Tischler Family History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a joiner from an agent derivative of Middle High German tisch German Tisch ‘table’. This became the normal term for the craftsman in northern and eastern Germany and in Austria and Switzerland during the 15th century; before that it had been Tischer.

The surname Tischler is also found in some central European countries e.g. Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia; see also 2 below.

Germanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Tišler (see Tisler) or of its variant Tišlar, cognates of 1 above.