Hippel (noble family)

Coat of arms of the von Hippel family

Hippel is the name of an East Prussian noble family .

history

The reliable line of the family begins with Melchior Hippel (1625–1677), cloth merchant and councilor in Rastenburg . It is named after the Hippe (sickle), as can be seen from the seal and coat of arms .

Nobility rise

The elevation to the imperial nobility took place on January 3, 1790 in Vienna for the brothers Theodor Gottlieb Hippel , royal Prussian Privy Councilor of War in Königsberg , and Gotthard Friedrich Hippel , pastor of Arnau , as well as for their cousins, the brothers Dr. med. Georg Hippel , Mayor of Rastenburg , and Melchior Hippel , City Treasurer of Rastenburg, as well as their cousin Christoph Hippel , City Treasurer of Johannisburg . The Prussian nobility recognition for the same followed on November 6, 1790 in Berlin .

coat of arms

• Seal from 1739 : In the shield a hip (sickle). A star on the helmet.
• Coat of arms from 1790 (identical to that of the Hippel family of hammer masters, who were wealthy in the Principality of Sagan in the 15th century ): In blue a golden lion, in the front paws holding a natural grape. On the helmet with blue and gold blankets a growing white clad maiden in a blue bodice , in each hand holding a sickle on a golden handle.

Name bearer

• Arthur von Hippel (ophthalmologist) (1841-1916), German ophthalmologist
• Arthur R. von Hippel (1898–2003), German-American materials scientist and physicist, son of the German criminal law scholar Robert von Hippel (1866–1951)
• Eike von Hippel (1935–2016), German legal scholar
• Eric von Hippel (* 1941), economist
• Ernst von Hippel (1895–1984), German legal scholar
• Eugen von Hippel (1867–1939), German ophthalmologist
• Fritz von Hippel (1897–1991), German legal scholar
• Frank von Hippel (* 1937), American physicist
• Konrad von Hippel (1862–1934), Lieutenant General
• Robert von Hippel (1866–1951), German criminal law scholar, author of the two-volume standard work “ German Criminal Law ”, first published in 1925 , father of the German-American scientist Arthur R. von Hippel (1898–2003)
• Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder (1741–1796), statesman, writer and social critic, representative of the Enlightenment , women's rights activist, friend of Immanuel Kant
• Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Younger (1775–1843), district president; Author of the appeal to my people from 1813; Nephew of the scout of the same name and friend of ETA Hoffmann
• Walter von Hippel (District Administrator) (1872–1936), German administrative lawyer
• Walter von Hippel (General) (1897–1972), German Lieutenant General
• William von Hippel (* 1963), American-Australian social psychologist

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, page 229, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN  0435-2408
• Walter von Hippel, History of the von Hippel Family, 1898
• Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses 1916 p. 403ff , 1918 p.384ff