Re: Schoeffe I

> Moreover, this "assistant to a village headman" is exactly the
> primeval Slavic-German meaning of the Schoppe/Schuppe/Saupe/Schöffe!
> (In medieval German-speaking villages, a 'village headman' was
> the Vogt or the Schultheiss, in short: Schulz(e) & (in South-
> German lands) Scholz. I assume, in Polish it is spelt szoltys.)
> ***R The Polish lastname Szulc is relatively common in the US
>

Szulc looks like a raw Polish transliteration of the German name Schulz/Schultze etc.
The Hungarian George Solti's last name seems to be a relative; is there a cognate appellative in Hungarian?

Torsten

My raw unadulterated ignorant off my head guess is Czech, Slovak and Hungarian each have about  10% German derived surnames and German possibly has that many as well from Slavic --this is judging from US surnames from those countries. My German ancestors being Schwaben und Hessen had a large percentage of French surnames such as Sublet < Soublette, Nehs < Ney, Grass < de Grasse, Brascher < Brasseur, etc.