Research indicates, that the Germans surname Schultheiss can already be found in documents dating back to the year 1148. The name is of occupational origin, deriving from the trade or profession of the original bearer. In this instance, the surname Schultheiss derives from the middle High German "Schultheisse" meaning literally "enforcement officer". The term was later used to indicate the mayor, judge or any official who could order people to pay taxes, either in monetary form or as goods. The term Schultheiss can already be found in records of the tribe of the Lombards, which date back to the seventh century. Here research indicates the term "Schldhais". The term is found the Alemann area in the eighth century and from there on spread into northern Germany. The original bearer of the name might have been in a position to be called "Schultheiss" and his descendants then took on the name as their surname. The name Schultheiss and especially its variant of Schulz is one of the most wide spread German surnames. Lists of Germans coming to America on the ship named "Beethoven", which sailed from Bremen to Baltimore, where it arrived in January of the year 1851.
The surname Schultheiss and its variant forms of Schulthess, Schulz and Schulze can be found in documents dating back to the fifteenth century. As metioned above the earliest record dates back to the year 1148 when one Cuonradus Schulthtus was mentioned as a resident of the city of Basel. Burckhart Schultheiss resided in the city of Strassburg, as documents for the year 1249 indicated. In the fifteenth century the name is often contracted to Schulz or Schulze. One Klaus and one Heinrich Schulz was mentioned as a member of the town council or stolp, in the year 1476.
BLAZON OF ARMS : Argent, between two mullets gules, a fess sable. CREST : Two buffaln horns argent, each wing charged with a fess sable. ORIGIN : GERMANY
