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    Question Why do many famous Poles have Germanic names

    Piotr Eberhardt, Vladislav Anders, Jan Wedel or Nicolaus Koppernigk for example?

    Are Germanic names also common among "every-day" Polish population?

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    Well, there was German minority from ages in Poland. Germanic sounding surnames are still common but we have much more cases of polonized versions of Germanic surnames

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    Until recently majority of ethnic Poles were busy planting Kartoffeln.
    Therefore Germans, Jews etc. are overrepresented among famous Poles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by michal3141 View Post
    Until recently majority of ethnic Poles were busy planting Kartoffeln.
    Therefore Germans, Jews etc. are overrepresented among famous Poles.
    I think Poles/Slavs still have this peasant mentality. We have a joke about this:

    "The devil visited a Polish farmer and told him:

    - I will give you anything you want, success & fame in whatever you want, but I will give twice as much of it to your neighbour, another Polish farmer.

    The farmer started thinking...

    - Ok time to decide, what do you want? - asked the devil.

    - I want to lose one eye - replied the peasant."
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    Quote Originally Posted by michal3141 View Post
    Until recently majority of ethnic Poles were busy planting Kartoffeln.
    Therefore Germans, Jews etc. are overrepresented among famous Poles.

    Kartoffeln planters names from my region.
    https://www.gminalinia.com.pl/urzad-gminy/wladze/

    Bogusława Engelbrecht
    Astrida Kaczyńska
    Mirosława Kuberna
    Ewa Meyer
    Tadeusz Klein
    Mirosław Ellwart
    Michał Miotk
    Karolina Wysocka
    Tadeusz Klein
    Marcin Laskowski
    Anna Miotk
    Edyta Reich- Grzenkowicz
    Justyna Kos
    Mirosław Kotłowski
    Maria Malinowska
    Teresa Hirsz
    Teresa Hinca
    Ludwik Okrój
    Jerzy Szulc
    Jadwiga Sommer

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    Quote Originally Posted by michal3141 View Post
    Until recently majority of ethnic Poles were busy planting Kartoffeln.
    Therefore Germans, Jews etc. are overrepresented among famous Poles.
    You guys sure have a lot of Kartoffeln

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benyzero View Post
    You guys sure have a lot of Kartoffeln
    Especially on the fields

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    Peterski you really fullfill the role as german nordicist with perfection

    christian bale like method acting

    impressive bracia

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harald Meller View Post
    I think Poles/Slavs still have this peasant mentality. We have a joke about this:
    It is strange, because Germanic nations are much more peasant than Slavic. If it is so, then the communism can be blame.

    BUT the Polish culture is the only one which is noble in the sense, is based almost totaly on noble estate tradition and - at least ideologically - values.
    From germanic countries maybe only British is close to that, but only because they kept monrachy and at least fideicomis' based higher aristocracy at place, and this is probably also the second to Poland among european counties as well in this category.

    Folk culture is pushing strongly in Poland, but still cannot preveil, even after 45 years of communism and 30 of cultural marxism. Fortunately cannot.

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