Früh or Frueh is a German surname. It comes from

Middle High German Middle High German (MHG; or ; , shortened as ''Mhdt.'' or ''Mhd.'') is the term for the form of High German, High German language, German spoken in the High Middle Ages. It is conventionally dated between 1050 and 1350, developing from Old High ...

vrū/vruo "early", applied as a nickname for an early riser or a hardworking person, or alternatively for a child born early or before marriage. There are 1011 people with this surname in Germany, mostly in the southwest, in the state of

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

. Notable people with the surname include: * Bartley Christopher Frueh (born 1963), American clinical psychologist and author *

Dallas Frueh Dallas Frueh (born October 26, 2000) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the Nos. 11/12 Ford and No. 01 Toyota for Fast Track Racing and part-time in the ARCA Menard ...

(born 2000), American racing driver *

Huldreich Georg Früh Huldreich Georg Früh (15 June 1903 – 25 April 1945) was a Swiss composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Ma ...

(1903–1945), Swiss composer * Joanna Frueh (1948–2020), American artist, writer, and feminist scholar *

Johann Jakob Früh Johann Jakob Früh (22 June 1852 in Märwil – 8 April 1938 in Zürich) was a Swiss geographer and geologist. From 1869 to 1872 he attended the teacher's seminar in Kreuzlingen, then furthered his education at the University of Zürich, Univ ...

(1852–1938), Swiss geographer and geologist * Oscar Früh (1891–1949), Swiss painter

German companies

Cölner Hofbräu Früh Cölner Hofbräu Früh (; or just ''Früh'') is a private brewery for top-fermented beer called Kölsch. The brewery was founded in Cologne in 1904 by Peter Joseph Früh. Since 1987, the beer is no longer brewed directly in the house, but in ...

, private brewery for top-fermented beer called Kölsch *

Max Früh Max Früh is a small German specialist construction company mostly building bridges. It was established in 1908. One of its flagship projects was the construction of the Pierre Pflimlin bridge over the Rhine south of Strasbourg in the early 2000s ...

, German specialist construction company mostly building bridges

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Surnames of Swiss origin {{surname German-language surnames Surnames from nicknames Swiss-German surnames

German companies

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