Wechmar (noble family)

Wechmar coat of arms

Wechmar is the name of an old Thuringian noble family whose head office was in Wechmar near Gotha .

history

The family first appears in a document in 1170 with Sinoldus de Wechmar , who is mentioned as a ministerial officer of the Hersfeld Empire . The uninterrupted trunk line begins with 1400 Reinhard von Wechmar . The sex belonged to the Frankish imperial knighthood , canton Rhön-Werra. Ludwig Anton von Wechmar obtained the Silesian Inkolat for himself and his descendants on December 30, 1748 . On October 26th, 1844, the family gained the Prussian recognition of the baron class.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms is pointed three times in red and silver. On the helmet with red and silver covers, two goat horns, the right one silver, the left one red.

goods

Interchangeable Castle in Roßdorf (before 1895)

In addition to the headquarters in Wechmar, the family also had an estate in Roßdorf from the 15th to the end of the 19th century . The Wechmarsche Castle there burned down in 1895 and was not rebuilt.

Known family members

• Rüdiger II. Von Wechmar († 1396), abbot of Theres Monastery 1386–1396
• Ludwig Anton von Wechmar (1712–1787), Prussian colonel and knight of the order Pour le mérite
• Gustav Julius von Wechmar (1791–1863), Prussian major general
• Rudolf Hermann von Wechmar (1800–1861), Minister of Saxony-Meining
• Friedrich von Wechmar (politician) (1801–1869), Minister of Justice and Interior of Baden
• Karl von Wechmar (1813–1866), Major General of Baden
• Rudolf von Wechmar (1823–1881), Prussian lieutenant general
• Reinhard von Wechmar (1856–1923), Prussian lieutenant general
• Friedrich von Wechmar (General) (1864–1943), Prussian major general
• Eberhard von Wechmar (1897-1934), SA leaders, the so-called Rohm putsch shot
• Irnfried von Wechmar (1899–1959), officer, journalist and holder of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
• Rüdiger von Wechmar (1923–2007), German diplomat

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XV, Volume 134 of the complete series, pp. 499-500, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2004, ISSN  0435-2408 .
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser. 1855, p. 671 ff. , 1861, p. 912f.
• Johann Gottfried Biedermann: genealogy of the Reichsfrey immediate knighthood Landes zu Franconia praiseworthy places Rhön and Werra. 1749, p. 343 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wenk, Hessische Landesgeschichte, Volume III, p. 77.
2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume XV, p. 500, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 2004.
3. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Volume FAV, p. 458, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1963.
4. ↑ Wechmarsches Schloss auf Alleburgen, accessed on June 30, 2019
5. ↑ Schloss Roßdorf in the Rhönlexikon, accessed on June 30, 2019