Bassermann (family)
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The Mannheim Bassermann family was a family of merchants from Baden and Palatinate. In the 18th century it achieved economic and social growth. Your family line begins with Dietrich Bassermann (1615–1682), owner of the Hochmühle in Ostheim in der Wetterau , who died in Hanau , while the family name is documented with frater Johannes Bassermann de Radegishusen ( Riddagshausen near Braunschweig ), matriculated at the University of Leipzig in 1462 appears.
Members
Johann Christoph Bassermann (1709–1762) married Sarah Katharina Lang (1699–1754) in 1736.
Her sons were Friedrich Daniel Bassermann (1738–1810) and Johann Wilhelm Bassermann (1744–1811)
Friedrich Ludwig Bassermann (1782–1865) married Wilhelmine Reinhardt (1787–1869), daughter of the Lord Mayor of Mannheim, Johann Wilhelm Reinhardt .
From this marriage come Friedrich Daniel Bassermann (1811–1855) and Julius Heinrich Bassermann (1818–1891)
Other members of the family were:
- Anton Bassermann (1821–1897), lawyer, President of the Mannheim Regional Court and member of the Baden Assembly of Estates
- August Bassermann (1847–1931), theater actor, then artistic director at the Mannheim National Theater
- Albert Bassermann (1867–1952), theater actor, nephew of August Bassermann
- Otto Bassermann (1839–1916), publisher in Munich
- Heinrich Bassermann (1849–1909), theologian
Bassermann-Jordan line
- Emil Bassermann-Jordan (1835–1915), Palatine winery owner and banker
- Ernst von Bassermann-Jordan (1876–1932), German art historian and writer; Founder of scientific watch research in Germany
- Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan (1872–1959), winery owner from the Palatinate and viticulture historian
- Ludwig Bassermann-Jordan (1869–1914), winery owner and mayor of the small town of Deidesheim in the Palatinate
coat of arms
The family coat of arms of the Bassermann dynasty shows in silver a young man dressed in black, holding up a black pretzel in his right hand and putting his left hand on his hip. The youth growing on the helmet with black and silver covers.
The family coat of arms of the Jordan family shows a red lion in a silver shield ; the lion growing on the helmet with the red and silver covers.
The Bavarian permission to unify the name as "Bassermann-Jordan" was granted to the winery owner Emil Bassermann (married to Auguste, daughter of Deidesheim's mayor and district administrator Ludwig Andreas Jordan († July 1, 1883)) on September 17, 1883 at the castle Linderhof.
The elevation to the Bavarian nobility with coat of arms association as "von Bassermann-Jordan" took place for the brothers Dr. jur. Friedrich and Prof. Dr. phil. Ernst on November 7, 1917 in Munich with a diploma on November 12 and enrollment in the nobility register of the Kingdom of Bavaria on November 28, 1917.
literature
- Lothar Gall : middle class in Germany. History of the Bassermann Siedler family , Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88680-259-0 .
Web links
- The Bassermann family on the website of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums
See also
- Bassermann Verlag in Munich
- Weingut Privy Councilor Dr. from Bassermann-Jordan in Deidesheim, Palatinate