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Pechmann is the name of a German aristocratic family , whose progenitor Hinrich Pechmann (also: Bechmann ) was a Count Oldenburg field and stick trumpeter, mentioned in a document from 1647 to 1667.
Nobility uprisings
- The elevation to the imperial knighthood with improvement of the coat of arms took place on August 21, 1687 in Vienna, whose son Anton Ludwig von Pechmann, at that time was still a councilor of Cologne . The same received the hereditary- Austrian permit to own the Brunn am Steinfeld estate on May 23, 1689 in Laxenburg .
- Anton Ludwig von Pechmann, who had meanwhile become imperial councilor , was accepted into the Hungarian baronate in Vienna on June 27, 1698 - together with his brother Martin Günther von Pechmann, electoral Bavarian colonel and commander of the body regiment .
- Anton Ludwig von Pechmann also received confirmation of his membership of the Imperial Baron on January 30, 1700 in Vienna .
- Joseph Heinrich Baron von Pechmann, landlord at (Schön-) Brunn and Zandt and son of Martin Günther Baron von Pechmann (see above), received - together with his siblings - on July 30, 1717 in Vienna the Hungarian baronage confirmation.
- For Joseph Heinrich Baron von Pechmann and his brother Wilhelm Freiherr von Bechmann (with B ) the electoral Bavarian tender for the baron class took place on December 11, 1728 in Munich . In addition, Joseph Heinrich received the electoral Bavarian noblemen's freedom as an electoral Bavarian grenadier - captain on April 9, 1738.
- Enrollment in the baron class in the Kingdom of Bavaria took place on May 12, 1814 for Thomas Joseph Freiherr von Pechmann, squire of Zandt and Brunn, and for the royal Bavarian treasurer Wilhelm Freiherr von Pechmann and his cousins.
coat of arms
- The family coat of arms shows in silver on a green three-mountain, turned inwards, a moor looking forward with a red bandage and forehead, holding a two-pronged silver fork in his inner hand on which a natural (or black) laurel wreath hangs, the outer one prying into the side. The moor growing on the helmet with red and gold covers .
- The coat of arms from 1698 is quartered and covered with a crowned blue heart shield , in it the crown of the Hungarian kingdom in front of the Hungarian three-armed patriarchal cross. Fields 1 and 4 show the family coat of arms, 2 and 3 in gold two red bars. Three helmets with black and silver covers on the right and red and gold covers on the left, on the right the crowned imperial double-headed eagle with the monogram LI (Leopold I) on the chest, on the middle the image of the heart shield, on the left the growing Moor.
Known family members
- Adalbert von Pechmann (1777–1860), Passau auxiliary bishop, cathedral dean and vicar general
- Friedrich von Pechmann (1862–1919), Bavarian lieutenant general
- Günther von Pechmann (1882–1968), Bavarian officer, museum director
- Hans von Pechmann (1850–1902), German chemist
- Heinrich von Pechmann (1774–1861), German architect and author
- Johann von Pechmann (1809–1868), Bavarian Minister of the Interior
- Karl von Pechmann (1847–1898), Bavarian major general
- Ludwig von Pechmann (1845–1925), Lieutenant Colonel, also http://atgard.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botsyst/ic/ic-home.htm
- Wilhelm Freiherr von Pechmann (1859–1948), Director of the Bayerische Handelsbank, President of the Bavarian State Synod and member of the Confessing Church
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume X, p. 226, volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Adalbert Freiherr von Pechmann: The family of the barons v. Pechmann in 300 years of Bavarian history. In: German Family Archives. Volume 105, Neustadt an der Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-7686-5098-7 .