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Otto K. Eitel
Otto Karl Eitel (May 19, 1901 – 1983) was a hotel executive in Chicago. Origin Otto K. Eitel was the second child of Karl Eitel (1871-1954) and his first wife ''Marie Louise Eitel née Boldenweck'' (1875–1913). His father emigrated at age 20 from Stuttgart in Germany to Chicago, founded there with his brother Emil Eitel the Eitel Brothers#Bismarck Hotel Co., Bismarck Hotel Co., to which belonged the ''Bismarck Hotel'' and the large beer garden ''Marigold Gardens''. Otto's mother was the daughter of the building contractor ''Louis Henry Boldenweck'' (1835–1896), who was born in Heilbronn and emigrated with his parents and six siblings to Chicago in 1854, and of her Chicago-born mother ''Luise Henriette Kober'' (1843–1923), who was also of German origin. Life After education and vocational training in the U.S. and in Germany Otto K. Eitel volunteered in the Hotel Astor (New York), Hotel Astor on Times Square in New York, which was founded in the same year by the German emig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded from the 7th century ( Odo, son of Uro, courtier of Sigebert III). It was the name of three 10th-century German kings, the first of whom was Otto I the Great, the first Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Ottonian dynasty. The Gothic form of the prefix was ''auda-'' (as in e.g. '' Audaþius''), the Anglo-Saxon form was ''ead-'' (as in e.g. ''Eadmund''), and the Old Norse form was '' auð-''. The given name Otis arose from an English surname, which was in turn derived from ''Ode'', a variant form of ''Odo, Otto''. Due to Otto von Bismarck, the given name ''Otto'' was strongly associated with the German Empire in the later 19th century. It was comparatively frequently given in the United States (presumably in German American families) during t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
