Borner (family)
Börner is the name of a German family from Wünschensuhl , Eisenach district in Thuringia . The oldest known ancestor in the male line is Valentin Börner († 1737). The family is Evangelical-Lutheran and spread from Wünschensuhl to Celle , Peine and Hamburg all over Germany. It continues to this day.
origin of the name
There are two hypotheses about the origin of the family name:
Born = source or well
According to this hypothesis, the name arose from the old German word "Born" for source or well. So it says that someone lived near a well or a spring or was the owner of it. Fitting to this hypothesis, some families with the name Börner have a coat of arms with a bubbling spring or a fountain.
barnen, bornen, burnen = to burn
According to this hypothesis, the name is derived from the old German word “barnen”, “bornen” or “burnen” for “to burn”. Thus, the name can be seen as a job title for a coal burner, lime burner, brick burner or fire harvester. Franz Börner (1877–1952) brought the hypothesis into circulation in the 1930s that the name could be traced back to an Indo-European clan name. The task of this clan is said to have been to light sacrificial and signal fires. This hypothesis of tracing back to an old Germanic clan name is to be regarded as very unlikely and cannot be proven.
coat of arms
Johann Heinrich Börner (1776–1839) adopted a coat of arms for the family around 1820, which is described in the Deutsche Wappenrolle , Volume 21, No. 6424/70, as follows:
“A red rooster head in shields divided into blue and silver. On the blue-silver puffed helmet with blue-silver covers, two blue-silver buffalo horns divided diagonally to the right and to the left. "
Herwig Börner (1920–2002) had this coat of arms registered in the German coat of arms on May 31, 1970 under the number 6424/70 with the right to manage all male descendants.
The red cock's head in the described coat of arms is based on the hypothesis of the derivation of the name from the old German word for "burn". The red rooster has always been a symbol of fire. In the travel song Wir sind der Geyer's black pile about Florian Geyer it says “Put the red rooster on the monastery roof!”, Which means “Burn the monastery down!”
Name bearer
- Johann Heinrich Börner (* Wünschensuhl, December 3, 1776; † Celle, May 28, 1839), married to Katharine Christine Loest (1796–1869), Royal Hanoverian Regimental Bandmaster, member of the King's German Legion , participant in the Battle of Waterloo , Holder of the Waterloo Medal .
- Max Johannes August Franz Börner (1877–1952), married to the teacher Elisabeth Müller (1884–1973), qualified metallurgical engineer, 1910 to 1950 operations manager of the Zinnwerke Wilhelmsburg GmbH.
Further ancestors
- Theodor Burchard Bartman (1710–1786), lawyer and university professor in Cologne
- Wilhelm Bartman (1798–1885), businessman and first director of the Central Cathedral Building Association in Cologne
- Adolf Dürr (around 1874–1945), District Administrator of the Wongrowitz district
- Johann Georg Wilhelm Freiherr von Keller (1710–1785), German lieutenant general and governor of Stettin
- Johann Christian Reil (1759–1813), physician and founder of modern psychiatry
- Fredéric Armand Strubberg (1806–1889), German traveler to America and writer
- Johan Rudolf Thorbecke (1798–1872), liberal Dutch politician, founder of the parliamentary monarchy in the Netherlands
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Wappenrolle, Volume 21, Wappen No. 6424/70, Verlag Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch, 1970/71, ISBN 3-7686-8023-1 .
- ↑ Church registers of the Wünschensuhl community, Eisenach district, Fernbreitenbach Evangelical Parish Office.