Scharnhorst

Meaning

Proper Noun

• Several locations in northern Germany
• for someone from Scharnhorst, born by a famous 19th-century Prussian general and military theoreticist
• Several German ships named after the general, including a Kriegsmarine capital ship which participated in WWII

Origin

• From German Scharnhorst, from Low German Scharnhorst, from Middle Low German Scharnhorst, from scharn + horst.