Actually there weren’t many german aircraft, that got official names.
The Bf 109, 110, Fw 190 Ju 88/188 never got official names and not even
nicknames, “Emil”, “Fritz” and “Gustav” are just the phonetic letters, as
YakRider wrote.
Civil aircraft had more often names given by the manufacturer or largest
user and those were mostly kept in military service : Fw 200 Condor,
Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann, Bü 133 Jungmeister, Bf 108 Taifun.
Nicknames were more frequent and sometimes stuck to the aircraft,
like “Moskito” for the Ta 154, “Tausenfüßler” for the Ar 232, “Fliegender
Holzschuh” for the Bv 138. Even “Schwalbe” nd “Sturmvogel” were inofficial
names only.
And to my opinion those names for the Fw 190 like “Würger”, “Schlächter”,
or “Rächer” vor the Ju 188 are post-war “inventions” !
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