Jena (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Jena (1903)

Jena is the name of an old Thuringian noble family .

history

The family appears for the first time with Liber Folmarus de Gene (the Free Folmar of Jena) as Ministerialem of the Burgraves of Kirchberg , who is mentioned as a witness in a document issued in Apolda by the Archbishop of Mainz zu Erfurt in 1145 .

Later the Jena were also feudal people in the various houses of the taverns of Vargula , von Saaleck, and von Tautenburg , the Counts of Heldrungen , von Schwarzburg and the Landgraves of Thuringia . Hinne von Jena was awarded salt righteousness by the archbishop in Halle an der Saale in 1350 . The family line begins in a documented 1492 with Gunther von Jena († before 1513), Pfänner in Halle.

Confirmation of nobility and elevation

The imperial nobility confirmation (knightly nobility) on August 2, 1658 in Frankfurt am Main and the improvement of the coat of arms on September 19, 1663 also in Frankfurt were given to the Friedrich brothers as electoral Brandenburg privy councilor , Christoph as councilor of the Princely Anhalt , and Rudolph and Gottfried von Jena as councilor for the electoral Brandenburg and Professor of Law at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt .

Which are entitled to the Baron title according to the decree of the Imperial and Royal War Ministry received in the January 30, 1851 Wien of Captain Karl Gottfried von Jena.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those of Jena (1663)
  • The family coat of arms shows in a shield divided by blue and gold obliquely to the left a natural fox (heraldic animal) erected on a green branch with a green bunch of grapes in its throat. On the helmet with red and gold covers on the right and red and blue covers on the left, the growing fox with the grape.
  • The increased coat of arms from 1663 is quartered and shows the family coat of arms in fields 1 and 4, 2 and 3 in red a silver bar. On the right helmet with red and silver covers a crowned black eagle, on the left the trunk helmet with blue and gold covers.
  • The coat of arms from 1903 (decision of the family association) is like the family coat of arms, but the fox standing on a green mountain and the helmet covers blue-gold.

Known family members

Burial place of those from Jena in Cöthen
  • Johann von Jena (15th century), knight in Prussia, town clerk in Arnstadt since 1410
  • Friedrich von Jena (1620–1682), German legal scholar, diplomat and statesman
  • Gottfried von Jena (1624–1703), Chancellor of the Duchy of Magdeburg in Halle
  • Gottfried von Jena (born December 11, 1684; † May 15, 1734 in Berlin) became Royal Prussian Legation, Court and Chamber Judge in 1705, was the heir to Döbbernitz (Neumark, Sternberg district, now Torzym) and bought from the Count of Flemming in 1721 the goods Cöthen (Mark), Dannenberg (Mark) and Falkenberg (Mark). His wife was born von Baer , daughter of Bishop Benjamin Ursin von Baer . With her he had two sons: Gottfried (1706–1775) and Carl Friedrich (1710–1736).
  • Gottfried von Jena (1706–1775) studied at the University of Halle from 1729 and was then appointed Royal Prussian Court and Chamber Judge in 1732, and later also a Privy Judicial and Appeal Judge. He owned his father's property in Cöthen (Mark). His two wives were daughters of the Prussian State Minister von Broich. In their honor Jena named one of the colonist villages in the reclaimed Oderbruch Broichsdorf . His children all died before him.
  • Gottfried von Jena (* October 27, 1767; † 1831) owned the old fiefdom of Döbbernitz. He had two sisters and a younger brother. His father Friedrich Wilhelm (1735–1774) was an officer in the Seven Years' War and was captured in the Battle of Kolin. His mother was born Louise von Unruh .
  • Karl-Friedrich von Jena (1770–1838), landowner and Prussian major, father of Wilhelm von Jena
  • Wilhelm von Jena (1797–1879), landowner and Prussian politician
  • Eduard von Jena (1826–1909), Prussian lieutenant general
  • Eduard von Jena (1834–1911), Prussian general of the infantry
  • Eduard von Jena (1862–1924), Prussian major general
  • Leo von Jena (1876–1957), SS-Gruppenführer of the General SS and SS-Brigadführer of the Reserve of the Waffen-SS (with the right to wear the badge of rank of Obergruppenführer and Lieutenant General of the Waffen-SS)
  • Chlodwig Freiherr von Jena (1883–1952) Dr. iur., diplomat, chairman of the board of the Deutsche Bauerndienst-Versicherung, archivist and author of family history
  • Hans-Jörg von Jena (1931–2001), theater and music critic

literature

Web links

Commons : Jena (noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Document book of the city of Jena II.2
  2. ↑ Halle City Archives
  3. ↑ Chronicle Arnstadt (PDF; 7.1 MB)