Gontard (family)

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The Gontard family is an old nobility French family who settled in Germany around 1700 when Huguenot families fled Grenoble and were accepted into the imperial knighthood in 1767. The Frankfurt branch became an important Frankfurt banker family, while the military dominated the Berlin branch.

Coat of arms of those of Gontard

The origins

The Gontard family was a noble family in the Dauphiné in France. Several family members emigrated to Germany as part of the Huguenot persecution. The progenitor of these families is Etienne Gontard (1620–1681 in Grenoble). His father was Jean Gontard from Trescleoux.

The Frankfurt line

Generation 1

Peter (Pierre) Gontard, born on February 6, 1662 in Grenoble as the son of Etienne Gontard, left France as a result of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes , although he thereby sacrificed his fortune and his duties as councilor. He shared this fate with many Huguenot families. He settled in Frankfurt am Main . He married Sophie von Stein (born 1668) in Frankfurt in 1697. He died on December 16, 1725.

Generation 2

Son Jakob Friedrich Gontard (1702–1766) was the founder of the banking and goods business Iacob Friedrich Gontard and Sons , which soon enjoyed a very good reputation.

Generation 3

Jakob Friedrich Gontard had four sons and four daughters. Daniel (1727–1787) married Susanna d'Orville from another Huguenot family of bankers and business people in Frankfurt. She brought the Gontard dollhouse into the family. Johann Jacob Gontard (1739–1819) went to Vienna and became an Associs in Count Fries ' banking business . Johann Jacob Gontard was raised to the nobility in 1768 and enrolled as a baron in 1780. This ennoblement actually also applied to his siblings in Frankfurt, but they never made use of the nobility letter.

Generation 4

Jakob Friedrich Gontard-Borkenstein (1764–1843), son of Daniel Gontard and Susette's husband, born Borkenstein (1769–1802, Hölderlins Diotima ), had been a partner in the Jakob Friedrich Gontard & Sons company since 1786 and represented their interests in Paris since 1823. Franz Gontard, son of Daniel Gontard, marries Barbara Wichelhausen.

Generation 5

Marie Gontard (1788–1883), daughter of Franz, married (the Catholic) Johann Peter Belli. After her marriage she called herself Maria Belli-Gontard . She is known as a writer and historiographer.

The Berlin line

Generation 1

The Berlin line starts with Anton Gontard (born 1670), the brother of Pierre Gontard from the Frankfurt line. After his escape he settled in Mannheim. He had four sons.

Generation 2

Son Alexander Ludwig Gontard (1708–1747) was ballet master at the Mannheim court and later in Bayreuth.

Generation 3

Son Carl Christian Philipp Gontard (1731–1791) first trained as a ballet master, but then as a builder and became a well-known architect. He was raised to the imperial nobility on June 8, 1767 together with his brother Paul Ferdinand.

Generation 4

Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gontard (1764–1839), son of the architect Carl von Gontard, was rank major in Berlin and became an honorary citizen of Berlin.

Personalities

  • Susette Gontard née Borkenstein in Frankfurt / Mn .; Close friend of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin , who was employed as tutor of the son Henry Gontard.
  • Maria Belli-Gontard was a German writer, translator and historiographer based in Frankfurt. She also became known as a collector of, among other things, advertisements in the Frag- und Anzeigungs-Nachrichten (Frankfurter Intellektivenblatt) and articles in the world's first newspapers.
  • Fides von Gontard was a German welfare worker.
  • Carl von Gontard , well-known architect in Berlin, Potsdam and Bayreuth
  • Paul von Gontard (1868–1941), armaments contractor

The bench

1726 - Jakob Friedrich Gontard founds the trading company Jakob Friedrich Gontard & Sons , which also does banking. 1815 - Heinrich Gontard (1787-1826), son of Susette Gontard, divided part of the banking business in the Heinrich Gontard & Co. from. 1998 - Gontard Bank merges with Metallbank AG, founded in 1926, to form Gontard & Metallbank AG. 2002 - After bad investments in the Neuer Markt, insolvency proceedings are opened via Gontard & Metallbank AG.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided by a red diagonal right-hand bar covered with three silver stars and shows a golden full moon above in black and three black hinges one above the other in silver below . On the crowned helmet with red and silver blankets on the right, black and gold on the left, the full moon in front of an open flight, split on the right silver-red and left black-gold .

literature

Relationships with the family

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zedlitz-Neukirch (1836), p. 266 f.
  2. ^ Ingrid Mittenzwei, Between yesterday and tomorrow: Vienna's early bourgeoisie at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century , p.48
  3. ^ GA von Mülverstedt, Ad. M. Hildebrandt, J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 5th Division; The dead nobility of the province and Mark Brandenburg, 1880, p. 33, plate 18