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The von Rohr is an old German noble family, also belonging to the Swedish and
File:Julius Bernhard von Rohr engraving (cropped).jpg
File:COA family se von Rohr.svg, Von Rohrs of Sweden
File:VonRohr Sweden Arms.png, Von Rohrs of Sweden
File:Rohr COA.jpg, Von Rohrs of Wappen
File:Rohr Siebmacher096 - Bayern.jpg, Von Rohrs of Bayern
The von Rohr is an old German noble family, also belonging to the Swedish and Finnish nobility
The Finnish nobility (; ) was historically a privileged Social class, class in Finland, deriving from its period as part of Sweden and the Russian Empire. Noble families and their descendants are still a part of Finnish republican society, but ex ...
.
History
The earliest recorded family member was Otto von Rohr (c. 1350–1427), the German Bishop of Havelberg from 1401 to 1427. The Von Rohrs areSwedish House of Nobility
The House of Nobility () in Stockholm, Sweden, is a corporation and a building that maintains records and acts as an interest group on behalf of the Swedish nobility.
Name
The name is literally translated as ''House of Knights'', as the knigh ...
noble family number 807 and Finnish House of Nobility
The House of Nobility either refers to the institution of the Finnish nobility or the palace of the noble estate in Helsinki, Finland. The Finnish nobility was from 1809 until 1906 the first of the four estates of the realm.
The Estate
Before t ...
noble family number 85.
Notable members
* (1421–1487), Salzburg archbishop * Ferdinand von Rohr (1783–1851), Prussian general and minister of war * (born 1944), German geographer and educator * (1895–1988), Officer * Hans Joachim von Rohr (1888–1971), German politician * Hans Christoffer von Rohr (1626–1700), Swedish captain ennobled in the Swedish House of Nobility who died in the Battle of Narva * Hans-Babo von Rohr (1922–1945), German lieutenant * Joachim von Rohr (1677–1757), Swedish lieutenant colonel and commander * Julius Bernhard von Rohr (1688–1742), Saxon cameralist, natural scientist and writer * (1843–1910), Prussian politician *Moritz von Rohr
Moritz von Rohr (4 April 1868 – 20 June 1940) was an optical scientist at Carl Zeiss in Jena, Germany.
A street in Jena is named after him: Moritz-von-Rohr-Straße, near Carl-Zeiss-Promenade and Otto-Schott-Straße.
Life
Moritz von Ro ...
(1868–1940), German optical scientist
* Otto von Rohr (bass) (1914–1982), German opera singer
* Wilhelm Eugen Ludwig Ferdinand von Rohr (1783–1851), Prussian general and minister of war
* Chris von Rohr (born 1951), Swiss musician
von Röhr
* Julius Philip Benjamin von Röhr (1737–1793), Prussian botanist and plant collector, naturalist, medical doctor and watercolouristSee also
* Röhr (surname) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rohr, Von Bavarian noble families Swedish nobility Swedish noble families Finnish noble families