Godeffroy (family)

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Coat of arms of the Godeffroy family around 1961
Coat of arms of the Godeffroy family around 1850
Shipping company flag JC Godeffroy & Son around 1879
Godeffroy grave plate, open-air museum. Hedge garden , Ohlsdorf cemetery
Gravestone plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery Ohlsdorf

The Godeffroy family is a Huguenot family from La Rochelle in France . After the Edict of Nantes was repealed, individual family members left La Rochelle at the end of the 17th century and founded the Hamburg branch.

origin

The Godeffroy family belonged to the old council families of La Rochelle , they were merchants and shipowners whose ships sailed as far as the Caribbean (formerly West Indies). Well known are trips of the ships Le Cesar and Le Faulcon of the brothers Jean and Cesar in the year 1687 in the Baltic Sea and to the West Indies .

Cesar Godeffroy (1640–1720), the 24th child of his parents, was a member of the French Reformed congregation in Amsterdam for several years before he went to Müncheberg . His grandson Jacques Cesar Godeffroy (1706–1758), who was born in Berlin , settled in Hamburg in 1737 and became a citizen of Hamburg in 1745. This branch of the family is one of the Hanseatic people , the upper class in the Free Imperial and Hanseatic Cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck, which was founded on constitutional privileges until 1918.

Descendants of Cesar Godeffroy (1706–1758)

  • Jean Cesar Godeffroy (1742–1818), businessman, shipowner and founder (around 1766) of the company “Joh. Ces. Godeffroy ”and (around 1782)“ Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Co "
    • Johan Cesar Godeffroy (1781–1845), businessman and shipowner in the company “Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son "(from 1808)
    • August Godeffroy (1783–1863), (he and his descendants lived primarily in Vienna )
  • Peter (Pierre) Godeffroy (1749–1822), businessman and founder of the company "Peter Godeffroy Sons & Comp" (1799–1813)
    • Peter Godeffroy (1782–1835), businessman and royal Prussia. Consul General
      • Peter Jasper Godeffroy (1814–1847), lawyer, Dr. jur. PhD
    • Carl Godeffroy (1787–1848), diplomat
      • Wilhelm Martin von Godeffroy (1834–1904), Dr. jur. PhD

coat of arms

(Around 1850) A falcon as a helmet ornament stands with outspread wings on a helmet bulge above a blue-colored heraldic shield . In the middle sits a hooded falcon on a glove, on the right and left above each a five-pointed star , in the base of the shield three crescent moons , as a shield holder two lions.

The use of the crest as a coat of arms such. B. in the flag of the shipping company JC Godeffroy & Sohn is known from English heraldry .

literature

  • A. Leesenberg-Penzlin: Genealogy of the Godeffroy family in Hamburg . In: Herold Association in Berlin (ed.): The German Herold . Magazine for coat of arms, seal and Family studies. tape X , 1882, ZDB -ID 2752233-7 , p. 270–283 ( digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dbub_gb_jTk4AAAAYAAJ~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3Dn275~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D - probably the first printed list on genealogy).
  • Eduard Lorenz Meyer , Oscar Louis Tesdorpf : Hamburg coat of arms and genealogies . Self-published, Hamburg 1890 ( online StuUBHH ).
  • Bernhard Koerner (ed.): German gender book . 27th volume. CA Starke, Görlitz 1914.
  • Kurt Schmack: JC Godeffroy & son merchants in Hamburg. Performance and fate of a world trading house. Broschek & Co, Hamburg 1938.
  • Gabriele Hoffmann: The house on the Elbchaussee. The Godeffroys - the rise and fall of a dynasty. Kabel, 1998, ISBN 3-8225-0465-3 .
  • NN (Carl Alfred Godeffroy): Godeffroy. Huguenots in Hamburg, Stade, Altona Conference publication for the German Huguenot Day Hamburg 23–26 April 1976 ,. Edited by Hans W. Wagner, Obersickt / Braunschweig, 1976, p. 41-48 .
  • Maria Möring: The Huguenot family Godeffroy. tape 12 , Hamburg Economic Chronicle. Publisher Hanseatischer Merkur, Hamburg 1990.
  • Florence M. Spoehr: White Falcon, the House of Godeffroy and Its Commercial and Scientific Role in the Pacific. Pacific Books, Palo Alto.

Web links

Commons : Godeffroy family  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Publication in the German Gender Book . Volume 127. Ninth Hamburg volume. Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1961
  2. ↑ Peter Godeffroy (1782-1835) . 1816. Oil on canvas, 108 × 84.5 cm, inscribed. Gröger pinxit, (Peter Vignau-Wilberg: The painter Friedrich Carl Gröger. Neumünster: Wachholtz 1971, p. 150, ("Copy of a picture painted by FX Fabre in Florence in the same year." The dates of his life are those of his son of the same name and therefore an wrong at this point.))
  3. ↑ Portrait of Peter Godeffroy, Friedrich Karl Gröger, lithograph, 56 × 38.9 cm, 1823, signed in the stone, digitized holdings of the portrait collection of the Hamburg State and University Library ( online )
  4. ↑ Portrait of Peter Godeffroy, Friedrich Rossmaessler, (plate) 132 × 83 mm, dotted manner, digital portrait index of the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg ( online )
  5. ↑ Determined from entries in the address books.
  6. ↑ 1901 ennobled.
  7. ↑ Dr. Wilhelm Martin von Godeffroy (1834–1904). In: The early donors. Hamburg Scientific Foundation , accessed on December 18, 2016 .
  8. ^ Last owner of the Godeffroy Museum .
  9. ↑ See crest .