Strecker Family History

German: from an agent derivative of Middle High German strecken ‘to stretch’ hence perhaps an occupational name for someone who stretched cloth out on tenterhooks. Alternatively, an occupational name for a torturer or executioner.

From an agent derivative of Middle Low German strecken ‘to plow (a piece of land) for the first time’ hence a nickname for someone who owned or worked a plot of land that had been newly taken into cultivation.

Possibly a habitational name for someone from Streckau near Zeitz in eastern Germany.