Alemann (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Alemann family (1559)

Alemann is the name of an old councilor family of the city of Magdeburg , who provided a large number of dignitaries and mayors in the history of the city .

history

The first documented mention of the family comes from the year 1281. In this document, the name Almannus is mentioned for a guild master of the shoemaker's and tannery guilds assigned to the council . The family developed into the richest and most influential family in the city in the late Middle Ages . With Heyne Alemann , she also appointed the mayor for the first time from 1363. Until 1385 Heyne Alemann held the office of first and second mayor several times. In the course of history, other members of the family held various positions in the city administration, such as chamberlain , aldermen andMayor . The most important mayor of the family was probably Heine Alemann , who acted as first or second mayor from 1527 to 1542 and from 1545 to 1554. During his term of office, the repelled siege of the city in 1550/51 fell . Another well-known family member was the alderman Jakob Alemann , who worked at the beginning of the 17th century . His daughter Margarethe Alemann married the well-known physicist and mayor of Magdeburg Otto von Guericke in 1626 .

The family was ennobled with a diploma issued in Prague on March 9, 1602. The end of the great importance of the family came only a few decades later with the destruction of Magdeburg in the Thirty Years War in 1631. Members of the family were accused of treason. Many family members left the city and settled in other regions. A branch of the family settled in Benneckenbeck , which today belongs to Magdeburg . With Friedrich Adolph von Alemann , the family produced a well-known forest manager there in 1797. The family that still exists today consists of around 100 family members.

In the city of Magdeburg, a street was named Alemannstraße in honor of members of the family in 1899 .

List of the mayors of Magdeburg from the Alemann family

(to Buchholz / Ballerstedt Mayor of Magdeburg )

After the destruction of Magdeburg in 1631:

Other members of the von Alemann family

However, Johann Ernst von Alemann , Wilhelm August Alemann and their relatives did not belong to the von Alemann family in Magdeburg , although they are counted as part of the family in various publications. Because Wilhelm August Alemann had his nobility confirmed in 1783 by showing a connection to the Magdeburg Alemann family that did not really exist in his family tree. As a result, Wilhelm August's relatives were also counted among the Magdeburgers, including Wilhelm August's uncle Johann Ernst von Alemann, who had been raised to hereditary nobility by King Friedrich Wilhelm I "because of the brave courage he felt". It is more correct that Johann Ernst, Wilhelm August and their relatives came from a Ravensberg civil servant family.

Web links

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Marie von Alemann on the occasion of an exhibition in Wernigerode in 2002, "Angers Hof" gallery
  2. ↑ See Müller (1939), pp. 18ff. On the other hand, see Alemann (1909), pp. 263ff. The lineage shown in the latter is based on the false sample of nobility and can still be found in publications to this day.