Ammon (Prussian noble family)
Ammon is the name of a Prussian noble family . It is to be distinguished from the Bavarian and Saxon noble families of the same name .
history
The family came from Neuchâtel NE and belonged to the French colony in Berlin . The elevation to the Prussian nobility took place with a diploma from January 23, 1742 for Christoph Heinrich Ammon (born December 11, 1713 in Halberstadt , † February 27, 1783), royal Prussian envoy to the Electoral Saxon court and the States General .
With a diploma dated January 24, 1765, this nobility rise was extended to his three brothers and their descendants.
Georg Friedrich von Ammon (1723–1765) came to the Rhineland as a Prussian envoy in the Lower Rhine-Westphalian district and founded the Rhenish line, which in 1829 with Gerhard Friedrich von Ammon on House Walbeck entered the nobility register of the Rhine Province (class of nobles, no. 112 ) has been recorded.
The family owned Polchow in Mecklenburg .
The Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage keeps the family archive with documents from 1623 to 1917.
Some members of the family, including Christoph Heinrich von Ammon, are dubbed Freiherr or Baron , but no details are known about a baron diploma .
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows in a squared shield in the first and fourth field in silver a gold armored half black eagle growing out of the dividing line, in the second red and blue divided field two armored arms turned against each other , holding up a golden royal crown, with the arms in the blue part and the hands and the crown are in the red part, and in the third blue and red cross-sectioned field a man in armor standing on a green hill, looking forward, holding a silver crescent in his right hand and pressing his left in his side .
Personalities
- Friedrich Ferdinand von Ammon (1784–1874), German lawyer and parliamentarian
- Georg von Ammon (1869–1937), German vice admiral
- Carl von Ammon (1878–1946), German major general
literature
- Otto Titan von Hefner , Alfred Grenser , George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms , III. Volume, 2nd section, 1st volume, The blossoming nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia: Edelleute , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1878, Tfl. 95
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 1, Leipzig: Voigt 1859, pp. 70f
- Genealogical pocket book of the knight and noble families , Brno 1881, p. 2f .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry , central database of bequests
- ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families in an exact, complete and generally understandable description: With historical and documentary evidence. Volume 2, Leipzig 1855, p. 8