Wöhrmann (noble family)

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Wöhrmann , Latvian Vērmans , is the name of an originally middle-class Lübeck family and the aristocratic family that emerged from it, with branches in the Baltic States and Saxony.

history

Lübeck

The lineage of the sex is traced back to Jürgen (Georg) Wöhrmann (* 1672; † 1735). He worked as a silk merchant in the textile wholesale trade and became the elder of the respected merchant company. His son Hinrich Wöhrmann († 1785) was the bourgeois head of the Marienkirche , where he and his wife Catharina Engel, née. Tesdorpf († 1789) acquired one of the side chapels in the north aisle as a burial place.

Livonia

His brother (?) Christian Heinrich Wöhrmann (* 1737) went to Riga around 1763 . Initially a member of the Blackheads and their eldest in 1772, he then joined the Great Guild . He was successively a partner in the trading companies "Vethaacke, Krupp & Co", "Krupp & Wöhrmann" and "Wöhrmann & Detenhoff" until he set up his own company in the 1770s. He was married to Anna Gertrud, b. Ebel (1750–1827), the main donor of the Wöhrmann Garden in Riga. Under his son Johann Christoph Wöhrmann and his grandson Christian Heinrich Wöhrmann , the company, now trading as "Wöhrmann & Sohn", expanded strongly. In addition to trading, especially with France, Belgium and the Netherlands, it operated banking business, since 1834 an important cloth factory with up to 2000 workers on Gut Zintenhof ( Sindi ) and a steam sawmill as well as an iron foundry and machine factory in the Mühlenhof district of Riga. Both represented Prussia (and later the German Reich) as its consuls general for Livonia and Courland in Riga. Johann Christoph's other son of the same name, Johann Christoph Wöhrmann (the younger), acquired the Livonian manor Stolben in 1865. The company was liquidated in the 1890s.

Saxony

A cousin of the same name, Christian Heinrich von Wöhrmann , who could easily be confused with the Riga entrepreneur , settled in Saxony and acquired the Wendischbora manor with Simselwitz . As a representative of the manor owners of the Meißnischer Kreis , he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament from 1857 to 1862.

His son of the same name Christian Heinrich von Wöhrmann (* 1849) married in 1875 Alexandra Wassiljewna Schukowskaja (1842-1912), the daughter of Wassili Andrejewitsch Schukowski , who had a son born in 1871 from a relationship with Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrowitsch Romanow .

Status surveys

  • 1849: Hereditary Russian nobility for Christian Heinrich Wöhrmann in Riga
  • October 8, 1852: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha nobility and baron for Christian Heinrich Wöhrmann on Wendischbora
  • January 28, 1853: Royal Saxon confirmation
  • July 9, 1859: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha nobility and baron for Johann Christoph Wöhrmann (the younger) in Riga
  • August 21, 1860: Russian recognition for the use of the title Baron

Possessions

Wöhrmann's coat of arms on the gatehouse of the Wendischbora estate

coat of arms

The baronial coat of arms from 1852 is quartered and covered with a silver heart shield, inside a naked wild man , wielding a sword with his right hand, covered with an oval iron stabbing shield in his left; 1 divided by silver and red, 2 and 3 in black 3 (2,1) golden roses with green beards, 4 divided by red and silver; two helmets, on the right one with red and silver covers a golden horn in front of five (silver, green, silver, green, silver) ostrich feathers, on the left one with black and gold covers a man in medieval bourgeois costume; Shield holder : two opposing black lions; Motto : Fata volentem ducunt ( lat. : The wills leads the fate ).

Name bearer

Monuments

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evidence on Wöhrmann in Historical Protocols of the Saxon State Parliament
  2. ^ Blazon according to GHdA (lit.); slightly different in Kneschke (lit.); Heart shield there: in silver a wild man girded with a sword, next to which a green leafy tree with a horn hangs