Ribbentrop (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of the von Ribbentrop family

Ribbentrop is the name of an old family that comes from Gut Ribbentrup am Vierenberg in Bad Salzuflen .

As the owner ( Meier ) of the original Meierhof of the prince abbey of Herford , the family bears the name of this estate, later members of the family are civil servants, tenants, scholars and officers, first in the service of the Counts of Lippe and of the Duke of Brunswick , and then of royal Prussia . Three lines were ennobled in the 19th century.

history

First mention of the parent farm

The Ricbrachtincthorpe farm (Ribbentrup) belonged to the Herford Abbey when it was first mentioned in a document in 1333, when it came from the jurisdiction of the Breda office to the Seligenwörden office near Salzuflen.

First mention of gender

The Ribbentrop family is first mentioned in a document with Heinrich Meyer zu Ribbentrup (around 1485–1547) and his son Jürgen Meyer zu Ribbentrup (1510–1593), with whom the uninterrupted family line begins.

The name component Meyer here refers to the bound to the Grange Ribbentrup grade of the Meiers , ie of the lord manager used or lessee of a stately manor or Fronhofes .

Family association

A family association was founded in 1912 and published the Ribbentrop family news.

Ennobling

Three lines of the Ribbentrop family were ennobled in the 19th century , with the following progenitors of these three lines receiving the hereditary Prussian nobility :

  • on February 6, 1823 Friedrich Ribbentrop , Royal Prussian General Director of the Army
  • on June 1, 1826 his brother Erich Ribbentrop , Royal Prussian Privy Councilor of War in Luxembourg
  • on June 8, 1884 Karl Ribbentrop , Royal Prussian Lieutenant General z. D.

Adoption of the by

On May 15, 1925, Joachim Ribbentrop (1893–1946), who had married a daughter of the sparkling wine manufacturer Otto Henkell in 1920 and was to become Foreign Minister in 1938 , was ennobled by his distant relative Gertrud von Ribbentrop (1863–1943), daughter of 1884 Karl Ribbentrop, adopt against payment of an annuity . Conform to the naming rights of 1919 (Art. 109, para. 3 of the Weimar Constitution he wore) from this point on in front of his family name the of . In the socially and politically influential aristocratic circles, this was not considered a nobility predicate , which is, however, irrelevant from a civil and legal point of view. The family members descending from Joachim von Ribbentrop (after 1945 the name form Henkell-von Ribbentrop was also adopted) are still not viewed by the German Nobility Law Committee as historical nobility , but rather as pseudo nobility .

coat of arms

1823: Square with heart shield ; a silver lamb in blue on the green ground. 1 and 4 in blue on a green ground an armored archer turned to the right, 2 and 3 six gold arrows turned to the right one above the other, covered by a golden quiver placed obliquely to the left. On the crowned helmet with blue and silver blankets on the right and red and gold on the left, a natural crane with a gold stone in the raised right hand.

1826: A silver lamb in gold on green ground. On the crowned helmet with green and gold covers the crane (as above).

1884: Divided: Above in red a silver lamb walking on the dividing line, below in silver two upward-pointing black cannon barrels. On the helmet with red and silver covers on the right and black and silver covers on the left (as above).

Well-known namesake

Branch line Meyer / Meijer

Franz Meyer zu Ribbentrup , born around 1645, died on the Meierhof zu Bakum, has been the second husband of Anna Marie, the daughter of Johann Meyer zu Bakum and heiress of the Meierhof zu Bakum near Melle , since 1675 .

Their son Franz Henrich Meyer (1687–1758) is the founder of a branch line that in the following generations is only called Meyer or Meijer . Because his father had not inherited the Meierhof Ribbentrup and his mother already has two sons with inheritance rights from his first marriage, Franz Henrich does not take on either of the two farm names as part of the name, making Meyer the new family name for his descendants. He studies theology and becomes a Lutheran preacher in Buer near Melle. Before 1716 he married Maria Hedwig Steinmeyer (1695–1751), a daughter of Johannes Steinmeyer from Verden , Lutheran preacher at Herford-Radewig , and Anna Katharina van Laer.

The descendants of one of their sons, Henrich Ludwig Meyer (1723–1793), who settled in Amsterdam as a merchant , use the Dutch form of the family name Meyer, namely Meijer .

literature

  • Hans Ribbentrop: The Meierhof Ribbentrup near Schötmar in: Messages from the Lippe history and regional studies 4 (Detmold 1906)
  • Hans Adolf Blau: Die Ribbentrop , in: Rasse 7 (1940).
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch B 1907 (stem series and older genealogy) to 1936
  • German gender book 1931 (stem series and older genealogy)
  • Bernhard Thümmel: The Meyer to Schwabedissen. A ravensberg court and family history , Detmold 1930 (the Meierhof Ribbentrup is mentioned in it because like the Meierhof Schwabedissen it originally belonged to the Herford Abbey)
  • Philipp Christian (sic!) Ribbentrop: Description of the city of Braunschweig , Bd. 1 Braunschweig 1789, Bd. 2 Braunschweig 1791
  • Carl Philipp (sic!) Ribbentrop: Complete history and description of the city of Braunschweig , Braunschweig 1796
  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died between 1750 and 1800 , Vol. 11, Leipzig 1811 (therein bibliography by Philipp Christian Ribbentrops )
  • Georg Julius Ribbentrop: On the doctrine of the Correal Obligations , Göttingen 1831
  • Friedrich August Schmidt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 13, Part 1, Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1836 (therein biography of Heinrich Gottlieb Ribbentrob along with biographical information on father Philipp Christian Ribbentrop and brother Friedrich von Ribbentrop )
  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1909, p.629f

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First mention of the Meierhof Ribbentrup. Website of the Schwabedissen family ( Meyer zu Schwabedissen ). Retrieved March 21, 2010.
  2. ↑ Claus Heinrich Bill: "Scheinadel" through assumptions on childhood , in: Nobilitas, Volume X., Sonderburg 2007, pp. 58-134
  3. ↑ a b J. A. / Konrad Tyroff (ed.), Book of Arms of the Prussian Monarchy , Volume IV, Nuremberg 1846, Plate 33
  4. ^ Bernhard von Poten :  Ribbentrop, Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 398-402.
  5. ^ Bibliography Philipp Christian Ribbentrop . Website Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of German writers who died between 1750 and 1800 , Vol. 11, Leipzig 1811. Retrieved March 23, 2010
  6. ↑ Obituary notice for Philipp Christian Ribbentrop (1737–1797) in the Allg. Literature newspaper / No. 47/1797 / literary. News. II. Deaths / Col.394 (bottom right). Website of the intelligence paper of the general literary newspaper Numero 47. Saturday, April 15th, 1797. Retrieved March 23rd, 2010
  7. ^ Wilhelm von Gümbel :  Ribbentrop, Heinrich Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 406.
  8. ^ Biography of Heinrich Gottlieb Ribbentrop. Website Friedrich August Schmidt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 13, Part 1, Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1836. At the same time, individual records for the father Philipp Christian Ribbentrop (1737–1797) and the brother Friedrich von Ribbentrop (1768–1841) . Retrieved March 23, 2010.
  9. ^ Ernst Landsberg :  Ribbentrop, Georg Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 405 f.
  10. ^ Heinrich Pröhle :  Ribbentrop, Friedrich Christian Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 402-405.
  11. ↑ Pedigree Meurer and van Woerkens

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