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regarding the surname "Hartl" I suspected he was from Austria and the WP-article confirms it. Interestingly some German names are tied to some region, some time

• masswerk 4y ago
  As a place, it's quite strongly connected to Styria (6 out of total 8 Hartl are located in Styria and all Hartl are in Austria.) Surprisingly, as a surname Hartl is more common in Germany – but Austria is still a viable contender. :-) [1] [1] https://de.namespedia.com/details/Hartl https://de.namespedia.com/details/Hartl
  • Archelaos 4y ago
    > a surname Hartl is more common in Germany – but Austria is still a viable contender The maps in the link point to Bavaria as the place for the German Hartls and Upper Austria for the Austrian Hartls. I would not be surprised if most of the Bavarian Hartls were from Lower Bavaria (or migrants from there to Munich), which borders on Upper Austria. For historical dialect geography, this would be the same area.[1][2] [1] See the Map on German dialects aprox. 1900 at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_dialects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_dialects The relevant area is no. 27. "Central Bavarian". Or this map of dialects aprox. 1945 (the medium blue are no 7): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_language#/media/File:Upper_German_dialects.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_language#/media/File:... [2] Note that in written German there is a distinction that is lost in English spelling between the state of Bavaria ("Bayern", adj. "bayerisch") and the dialect (or some might even claim language -- it has its own ISO 639-3 code "bar") Bavarian ("Bairisch").