Braunmühl (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Braunmühl

Braunmühl , originally Braunmüller, is the name of a Swabian noble family . The family whose branches are in part to this day, was the mid-18th century as a noble Braunmühl ennobled .

history

origin

The uninterrupted lineage of the family begins at the beginning of the 17th century with Ulrich Braunmiller in Ried near Burgau . His great-grandson Lic. Jur. Johann Georg Ignaz Braunmüller, imperial councilor and senior bailiff of the imperial church in Wettenhausen , received a diploma from Maria Theresa on October 6, 1759 in Vienna, the knightly imperial nobility and the hereditary Austrian nobility as " Edler von Braunmühl".

Spread and personalities

Johann Georg Ignaz left the three sons Johann Baptist Georg, Franz Joseph and Franz Xaver. Johann Baptist Georg Edler von Braunmühl (* 1747) became the princely Fuggerscher director of the domain chancellery in Boos , his brother Franz Joseph Edler von Braunmühl (* 1751) was a Bavarian cavalry master in Weißenhorn . The brothers, of whom Franz Xaver had already died, were incorporated into the nobility register in the Kingdom of Bavaria on February 19, 1813 . Joseph Johann Nepomuk Edler von Braunmühl (* 1779), a son of Franz Xaver, was the head clerk of the rent office at Roggenburg , and he was also entered in the royal Bavarian aristocratic registers.

Important members of the family from more recent times included Johann Anton Edler von Braunmühl (* 1853, † 1908), grandson of Anton Edler von Braunmühl, Bavarian government councilor, and his wife Sybilla née Edle von Weckbecker. He was a professor of mathematics at the TH Munich and was one of the leading mathematicians in Germany at the turn of the century. Gerold von Braunmühl (* 1936) was a high-ranking diplomat in the Foreign Office . He was initially attaché to the German embassy in Washington and later Ministerial Director of Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher . Gerold von Braunmühl was murdered in an attack by the RAF on October 10, 1986 in Bonn.

coat of arms

The coat of arms , awarded in 1759, shows a golden mill wheel in blue, topped with a silver-clad, gold-crowned Moor bust . On the helmet with blue-gold and blue-silver covers on the right, the moor grows between two buffalo horns divided over a corner on the right, gold-blue and left, blue-silver .

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Genealogical Manual of the Adels , Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, page 80
  2. ↑ a b New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 2, page 31

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