Gillern

Baron coat of arms

The family of barons and lords of Gillern is originally from western Austria originating, Bohemian-Silesian noble family .

In 1568 Mathäus Giller received the Bohemian nobility with the title of Lilienfeld . Further rankings followed later than von Gillern : in 1654 the imperial nobility , 1707 the Hungarian baron and magnate , in 1732 the Bohemian and 1766 the Austrian - hereditary barons. In 1744, the Prussian recognition of the baron status took place in a royal handwriting from Frederick II , and again in 1855 by the Prussian Herald's Office. The family is counted among the ancient nobility of Silesia .

coat of arms

The coat of arms is quartered . Fields 1 and 4 show a gold star on a blue background, fields 2 and 3 a silver oblique left bar covered with 3 golden lilies on a red background. Helmet jewel : Open flight, right blue with a golden star, left red with a golden lily. The helmet covers are in blue-gold and red-silver. There are variants in the tinging depending on the family branch .

The baronial coat of arms has a golden heart shield with a severed Turkish head inside. The Turkish head reminds of the participation in the Turkish wars .

Known family members

Peter Giller (around 1280–1346), citizen and councilor of Laufenburg , follower of Johann von Habsburg-Laufenburg in a dispute with the city of Zurich

Johannes "Hans" Giller (around 1485–1540), councilor and captain of Waldshut , promoter of the Reformation under Balthasar Hubmaier , 1525 leader of a part of the peasantry in the southern Black Forest (ally of Ulrich von Württemberg ), after the defeat of the "Christian Association" flee to Moravia (1526), there supporter of the Moravian Anabaptist Movement

Martin Giller (around 1520–1569), ducal councilor of Württemberg, as such involved in the religious talks of Maulbronn (1564)

Lukas Giller von Lilienfeld (1578–1632), doctor of philosophy and medicine ( Basel ), Calvinist preacher, city doctor of Greiffenberg , later personal doctor of the governor of Moravia, Karl von Žerotín , died as an exile in Regensburg

Mathias Giller (n) (von Lilienfeld) (1591–1655), doctor of philosophy and medicine ( Padua ), pen pal Jakob Böhmes , prince judge of the city of Opava (until 1629), in 1627 and 1629 he negotiated personally with Wallenstein as the city's representative , from 1636 - after converting to the Catholic faith - in the service of the later Silesian governor Karl Eusebius von Liechtenstein

Barbara Kunsch von Breitenwald b. Giller von Lilienfeld (1597–1645), mother of the Brandenburg court preacher and prince educator Johann Kunsch von Breitenwald

Christoph Heinrich von Giller (n) (1646–1717), prince-bishop captain and protagonist of the Counter-Reformation in the Principality of Wohlau , (from 1706) state elder of the Steinauer district

Friedrich Wilhelm von Giller (n) (1651–1728), chamber councilor and castle captain of the Duke of Württemberg-Oels , later imperial councilor and chief accountant of the principalities of Liegnitz , Brieg and Wohlau

Franz Leopold von Giller (n) (1656–1723), imperial postmaster and permanent mayor of Hof in Moravia (1693–1720), at the same time bailiff of the Liechtenstein “Karlsberger Herrschaft”

Franz Niklas Freiherr von Gillern (1673–1727), Hungarian magnate , imperial officer under Prince Eugen , participant in the Battle of Zenta , Supreme Prefect of the guards at the siege of Amberg (1703), owner of several estates through his wife Eleonore von Kronberg the Kronberg estate (from 1715) on, among others, Schwalbach , Soden , Sulzbach , Niederhöchstadt , Niederursel

Karl Heinrich von Gillern (1686–1752), heir to Hammer (Krehlau), court judge (from 1713) and state elder (from 1726) of the Steinauer district in the Principality of Wohlau

Karl Joseph Freiherr von Gillern (1691–1759), Liechtenstein and imperial councilor, Austrian peace negotiator during the First Silesian War

Ernst Heinrich von Gillern (1730–1792), Prussian major general and knight of the order Pour le Mérite

Dominika Freiin von Gillern (1739–1810), last ruling abbess of Trebnitz

Karl-Joseph von Gillern (1743–1793), Prussian major and holder of the order Pour le Mérite

William de Gillern (1788–1857), officer of the Black Band and pioneer of Tasmania

Joseph Edward von Gillern (1794–1845), important painter of the Biedermeier period

Hugo Freiherr von Gillern alias Hugo Krüger (1829–1871), opera singer at the Court Opera in Berlin

Arthur von Gillern (1855–1916), Prussian lieutenant general and legal knight of the Order of St. John

Arnulf von Gillern (1884–1944), co-owner of the Polte-Werke (since 1918), military manager during the Nazi era

Karel Gillern (until 1918 Karl Giller von Gillern ; 1888–1953), Austrian lawyer ( Dr. iur. ) And first lieutenant of the Kaiserjäger , from 1919 Czechoslovak civil servant, most recently as senior councilor district captain of Melnik (1939–1942) and Strakonitz (1942–1945 )

Karl Gillern (until 1919 Karl Freiherr von Gillern ; 1895–1971), Austrian chemist and agricultural scientist (Dr. agr.), Leading researcher at the Federal Agricultural Research Institute Vienna, most recently in the rank of court counselor , Knight of Malta

literature

The coat of arms of the Silesian nobility. Siebmacher's Large Book of Arms, Neustadt 1977.
Gotha nobility dictionary. Volume IV, Limburg an der Lahn 1978.

Web links

Commons : Gillern - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume IV. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, p. 118.
↑ Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, Prussian nobility. Barons. Nuremberg 1885, p. 44.
↑ The family struck an imperial ban against rebellious Protestants in the city and in the principality of Opava, and in 1629 lost their status and property.
^ Arthur Robert Ludwig Alexander Freiherr von Gillern . Grave site preservation Berlin e. V .: friedparks.de, accessed on December 3, 2012.
↑ Members of the aristocratic Bohemian branch of the family had the surname "Giller von Gillern" or "Giller Edler / Edle von Gillern" until 1918 ; after the abolition of noble names - in Czechoslovakia the use of noble titles has been forbidden since December 3, 1918 - only "Gillern".
↑ In Austria the use of nobility titles has been prohibited since 1919, see Nobility Repeal Act .

[1] Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume IV. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, p. 118.

[2] Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, Prussian nobility. Barons. Nuremberg 1885, p. 44.

[3] The family struck an imperial ban against rebellious Protestants in the city and in the principality of Opava, and in 1629 lost their status and property.

[4] Arthur Robert Ludwig Alexander Freiherr von Gillern . Grave site preservation Berlin e. V .: friedparks.de, accessed on December 3, 2012.

[5] Members of the aristocratic Bohemian branch of the family had the surname "Giller von Gillern" or "Giller Edler / Edle von Gillern" until 1918 ; after the abolition of noble names - in Czechoslovakia the use of noble titles has been forbidden since December 3, 1918 - only "Gillern".

[6] In Austria the use of nobility titles has been prohibited since 1919, see Nobility Repeal Act .