Ancestors and family of the painter Gregor von Bochmann

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This is a slightly modified version of the 2010 text.

Short overview:

• The painter's direct ancestors are: (1) old Herr Bochmann (born 1686); (2) Johann Gottfried Bochmann, merchant and councilor near Pernau, born 1740; (3) Heinrich Bochmann , Protestant pastor, born January 23, 1776; (4) Jakob Carl Alexander von Bochmann , officer and forest inspector, born March 9, 1804, died March 12, 1879 in Haapsalu.
• Heinrich Bochmann was a pastor at the Elisabeth Church in Pernau. He knew the Estonian language well and encouraged it. He collected Estonian legends and translated German proverbs into Estonian.
• A cousin of the painter, Eugen von Bochmann (born 1836), son of the uncle Alexander Gottlieb Christian von Bochmann, was a well-known doctor in Dorpat (Estonia) and since 1865 in Riga (Letland).

The following information comes mainly from books that I found in the Deutsch-Baltisches Kulturwerk (Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft eV) (see [Sources] - below). There is also an old note with a sketch of the Bochmann family tree (see [ family tree ]).

• The "old Mr. Bochmann" was born in 1686 and died on August 8, 1770 in Pernau [ family tree ].
• One of his sons was Johann Gottfried Bochmann (merchant and councilor near Pernau), born in 1740. He married Marie Elisabeth Schroeder. They had 9 children [ family tree ].
• One of their sons was Heinrich Bochmann (Protestant pastor) [ source ], born on January 23, 1776 in Pernau, and died on June 19, 1835 in the pastorate of Audern, Estonia. He married Charlotte von Schulmann, the daughter of Bernd Johann von Schulmann (magistrate) and Aurora Helene Schroeder on December 10, 1800. His wife was born on May 15, 1778 in Odenpäh and died on April 1, 1843 in the Audern pastorate. They had 13 children [ family tree ]. Among them were:
  • Johann Heinrich Bochmann [ source ], born on December 27, 1800, married a widow Klugen (born von Luders), and died on March 12, 1879.
  • Jakob Carl Alexander von Bochmann [ source ], born March 9, 1804, died March 12, 1879 in Hapsal, Estonia.
  • Alexander Gottlieb Christian von Bochmann, born on January 17, 1806, died on February 5, 1889 in Riga, Letland.
  • August von Bochmann, born on February 22nd, 1807, died in Mitau in 1888.
  • Jakob Carl Alexander von Bochmann (see above) married Julie Jordan. They had the following children:
    • Julius von Bochmann [ source ], born on February 25, 1946 in Hapsal, died on August 5, 1884 in Moscow, Russia.
    • Waldemar von Bochmann, born on November 4, 1843. He married Marie von Bochmann (see below) [ family tree ].
  • His first wife died and he then married Marie Schwarzwald? Who was born in St. Petersburg in 1825 and was adopted by the Mittendorf family. They had the following children [ family tree ]:
  • Heinrich von Bochmann, born on June 5, 1848 in Nehat bei Habsal, died in 1893 on Samara, Estonia.
  • Gregor von Bochmann (painter) [ source ], born on June 1, 1850 in Nehat, died in February 1930 in Düsseldorf.
  • Marie von Bochmann, born after 1850.
  • Gregor von Bochmann (see above) moved to Düsseldorf in 1868 to study at the academy. In 1977 he married Emilie (Milla) Poensgen, who came from a wealthy Düsseldorf family. (Information about her family can be found in the following books: German Gender Book, Genealogisches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien, Volume 123 (Second Eiffel Volume - under Poensgen 1), CAStarke Verlag (1958) and The History of the Poensgen Family, Part 1, edited by Dr. H. Kelleter in Neuss, Düsseldorf, 1908). They had the following children:
    • Gregor von Bochmann - Jun. (Sculptor) [ source ], born on September 23, 1878 in Düsseldorf, died in the war on September 20, 1914 in Laon - on the French front. He married Marianne Feddersen, the eldest daughter of the painter Hans Peter Feddersen . They had two children who, after their mother's death in 1915, grew up with their grandparents Bochmann:
      • Gregor von Bochmann (biologist), killed in war in 1942.
      • Renate von Bochmann (student councilor).
    • Helene von Bochmann, born in 1881, remained unmarried and died in Bad Honnef in 1961.
      
    • Elisabeth von Bochmann (music teacher), born in 1884, remained unmarried, died in Bonn in 1944.
    • Ewald von Bochmann (Artz), born in 1888, married Marga Gehlen, died in 1924.
  • Alexander Gottlieb Christian von Bochmann (see above) married Johanna Rosalie Johannsen in Libau in 1835. She was born on February 3, 1813 in Libau and died on November 20, 1849 in Libau. They had the following children, among others:
    • Eugen von Bochmann [ source ], born on May 30, 1836 in Libau, died on September 29, 1901 in Riga, Letland. He was a well known doctor.
    • Franz Arthur von Bochmann, born on May 8, 1944 in Libau, died on April 18, 1907 in Riga. He married Olga Pauline Unberg. One of her children was:
      • Arthur Alexander von Bochmann, born on May 16, 1876 in Riga.

First version: July 2010 - revised in 2021