Ernst - wikipedia Ernst For the municipality in the Rhineland - Palatinate, Germany, see Ernst, Germany. For the album by Matt Nathanson, see Ernst ( album ). Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include : Surname Adolf Ernst ( 1832 -- 1899 ) German botanist known by the author abbreviation `` Ernst '' Alice Henson Ernst ( 1880 - 1980 ), American writer and historian Cornelia Ernst, German politician Edzard Ernst, German - British Professor of Complementary Medicine Emil Ernst, astronomer Ernie Ernst ( 1924 / 25 -- 2013 ), former District Judge in Walker County, Texas Fabian Ernst, German soccer player Gustav Ernst, Austrian writer Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Moravian violinist and composer Jim Ernst, Canadian politician Jimmy Ernst, American painter, son of Max Ernst Joni Ernst, U.S. Senator from Iowa Ken Ernst, U.S. comics artist Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer ( 1866 -- 1933 ) Klaus Ernst, German politician Max Ernst, ( 1891 - 1976 ), German artist and painter Mensen Ernst ( 1795 -- 1843 ), Norwegian road runner and ultramarathonist and one of the first sport professionals Morris Ernst, American attorney Ole Ernst ( 1940 -- 2013 ), Danish actor Oswald Herbert Ernst, American general and engineer Paul Ernst ( American writer ), pulp novelist Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist Susan Ernst, American developmental biologist Tony Ernst, Swedish journalist W. Gary Ernst, American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry Wolfgang Ernst, ( 1956 ), German lawyer and legal historian Given name Ernst Pronunciation / ˈɜːrnst / URNST German : ( ˈɛʁnst ) Gender Origin Word / name Germanic Meaning Serious ( person ) Other names Related names Ernest, Ernie Ernst Anders, German painter Ernst August ( disambiguation page ) Ernst Blofeld, evil genius from the James Bond novels and films Ernst Boepple ( 1887 -- 1950 ), German Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes Ernst Cassirer, German Jewish philosopher. Ernst Chain, German - born British biochemist Ernst Cohen, Dutch Jewish chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals Ernst Gebauer, German painter Ernst Haeckel, German biologist and illustrator Ernst Happel, Austrian football ( soccer ) manager Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat Ernst Jansz, Dutch musician and founding member of Doe Maar Ernst Jünger ( 1895 - 1998 ), German writer Ernst Kaltenbrunner ( 1903 - 1946 ), Austrian - German Nazi SS police chief and war criminal, executed for war crimes Ernst Keil ( 1816 - 1878 ), German publisher Ernst Kummer, German mathematician Ernst Laraque, Haitian judoka Ernst Larsen, Norwegian athlete Ernst Lubitsch ( 1892 -- 1947 ), German - born Jewish film director Ernst Mach, physicist, coined the term `` mach number '' Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biologist, influential in the philosophy of biology Ernst Neizvestny, Russian sculptor Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer Ernst Heinrich Roth, ( 1877 -- 1948 ), German luthier Ernst Röhm, ( 1887 - 1934 ), German military officer and co-founder of the Nazi SA ( Stormtroopers ) Ernst Ruska, a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 Ernst `` Fritz '' Sauckel ( 1894 - 1946 ), German Nazi politician, executed for war crimes Ernst Sieber ( born 1927 ), Swiss pastor, social worker, writer, politician and founder of the Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber relief organisation Ernst Jansen Steur, Dutch notorious former neurologist convicted on over twenty counts of harm Ernst Stromer, German palaeontologist Ernst Udet, ( 1896 - 1941 ), German flying ace Ernst von Hesse - Wartegg, Austrian writer and traveller Ernst van de Wetering, Dutch art historian considered to be the world 's foremost expert on Rembrandt Ernst vom Rath, ( 1909 - 1938 ), Nazi German diplomat Ernst Zermelo, set theorist Ernst Ziegler ( 1894 - 1974 ), German actor Count Ernst of Lippe - Biesterfeld, regent of Lippe See also Herzog Ernst, German mediaeval epic Ernst & Young, professional services and accounting firm Ernst Home Centers, a defunct hardware chain Ernest ( disambiguation ) This page or section lists people that share the same given name or the same family name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernst&oldid=829412118 '' Categories : Given names Surnames Masculine given names German - language surnames Hidden categories : All set index articles Talk About Wikipedia Dansk Deutsch Eesti 한국어 Íslenska עברית Latviešu Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Norsk nynorsk Русский Slovenščina Suomi Svenska Українська 7 more Edit links This page was last edited on 8 March 2018, at 13 : 49. About Wikipedia

Question: where does the last name ernst come from
Answer: Germanic