Heppe (noble family)

Heppe is the name of a noble family in Hesse , whose lineage begins with Hans Heppe around 1500.

Nobility uprisings

• Elevation to the imperial nobility on December 29, 1718 in Vienna for Carl Heppe , ducal Saxon-Gothic bailiff of Volkenroda .
• Imperial nobility on July 8, 1787 in Vienna for Carl Wilhelm Heppe , landgrave of Hessen-Kassel, Privy War and Domain Councilor .

Coat of arms (1718)

Divided and split at the top, 1 in gold a black eagle breaking out of the split line, 2 in black a gold lion, 3 in blue on a green hill a gold-stemmed silver Heppe ( vine knife ). Crest: Between the open black flight a growing man in a blue skirt with a gold belt, a blue hood on his head, in his right hand holding Heppe from the shield. Covers : right black and gold, left blue and silver. (Bavarian General Reich Archives, Seventh Volume.)

Coat of arms (1787)

Divided, split at the top, on the right in gold a half black eagle at the gap, on the left in black a gold lion marked in red , below in blue on a green hill an upright silver sickle ( Heppe ) with a golden stem, accompanied by two golden stars. On the helmet with black and gold blankets on the right and blue and silver on the left, two growing armored arms, each with an inwardly turned sickle in their hands, a gold star between them, between an open black flight .

Name bearer

• Adolf von Heppe (1836–1899), Prussian district president of Trier
• Theodor von Heppe (1870–1954), Prussian District President von Aurich, Vice President of the Prussian Chamber of Accounts
• Hans von Heppe (1907–1982), German civil servant and lawyer

literature

• Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume V, page 131, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch , Postadel Part B 1911 (older genealogy), Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1911