Halem (noble family)

The von Halem family is an East Frisian postal aristocracy .

history

The reliable line of tribe begins with Hilmann von Halem, who is mentioned in a document in Delmenhorst in 1612 . His grandsons, the Royal Danish Government Councilor in Oldenburg and the Princely East Frisian bailiff in Rastede and Jade, also Chief Inspector in Varel and Kniphausen , Gerhard Henrich von Halem (1644–1723), and Johann Philipp von Halem (1647–1686), Burgrave in Kniphausen, are the progenitors of the two flowering lines, the East Frisian and Oldenburg lines.

After East Frisia was bequeathed to Prussia after the local dynasty of the Cirksena died out in 1744, the Princely East Frisian government and court secretary Heinrich Hermann von Halem was entered as the owner of the Free Estate Barstede near Aurich in the nobility register newly created by Prussia (East Frisian vassal table) Nobleman recognized. The younger Oldenburg line is given consideration for the already recognized nobility of the older line by the imperial vicar , Elector Karl Theodor von Pfalz-Bayern , the imperial nobility for the brothers Bernhard Friedrich von Halem, the Prussian war council, Gerhard Anton von Halem and Ludwig Wilhelm Christian von Halem granted.

coat of arms

In blue a golden rafter, topped by 2 silver roses with golden clusters, and below by a silver bird.

Well-known namesake

Gerhard Anton von Halem (1752–1819), Grand Duke. Oldenburg Councilor of Justice, First Councilor of the Principality of Lübeck in Eutin , poet and writer
Ludwig Wilhelm Christian von Halem (1758–1839), councilor and librarian
Gustav Adolf von Halem (1870–1932), Kgl. prussia. District administrator, court marshal and member of the Reichstag
Gustav Adolph von Halem (1899–1999), German diplomat and film salesman
Carl Otto von Halem (1901–1968), board member of Hermes Kredit-Versicherungs AG
Nikolaus von Halem (1905–1944), resistance fighter, executed in 1944
Victor von Halem (* 1940), German opera singer (bassist)
Marie Luise von Halem (* 1962), politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen

literature

Karl Steinhoff: Gerhard Anton von Halem (1752-1819). Oldenburg historian, writer and citizen of the world in the Age of Enlightenment . In: Oldenburg family history . ISSN 0030-2074 . Jg. 22 (1980), H. 1, pp. 147-167. (not only covers Gerhard Anton von Halem himself, but also his family history)

Web link

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

Footnotes

^ Adelslexikon , Vol. 4: G - Har (= Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Vol. 67). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg, 1978. pp. 401-402.

[1] Adelslexikon , Vol. 4: G - Har (= Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Vol. 67). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg, 1978. pp. 401-402.