piano studies at age five. At the age of 13, she studied viola with Ulrich Koch at the Conservato ...

(born 1966), German violist

Sportspeople

Andréa Zimmermann Andréa Ursina Zimmermann (born 18 August 1976) from Monthey is a female Swiss ski mountaineer and mountain runner. Zimmermann was born in Biel/Bienne. She competed first in the 2000 Trophée du Muveran race and has been member of the national ...

(born 1976), Swiss ski mountaineer *

Andreas Zimmermann Andreas Zimmermann (born 28 December 1969) is a German football manager and a former player who played as a defender. He is the manager of Rot Weiss Ahlen. He began his career in his hometown of Berlin, before spending seven years playing for ...

(born 1969), German footballer *

Bruce Zimmermann Bruce Anthony Zimmermann (born February 9, 1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). Amateur career Zimmermann graduated from Loyola Blakefield in 2013. Undrafted out of high scho ...

(born 1995), American baseball player *

Christian Zimmermann Christian Zimmermann (né Brühe) (born 12 December 1961 in Cologne, Germany) is a German-born Palestinian Olympic dressage rider. He represented Palestine at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Normandy where he finished 68th in the individu ...

(born 1961), German-Palestinian

dressage Dressage ( or ; a French term, most commonly translated to mean "training") is a form of horse riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an art sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery. As an equestrian sport defined by ...

rider * Christoph Zimmermann (born 1993), German footballer * Cyril Zimmermann (born 1976), Swiss football referee *

Egon Zimmermann Egon Zimmermann (8 February 1939 – 23 August 2019), often referred to as Egon Zimmermann II, was a World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Austria. Zimmermann won the Olympic downhill at Patscherkofel in 1964 and won se ...

, (1939–2020) 1964 Olympic alpine skier from Austria * Egon Zimmermann I (born 1933), 1960 Olympic alpine skier from Austria and who married Penny Pitou *

Felicia Zimmermann Felicia Zimmermann (born August 16, 1975) is an American fencer. She competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and al ...

(born 1975), American Olympic fencer *

Georg Zimmermann Georg Zimmermann (born 11 October 1997) is a German racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career He rode for in the men's team time trial event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships. In August 2019, Zimmermann joined UCI W ...

(born 1997), German cyclist *

Herbert Zimmermann (football commentator) Herbert Zimmermann (29 November 1917 – 16 December 1966) was a popular German football commentator. He did one of the most famous pieces of commentary in German during the World Cup final in 1954 by "recommending" the goal that won "The Mira ...

(1917–1966), German football commentator and Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient *

Herbert Zimmermann (footballer) Herbert Zimmermann (born 1 July 1954) is a former German football player. Club career A successful striker, Zimmermann was signed by FC Bayern Munich and also appeared as central defender for 1. FC Köln, the club he joined after he did no ...

(born 1954), German football player *

Iris Zimmermann Iris Zimmermann (born January 6, 1981) is an American fencer. She competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and she won a bronze medal at the 1999 World Fencing Championships. Her sister is Felicia Zi ...

(born 1981), American Olympic fencer *

Jordan Zimmermann Jordan M. Zimmermann (born May 23, 1986) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals, Detroit Tigers, and Milwaukee Brewers. Zimmermann was a two-time MLB All-Star, an ...

(born 1986),

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (A ...

pitcher *

Pierre Zimmermann (bridge) Pierre Zimmermann (born May 26, 1955) is a Swiss-born real estate developer and champion bridge player formerly resident in Monaco. As a developer, Zimmermann is founder and CEO of Zimmermann Immobilier, a real estate company in Geneva. As a ...

(born 1955), Monegasque bridge player

References

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