Tempelhoff

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Family coat of arms of those von Tempelhoff (16th century)

The von Tempelhoff family is a noble family of bourgeois origin from the Mark Brandenburg and was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility in 1784 .

Origin and relatives

The first family member documented since 1504 was Hans the Elder Tempelhoff, owner of a pharmacy in Berlin, a merchant for medicinal products and spices, married to Catharina Nickamer. The family lived in Berlin with their house, farm and fields, which until 1435 were a paternal inheritance under the feudal sovereignty of the Tempelhof Commandery , and in 1518 with the village of Ruhlsdorf (Teltow) and in 1536 with the income in the villages of Dyrotz in the municipality of Wustermark , Markau and Markee near Nauen and with the lower court of the cities of Alt-Berlin and Cölln . Since 1514 Hans d. Ä. Tempelhoff Ratmann, since 1527 mayor of Berlin, since 1521 as electoral Brandenburg chef at the same time in a court office. Its seal shows a leaping deer. He died on October 21, 1542 or 1543 in Berlin and was buried in the Nikolaikirche (Berlin) .

Gertrud Tempelhoff († before 1551), widow of Jakob I. Grieben from the trading house of the Grieben in Berlin and Leipzig gave a loan to the electoral court in Berlin in 1540 and 1547 and is attested with cloth deliveries.

Hieronymus Tempelhof († 1580) was a trader and was documented in 1567 when the assets, goods and cash of the citizens of Berlin and Cölln were registered on the instructions of Elector Joachim II . He was named after his grandfather Johann Tempelhof sen. and his father Hans Tempelhof jr. third and last mayor of Berlin from this gender. In 1574 he was elected head of the city and held the office until 1580. He was also one of the first headmasters of the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster , which he also supported financially. His brother Thomas Tempelhof was mayor of Spandau , his brother Bartholomäus Tempelhof was the electoral chamber secretary.

Elevation to the nobility

Coat of arms of the Tempelhoff family

With a Tempelhoff who appeared in Mühlenbeck near Bernau near Berlin in 1470 as Heidereiter (mounted forest ranger), the line of tribe of the Prussian nobility began . The next generations were citizens of Bernau, who gradually rose from arable citizens to notables of the city. Georg Tempelhoff (1648–1712) was a court assessor , excise manager and city councilor. His great-grandson Georg Friedrich Ludwig Tempelhoff (1737-1807) became an artillery officer, was lieutenant general and director of the artillery academy and was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on March 20, 1784 by King Friedrich II of Prussia .

coat of arms

Within a golden border in blue a natural stag jumping on green ground; on the helmet with blue-silver covers a growing armored sword arm between open black flight.

literature

  • Carl Brecht: The Tempelhoff family, in: Association for the history of Berlin (ed.). Mixed writings following the Berlin Chronicle and the Document Book, Volume 1, Berlin 1880
  • Gothaische Genealogische Taschenbücher, Gotha Justus Pertes, paperback of noble houses, born in 1908 with genealogy and born in 1938

Well-known namesake

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see: German Family Archives. A genealogical compilation. Edited by Gerhard Geßner. Editor Heinz F. Friedrichs, Volume 66, Neustadt an der Aisch, 1977, there: Tempelhoff pages 101 to 110 with 10 notes, ISBN 3 7686 5021 9
  2. ↑ see: Johann Jakob Vogel: The Greek sex. Manuscript in the Göttingen City Library
  3. ↑ see: Mixed writings following the Berlin Chronicle, published by the Association for the History of Berlin , Berliner Siegeltafel 4; F.Brose: Seal of the Berlin documents of the Secret State Archive, no year, page 28, seal no.143.
  4. ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume B VIII, page 415, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1968