>Today I visited the website of Christof Lange, oh sorry, I mean Christof Wollenhaupt. Until today I thought it were two different persons, but it appears that he married two years ago and has changed his last name.
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>What puzzles me is that no one here has wondered how this is possible. As far as I'm aware of, there's no law that allows a man to change his last name when he gets married.
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>Christof, are you reading along?
It is now possible in Germany for quite a few years.
And yes, some people did wonder, when he changed his name.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)