If memory serves me right, one of them was the way a German spelled it while the other was what the Jew used to show he was a Jew and not a German. Though the pronunciation of both was the same thing. Like in Feldman and Feldmann, Field man or farm hand.
I may be wrong, though; because that was something I learned long ago and my German is almost gone, now.
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What's the difference between German last names ending in "n" and "nn"?
no difference in pronounciation it's just the way it's spelled.
Reply:Nothing really, they probably just changed with generations.
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