Registered: The International Register of Arms, 7th January 2008. Registration No. 0130.

Arms: Azure, in chief three triangular bowls with flames of fire on top all Or (two and one), in base a mountain of three peaks Argent.

Crest: Within a vol quartered Azure and Or, a triangular bowl with flames of fire on top all Or.

Recorded: Wappenbrief (Coat of Arms Certificate) of the Deutsche Wappenrolle (DWR) (The German Scroll of Coat of Arms) and registration therein under the index number 7360/79, 1 February 1981. The German Scroll of Coat of Arms (DWR) since 1922 has been administrated by Der Herold in Berlin in legal succession of the old German governmental heraldic offices. The coat of arms were published in: Deutsche Wappenrolle, ed. by Der Herold (Berlin) in continuation of the “Siebmacher” coat of arms publications, vol. 35, Neustadt an der Aisch: Degener 1981, p. 77.

The three golden bowls with their golden flames above a silver mountain of three peaks is the canting coat of arms of the Hessian Lampe of Zennern-Grebenstein family in Kurhessen (Electoral Hesse) and clearly symbolises the meaning of the name: lampe derives from the old German lant-berath (literally: “shining in regard to land”); the mountain signifies land and the burning flames represent the adjective berath, “shining, bright, splendid.” Lant-berath transformed to landbert, lambert, lampert, lampe.

The pedigree of the Hessian Lampe of Zennern-Grebenstein familiy begins in the late 1500s: Adam Lamppe of Zennern was first mentioned in 1593 and Helwig Lampe of Zennern in 1606. The Lampe name, however, was mentioned 130 km south of Zennern as early as the year 1357. Johann He(i)nrich Lampe of Zennern (1768-1834), a military man, settled in Grebenstein and founded the Grebenstein branch. (Peter Lampe, “Neues Archivmaterial aus den Jahren 1357-1606 zur Geschichte der Familie Lampe aus Zennern in Kurhessen,” in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Familien Lampe und verwandter Familien, vol. XIII, Hannover 1981, 453-459 = 70. Jahrgang, 1981, issue 144, pp. 453-459). The genealogy of some present armigers (2.1b, 2.1.1 and 2.1.2; see below) reaches back as far as the fifth century and includes royal lines.

Descendants  of  Heinrich  G.W.  Lampe  [1858-1919; Landesdirektionssekretär  in the  former  Prussian

province Hesse-Nassau in Kassel, Germany, son of J. Martin Lampe of Grebenstein and Calden (1826-1909)] and their spouses are entitled to be armigers if they bear the surname Lampe. The family, however, informally also concedes to bear the coat of arms if descendants of Heinrich G.W. Lampe were born with this surname, but changed it upon marriage. In 2008, there were fourteen armigers:

(1.) Helga Lampe, born 7 May 1928 in Erfurt, Germany, married to the late physician Dr. med. Karl-Heinrich Lampe, born 25 June 1924 in Kassel, Germany (son of Katharina and Rev. Friedrich Lampe, who was a son of Heinrich G.W. Lampe mentioned above);

(2.1a) their first-born child: Rev. Professor Peter E.F. Lampe, Dr. theol., Dr. habil., born 28 January 1954, in Detmold, Germany, senior Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John (German branch: The Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Knightly Order of St. John from the Hospital of Jerusalem), for his CV, his books and other publications see http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~d04/wts/lampe/ and the entries in Who’s Who in the World and Wer ist Wer in Deutschland; (2.1b) his wife: Margaret Birdsong Lampe, BA MDiv, born 19 March 1957, in Richmond, VA, USA; children: (2.1.1) Daniel Birdsong Lampe, born 16 December 1985 in Lausanne, Switzerland, (2.1.2) Jessica Frances Lampe, born 7 February 1989 in Henrico Co., VA, USA;

(2.2) their second child: Rev. Uta-Maria Lampe Hohl, born 2 December 1956 in Detmold, Germany, minister in Zurich, Switzerland; (2.2.1) daughter: Maria Christina Lampe, 10 July 1997 in Bern, Switzerland;

(2.3) their third child: Tabita Susanne Nicolas, formerly Tabita Susanne Lampe, born 22 May 1958 in Detmold, Germany, musician in Bavaria, Germany. Her sons are not armigers: (2.3.1.) Gabriel Nicolas; (2.3.2.) Jan David Nicolas;

(2.4a) their fourth child and second son: Dr. med. Markus Karl-Heinrich Lampe, born 15 December 1960 in Detmold, Germany, physician who continues his father`s medical practice in Detmold, Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John (German branch: The Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Knightly Order of St. John from the Hospital of Jerusalem); (2.4.b) his wife: the physician Beate Lampe (born Telaar), born 2 March 1960 in Bocholt, Germany; children: (2.4.1) Lukas Peter Lampe, born 3 July 1990 in Soest, Germany; (2.4.2) Miriam Margaret Lampe, born 12 January 1993 in Detmold, Germany; (2.4.3) Simon Richard Lampe, born 11 August 1994 in Detmold, Germany; (2.4.4) David Christof Lampe, born 11 August 1994 in Detmold, Germany.

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