Steiger (patrician family, with the white goat)

Münsingen Castle, cabinet disc with Steiger coat of arms (1668)

Bern Minster , church place sign Wolfgang Steiger (1732)

The von Steiger family , with the white ibex in their coat of arms, is a Bernese patrician family that has owned the city of Bern as a citizen since the 15th century . The family belongs to the Ober-Gerwern company .

people

Hans Steiger (1518–1581), mayor of Bern
Isaak Steiger (1669–1749), mayor of Bern
Franz Ludwig Steiger (1704–1755), German cockle master
Karl Friedrich Steiger (1755–1832), politician
Edmund von Steiger (1836–1908), Swiss pastor and canton politician
Robert von Steiger (1856–1941), Swiss painter from the Düsseldorf School
Adolf von Steiger (1859–1925), Swiss Federal Chancellor
Konrad von Steiger (1862–1944), architect and cantonal master builder
Eduard von Steiger (1881–1962), Swiss politician and Federal Councilor

Bernhard von Rodt : Genealogies of civil sexes of the city of Bern , Volume 5 (1950), Burgerbibliothek Bern , Mss.hhLII.9.5 , pp. 31–91.

Hans Braun: Steiger [von] (BE, weisse). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
J. Cart: Vers adressés au Bailli Jean Steiger à son entrée en charge à Lausanne 1612 , in: Revue historique vaudoise, Vol. 9 (1901), pp. 363-370. doi: 10.5169 / seals-10738
Bernhard von Steiger (Ed.): Genealogy of the family von Steiger, Weiss, von Bern , Bern 1906.

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