Eichborn (noble family)
Eichborn is the name of a Prussian noble family.
history
The family line begins with Johannes Mauritius (Moritz) († July 28, 1674 in Herborn ). From 1813 the family called themselves Moriz-Eichborn , since Johann Wolfgang Moriz (1762–1837) had married Juliane Friederike (1775–1832), the only daughter of Johann Friedrich Eichborn (1742–1813) in 1794 and a sovereign after the death of their father-in-law Received approval for the united family name and continued the company. The father-in-law was the nephew and heir of the first banker in Silesia and the court banker of Frederick the Great , Johann Ludwig Eichborn (1699–1772), the son of a master saddler and grandson of a butcher and innkeeper from Landau in the Palatinate . Johann Ludwig Eichborn had left his homeland around 1722 and immigrated to Breslau . There he founded a forwarding, commission and exchange business under his name in 1728 and was admitted to the Breslau stock exchange as a wholesale merchant in 1736 . In the same year his brother Matheus Eichborn joined the company as a partner, which was then called "Johann Ludwig and Matheus Eichborn" and from 1766 until 1945 when he left Breslau due to the war, "Eichborn & Co." An attempt made in 1951 to run a banking business in Nuremberg under the same company failed in 1956.
Louis Eichborn , Kreisdeputierter in Reichenbach district (1874-1880), eldest son of the late secretly Kommerzienrats and Chief of Breslauer banking house calibration fount, Johann Wolfgang Moritz-calibration fount (1762-1837), was the occasion of the homage of the Prussian estates before Friedrich Wilhelm IV. In On October 15, 1840, Berlin was raised to the Prussian nobility by Eichborn .
Possessions
The family owns, or has had, a. the following goods:
- Güttmannsdorf Castle (Polish: Pałac w Dobrocinie) in Güttmannsdorf (Polish: Dobrocin ), formerly the Reichenbach district, Silesia
- Johanniterburg Kühndorf in Kühndorf , Thuringia
- Friesenhausen Castle in Friesenhausen , part of the community of Aidhausen in the Haßberge district , Lower Franconia
Güttmannsdorf Castle
Johanniter Castle Kühndorf
Friesenhausen Castle
Other (former) property:
- Bankhaus Eichborn & Co. , Nuremberg
- Eichborn Verlag , Cologne
coat of arms
The coat of arms is split, on the right a two-leaved green oak branch with three green acorns in gold, on the left in blue three silver cross-currents. On the crowned helmet with blue and gold covers an open, golden right wing, blue wing left wing.
Known family members
- Louis Eichborn (1812–1882), German banker
- Hermann Ludwig Eichborn (1847–1918), German musician, composer and author
- Reinhart von Eichborn (1911–1990), German lawyer, lexicographer and publisher; Witness in investigations into the Katyn massacre and author of the "Großer Eichborn", a German-English economic dictionary
- Vito von Eichborn (* 1943), German publisher
- Wolfgang von Eichborn (* 1948), German federal judge
literature
- Eckart von Eichborn: Family von Eichborn. Ancestry and kinship boards . Goerlitz 1928.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 3: Eberhard - Graffen . Leipzig 1861, p. 55 ( digitized from Google books).
- Without an author: 225 years of Bankhaus Eichborn & Co. 1728 - 1953 . Nuremberg (Eichborn-Verlag) 1953.
Individual evidence
- ↑ from Eichborn. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Hans-Henning Zabel: Moriz-Eichborn, Wolfgang in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 4 (1959), p. 368 ( online version ; accessed on April 3, 2019.)
- ↑ Hans-Henning Zabel: Eichborn, Johann Ludwig in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 4 (1959), p. 367 f. ( Online version ; accessed April 3, 2019.)
- ↑ Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch, Volume 3 (Blooming nobility of German landscapes under Prussian domination), 2nd section, Volume 1, Part 1: The flourishing nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia: Edelleute AL, Nuremberg 1878, p. 121.
- ↑ Gottfried Mahling: How a knight family saves the Johanniterburg in Kühndorf , in: Thüringer Allgemeine Online, visited on May 31, 2010.