List of noble families named Weiher

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Weiher , also Weyher , Weyer , Weger , Weiger or Weiherr is the name of several old noble families . For a long time, two of these families had their center of development in Pomerania and Pomerania .

Von Weiher (Pomerania)

The Pomeranian family von Weiher first appears in a document on June 15, 1357. The family estate was Timmenhagen near Kolberg , the secured family line begins in the 16th century with the princely Pomeranian council and stable master as well as Mr. auf Timmenhagen Veit von Weyher, who 1526–1557 was mentioned in a document. His great-grandson Franz Georg von Weyher (* August 5, 1635, † 1696) moved to Lauenburg-Bütow and also adopted the coat of arms of the family of the same name there.

The royal Prussian secret finance, war and domain councilor Johann Heinrich Ferdinand von Weiher (born October 21, 1753; † May 14, 1809 in Berlin) was elevated to the status of a Prussian baron on August 31, 1806 . As heir to his aunts Freiin Josephe and Freiin Franziska von Nimptsch , this diploma allowed him to use the name Freiherr von Weiher and Nimptsch. His son, the royal Prussian major Philipp Bogislaus Heinrich von Weiher und Nimptsch (* April 7, 1784 in Berlin ; † July 25, 1853 in Berlin) married Charlotte Henriette von Scheel (* September 1, 1769 in Berlin; † 3 February 1870 in Berlin) and later adopted his brother-in-law, the royal Prussian lieutenant Emil von Scheel. This received the highest cabinet order on May 31, 1847 or by diploma of December 23, 1853 the Prussian name and coat of arms association as von Scheel Weiher and Nimptsch.

The family remaining in western Pomerania divided into the houses Faulen Benz and Mulkenthin . Several members of the Mulkenthin line, which remained with the family until 1782, made careers in Danish and Brandenburg-Prussian services. The Danish Field Marshal Adam von Weyher (* January 25, 1613 - October 14, 1676) and the two royal Prussian major general Adam von Weiher (* 1683 - December 10, 1744 in Siethen ), commander of the garrison battalion named after him ( No. 4) v. Weyher in the Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 6 and Christian Rudolf von Weiher (born April 19, 1709 in Parlin ; † May 4, 1782 in Kyritz ), chief of the cuirassier regiment "Queen" (Pomeranian) No. 2 . As recently as 1798, Deuthin belonged to the family as the last property, but it went to the von Ploetz family in 1802 at the latest .

A von Weger family, whose lineage begins with the royal Danish captain Carl Sigismund von Weger (* 1690, † around 1750), Herr auf Wellmitz and Kuckädel , can be traced back to the above Danish field marshal Adam von Weyher. His sons served Prussia in the Seven Years' War , and the family later provided numerous officers in the Prussian army . After 1835 the family appeared under the name of Wegerer. The German military historian , general staff officer and National Socialist Alfred von Wegerer probably also belonged to this family.

From Weiher (Brandenburg)

From the Brandenburg dynasty von Weiher, which was first mentioned in a document with the knight Arnoldus Weyher in 1280, Thidericus Weyer, with whom the secured continuous line of the family begins, first appeared in 1321 in Lauenburg-Bütowschen . The family estates, after which the two lines of the family from the grandchildren Thidericus Weyer were named, were Freest and Leba .

From the now extinct Leba line, Martin von Weiher (* 1512 in Leba; † June 8, 1556 in Köslin ) became the second Lutheran bishop of Camin in 1549 . His younger brother Ernst von Weiher (* 1517; † 1598) went, like many members of his family, into royal Polish services, became a colonel in 1562 and finally Starost von Putzig . With his wife Anna Ludowika Morteska he founded the Polish magnate family Weyher. He had 12 children, his grandchildren, the brothers Nikolaus († 1647), Jakob (* 1609; † February 20, 1657) and Ludwig († 1656) received the imperial count confirmation on June 27, 1637 in what was then imperial Prague with the address "well-born “And coat of arms improvement. The family went to the Roman Catholic Church and stood in the aristocratic republic repeatedly Councilors, Voivod , Staroste, generals or Kronschatzmeister the aristocratic republic .

The Imperial Count Jakob von Weyher , Voivode of Marienburg and Count of Waldschütz, founded the city of Weyersfrey in accordance with Kulm law in 1643 .

The von Weger family, who began with the royal Prussian court advisor in Pomerania, Johann Jakob von Weger and had a coat of arms very similar to the aforementioned family, cannot prove a common descent. The same was raised to the Prussian nobility in Berlin on October 21, 1719 and the imperial nobility on January 19, 1728 in Vienna. His son Johann Philipp Benjamin von Weger (born September 3, 1736 in Bischdorf , † January 12, 1809 in Neisse ) was a royal Prussian major general, commander of infantry regiment No. 7 BC. Owstin and commandant of the Neisse fortress .

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Coat of arms of the von Weyher (Ubstadt-Weiher)

In the East Franconian town of Kulmbach , Hans von Weyher was enfeoffed with the castle estate Waaggasse 13 in 1430 . Medem also names a Franconian Weyer family, which shows a silver bird in the blue sign. It is also listed at Ledebur . She was wealthy in East Prussia on Auglitten , Herrendorf and Wohnsdorf (all near Friedland ).

A Swabian von Weyher family, which could have had its seat in Ubstadt-Weiher and was perhaps a branch of the Lords of Zeutern from the coat of arms, is known from the Leitbracken Society of Swabia.

Bagmihl already rejects the statement, which is often reflected in more recent literature, probably only thoughtlessly from older sources, that Weiher (Brandenburg) is of Franconian descent due to the difference in the coats of arms.

Medem names an extinct family in Mecklenburg Weyer with a split shield, the last of whom was Sigismund von Weyer († after 1610).

The Baron Weyher von Weyherfels family from the Austrian hereditary lands has no points of contact with the aforementioned. The stem series is printed in the Brno paperbacks . The kuk Major General Karl Weyher von Weyherfels (born January 16, 1841, † January 23, 1925) belonged to this family.

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Coat of arms of those of Weiher (Pomerania)

The family coat of arms of the Pomeranian von Weiher shows in a red shield a fan of seven natural peacock feathers, through whose silver handle three silver arrows go obliquely to the left, on the helmet with red-silver blankets a red-clad maiden with open blond hair, holding a black eagle's wing in each hand .

Baron coat of arms: the shield is quartered. In the first silver field that of the family coat of arms (Freest); in the second field, divided by Silber and Roth, the family coat of arms of the von Nimptsch family, a black unicorn with a silver fishtail and a horn twisted in black and silver; in the third silver field two golden crowns, the upper one shortened; in the fourth blue field two golden griffin claws lying one above the other. On the shield a Freiherrn Krone, above it four crowned helmets, on it (outside right) a growing black unicorn with a silver horn; on the second (right) three silver-red-silver ostrich feathers; on the third (left) stacked golden griffin claws; on the fourth (far left) a golden crowned dragon with a red tongue, instead of the left wing an eagle's wing. The helmet covers of the two right helmets are red and silver, those of the two left are blue and gold. As a shield holder on the right the unicorn as in the shield, on the left the lindworm as on the left outer helmet.

Coat of arms of the von Weiher (Brandenburg)

The coat of arms of the original Brandenburg von Weiher, which has only been partially used by both Pomeranian families since the middle of the 17th century, shows two red bars on the silver shield, each with three curved, interlocking wolf teeth, and three red bars above the upper bar Roses, on the helmet with red and silver covers three silver, red and silver ostrich feathers.

With the Count's coat of arms, the shield quartered, 1 and 4 under the silver field head, in it three red roses, as in the family coat of arms; 2 and 3 in blue two chipped golden eagle claws sloping downwards. Above it two helmets, on the right with blue and gold covers like the helmet above the family coat of arms; on the left the eagle's claws with red and silver blankets.

The coat of arms of the Brandenburg von Weger or von Wegerer shows in a split shield, on the right in red a jumping silver unicorn, on the left in silver three black diagonal bars, on the helmet with red and silver covers the unicorn growing.

The coat of arms of the Silesian von Weger shows in the split shield on the right in silver a black eagle, on the left in silver two red bars, accompanied in the middle by three (2: 1) red roses, below by six wolf teeth hooked into one another in pairs. On the helmet, with red and black blankets on the right, black and gold blankets on the left and three silver, red and silver ostrich feathers.

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  1. ↑ Original in the Stettin State Archives
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XII, Volume 125 of the complete series, pp. 353–354, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2001, ISSN  0435-2408
  3. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. Anklam 1868, Division II, Volume 4, pp. 570-571
  4. ↑ Gottfried von Bülow:  Weyher, Adam von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, p. 279 f.
  5. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , p. 203, no. 263.
  6. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum. Volume 2, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632772 , p. 129, no. 650.
  7. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, p. 1, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN  0435-2408
  8. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . C1, p. 8
  9. ^ Pomeranian document book . Volume 6, (Supplements) p. 83
  10. ↑ Gottfried von Bülow :  Martin von Weyher . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 476-478.
  11. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff: Soldatisches Führertum. Volume 3, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632780 , pp. 162-163, no. 1073.
  12. ↑ Vol. 18, 1893
  13. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk generals 1816-1918. 2007, p. 201
  14. ^ Siebmacher , Volume Silesia, A1, page: 119, plate: 86