Horst (Saxon noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Horst

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

Coat of arms of those von Horst, Rhineland

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