Horst (Saxon noble family)
Horst is the name of a family from Saxony who started the tribe with Johann Gottlob Horst (* 1766) in Salbitz , now part of Naundorf (Saxony) .
Nobility rise
- Saxe-Coburg and Gotha nobility - and baron status on May 12, 1899 for the German-American merchant Louis Anton Horst , later director of the opera school in Gotha .
coat of arms
In red an upright crowned golden lion . The lion grows on the helmet with red and gold covers .
Name bearer
- Louis Anton von Horst (1865–1947), German-American businessman, inventor and German spy in the First World War
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, Page 370, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984