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 Sillem Coat of Arms
1583 |
Have a look at your
family logo
first! It is the Sillem coat of arms. It shows three silver ears of
corn against a blue backdrop. It is supposed to grant rich harvests. Jacob Selm the
first
inaugurated the coat of arms in 1583. And one of his descendants, mayor
Garlieb Sillem,
created a
motto in the 18th century. It goes: spe
melioris, and it means hope for better. For a
better life?
For an even better filled purse? Whatever may be behind this better -
it is up to
everybody to answer this question for themselves.
It is likely that all those who bear the name Sillem belong to our family. Thus they are members of one of the oldest family of senators (members of the city government) in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg with still existing descendants. Many of their forebears have had an impact on the fates of this major harbour city. Their portraits - as mayors and councillors - hang on the walls in the city hall, and among the stone coats of arms that adorn the magnificent facade, is the Sillem family's. The earliest ancestors about whom documents exist lived in the XVIth century. Up to the XIXth century most of the Sillems lived in Hamburg. Then some of them left home and founded branches in the Netherlands, England and Argentina. Others moved to France and Switzerland. In the United States and Canada there are more who bear the family name. In the XXth century, one Sillem moved to the south of Germany to establish another branch of the family. The youngest ones are now 14th generation Sillems. |
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What the SILLEM FAMILY
wants to convey
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The managers of the SILLEM FAMILY web site
This Website was created by Hieronymus Hans-Wolff Sillem (1927-2010) who worked
in public
relations and design and lived in Hamburg.
It is now managed by his sons Martin Sillem (martin@sillem.de) and Wolff Ekkehart Sillem (ekkiolga@tin.it). Martin Sillem is director of a bank in Hamburg, Wolff Ekkehart Sillem,
having studied Sinology in Germany and China, now works in
management in a company in Milano, Italy where he lives with his family. The Website is maintained technically by Jörn Scheer, a friend of the family and a retired professor of Medical Psychology who also provides the English translations.
Jeroen Sillem in the Netherlands (jeroenfs@kpnmail.nl) Anthony John Sillem (tackletext@btopenworld.com) takes care of the British branch of the family. He is an antíquarian bookseller in Hastings. Gabriel Sillem (gsillem@gmail.com) is also a supporter of our website and translates the texts into Spanish. He works in the area of food quality and safety and lives close to Buenos Aires. |
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As
members will be
accepted: Bearers of the name Sillem and their spouses, as well as their sons and daughters. If you belong to one of these categories we would appreciate if you
would answer a few questions ussing the attached form
(WORD file).
Please send the form as an email attachment to martin@sillem.de. or by mail to: Martin Sillem
Klosterallee 80 D- 20144 Hamburg Germany As a future member of SILLEM FAMILY you will receive a password to access the "members only" section of the SILLEM FAMILY Web site. |
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| How to "navigate" the SILLEM FAMILY Website You opened the Start
Page via mouse click and arrived on this Welcome Page! All the arrows
you encounter when surfing on this site can be clicked on and will lead
to more detailed information. The same is true for national flags: they lead to the respective page in another language. And when clicking on pictures you will see them in enlarged format.
At the top of this welcome page you can see a blue banner with items referring to the various sections of our website. These words are underlined which indicates that by clicking on them you will discover more detailed information.
These underlined terms are called links because they connect the various pages of the website. The underlined links
appearing within the text also lead to more information when you click
on them. Some of them link to pages outside our website that provide
supplementary information to our articles (e. g. in the online
encyclopaedia "Wikipedia" and by means of the search engine "Google").
You will also encounter underlined email addresses:
When you click on them most likely your email programme (e. g.
"Outlook") will start and provide a form that you can use to write
a message on the spot...
This Website comprises the following sections:
Finally, a technical hint:
Some browsers (that you use for surfing the Internet), especially older ones, sometimes don't display fonds,
tables etc. correctly. It is therefore advised to use the up-to-date
versions (upgrades can be downloaded free from the Internet), e. g. Internet Explorer 8.0, or Firefox 10 etc.
A sitemap of the SILLEM FAMILY website can be found here. For your convenience, the Members Only section has a sitemap, too. And now have fun and enjoy surfing through the SILLEM FAMILY pages! |
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