Suhm (noble family)
Suhm is the name of a now extinct Danish aristocratic family that was able to spread from Holstein to Saxony and Denmark-Norway .
history
The family went out of the rügischen noble family of Zuhm derive, but what takes some time before the critical historiography no recognition. Although the Suhm were assigned to the old Zuhm estates of Mahlow and Trochendorf under the Danish occupation in the 17th century , they were unable to enforce their fiefs against the established nobility.
The secured family line begins with Valentin Suhm (1537–1613), council member and finally mayor of Kiel . His grandson, Valentin Suhm, went to Copenhagen and became a royal notary there . His older son Michael Valentin Suhm (1632–1686) went to Norway and became a councilor of the city of Skien . There and in Kristiansand his family flourished for five generations as merchants and boatmen, but also provided officers. Valentin's younger son , Heinrich von Suhm , received an aristocratic diploma from the Danish King Christian V in 1683 , which was associated with recognition of the alleged Rügischen origin of the family and with an improvement in the coat of arms . His descendants lived in Denmark and Electoral Saxony.
Members of the family not only served in administration and the military in their home countries, Pomerania , Denmark and Saxony, but were also in royal Prussian service. From the Mahlow-Trochendorf line we can mention at this point: the captain and war counselor Ernst Ulrich Peter von Suhm (1723–1785) or Burchardt Siegfried Carl von Suhm (1728–1778) who was a major in the Wedell Guard Battalion and in the Cossack Regiment in Berlin was standing. Furthermore, Heinrich Suhm († 1734) served from this line as captain in imperial Russian services, as well as Christian von Suhm (1675-1697), who remained as captain in royal French service off Barcelona .
Petra Friderica Christiane Suhm (1799–1823), daughter of Peter Frederik Suhm (1728–1798), was the last of her sex and, after marriage on November 18, 1815, carried the name and coat of arms to her husband Morten Willemoes (1787–1865), who named Willemoes-Suhm with a patent dated November 21, 1821 . Members of this sex were the Danish, later Prussian civil servant Peter Friedrich von Willemoes-Suhm (1816-1891) and the natural scientist and biologist Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm (1847-1875). However, this family also died out in 1947.
coat of arms
The coat of arms (1683) shows is square with a central shield , in it in gold a black horse ascending to the right ( Zuhm refers to Mahlow-Trochendorf); 1 and 4 in blue a lion rising out of water with three golden stars arranged next to each other on top; 2 and 3 in silver a palm tree .
Relatives
- Burchard von Suhm (1666–1720), Electoral Saxon and Polish diplomat
- Ernst Heinrich von Suhm (1668–1729), Danish colonel , then Major General of the Electorate of Saxony and Poland
- Ulrik Frederik von Suhm (1686–1758), admiral , deputy and knight of Dannebrog
- Ulrich Friedrich von Suhm (1691–1740), diplomat and friend of Frederick the Great
- Heinrich von Suhm (1693–1744), Danish Schoutby Night and governor in Danish Guinea and in the Danish West Indies
- Peter von Suhm (1696–1760), lieutenant general in Electoral Saxony and secret war councilor
- Nicolaus von Suhm (1697–1760), Electoral Saxon diplomat
- Peter Frederik Suhm (1728–1798), Danish-Norwegian historian of the 18th century
Ulrik Frederik von Suhm (1686–1758)
Peter Frederik Suhm (1728–1798)
literature
- Danmarks Adels Aarbog 45 (1928), Afsnit 2, pp. 119–128
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 9, Leipzig 1870, pp. 111-112
- Olaus Heinrich Moller: Historical and genealogical news from the ancient noble family of those von Zaum or Suhm (...). Flensburg (...), 1775 ( digitized version of the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen )
- Suhm. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 40, Leipzig 1744, column 1793 f.
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Remarks
- ↑ Julius von Bohlen : History of the noble, baronial and counts of Krassow , Volume 2: Document book, F. Schneider in Comm., Berlin 1853, pp. 3-4, FN 6
- ^ Letters from a Prussian field preacher concerning various traits of Frederick the Single. Potsdam 1791, pp. 61-65
- ↑ Genealogical pocket book of the knight and noble families 5, 1880, p. 515
- ↑ a b Note: Among other things, the older trunk series as well as the affiliation of the Danish Suhm to the Rügischen Zuhm in it does not withstand historical facts or current scientific claims.