Abromeit is a

patronymic surname A patronymic surname is a surname originated from the given name of the father or a patrilineal ancestor. Different cultures have different ways of producing patronymic A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based o ...

. It means "son of Abrom", "" (Lithuanian article), or "

Abraham Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father who began the Covenant (biblical), covenanta ...

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Baltic language The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively or as a second language by a population of about 6.5–7.0 million people

. People with this surname include: *

Franz Abromeit Franz Abromeit (8 August 1907 – 30 June 1964) was an SS officer and worked in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). He was guilty of war crimes against Jews, but escaped from Germany at the end of World War II in Europe. In 1964 he was declar ...

(1907–1964), Nazi SS officer *

Fritz Abromeit Fritz Abromeit (30 October 1923 – October 2004) was a former German footballer. For the entirety of his career Abromeit played with Rot-Weiss Essen, an eleven-year spell between 1946 and 1957. Overall, he played 67 games in the German Oberlig ...

(1923–2004), German footballer *

Johannes Abromeit Johannes Abromeit (17 February 1857 – 19 January 1946) was a German botanist and teacher. He was born in the village of Paschleitschen (now Nemansky District) near Ragnit in the Province of Prussia, and he studied natural sciences, German ...

(1857–1946), German botanist * Jutta Abromeit (born 1959), German rower

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