Tribe holder
Heir in the narrower sense of the firstborn male offspring of a married couple , which the family name of the parents gets house, in his turn him weiterzuvererben and thus obtain the "trunk", more precisely, the main line to continue (see also family tree , primogeniture ). The term regular keeper for the female Erb daughter rarely found because they in cultural areas with fathers lines is an exception; this is subject to change in recent times, especially with regard to the free choice of the family name (see naming law ). In ethnic families that organize themselves according to their maternal line , the actual heir daughter is usually the last-born, and the continuation of the maternal line is not only based on one daughter (see also Ultimogenitur , Lineages ). Colloquially today, the family owner of a married couple is their first child together .
In the European cultural area and around the world organize noble families and dynasties their succession after an agnatic lineage (major or minor line), while only the oldest applies wedlock legitimate son to succeed his father and his social position and privileges (see for example the coat of arms right ). If the first-born does not survive, the next oldest legitimate son becomes a family successor; in the event that only a legitimate daughter comes into question as a successor, a separate house law usually contains complicated rules of succession regarding the eldest heiress or a maid . In order to prevent a noble name (the so-called “male line”) from becoming extinct even if only daughters were present, the predicate “from” was often placed before the family names of later generations ; a literary example of such considerations can be found in the 1896 novel Effi Briest by the German writer Theodor Fontane .
In many king world houses only the eldest son true today as the official heir to the throne . In the absence of a male ancestor, some monarchies allow the continuation of their line through a daughter as standard, for example in the Kingdom of Sweden since 1980 (see Swedish Succession Regulations ) and in the Belgian royal family since 1991 (see Belgian Succession Regulations ). In the British monarchy , daughters have been equated with sons since 2013 (see Succession to the throne in the United Kingdom ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Duden editors: Stammhalter. In: Duden online . January 2013, accessed on March 31, 2014 : "Parent holder [...] first male descendant of a pair of parents who is to keep the name of the family - synonyms for parent holder: Elder , firstborn , male descendant , son [...] (colloquial joking) offshoot , Scion " . Note: no entry there about and no mention of the lineage holder .
- ^ Johann Christoph Adelung : Stammhalter. In: Derselbe (Ed.): Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect . Volume 4. Leipzig 1801, p. 282: “Der Stammhalter, des -s, plur. ut nom. sing. that person of the male sex , to which the maintenance and reproduction beruhet a strain or sex. "
- ^ Heinrich August Pierer : Stammhalter. In: Derselbe (Ed.): Pierer's Universal Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 16, Altenburg 1863, p. 678: “Stammhalter, a person of the male sex on which the preservation u. Reproduction of one sex is based. "
- ↑ Compare also the message: According to a study, the son has had its day as a regular owner in Germany. In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 13, 2000, accessed on March 31, 2014 : "A demographic study by the Max Planck Institute in Rostock brought a new development to light: The trend towards having girls as desired is slowly but clearly increasing."