Suhm (noble family)

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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 .

  • Zuhm coat of arms (Mahlow-Trochendorf line)

Relatives

literature

Web links

Commons : Suhm family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ^ Letters from a Prussian field preacher concerning various traits of Frederick the Single. Potsdam 1791, pp. 61-65
  3. ↑ Genealogical pocket book of the knight and noble families 5, 1880, p. 515
  4. ↑ 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.