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Pister is a surname of German origin. It is an occupational surname derived from the Middle High German word phister, meaning baker, which is based on the Latin word for baker, pistor. ^[1]

Contents

• Notable people with the name
• See also
• References

The name later evolved into the more common surname Pfister via the High German consonant shift that transformed the "p" into "pf".

Notable people with the name

• Hermann Pister (1885–1948), German war criminal, SS-Oberführer & commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp
• Karl S. Pister (1925–2022), American academic in engineering
• Kristofer Pister, American university professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences
• Phil Pister (1929–2023), American fishery biologist
• Thierry Pister (born 1965), Belgian football player and manager

See also

• Bresler–Pister yield criterion, function devised to predict the strength of concrete under multiaxial stress states

References

Surname list

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