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THE MERTZ HOME PAGE

Why, you ask, would anyone want to make a home page dedicated to one's last name?? What is the point of it, anyway? Well, the idea came to me while surfing one night (the WWW that is) and searched for the name Mertz. I was surprised by the number of links and references to the name I found. It is NOT that common a name and the more I delved into who these people were I decided that Mertz's are NOT common people, by and large. So, I went to work and compiled all of the information I could find, bookmarked all the home pages and made a list of e-mail addresses.

So, here it is, like it or not. If there is one thing I have learned in surfing the web, it is that one does not have to have message or anything to publish on the web. Enjoy this page, even if your name is NOT Mertz.

What is the origin of the name Mertz? As far as I can tell, this name, along with other names like it, can be linked back to the Roman God of War, Mars. I find this especially appropriate in the case of my brother and I. Lance is a name for a weapon. Monty is short for Montgomery, a famous general and his middle name is Grant, another General. My middle name, Kenneth means strong, I think… Anyway, just a note about the name. E-mail me if you have any other information on the name itself.

A note about the information on this page. It has no particular order to it. I have NOT included e-mail addresses of these people, since you can e-mail most all of them right from their pages! An e-mail directory, built with tables or even frames will follow. You can also just look all the Mertz's e-mail addresses up at here:

 Who - Where?

RECENT UPDATES

The following information was sent to me by Georgi and Lenica Mertz of South Africa. They may be contacted with more information about the Mertz name and geaneology at:

georgimertz@gmail.com
lenica.mertz@gmail.com

  • Brian Selkirk Mertz Sr. had two children, Brian Conrad Mertz and Lynn Mertz. Brian Selkirk died in the Second World War.
  • Lynn has no children.
  • Brian Conrad married Marge Botha and had two children, Brian Selkirk Jr. and Venite Mertz. They got divorced and Brian Conrad married Valerie but they had no children together.
  • Brian Selkirk Jr. married Georgi de Klerk and has two daughters, Lenica and Jeannevive Mertz.
  • Venite married Karel Vos and had four children Danielle, Alexandra, Werner and Simone. They got divorced and Venite married Ludwig and has a son Leonard. The children's surnames are not Mertz.

SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT MERTZ'S:

  • Heinrich Mertz, a scholar from Wieslach in Heidelberg in 1277.
  • Berchtold Mertz from Augsberg was recorded in 1290.
  • A farmer from Neuser in Bergenheim in 1298. (name unknown)
  • Voegenlin Mertz from Au in Sandthoven was mentioned in records dated 1424.
  • Christoph Mertz from Illem is recorded in 1597 and George Mertz was granted a coat of arms in Augsberg in September 18, 1530 from King Carl V.
  • Another George Mertz was also granted a coat of arms from King Carl V in Brussels on March 19, 1556.
A robot Mertz!

This is pretty cool.  Why did they call is Mertz?  I guess because it is cool.
A farm equipment company in Denmark named Karl Mertz!  They have an English version.
Jim Mertz, baseball player
Picture of the Mertz Glacier!
V Mertz, a restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska
Nancy King Mertz is an artist in Chicago.
CJ Mertz... Chiropractor to the World
Mertz Transport in Sweden
Debra Mertz, Student
Deep House Music from Mertz the DJ
Johan Peter Mertz fought in the Revolutionary War. His grandfather came to this country from
the Wurttemberg area of Germany. They settled in Maryland. 
Information on Jahan Peter Mertz:
He ran away from home at 16 and joined Capt Winkles Co of York Co, Pa.  He had three older brothers who fought in that war also. Henry, Balzer, and George  He lived in Frederick, Md. He was the youngest son of Theobald and Catherine Mertz. He was the only one of Theobald's six children that ever married. I descend from Peter. It was lucky for me that he did! He is my 5th gr grandfather.
Courtesy of  Beth Mertz Rasmussen
A town called MERTZTOWN!!  It can't be all that bad!  It's in Pennsylvania somewhere...

Picture courtesy of Beth Mertz Rasmussen

From

Oakey Mertz

I have just posted a Family Tree Maker website devoted to the Descendants of my ancestor John David Mertz.  Mertztown, which you've noted on your site, was named after either him or his sons.  Sunbury Motors -- which you also name on your site was founded by my grandfather John Oakley Mertz and is currently owned by my brother and my cousin.


Steve Mertz's Blog... In Cash Flow We Trust
While on the subject of Mertztown and such, there is a soil type called Mertz!
A Mertz Store in Poland... can anyone tell me what they sell?
A company called Mertz in Denmark,,, Related to the one in Poland?
Mertz in Germany... a hotel!
Klaus-Bolko Mertz a Mathematician
A Society of Freds have to include Fed Mertz!
Diana Mertz Hsieh
A philosophy graduate student in Colorado.
An actress (voice?) named Janie Mertz
Bronwynn Mertz, another Actress
Johann Kaspar Mertz on Wikipedia
and now you can BUY his music


Trooper Robert Mertz of the Pennsylvania State Police is honored for catching a bunch of DWI's!



Dr. Xavier Mertz, a Swiss explorer of the Antarctic.  Click on his picture to see information on his life and tragic death.
Mertz Home Pages on the Web:

The USS MERTZ was names after Admiral Albert Mertz, USN, who was in charge of the Philadelphia Navy Yard in the 1940's and also taught at the US Naval Academy in the late 1800's. It was DD 691, a destroyer. she was built in Bath, Maine, being finished in 1943, served the the pacific and had a great record.

 This information is courtesy of Tom Mertz from Newark, NJ. He and I are gathering more information on the ship, including photos of her.

This is a book by a man who served on her in WWII.  It looks pretty interesting: Growing Up in New Orleans by Alvin G. Gottschall.

USS Mertz, pictures and history.
More USS Mertz info I just found!


Dolores Mertz
Member of the Iowa Assembly
Peter Mertz works for the Dresden Bank in Germany. His home page is at: this address


A town called MERTZTOWN!!  It can't be all that bad!  It's in Pennsylvania somewhere...

Barbara Mertz is just one of her names... an author of mysteries.

A man all of us can be proud of:
 


Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim(25.3.1905 - 20.7.1944)

In 1923 Mertz began his education as a regular Army officer where he became a friend of Claus Schenk Graf van Stauffenberg while attending the Military Academy in Berlin.  After operations in Poland and Frence Mertz was sent to Winniza on the Eastern Front where he works with Stauffenberg until Stauffenberg is transferred to North Africa.  In the winter of 1942/43 Mertz was present at the defeat at Stalingrad.  He was married in 1942 to Hilde Baier.  In June 1944 Mertz succeeded Stauffengerg as Chief of Staff to General Friedrich Olbricht. Meanwhile he is part of Stauffenberg's close circle of friends and takes an active part in the preparations of operation "Walküre", the daring plan to overthrow Hitler.  Late on the evening of July 20, 1944, Mertz, who tries to make the military overthrow of Hitler a success to the very end, was shot, along with Olbricht and Werner von Haeften in the courtyard of the Bendlerblack, the headquarters of the conspirators.

More background:

The Attempt on Hitler's Life

Assassination plans repeatedly fail in 1943 and close co-conspirators such as Adolf Reichwein and Julius Leber are arrested in the summer of 1944. Despite his serious wounds and his key role in Berlin, Stauffenberg decides early in July of 1944 to attempt the assassination of Hitler himself. On July 20, he successfully smuggles a bomb into the "Wolf's Lair", the Führer's closely guarded headquarters near Rastenburg in East Prussia, and detonates it during a briefing. After he returns to Berlin, Stauffenberg at first does not believe reports that Hitler has survived. Together with his friend Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim, he feverishly attempts to persuade senior officers to support the coup. Late that evening, he is forced to acknowledge that the assassination attempt has failed. That same night, Stauffenberg, his adjutant Werner von Haeften, Mertz von Quirnheim, and Olbricht are summarily executed as the principal guilty parties in the assassination attempt. Beck is forced to commit suicide. Tresckow takes his own life on the eastern front shortly thereafter.

I would like to thank Frank Mertz of Germany for his aid in translating this from the original German.

William Lee Mertz (1920-1993), a former Federal Highway Administration Association Administrator

He played a leading role in developing and planning the Interstate system of highways in the United States. Mertz started his career as a highway engineer with the Bureau of Public Roads in the Department of Commerce. As a field engineer, Mertz worked on many interesting and important transportation projects. He took part in the 1955 Road Test in Ottawa, Illinois, where the basic designs for Interstate pavements were developed. Mertz was assigned in 1956 to the Bureau of Standards to develop standards for computer software for use in highway engineering applications. During the 1960s he worked with such groups as the National Capital Transit Agency in Washington, D.C. and the Tri-State Transportation Commission in New York. He also served as an administrator in the planning of the Interstate Highway System, including the Beltway and I-95 in Maryland and the Washington Metrorail System. In 1969 Mertz returned to the Federal Highway Administration as Chief of the Urban Planning Division and developed transportation planning studies in all 213 metropolitan areas of the nation.

 After he left the Federal Highway Administration, Mertz took it upon himself to assemble documents and materials that were important in the development of the Interstate system, and more generally to the development of highways and urban transportation policy. With his characteristic energy, he compiled a substantial archive of valuable materials for research. In 1994, after his passing, his family generously donated these materials to Special Collections & Archives at George Mason University to form the foundation for the William L. Mertz Collection


 

Phil Mertz, Professional Musician and Vanishing Artist

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PONTIAC, Mich. -- Jack Kevorkian wheeled the body of a woman into a hospital Tuesday night, telling officials that she had died in his presence after suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.  Kevorkian identified the woman as Elizabeth Mertz, 59, of Cincinnati, said Michael Dargay, an emergency-room physician at Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital.

My Previous Mertz Links

Joe Mertz Center for Volunteer Community Service

Dr. Mertz & his Colleagues... Innovative Consultants...

Law Offices of Douglas Kemp Mertz
 

The Updated Eugene H. Mertz and Joan C. Mertz (nee Breswitz) has emerged.

 Gene and Joan seem like great folks. They have cool pictures of their cats on their page.

E.R. Mertz, Inc. We represent manufacturers of Industrial and Embedded Computers, Input/Output Cards and Devices, Sensors & Transducers as well as Software to monitor and control a variety of machines, buildings and processes for OEM applications such as Telecom, Industrial, Process and HVAC.

William Mertz was on the US  gymnastic team in the 1908 Olympics.

Melissa M. Mertz, Class of 1993

Martha Mayhood Mertz, owner of Mayhood/Mertz Realtors, Inc., was asked to serve on the Board of Directors of the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce. Finding herself to be the only working woman serving on the Board, she also discovered that in the 75 years of presenting community awards, her Chamber had only once honored a woman.

Jesuit Latin Poets of the17th and 18th Centuries selected and paraphrased by James J. Mertz.

MERTZ MAKES SENSE... YOU FIGURE THIS ONE OUT

Mertz Glacier Climatic Information
Note that this glacier was named for Dr. Xavier Mertz by Mawson.  They discovered it on their trek.

Mertz & Associates, Merger and Aquisition Specialists (CPA's)

Background on Mertz Associates:

Mertz Associates has developed, refined and focused our capabilities by specializing in mergers and acquisitions since 1980. We have become a leading independent merger and acquisition consulting firm in the Midwest and have participated in well over 100 transactions during the past 15 years.

 Mertz Associates has conducted searches and sales for many leading companies--both Fortune 500 and small, privately owned companies. We work on a project basis and assist our clients professionally, confidentially and knowledgeably. Typical transactions range in size from $1 million to $50 million.

Linda Mertz, principal, joined Mertz Associates in 1987. She has a bachelors degree in finance and accounting from U.W.-Madison and earned an executive MBA at U.W.- Milwaukee while serving as audit manager at Coopers and Lybrand. Her experience includes serving as vice president of finance, vice president of marketing and chief operating officer in the equipment leasing field.

Orville Mertz, founder and principal emeritus, has over 35 years of experience in the field of mergers and acquisitions, having served as president and chairman of Koehring Company, during its period of most vigorous growth. Mr. Mertz is past chairman of the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and past president of the Wisconsin Manufacturers Association. A CPA from Pennsylvania, he earned a degree with high distinction in Economics from Northwestern University. His honors include being named Businessman of the Year by the Harvard Business School Club of Milwaukee.

Dennis F. Mertz

Dennis is an associate professor of engineering at Delaware University.

MERTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BUDGET


Mertz Ranch Spanning over 100,000 acres in Southwest Texas

Dr. Ulrike Mertz
Sunbury Motors is owned by Mertz's

This is by no means all of them. And I intend to add pictures where available!!

More to come!!

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