Germar (noble family)
Germar is the name of an old Thuringian , imperial knightly noble family with the parent company Germar (now Görmar near Mühlhausen / Thuringia ). The family belonged to the Schwarzburg and Stolberg ministers and vassals .
history
The family first appears in a document in 1130 with Heuning de Geremar . In 1220 Gottfried and Dietrich von Germar and 1300 Helwig von Germar were mentioned. The line of tribe begins in 1465 with the knight Hans von Germar on Tunzenhausen , in today's Sömmerda district .
The von Germar family was widely ramified and was based in Berga, Bennungen , Branderode , Bendeleben , Bad Langensalza , Gebesee , Straussfurt , Wolferode and Gorsleben . The noble family continues to flourish with several male relatives. There is a family association. There are also bearers of Germar's name who carry the name through adoption.
Those of Germar are related to the coat of arms and probably also tribal to those of Buttlar and Treusch von Buttlar .
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a silver butte in red with gold hoops and ribbons. The helmet is crowned, on it an arm armored in silver , which holds seven black cock feathers in the bared hand. The helmet cover is red and silver.
In later depictions, the pot helmet was replaced by a piston tournament helmet (also called a bow or spong helmet) (see web link).
Personalities
- Hans von Germar, 1550 Landkomtur of the Deutschordensballei Thuringia , on the Kommende Nägelstedt , one of the first order commander to go over to the Lutheran faith
- Friedrich von Germar (1787–1842), Grand Ducal Saxon-Weimar Colonel, Chamberlain and personal adjutant to Grand Duke Karl August of Saxe-Weimar
- Kurt Ewald von Germar (1793–1875), Saxon officer, knight of the Military Order of St. Heinrich
- Ulrich von Germar (1876–1948), German major general, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
literature
- Georg Schmidt: Outline of a genealogy of the von Germar family on Gorsleben, In: Der Deutsche Herold, Berlin 1883, No. 4, page 9
- MK Frh. Von Schlotheim: Genealogy of the von Germar family in der Neumark, In: Der Deutsche Herold, Berlin 1883, No. 4, page 63
- Bruno von Germar: The Ministerials and Knights of Germar, In: Mühlhäuser history sheets: Journal of the Mühlhäuser Altertumsverein, 1903, Vol. 3–5, pp. 9–18
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1978, ISSN 0435-2408
Web links
- Germar's in the Wildenfels Castle Archives
- Coat of arms in Johann Siebmacher's Newe Wappenbuch from 1605
