Bassermann (family)

Alliance coat of arms with ancestral coat of arms of the Bassermann and Jordan families; the two helmets are of a naked virgin held .

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1972, p. 240
^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 52

[GHdA-1] GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1972, p. 240

[2] Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 52