john sobieski 5 May 2007 / #1Waltz sounds like a German name. Does this mean Hanna Gronkiewicz Waltz's husband is German?
Lodzy - | 16 5 May 2007 / #2well if it sound like it maybe it isbut her husband could have german born parents which moved to poland and then he was born in poland
OP john sobieski 6 May 2007 / #6Just curious. I'm interested in people's roots. It's an odd combination though for Poland, a very Polish first name and a very German last name.
polishcanuck 7 | 462 6 May 2007 / #7This is not very uncommon. Some poles have german last names, some germans have polish lastnames. A german football player comes to mind: Tim borowski - i believe he's german (obviously with a PL surname). In WW2 there were many german soldiers with polish surnames, doesn;t mean their polish. I'm sure if you look up their family trees you would trace their roots to poland. The polish-german border changed many times and populations moved around.
Grzegorz_ 51 | 6,149 8 Oct 2007 / #9Does this mean Hanna Gronkiewicz Waltz's husband is German?I doubt It. I think that she is half Jewish.
Polson 5 | 1,768 8 Oct 2007 / #10There are quite a lot of German names in Poland, due to the minority, and the past, and maybe the Jews (names ending with "-stein" for example) ;)
Lukasz 49 | 1,746 8 Oct 2007 / #11and you seeshe is president of Warszawa elected by its citizens and nobody is interested about origin of her name.
255 - | 8 8 Oct 2007 / #12There are quite a lot of German names in Poland..._________________And Polish names in Germany. Poles, Germans, Russians, Europeans, we're all kindred people and I wish that we would stop fighting amongst ourselves.
Patrycja19 62 | 2,688 9 Oct 2007 / #13And Polish names in Germany. Poles, Germans, Russians, Europeans, we're all kindred people and I wish that we would stop fighting amongst ourselves.agree ..