Passavant

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Family coat of arms of those Passavant

Passavant is the name of a family of Huguenot refugees who settled in Basel , Geneva in the 16th century and in Frankfurt am Main in the 17th and were often very successful there. Ancestral seat of the de Passavant family was the Passavant castle in the village of Passavant-la-Rochère ( Haute-Saône department ).

history

In 1594 Nicolas de Passavant (1559–1633), with whom the tribe series begins, left his hometown Luxeuil in Burgundy for religious reasons and settled in Basel. In order to be able to be commercially active, he gave up his title of nobility, founded a commercial business and acquired citizenship on March 15, 1596.

  • Nicolas pass Avant , also known Niclaus Pasewandt (1559-1633), fustian weavers ; married to Nicola de Marteleur († 1607)
    • Son Claudius Passavant (1593–1653), trimmers ; married to Anna Frey (1619–1657)
      • Rudolf Emanuel Passavant (1641–1718), founder of the Frankfurt line
      • Claudius Passavant (1650–1716), surgeon, city doctor in Basel
      • Hans Ulrich Passavant (1652–1709), founded the Basel line, his grandson is Hans Franz Passavant (1751–1834), a banker

Frankfurt Line (selection)

Landhaus Passavant in Bockenheim
Manhole cover from Passavant

The founder of the Frankfurt line was Rudolf Emanuel Passavant (1641–1718) from Basel, who settled in Frankfurt in 1682 and acquired citizenship in 1686.

Basel Line (selection)

  • Hans Franz Passavant (1751–1834), banker; married to Marie-Jeanne Martin (* 1761 in Geneva, † 1803), founder of the Passavant & Cie. ; Banking, 1800–1923. Most recently, the bank was a co-founder of the Swiss Bankers Association Basel and was absorbed into it. Today it is called UBS and is the world's largest asset manager.
    • Daughter Marg. Elisabeth Passavant (1783–1859), married Emanuel Faesch (1772–1827), merchant in 1801, the couple settled in Geneva. The Faesch family owned important plantations in Surinam with slave husbandry for over 100 years.
    • Son Emanuel Passavant (1785–1842) banker; married to Henriette El. Stretch iron (1795-1860)
      • Grandson Emanuel Passavant (1817–1879); married to Adèle Bachofen (1823–1883)
        • Great-grandson Emanuel Passavant (1843–1922); married to Emilie Allemandi (1851–1933)
        • Great grandson Dr. Carl Passavant (1854-1887); World traveler
        • Great-grandson Georges Passavant (1862–1952); Criminal judge, world traveler, banker, colonel
        • Great-grandson Hans Franz Passavant (1845–1909); 1874 Marriage to Anna Margarete Iselin, founder of the Allschwil brick factory Passavant-Iselin & Cie. (PIC), the largest brick and tile factory in Switzerland until 1976, today real estate development there.
    • Son Theophil Passavant (1787–1864); Theologian; founded the Verein für Sonntagssäle Basel in 1830/31, a kind of CVJM for Basel
    • Daughter Valerie Passavant (1797–1839); married to Peter Vischer-Passavant (1779–1851), art collector, who continues to renovate the family-owned castle and the Wildenstein estate . Wildenstein has been owned by the Canton of Basel-Landschaft since 1995.

American line (selection)

  • Philipp Ludwig Passavant (born June 2, 1777 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 15, 1858 in Zelienople , Pennsylvania) was the founder of the American line. On June 19, 1807, he married Fredericke Wilhelmina Zélie Basse (1786–1871), daughter of the famous diplomat and businessman Detmar Basse . The couple had the following children in the United States:
    • Emma Passavant (1811–1888)
    • Philipp Dettmar Passavant (1813–1838)
    • Charles Sydney Passavant (1816-1894)
    • Virginia Passavant (* 1819)
    • William Alfred Passavant (* 1821 in Butler County, Pennsylvania ; † January 3, 1894), Lutheran pastor, missionary, writer, founder of numerous hospitals, orphanages and schools.

coat of arms

The tribe arms shows in gold and red split plate of green Dreienberg rechtshin growing a man in doublet and pointed Stulphut verwechselter color, holding over his shoulder with the tip of a downward swept silver rotor bar with red tassel, left caulked. The fast runner growing on the helmet with the red and gold helmet covers .

The motto is Passe avant le meilleur! which, loosely translated, means that the future belongs to the better. Many bearers of the name then also fulfilled the claim to strive forwards through performance, such as the spear bearer in their coat of arms. Far more mundane is the meaning of passe-avant as a so-called free pass , more precisely vehicle identification to transport permitted goods from one place to another.

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