Interestingly, the name Nimitz doesn't sound that much Germanic, it could have been a Germanized version of an originally Slavic name like Němec. (Which would m

Interestingly, the name Nimitz doesn't sound that much Germanic, it could have been a Germanized version of an originally Slavic name like Němec. (Which would mean "German"; quite a recursion :) The Nimitz family stems from Bremen, and quite deeply so (13th century), which would fit, because Bremen/Lueneburger Heide is not that far from territories settled by Polabian Slavs.