Stokar
The Stokar family (originally Stocker , also: Stokar von Neuforn , Stockar and von Stockar-Scherer-Castell ) is a councilor and court gentleman ( patrician family ) of the Free States of Schaffhausen and Zurich .
history
The Stokar (Stocker) family originally lived in Barzheim and in the (later) Baden area, where they owned fiefdoms from the barons of Hohenklingen , the lords of Rosenegg and the lords of Randegg . The Stokar did not have a knight title and did not own a castle on their feudal estates, but seem to have belonged to the knightly feudal association.
In 1386 the brothers Johann and Heinrich Stocker von Schaffhausen are said to have died accompanied by a Herr von Hohenklingen in the battle of Sempach . The sure progenitor of the Stokar in Schaffhausen is Walter Stockar from Bartzen, mentioned in a document in 1413 and 1427, who bought the Stokarhof in the city of Schaffhausen from Junker Hans Keller von Schleitheim in 1442 and is named as a citizen in the tax register in 1443. His son Heinrich I bought the neighboring house to the black bear in 1478.
In the 16th century the family divided into four main lines (I. main line: Zürcher-Linie, II. Main line: Schaffhausen, III. Main line: Solothurn, IV. Main line: Schaffhausen). Their descendants were made up of numerous politicians, lawyers and members of the military, mainly in Schaffhausen and Zurich.
Benedikt I. Stokar von Neuforn (1516–1579), French councilor, was raised to the French nobility in 1559 by King Francis II of France .
Walther Stockar (1878–1938), a member of the Zurich line of the Stockars, inherited the Castell Castle near Tägerwilen along with its belonging in 1901 from his unmarried uncle Maximilian (Max) von Scherer-Scherburg (1848–1901), the last member of the von Scherer family Inventory and property. One of the conditions associated with the estate required the heir to add the name “von Scherer” to his own family name. Since then, the members of this branch of the Stockar family have all been called von Stockar-Scherer-Castell . At the beginning of the 21st century, Castell Castle is owned by the fourth generation of the von Stockar-Scherer-Castell family.
Significant namesake
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Stokar
- Hans Stokar (1490–1556), merchant, city councilor, pilgrim to Jerusalem
- Heinrich Stokar (1551–1621), city architect in Schaffhausen, member of the Grand Council
- David I. Stokar (1686–1757), member of the Electoral Palatinate government and court judge
- Johann Kaspar Stokar (1741–1801), Swiss politician
- David II. Stokar (1754–1814), Swiss lawyer and politician
- Gustav Stokar (1815–1889), Swiss entrepreneur
- Franz Stokar (1818–1872), councilor and district president in Schaffhausen
Stokar from Neuforn
- Benedikt I. Stokar von Neuforn (1516–1579), French councilor and chamberlain
- Hans Jakob Stokar von Neuforn (1615–1681), Swiss politician and diplomat
- Anselm Franz Stokar von Neuforn (1782–1847), son of David II. Stokar, was enrolled in the aristocratic class in the Kingdom of Bavaria on September 13, 1813 (beginning of the Bavarian line)
- Franz Stokar von Neuforn [" Franz von Stokar "] (1859–1929), publisher and major antiquarian in Regensburg
- Walter Stokar von Neuforn [" Walter von Stokar "] (1901–1959), pharmacist and archaeologist
- Silke Stokar von Neuforn (* 1953), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
from Stockar-Scherer-Castell
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- Walther von Stockar-Scherer-Castell (1878–1938), married to Agnes Freiin von Fabrice (1881–1964), daughter of Oswald Freiherr von Fabrice at Gottlieben Castle and granddaughter of Prince Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse , inherited Castell Castle and its inventory, Land and extensive capital assets from his uncle, the Baron Maximilian (Max) von Scherer-Scherburg (1848–1901).
- Max von Stockar-Scherer-Castell (1904–?), Eldest son of Walther von Stockar-Scherer-Castell, was married to Louise de Meuron (1907-?); her daughter Sybille von Stockar-Scherer-Castell (1930–2012), married Froelicher, inherited Schloss Rümligen from her grandmother Elisabeth de Meuron -von Tscharner (1882–1980) , the younger daughter Barbara, married Hegner (* 1933) Schloss Amsoldingen
- Walter von Stockar-Scherer-Castell (1906–1977), Walther's second son, was general director and shareholder of Bank Leu in Zurich . In addition to Castell Castle, he also owned an estate on the Zürichberg . His daughter Monika Goldi von Stockar-Scherer-Castell (* 1944) was married to the Swiss entrepreneur Beat Curti (* 1937) from 1970 to 1975 .
- Marc Antoine von Stockar-Scherer-Castell (1935–2008), son of Walter von Stockar-Scherer-Castell from his first marriage to Renee Duerler (* 1912), was a large real estate entrepreneur with extensive properties in Zurich and heir to Schloss Castell.
- Urs Caspar von Stockar-Scherer-Castell (* 1942), son of Walter von Stockar-Scherer-Castell from his second marriage to Georgine Koch de Vigier (* 1910), professor of chemical engineering at the ETH Lausanne .
- Daniel Marc von Stockar-Scherer-Castell (* 1961), son of Marc Antoine von Stockar-Scherer-Castell, is co-founder, chairman of the board of directors and major shareholder (11% in 2019) of the software company SoftwareONE in Stans (Switzerland). He has also founded a company with a real estate portfolio in Switzerland and neighboring countries. Since 2001 he has also been the owner of Castell Castle near Tägerwilen (Switzerland). His wife Astrid von Stockar, who was divorced from him, produced films a. a. for SF DRS and television programs such as "Simply luxurious".
literature
- Swiss gender book . Volume 3 (1910), pp. 531-555.
- Hans Joachim Bodenbach: Prof. Dr. phil habil. Walter Stokar von Neuforn ["Walter von Stokar"] (1901-1959) . 1st part: pharmacist and archaeologist, 2nd part: list of publications , in: Geschichte der Pharmazie, 55th year, Stuttgart 2003, issue 4, pp. 67–77, with 11 illustrations, including 2 photos by Walter Stokar von Neuforn ( called "Walter von Stokar"). ["History of Pharmacy" is a supplement to the Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung, Stuttgart]
- Michael Schwab: Walter von Stokar-Neuforn (1901–1959) ["Walter von Stokar"] - biography of a historian . Master's thesis at the University of Bonn, Bonn 2007 [190 pages]
- Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria. Volume XVIII, Neustadt an der Aisch 1990, pp. 804-810
- Norbert Scholz: 'The publisher and major antiquarian Franz von Stokar. A contribution to the book history of Regensburg around 1900 '. In: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg (150), Regensburg 2010
Web links
- Christian Baertschi: Stokar [Stockar, Stogker] (from Neunforn, from Neuforn). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Stokar In: Schaffhausen City Archives