Bacmeister

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Coat of arms of the Bacmeister family

Bacmeister , also spelled : Backmeister , Bakmester or Bacmester , is the name of an old German family from Lower Saxony from the area around Goslar , Braunschweig and Lüneburg .

She is one of the typical representatives of the German educated bourgeoisie and for centuries has produced numerous well-known personalities, especially in the fields of Protestant theology , medicine and law . The Lower Saxon branches of the family belonged to the so-called Pretty Families in the Electorate of Hanover .

history

The family name indicates an office that was supposed to ensure the supply of bread; probably an ancestor was the administrator of the tithe barn in the imperial palace of Goslar . In 1284 a Johann dictus Bacmeister was mentioned in a document in Goslar , a citizen of the city who had leased a mill for the city council and no longer held the office. Around 100 documents between 1284 and 1399 show the dictus bacmeister partly as head of the coin guild, partly as councilor of Goslar. The family then emigrated to Braunschweig, where a Hinrik Bacmeister was registered as a master baker at Güldenstrasse 7 between 1407 and 1444 . His grandson Ludeke Willm Bacmeister (* approx. 1465) was renewed the coat of arms of the Braunschweig dukes as "dero Backmester" - later tradition sees him as a pastry baker. After his son Johannes (* before 1500) had earned money and honors in the brewery trade in Lüneburg , his son Lucas Bacmeister the Elder was the first of the family to start an academic career. In addition, this Lucas Bacmeister is considered to be the actual progenitor of the family that has existed to this day and has organized itself into a family association.

Since then, Lucas the Elder his job to Rostock had moved, where he was a professor of theology at the local university taught emerged from this new Rostock line over the generations more Wuerttemberg lines, but only the descendants of Kammerprokurator Heinrich Bacmeister are still existent, as well as an important Hanoverian line. From the Württemberg line, a new East Frisian line developed through the princely East Frisian personal physician Eberhard Bacmeister , whose descendants mostly moved back to Lower Saxony from around the middle of the 18th century and some of them later even dared to emigrate to Mexico , where they had their own Family branch established. In addition, some important family members held leading positions and held positions of responsibility in St. Petersburg and Riga , settled there and also founded new branches of the family.

Today the Mecklenburg line is considered to be extinct, the Württemberg line - in the spelling Backmeister - as barely existing, whereas the Lower Saxony and the former East Frisian line (including in Mexico and the USA) are the most strongly represented lines of this family.

The Germanist Adolf Bacmeister wrote in his book Germanische Kleinitäten , published in 1870, summarizing about his family,

" That it is a comfortable feeling for me to be able to trace the history of my family back to four hundred years, to watch its transformations and migrations, from Lüneburg to the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas, to icy Russia to the vineyards of the Swabian country, finally even under the palm trees of India on the shores of the Canadian lakes and on the shores of the Pacific Ocean . We brewed their beer for the Lüneburgers, gave court sermons to the Queen of Denmark Dorothea von Sachsen-Lauenburg-Ratzeburg , made ourselves useful as auditors and negotiators under Swedish flags , proclaimed the Gospel to the Hindus in Prakrit , the Dukes of Württemberg ruled their country in Saint Petersburg to St. Vladimir Medal earned and asked a minister the country Hannover, the Admiral Farragut the Mississippi storm helped .... "

Known family members sorted genealogically

  • Lucas Bacmeister the Elder Ä., Ancestor of the family
    Lucas Bacmeister (1530–1608), Lutheran theologian and court preacher , ∞ I .: Johanna Bording (1544–1584), daughter of the Flemish physician and Danish personal physician Jacob Bording (1511–1560); II: Katharina Beselin (1536–1593) III .: Anna Vischer († 1613) - Rostock line

literature

Web links

Commons : Bacmeister family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family Association Bacmeister ( Memento from June 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Sebastian Bacmeister. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Supplement 2, Leipzig 1751, column 1182.
  3. ↑ Bacmeister, Johann son of a preacher. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Supplement 2, Leipzig 1751, column 1180.
  4. ↑ Bacmeister or Backmeister, Mathäus Dietrich. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Supplement 2, Leipzig 1751, column 1181 f.
  5. ^ Descendants of Eberhard Bacmeister in the Lexicon for East Friesland (see: Fam. Bacmeister)
  6. ↑ Sarnighausen: Hannoversche Amtsjuristen from 1715 to 1866 in Neuhaus an der Oste (pdf) , p. 176. AND: Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadelige Häuser , 1912, p. 543 ff. Marie Justina von Könemann's parents are not (mistakenly: Oeynhausen collection ) J. Könemann's brother Kilian and sister-in-law S. Voigt. The mix-up is based on the fact that Joachim Friedrich von Könemann also married Voigt daughters in his second and third marriage ( NLA HA Hann. 112 No. 166/2 )