Soergel or Sörgel is a German-language surname from a nickname for a sorrowful person from a derivative of Middle High German Sorge "sorrow", "trouble". It may refer to: Ed Soergel (1930–1975), Canadian football player Herman Sörgel (1885–1952), German architect Janet Soergel Mielke (1937), American politician and secretary Wolfgang Soergel (born 1962), German mathematician, specializing in geometry and representation theory References