Tafinger (family)

The Tafinger family (partly also from Tafinger ) originally came from Vienna and was later based in Württemberg . The sex produced various scholars, evangelical clergy and higher administrative officials . In Ravensburg they belonged to the city ​​patriciate since 1669 .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Ravensburger line

Wilhelm Gottlieb Tafinger, the right coat of arms shows the family coat of arms, whereby the coat of arms is divided differently here.

The Tafinger coat of arms is embalmed as follows : a golden shield, in it emerging from blue clouds a man without feet with brown hair and a trimmed beard, his clothes divided lengthways, the front part red, the rear part blue, with four golden buttons on each Side at the level of the chest, with the outstretched arms holding a blue arrow in his right hand, in the left a red arrow, each arrow with gold plumage, the iron turned upwards, around the head a brown bulge, with a flying one on the right blue ends red on the left. Stech helmet with gold-blue covers, on it the shield man with the arrows. It was awarded to Johann Christoph Tafinger (1516–1600) by Emperor Charles V on May 28, 1547 in the camp near Wittenberg .

The family part accepted into the patriciate of Ravensburg used an extended coat of arms, which was supplemented by a helmet crown , among other things .

Lines

Friedrich Wilhelm Tafinger on a painting by Matthias Heinrich Schnürer in the Tübingen Professorengalerie

1. Johann Christoph Tafinger (1516–1600), born in Vienna, holds a doctorate in law, 1549 town clerk of Ravensburg , 1550 a citizen there
   1. Johann Baptista Tafinger (1559–1619), imperial councilor and land calculator in Vienna (was the progenitor of the Württemberg line )
      1. Johann Wilhelm Tafinger, Hohenlohe Privy Councilor, from 1634 to 1654 Vogt von Güglingen
         1. Joachim Wilhelm Tafinger (1641–1712), caretaker of the Hirsau monastery , Vogt of Vaihingen
            1. Christoph Tafinger (1662–1740), princely scholarship holder at the Tübingen monastery , later pastor
               1. Wilhelm Jakob Tafinger (1716–1781), pastor in Suppingen
                  1. Wilhelm Christoph Tafinger (1768–1824), professor at the Königin-Katharina-Stift
                  2. Wilhelm Jakob Tafinger (1772–1829), auditor at the Royal Württemberg Chamber of Accounts
            2. Benjamin Wilhelm Tafinger (1686–1770), court attorney
            3. Wilhelm Gottlieb Tafinger (1691–1757), clergyman, theologian, general superintendent and abbot of Adelberg
               1. Friedrich Wilhelm Tafinger (1726–1777), lawyer and professor at the University of Tübingen
                  1. Wilhelm Gottlieb von Tafinger (1760–1813), legal scholar and professor at the University of Tübingen
               2. Johann Andreas Tafinger (1728–1804), educator and Protestant Lutheran theologian
   2. Johann Jakob Tafinger (1564–1620 (?)), Doctor of law, town clerk in Ravensburg until 1620, councilor and lawyer (was the progenitor of the Ravensburg line ).
      1. Christoph Clemens evangelical (from) Tafinger († 1685), 1649 City Amman Ravensburg, 1667 there mayor , in 1669 admitted to the patricians, was called by Tafinger
         1. Johann Jakob (von) Tafinger, Lieutenant , led the soldiers from Ravensburger to Vienna in the Turkish Wars in 1683
         2. Johann Bernhard von Tafinger, evening preacher in Ravensburg
         3. Andreas Friedrich (von) Tafinger, businessman and councilor in Tübingen
            1. Anna Rosina Tafinger ⚭ 1695 Abel Renz
         4. Johann Wilhelm (von) Tafinger (1668–1741), businessman and scholar in Nuremberg , founder of the Nuremberg Tafinger Foundation, which was administered by Prelate Wilhelm Gottlieb Tafinger

Literature

• Eberhard Emil von Georgii-Georgenau : Biographical-genealogical sheets from and about Schwaben , Stuttgart 1879, pp. 1008-1017.
• Theodor Schön: The Lower Austrian (Viennese) Family Tafinger , in: monthly sheet of the Heraldisch-Genealogischen Verein Adler , V. Volume (1902), pp. 129-135.

Web links

Commons : Tafinger (family)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schön, monthly sheet of the Heraldisch-Genealogischen Verein Adler , V. Volume (1902), p. 129 f.
2. ^ Tafinger, Wilhelm Christoph. Württemberg Church History Online, accessed June 1, 2019 . 
3. ^ Biography of Wilhelm Christopf Tafinger, founder of a teaching and educational establishment for daughters of noble origin and professor and inspector at the K. Katharinenstifte in Stuttgart , Richter, Cannstatt 1825.
4. ^ Funeral sermon in Ulm 1685 printed by Wagner.
5. ↑ Johann Georg Eben : Attempting a History of the City of Ravensburg from the Beginning to the Present Day , Volume 2 (1832), p. 271.