diff --git a/.gitauthors b/.gitauthors
index 7035d1e1b948..15e4306313f2 100644
--- a/.gitauthors
+++ b/.gitauthors
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ scop = Ville Skyttä <scop@FreeBSD.org>
 scottl = Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>
 scottph = D Scott Phillips <scottph@FreeBSD.org>
 scrappy = Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@FreeBSD.org>
-se = Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org>
+se = Stefan Eßer <se@FreeBSD.org>
 sean = Sean Vickery <sean@FreeBSD.org>
 seanc = Sean Chittenden <seanc@FreeBSD.org>
 sef = Sean Eric Fagan <sef@FreeBSD.org>