How would you pronounce the surname "Theurer", if it belongs to an American? I'm going with a lisping "Sawyer", but maybe you know better. (Hmm, a Google-found page suggests "Tyrer".)
Actually, I had a friend in jr. high whose last name was spelled Neuffer, which in German would be pronounced "noyfer", but its pronunciation had mutated into "knifer" (well, not with the K sound, but you get the idea). So Theurer -> "Tyrer" would at least be following a similar trajectory into American English.
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I went to a high school called St. John Neumann, which was pronounced "Newman". Once we had an assembly where a learnéd guest said that it really ought to be pronounced "Noyman" coz that's how the school's namesake pronounced his own name, and so the vice principal self-consciously called the school "Noyman" for the rest of the assembly to humor the visiting dude, and we never really let him live it down.
buh-dang-ga-bloing ba-dink *whoosh* POP
Hello, ... NOYMAN!