Gierke (noble family)
Gierke is a Prussian noble family.
history
The family originally comes from Bohemia, where the line of tribe begins with Josef Gierke (Görka, Gehrke). The noble family line goes back to the brothers Walther and Otto Gierke. The former was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on August 20, 1910 because of his general merits, but above all because of the establishment of a Fideikommiss . The highly respected lawyer, legal historian and politician Otto von Gierke was enrolled in the hereditary Prussian nobility on November 27, 1911. The latter had asked “to give me the same coat of arms in order to preserve family unity that was used in August v. J. my brother Walther received '. He was ennobled at his own request because of his "active participation [...] in the efforts to strengthen Germanism, which was particularly evident in the founding of the national political entails".
coat of arms
In blue an arm protruding from the left edge of the shield, swinging a ger (= spear) to throw. On the helmet with the blue-silver blanket, the arm with the Ger swinging to throw. The Ger should indicate the origin of the name Gierke.
Well-known namesake
- Julius Gierke
- Edgar von Gierke
- Otto von Gierke
- Julius von Gierke
- Hildegard von Gierke
- Anna von Gierke
- Henning von Gierke
swell
- German Adelsarchiv (ed.): Genealogical manual of the nobility. Adelslexikon, Vol. IV G-Har, Limburg an der Lahn 1978, p. 113
- Stefan Grundmann u. a .: Festschrift 200 Years of the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Berlin 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grundmann u. a. 2010, p. 367