Schroeder

Schroeder is a North German (from Schröder) occupational name for a cloth cutter or tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German schroden, schraden ‘to cut’. The same term was occasionally used to denote a gristmiller as well as a shoemaker, whose work included cutting leather, and also a drayman, one who delivered beer and wine in bulk to customers; in some instances the surname may have been acquired in either of these senses. This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe which has been held by many notable people, including:

People

• Andreas Schroeder, a German-born Canadian poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer
• Barbet Schroeder, a Swiss movie director and producer
• Bill Schroeder, an American football player
• Bill Schroeder (baseball player), an American baseball player
• Carly Schroeder, an American actress
• Dennis Schröder (born 1993), German basketball player
• Doris Schroeder, an American screenwriter
• Dorsey Schroeder, an American racing car driver
• Ernst Schröder, German logician
• Frederick A. Schroeder, a German-born American politician
• Gerald Schroeder, a cosmologist and former professor of nuclear physics
• Gerhard Schröder (CDU), 1910—1989, German politician (CDU)
• Gerhard Schröder, chancellor of Germany (SPD)
• Heinrich G. F. Schröder, 1810-1885, German natural scientist
• Henry F. Schroeder, American Medal of Honor recipient
• Irene Schroeder, American criminal
• Jay Schroeder, an American Football quarterback
• Jamie Schroeder, an American rower
• John Schroeder (golfer), an American golfer
• John Schroeder (musician), a British musician
• John H. Schroeder, an American educator
• Karl Schroeder, a Canadian author
• Leonard T. Schroeder, retired U.S. Army colonel, first American soldier ashore on D-Day in World War II
• Leopold von Schroeder, a German Indologist
• Louise Schroeder, a German politician of the SPD party
• Martin Schröder (chemist), a British Chemist
• Mary M. Schroeder, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Michael Schroeder, an American computer scientist
• Patricia Schroeder, a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives
• Paul W. Schroeder, a historian
• Rob Schroeder, an American racing car driver
• Seaton Schroeder, an admiral of the United States Navy
• Steve Schroeder, an American medical professor
• Vic Schroeder, a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and senior Canadian cabinet minister
• Wayland Schroeder, an (AIA) architect in Abilene, Texas
• Wilhelm Schroeder, a pseudonym of the musician Bill Leeb
• William Charles Schroeder, ichthyologist
• William J. Schroeder, one of the first recipients of an artificial heart
• William Knox Schroeder, a student killed in the Kent State shootings

Fictional characters

• Schroeder (Peanuts), a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
• Leon von Schroeder, a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh series

Place names

• Schroeder, Minnesota
• Schroeder Township, Cook County, Minnesota
• Schroeder, Santa Catarina, a town in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Other uses

• Needham-Schroeder, a communications protocol
• USS Schroeder (DD-501), a ship of the US Navy
• Cantor–Bernstein–Schroeder theorem, a mathematical theorem in set theory
• Schroeder (constructor), former racing car constructor
• Schroeder number, mathematical sequence