Ammon (Bavarian-Saxon noble family)

Ammon is the name of a Bavarian and Saxon noble family. It is to be distinguished from the Prussian noble family of the same name .

history

The family is originally from Nuremberg . The brothers and cousins ​​Ammon: Benedict and Sebastian, Hans Georg, Christoph, Lazarus and Hans Peter, as well as Hans Michael and Leonhard, asked Emperor Rudolf II for an improvement and confirmation of their old coat of arms, which the Emperor gave them with a diploma, dd Regensburg from August 24, 1594, also granted. He allowed them to reunite the old coat of arms, to wear an open tournament helmet instead of the closed stich helmet and to count themselves hereditary to the imperial nobility .

The members of the family have not made use of their nobility since around 1640.

It was not until 1824 that the sons of the Bayreuth Chamber Councilor Philipp Michael Paul Ammon (1738-1812) and Eleonore Marie Eusebia Grieshammer (1745-1821), the brothers Ludwig Ernst Ammon (Dr . phil., dean, school inspector and pastor of Markt Lindenhardt near Bayreuth ), Friedrich Daniel Jonathan Ammon (formerly Prussian chamber councilor, later Bavarian rent officer in Altdorf near Nuremberg ) and Johann Georg Friedrich Ammon (Dr. jur., Dr. phil., Bavarian Higher Appeal Court in Munich) with a diploma dated September 21, 1824 incorporated into the nobility register of the Kingdom of Bavaria. The older of the aforementioned Ammonites, the Saxon court preacher Christoph Ammon , received an announcement on December 17, 1824, to be allowed to use this nobility with his descendants in the Kingdom of Saxony.

coat of arms

Coat of arms 1824

The coat of arms, renewed in 1824, shows a silver unicorn with a red-lipped tongue in a black and gold shield that is divided obliquely to the left.

Name bearer

• Christoph Ammon (1766–1850), Evangelical Lutheran theologian, court preacher in Dresden
• Friedrich von Ammon (1791–1855), Evangelical Lutheran theologian, university professor in Erlangen
• August von Ammon (1799–1861), ophthalmologist
• Ludwig von Ammon (1850–1922), geologist
• Wilhelm von Ammon (1903–1992), District Court Director (NSDAP member)

literature

• Christoph Friedrich Ammon Genealogical record of the family nobility of the von Ammon in the kingdoms of Bavaria and Saxony. Wagner, Dresden 1825 ( digitized version )
• Otto Titan von Hefner : J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms ,
  • Volume II, Department 1, The nobility of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg, 1856, Tfl. 72
  • Volume II, 3rd division, The nobility of the Kingdom of Saxony , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1857, Tfl. 19th
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 1, Leipzig: Voigt 1859, p. 71

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kneschke (lit.)