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Digitization of the original coat of arms of the Vermehren zu Lübeck

Vermehren is the name of a Lübeck family from Flemish Brabant who belonged to the urban patriciate.

history

Paul Vermehren from Zaventem (Saventhem) is considered the progenitor of the family, whose family name was also written by Maehren or von Mehren in the 17th century . He came to Hamburg as a religious refugee via Antwerp and Stade around 1580 during the Eighty Years' War . His son of the same name settled in Lübeck. Several members of the family were silk traders. Johann Vermehren became the first academic and served as a councilor to the dukes of Mecklenburg. In the 18th century the family rose to the Lübeck patriciate and provided two councilors , Michael Gottlieb Vermehren and Paul Vermehren . At the beginning of the 20th century, Julius Vermehren became a senator for the Hanseatic city. His son Kurt Vermehren became a well-known lawyer; the transfer of his son Erich Vermehren to the British in 1944 triggered a crisis in the German defense and was the reason for the family to be held liable .

One branch of the family in Mecklenburg goes back to August Arnold Vermehren (1739-1807), a son of Lübeck councilor Michael Gottlieb Vermehren, who became a pastor in Güstrow . Further generations worked as consistorial councilors and superintendents, but also as teachers at the Güstrow cathedral school . The draftsman Otto Vermehren comes from this line.

coat of arms

Original coat of arms of the Vermehren zu Lübeck
Newer coat of arms Julius Vermehren zu Lübeck
Newer coat of arms of the Vermehren zu Lübeck

The coat of arms originally showed three cattails over three waves of water. Julius Vermehren changed the coat of arms from cattails to ears of corn. Another modification can be found in the coat of arms reference works: three ears of corn growing out of green soil in silver , the helmet has a green-silver band, on which the ears of corn are attached.

Well-known namesake

married to Petra Vermehren (1893–1971), German journalist
  • Michael Vermehren (1915-2010), German journalist
  • Erich Vermehren (1919–2005), German lawyer and defense agent, later entrepreneur and founder of Una Voce
  • Isa Vermehren (1918–2009), German cabaret artist, actress and religious sister

Web links

Commons : Propagate (family)  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Mitgau : Closed marriage groups of social inbreeding. In: Hellmuth Rössler (ed.): German patriciate 1430–1740. Büdinger lectures 1965 (= writings on the problems of the German ruling classes in modern times. Volume 3). CA Starke, Limburg / Lahn 1968, pp. 1–25, here p. 16 f.
  2. ↑ See the evidence from the coat of arms of the Lübeck archive on the family website , accessed on August 27, 2018
  3. ^ After: The coats of arms of the bourgeois families of Germany and Switzerland. Volume 9, part 1