Hennigs (noble family)

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Thomaskirche Tribsees : coat of arms of the Knights of Hennigs in the patron's box (1819)

The von Hennigs family is a noble family from Swedish-Pomerania and has Swedish and Pomeranian / Prussian or German roots and ancestors.

Historical roots of the family

The von Hennigs family, who come from Western Pomerania and work in Sweden, is divided into two branches.

On the one hand, the German line of tribe with Heinrich von Hennigs, who was raised to the rank of imperial nobility and knighthood by the Prussian nobility diploma of November 28, 1708 and Johann-Christopher von Hennigs, who was raised to the imperial nobility and knighthood by diploma of September 24, 1790. On the other side of the allied with the German side Swedish branch of the family with Carl Frederik of Hennig in 1808 in Sweden was Ritterhaus as a noble family (Swedish language) under 2306 introduces . The coat of arms has been hanging there in the great hall of the knight's house ever since. The family, based in Swedish Pomerania , later split into two lines, the Stremlower and the Techliner line.

Techlin's Swedish matriculation card around 1700

Sweden and Swedish Pomerania

In the 18th century there was a lively change of family and individual members from and to Sweden, relieved by the political situation. When Swedish Pomerania left the empire at the beginning of the 19th century after the dissolution of the Old Kingdom in 1806 and the repeal of the previous state constitution by the Swedish King Gustav IV Adolf and the French occupations took place from July 1807, the decision seems to be made part of the family to settle in Sweden, to be explainable by the political changes.

Origin, offices and tasks

Residency in Western Pomerania and Sweden

Coat of arms of the family v. Hennigs in the Greifswald district building

Members of the family had worked in various functions in Western Pomerania since the 18th century . Until the Swedes withdrew from Western Pomerania, the family was in Swedish service and then transferred to Prussian service after 1815, provided that they lived in Western Pomerania.

Johann-Christopher von Hennigs (1730–1807) has documented the family as resident in Western Pomerania since at least 1790, initially on the Garbodenhagen and Hohenbrück estates near Stralsund , later also on the Pantlitz manor, the Sissow manor on Rügen and the Brüssow manor. His son, Colonel Bernhard Gustav von Hennig (1773-1845), bought in 1819, after his retirement from the Swedish service, manors Techlin and Stremlow (until 1929 independent manor districts since community Deyelsdorf or community Siemersdorf (which then in the City of Tribsees was incorporated), former district of Grimmen, today district of Vorpommern-Rügen , in the Recknitz-Trebeltal district ) and sold all other lands. The Techlin manor was farmed by the family without interruption until 1945. After the owners were evicted, it was expropriated during the land reform . In Techlin and the surrounding area, a descendant of the family is once again managing a newly acquired forestry business.

The lord of Hennigs auf Buggow in the southeast of the Greifswald district was a member of this district assembly. The coat of arms was probably created around 1880. A coat of arms frieze with the coats of arms of the 24 lords of the manor districts and the 3 cities was attached in the meeting room of the district building.

Goods were also acquired in Sweden during this time and the Swedish line of the family was not only in the Swedish civil service in Stockholm, but also became established there around 1808 and managed two estates in Sweden. During this time, the division into the "Swedish" line, which begins with Carl Frederik von Hennigs (the brother of Bernhard Gustav von Hennigs).

Activities in the interest of the common good

Work and design in politics and the church

From the circle of the family came not only landowners in Western Pomerania and Sweden, but also officers in military service and administrative officials in the service of the respective royal houses and governments. Others were active as politicians, such as Albert von Hennigs as a member of the Pomeranian Provincial Parliament or Fritz von Hennigs as a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. Other Hennigs were on communal committees or managed a company on the board. Many were and are still active in the church as pastors, synodians or in other leadership functions of the churches.

Charitable works

former Patronage Church of St. Thomas in Tribsees

For centuries, the family was closely linked to charitable goals, so they had the patronage of the Thomaskirche zu Tribsees . The roof renovation carried out in the late 1970s / early 1980s was partially funded by donations from the von Hennigs family. Numerous members of the Order of St. John belonged and still belong to the family.

A major project was the acquisition of the parish hall on Putlitzstrasse in Berlin-Moabit . This was then made available to the Heilandskirche . The siblings Therese, Fritz and Ingeborg von Hennigs helped that a lively charity institution was built in the house at Putlitzstraße 13 at the beginning of the 20th century, which had a solid existence for around 100 years and especially long after the death of all initiators . A community hall and meeting room were set up and cared for in terms of content and spirit. Ingeborg von Hennigs, who had moved to Berlin, worked there every day to provide practical help, especially during the economic crisis in the 1920s.

Coat of arms and motto

Coat of arms of the family v. Hennigs

That also before u. a. The coat of arms used by Heinrich von Hennigs and his descendants was confirmed on September 24, 1790 for the landowner Johann Christopher von Hennigs. This coat of arms is slightly modified with a crest in the Swedish House of Nobility .

The coat of arms is quartered and shows in fields 1 and 4 on gold a nimbated black double-headed eagle, in fields 2 and 3 in blue a golden column with a hovering, bordered banner with the inscription: "est deus in recto". The coat of arms has two helmets in the German variant and a helmet in the Swedish variant with black and gold covers on the right and blue and gold covers on the left and is held by two opposing lions.

The family's motto is: “nobilitat plus virtus avis”.

Known family members

  • Heinrich von Hennigs (1660–1722), royal Prussian Privy Councilor and envoy in the Reichstag in Frankfurt and Regensburg
  • Bernhard Gustav von Hennigs (1770–1845), Swedish colonel, commander of the Swedish regiment of the Queen, Knight of the Great Cross of the Swedish Order of Swords, Knight of the Order of St. John . On July 9, 1790, he led a unit in the sea battle at Svensksund, which was important for Sweden, and was for this purpose by the Swedish King Gustav III. personally awarded the Svensksund gold medal on March 12, 1791 in Stralsund .
  • Albert von Hennigs (1816–1900), manor owner, from 1845 to 1848 member of the Pomeranian provincial council .
  • Victor von Hennigs (1848–1930), Prussian general of the cavalry
  • Waldemar von Hennigs (1849–1917), Prussian lieutenant general
  • Friedrich (Fritz) von Hennigs (1863–1919), manor owner, head of office, district deputy, member of the provincial parish, member of the district synod a. a. Synodal board, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
  • Carl Gustav (Gösta) von Hennigs (1866–1941), Swedish painter, professor of art, director of the Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm
  • Ingeborg von Hennigs (1867–1944), writer, deaconess, St. John's nurse a. a. Entry in the German National Library for "Rays of light for dark times". Together with her sister Therese and her brother Fritz von Hennigs she made a major contribution to the success of the Heilandsgemeinde in Berlin-Moabit. In the book Women Shaping Diakonia , she and her sister Therese are presented with their joint work on 21 pages.
  • Elisabeth von Schleicher , b. von Hennigs (1893–1934), wife of General and Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher ; murdered with him on June 30, 1934 in Neubabelsberg by SS troops.
  • Wolfgang von Hennigs (* 1932), senior church building director in the North Elbian regional church, who also oversaw numerous church building projects in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania in the years 1975–1990, who planned and carried out the planning and implementation himself and so many of the village and town churches in the region before the end and preserved destruction. Even after the fall of the Wall in 1990, he continued this much more intensively and coordinated measures for the St. Bartholomew Church in Demmin , among other things . He published a book on the problem of village church renovation, various articles, essays on monument preservation measures in historical preservation magazines, etc. Even after his retirement he supervises church building projects on a voluntary basis and advises church institutions such as the EKD .

literature

  • Adelheid M. von Hauff: Women shape diakonia. Volume 2: From the 18th to the 20th century. Kohlhammer, 2006, ISBN 3-17-019324-4 , pp. 413-433.
  • Bernhard von Hennigs: v. Hennigs-Techlin. Hamburg 1963.
  • Otto Titan von Hefner: Register of the thriving and dead nobility in Germany. Mainz 1863, p. 139.
  • Home book of the Grimmen district. Plenge publishing house, Sulingen i. Han. 1968, pp. 177-180.
  • Robert Klempin , Gustav Kratz : Matriculations and registers of the Pomeranian knighthood from the XIV to the XIX century . (Unchanged. New edition of the 1863 edition), p. 603.
  • Eckhard Oberdörfer: Nordvorpommern - From the Baltic Sea coast to the Trebel valley - a travel and reading book. 2nd Edition. Edition Temmen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-480-8 , pp. 150 ff., And various as
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch (GGT) , Volume 1911.
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch (GGT), Volume 1940.
  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Volume 12 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn), Volume B II, 1956.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility, volume 73 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), volume B XIII, 1980.

Web links

Commons : Hennigs (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Evidence on the family of the von Hennigs knights:

Representations of the manor houses and manors in Western Pomerania:

For work in church and diakonia

To the work of the church restoration

To help shape namesake of the von Hennigs family on the railway in the Grimmen district

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ by the Prussian King Frederick I awarded
  2. ↑ This is a nobility diploma of the Holy Roman Empire, issued by the Electoral Palatinate-Bavarian Imperial Vicariate as Imperial Administrator shortly before the election of Leopold II on September 30, 1790.
  3. ↑ in the chronicle published by Bernhard von Hennigs reference is made to an arson by the Napoleonic troops, which destroyed the documents and correspondence from this period
  4. ↑ Fritz Curschmann : '' Matriculation cards from Vorpommern 1692–1698, Karten und Texte '', as well as this. '' The Swedish matriculation cards of West Pomerania and their scientific evaluation '', 1935, the latter. '' Matriculation cards of Vorpommern '' 1948.
  5. ↑ Techlin on gutshaeuser.de
  6. ^ Robert Klempin , Gustav Kratz : Matriculations and registers of the Pomeranian knighthood from the XIV to the XIX century . (Unchanged. New edition of the 1863 edition), p. 603.
  7. ^ Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives , Düsseldorf, Droste, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , 1988, p. 174.
  8. ^ Pastor Albrecht von Hennigs
  9. ↑ on Fritz von Hennigs as chairman of the presbytery
  10. ↑ Photo of the mill altar
  11. ↑ Burkhard Pandikow: Tollatsch and Schlabuffersuppe: Memories of Tribsees. 2002, ISBN 3-8311-4663-2 , p. 25.
  12. ^ Adelheid M. von Hauff: Women shape diakonia. Volume 2: From the 18th to the 20th century. Kohlhammer, 2006, ISBN 3-17-019324-4 , pp. 413-433.
  13. ↑ see Ekkehard Hirschfeld: Therese von Hennigs (1861–1913) and Ingeborg von Hennigs (1867–1944). In: Adelheid M. von Hauff: Women shape diakonia. Volume 2: From the 18th to the 20th century. Kohlhammer, 2006, ISBN 3-17-019324-4 , pp. 416-433.
  14. ↑ see article in Swedish in Svensk Numismatisk Tidskrift , year 2006, pp. 29–43.
  15. ^ Robert Klempin , Gustav Kratz : Matriculations and registers of the Pomeranian knighthood from the XIV to the XIX century . (Unchanged. New edition of the 1863 edition), p. 603.
  16. ↑ artnet.com
  17. ↑ Klas Fåhraeus: Gösta von Hennigs. In: Ord & Bild 1912, p. 89 ff. (In Swedish)
  18. ↑ d-nb.info
  19. ^ Adelheid M. von Hauff (Ed.): Women shape diakonia. Volume 2: From the 18th to the 20th century. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-019324-4 , pp. 413-433.
  20. ^ Matthias Schmettow: Memorial book of the German nobility. Marburg adL 1967, p. 133.
  21. ↑ Lutherische Kirchen , Michael Plathow, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-87120-1 , p. 105.
  22. ↑ nordelbien.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nordelbien.de  
  23. ↑ Dorfkirchen: a renovation program to restore historical church buildings and to preserve worship services in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church; Documentation 1992–1999 , Kiel, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2001.
  24. ↑ Wolfgang von Hennigs: A century of restoration: the baroque organ in the town church of Preetz. In: DenkMal! 8/2001.
  25. ↑ ekd.de ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekd.de