Hehn (noble family)
Hehn is the name of a German-Baltic noble family. The former farming family came from the Franconian county of Henneberg and is notarized with Johannes Henn (* around 1580; † 1631) from Hinternah near Schleusingen . They settled in Dorpat ( Estonia ) from 1766 .
history
The son of the farmer Johannes Henn, Paul Henn (* 1615), moved to Römershofen in the middle of the 17th century . He was followed by his son Leonard Henn (* 1654), who became more prosperous and gave his son Johann Martin a good education. This Johann Martin Henn , also known as Hehn (* 1743 in Römershofen, † 1793 in Odenpäh ) became the progenitor of the Baltic noble family. He attended a grammar school in Coburg and from 1763 studied theology at the University of Halle . In 1766 he received the position of rector at the United Crown and City School in Dorpat. In 1767 he married Louise Dorothea Gadebusch and in 1776 became pastor of Odenpäh. Five of his nine sons were accepted into the Russian nobility. His son Victor Hehn (* 1813 in Dorpat, † 1890 in Berlin) was a cultural historian. Another son, Adolph Christian Henn (1778 - 1856), born in 1778, was secretary of the Livonian government government and councilor at the Livonian court. He was followed by his son, the doctor Martin Ludwig Henn (1825 - 1913 in Riga), whose son, the district delegate Adolph von Hehn (1761 - 1826), was Mr. auf Druween and received the Estonian indigenous community in 1906 . He was registered under the matriculation number 452, as von Hehn, in the Livonian knighthood . Another son of Martin Ludwig, was the Haraldiker and lawyer Richard von Hehn.
Adolph von Hehn's sons followed in the male line-up: Arist Martin von Hehn (* 1904), Bernhardt Martin von Hehn (* 1907), Viktor von Hehn, Dipl.-Ing. (* 1907) and Jürgen von Hehn , historian (* 1912)
coat of arms
In the escutcheon a palm tree in black and gold, emerging from the lower edge . The crest is a black-red lobed and gold-armored cock between 2 green palm branches. The helmet cover is black and gold.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry to Hehn. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck (edit.): Genealogical Handbook of the Livländischen Ritterschaft , Görlitz 1929, pp. 747-751
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Genealogical handbook of the nobility , CA Starke Verlag , Limburg / Lahn
- Adelslexikon , Volume 5, Volume 84 of the complete series, 1987, p. 151; Volume 17, Volume 144 of the complete series, 2008, p. 308
- Genealogical handbook of noble houses , B 3, Volume 17 of the complete series, 1958, pp. 206-208; B 16, volume 86 of the complete series, 1985, pp. 259-262
- Lore Poelchau: The von Hehn family from Livonia and their distinctive representatives. In: Baltische Ahnen- und Stammtafeln, Vol. 48, 2006, pp. 41–46
Individual evidence
- ↑ Druween = Latvian : lv: Druvienas pagasts
- ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Richard von Hehn. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- ↑ Hehn, Bernd von. Entry in: Catalog of the German National Library [1] , accessed November 10, 2018