Graffenried (patrician family)

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Coat of arms of Graffenried (Thurnen Church).

The von Graffenried family is a Bernese patrician family . The family first appeared in the sources on October 4, 1272.

history

Originally from Grafenried BE , the family received citizenship rights from the city ​​of Bern around 1300 . Since 1352 the family was represented in the small council and thus belonged to the Bern patriciate . Until 1798 she provided the city of Bern with four mayors , eleven Venners , five sack masters , numerous council members and officers. After Niklaus von Graffenried in Panex ( Ollon ) opened up the salt springs , the family repeatedly appointed the salt director. From the 17th century, in addition to serving the city of Bern, the mercenary service in the Netherlands and France developed another mainstay of the family. Individual family members also served as pages, valets and body guards at German royal courts. The Graffenried married preferentially with the von Wattenwyl , von Erlach , May and Zehender . The family box was founded on April 5, 1723 .

In the 19th century, many family members were still in salary and court services, but increasingly also as lawyers, bankers, merchants, asset and property managers and industrialists. The family still exists today and lives mainly in the Bern region.

Family coat of arms

Epitaph Franz Ludwig von Graffenried in the Gerzensee Church (1637)

Blazon : In gold on a green three-mountain, a burning black tree trunk with red flames, accompanied by two red spur wheels. The burning tree trunk as a crest. The helmet covers are black on the outside and gold on the inside.

people

  • Peter von Graffenried , (around 1345 - before 1401), first Seckelmeister, councilor from 1389
  • Johannes von Graffenried, member of the Bernese Small Council from 1353
  • Niklaus von Graffenried (1468–1557), with the two sons Hans Rudolf von Graffenried and Peter von Graffenried (1507–1562), the sex was divided into a Bernese line (exists to this day) and a Münchenwil line (expired in 1909)
  • Hans Rudolf von Graffenried (1505-1559), built the developed by his father salt springs in Panex (municipality Ollon) from
  • Anton von Graffenried (1573–1628), mayor of Bern
  • Albrecht von Graffenried (1629–1702), Obervogt zu Schenkenberg , Vogt zu Nidau
  • Emanuel von Graffenried (1636–1715), mayor of Bern
  • Friedrich von Graffenried (1645–1706), mayor of Thun
  • Johann Anton von Graffenried (1658–1731), chief director of the salt works in Aigle
  • Johann Bernhard von Graffenried (1691–1764), lieutenant captain in France
  • Abraham von Graffenried (1700–1775), officer in Holland and mayor of Murten
  • Sigmund Emanuel von Graffenried (1737–1818), officer in Holland
  • Abraham von Graffenried (1738–1821), Colonel of the Erlach Regiment in France
  • Johann Rudolf von Graffenried (1751–1823), officer in Holland; Participation in the Battle of Neuenegg in 1798
  • Bernhard von Graffenried (1759-1815), was wounded in 1798 near Neuenegg
  • Emanuel Franz Rudolf von Graffenried (1762–1838), officer in the Swiss Guard
  • Franz von Graffenried (1768–1837), officer
  • Edwin von Graffenried (1823–1902), Governor of New Mexico
  • Karl Wilhelm von Graffenried (1834–1909), industrialist and national councilor
  • Egbert von Graffenried (1909–1981), ambassador

Branch worb

  • Abraham von Graffenried (1580–1620) founded the Worber branch, which went out in Switzerland in 1869 but continues to exist in the USA
  • Christoph von Graffenried (1603–1687), officer in Holland and Bern

Münchenwiler branch

  • Anton von Graffenried (1627–1674), lord of Münchenwiler

Burgistein branch

  • Emanuel von Graffenried (1665–1738), founded the Burgistein branch of those von Graffenried (still exists today)
  • Emanuel von Graffenried (1726–1787), Lord of Burgistein , economist
  • René von Graffenried (1886–1955), advocate and officer, landowner in the Längmoos
  • Toulo de Graffenried (1914–2007), racing car driver
  • Charles von Graffenried (1925–2012), advocate, entrepreneur, owner of Neuschloss Worb
  • Charlotte von Graffenried (1930–2013), ethnologist
  • Franz von Graffenried (1941–2018), advocate and civic community president
  • André von Graffenried (* 1945), diplomat
  • Michael von Graffenried (* 1957), photographer
  • Alec von Graffenried (* 1962), advocate, former governor, national councilor, city president of Bern

America branch

Possessions

literature

  • Hans Braun: Notables, patricians, citizens. History of the von Graffenried family. Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7272-1214-7 .
  • Rudolf von Graffenried: Längmoos 1798-1998. Bern 1998.
  • Johanna Strübin Rindisbacher: Neuschloss Worb , with a preface and ed. by Charles von Graffenried , Bern 2004.
  • François Girard: Histoire Abrégée Des Officiers Suisses Qui Se Sont Distingués Aux Services Étrangers Dans Des Grades Supérieurs (French), p. 296 f. ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Commons : Graffenried family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrecht von Graffenried (1629–1702) - bernergeschlecht.ch.
  2. Church window: Albrecht von Graffenriedt, Obevogt uff Schenkenberg 1663 in the church in Densbüren
  3. degraffenreid.org accessed on March 26, 2014.