Lindt (Bern)

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Lindt coat of arms
Former factory building Fabrique de Chocolat A. & W. Lindt on Wasserwerkgasse in Bern

The Lindt family originally comes from Windecken and was naturalized in Nidau in 1769 , in Bern in 1820 and belongs to the Middle Lions Society .

history

The Lindt family is one of the small number of families who acquired citizenship rights during the restoration period after the Bernese civil rights were opened in 1805 . Family members married members of the Brunner , Simon and Kohler families . Numerous doctors, pharmacists, reformed clergymen and entrepreneurs emerged from the Lindt family in the 19th and 20th centuries.

people

  • Johann Rudolf Lindt (1790–1851), physician and politician
  • Johann Ludwig Lindt (1809–1857), teacher at the grammar schools in Bern and Nidau, pastor of Solothurn
  • Johann Rudolf Lindt (1823–1893), pharmacist, botanist and politician
  • Franz Lindt (1844–1901), engineer, politician
  • Ernst Lindt (* 1846), director of the mechanical silk weaving mill
  • Rodolphe Lindt (1855–1909), chocolate manufacturer and inventor, co-founder of Lindt & Sprüngli
  • Paul Lindt (1859–1913), architect
  • Hermann Lindt (1872–1937), Mayor of Bern
  • Bernhard Lindt (1904–1979), entrepreneur
  • August R. Lindt (1905-2000), diplomat
  • Andreas Lindt (1920–1985), professor of theology
  • Hanna Elisabeth Lindt b. Loosli (1926–2019), theologian, first woman on the Bern Synodal Council
  • Nicolas Lindt (* 1954), writer

Archives

coat of arms

Lindt coat of arms
 Blazon : "Diagonally right divided by silver with a striding, fire-breathing black dragon and by red with three silver stakes."
Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms is talking with the Lindwurm ( Old High German lint "snake").

literature

  • Claudia Engler: Lindt Collection. 33 mainly theological works from 16. – 19. Century. Gift from Rev. Thomas Lindt, Sigriswil , Bern 2002.
  • Elisabeth Kaestli: A "woman" studies theology. Hanni Lindt-Loosli, * 1926, pastor . In: Reformatio, Vol. 57 (2008), pp. 247–249.
  • Rolf Wilhelm (Ed.): August R. Lindt. Patriot and citizen of the world , Bern 2002.
  • Alfred Zesiger: The room at the red / guldinen Mittlen-Löwen. A look back at the history of the first five centuries. On the inauguration of the new guild room in the Falken on March 10, 1908 , Bern 1908, p. 151.

Web links

Commons : Lindt family  - collection of images, videos and audio files