Barons von Süsskind
The von Süßkind family goes back to Johann Gottlieb Süßkind, who was elevated to the status of baron by the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph in 1821 and appointed "Royal Bavarian Chamberlain".
history
The family comes from Württemberg and begins its line of tribe with Michael Süßkind , who appears in 1425 as a citizen of Esslingen and feudal bearer of the Weiler monastery near Esslingen.
Johann Gottlieb Süßkind, who was ennobled in Bavaria in 1821, was born on March 11, 1767 in Nürtingen , Württemberg , and died on December 21, 1849 in Augsburg . The son of a sweet baker came from the Württemberg respectability (one of his cousins was the theologian Friedrich Gottlieb Süskind ). Among other things, he worked for the Augsburg bank, Halder, and made great fortune through securities transactions during the Napoleonic Wars . He then founded his own bank in Augsburg and increased his fortune even further, so that he is still considered the richest man in Swabia since the Thirty Years' War. His brilliant rise also marks the last and most outstanding highlight of Augsburg as the city of financiers. Johann Gottlieb von Süßkind successively bought the Bannacker estate in Augsburg, the Schwendi estate in Württemberg, the Bächingen an der Brenz estate, the neighboring Haunsheim estate , the Dennenlohe castle in Franconia and the Dietenheim estate in Württemberg.
Bannacker Manor
Schwendi Castle
Bächingen Castle on the Brenz
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He was in close contact with the entrepreneur and banker Johann Lorenz Schaezler , the richest man after him in Augsburg, as well as with the Fugger princes and the Bavarian royal court . He was also involved in charities and helped Augsburg and its lordships to an economic upswing. In addition, Susskind was assessor at the royal Bavarian exchange court of appeal and owned factories in Vienna and St. Georgen, the former of which he handed over to his son-in-law, the Württemberg State Minister Karl Freiherr Varnbuler von und zu Hemmingen , and the latter to his son Gottlob (1809-1896).
Johann Gottlieb Freiherr von Süsskind was married four times; his third wife Henriette von Rad (1782–1814) came from the Augsburg patriciate and was a granddaughter of Benedikt Adam Freiherr von Liebert , the builder of the famous Schaezler Palace , and the former fiancée of the pedagogue Christian Heinrich Zeller .
By marrying his children in influential aristocratic circles, the formerly upper-class family gained respect; So Süßkind's daughter Elise (1810-1831) married the Augsburg banker Wilhelm Freiherr von Schaezler, his daughter Henriette (1815-1902) the Württemberg State Minister Karl Freiherr Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen.
Johann Gottlieb died in 1849; his grave monument is in the Protestant cemetery in Augsburg . Remarkable tombs of the family have also been preserved in the patronage cemetery in Bächingen .
His son Gottlob took over the management of the bank, but soon dissolved it. The family members all preferred living as aristocratic landowners with sovereign rights and extensive agriculture and forestry to upper-class city life. After the death of Johann Gottlieb, the enormous estate was distributed among his children, some of whose descendants still manage it today ( Bächingen , Dennenlohe , Schwendi ).
coat of arms
The coat of arms from 1821 is quartered and covered with a heart shield , inside one of two green olive branches rising from two green olive branches, each rising from a deciduous green three-mountain , covered with a three-pinned silver fortress tower with a raised black gate with two windows each. Fields 1 and 4 in black a golden bar, accompanied by three adjoining silver diamonds († v. Schwendi) each, 2 and 3 in silver on a winged golden bead a Fortuna , with the right a blue veil, with the left one Holding Mercury staff. The coat of arms has three helmets.
Known family members
Johann Gottlieb Freiherr von Süßkind (1767–1849), on Bächingen, Bannacker, Dennenlohe, Dietenheim, Haunsheim and Schwendi
- ⚭ I. 1797 (divorced 1800) Johanna Euphrosina Bäumer (1780–1863),
- ⚭ II. 1804 (divorced) Maria Anna Preu (* 1780),
- ⚭ III. 1806 Henriette von Rad (1782–1814),
- ⚭ IV. 1814 Sophia Friederika Graberg (1796–1834); Children:
- Albert Freiherr von Süsskind (1803–1887), on Dennenlohe ⚭ 1828 Maria Bösner (1806–1866); First parents of the Dennenloher line
- Johann Gottlieb Benedikt Freiherr von Süßkind (1808–1827)
- Gottlob Freiherr von Süßkind (1809–1896), on Bächingen ⚭ 1841 Pauline Freiin Varnbuler von und zu Hemmingen (1822–1841)
- Elisabetha Freiin von Süßkind (1810–1831) ⚭ 1829 Wilhelm Freiherr von Schaezler (1797–1887) (The painting is in Dennenlohe Castle)
- Paulina Freiin von Süßkind (1812–1839), from Dietenheim ⚭ 1833 Benedikt Freiherr von Herman (1804–1842)
- Henriette Freiin von Süßkind (1815–1902), on Bannacker ⚭ 1835 Karl Freiherr Varnbuler von und zu Hemmingen (1809–1889)
- Amalia Freiin von Süßkind (1817–1903), on Haunsheim ⚭ 1839 Hermann Freiherr vom Holtz (1813–1857)
- Baron Theodor von Süsskind (1823–1905), Chamberlain and Majorate of the Wurttemberg Schwendi, from 1901 Baron von Süsskind-Schwendi ⚭ 1851 Baron Karolina von Woellwarth-Lauterburg (1831–1912); First parents of the Schwendier and Bächinger line
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Richard von Süßkind-Schwendi (1854–1946), Prussian general of the infantry
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Alexander von Süßkind-Schwendi (1903–1973), Ministerialrat in the Federal Ministry for the implementation of the Marshall Plan and Deputy Head of the Representation of the Federal Republic at the Organization for Economic Cooperation.
- Johann Gottlieb Freiherr von Süßkind-Schwendi (* 1939), General Secretary for European Cooperation between Cooperative Banks in Brussels
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Alexander von Süßkind-Schwendi (1903–1973), Ministerialrat in the Federal Ministry for the implementation of the Marshall Plan and Deputy Head of the Representation of the Federal Republic at the Organization for Economic Cooperation.
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Richard von Süßkind-Schwendi (1854–1946), Prussian general of the infantry
Known descendants
- Hildegard Freiin Varnbuler von und zu Hemmingen (1843–1914), was married to the Württemberg State Councilor and envoy in Berlin, Karl Freiherr Hugo von Spitzemberg (1826–1880) and a friend of Bismarck's ; she wrote a famous diary about the society of the empire .
- Axel Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen (1851–1937), German diplomat and belonged to the Liebenberg circle around Kaiser Wilhelm II .
- Caesar von Hofacker (1896–1944), lieutenant colonel in the reserve and involved in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler , which is why he was executed in Berlin-Plötzensee .
- Roland von Hößlin (1915–1944), major in the cavalry regiment, orderly officer with the staff of the German Africa Corps and also involved in the above-mentioned assassination attempt and executed in Berlin-Plötzensee.
literature
- Peter Fassl: Denomination, Economy and Politics. (Treatises on the history of the city of Augsburg, vol. 32), Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1988, ISBN 3-7995-6942-1 .
- Albert Haemmerle: Family table of the Barons von Süsskind. (Family tables Augsburger Familien, Vol. 5), Munich 1950.
- Christof Metzger: country estates of Augsburg patricians. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-422-06574-1 .
- Frank Möller: Civil rule in Augsburg 1790-1880. (Stadt und Bürgerertum, Vol. 9), Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56387-4 .
- Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): The diary of the Baroness Spitzemberg, b. Freiin v. Varnbuler. Records from the court society of the Hohenzollern Empire (German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries, vol. 43), Göttingen 1960.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, pp. 263-264, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN 0435-2408 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XIV, 2003, pp. 263–264.