 Hobohm
Family Chronicles
Excerpts from an extensive collection in the hands
of Erhard Hobohm, Argentina.
As of September 2002, translated from German by
Sarwar Hobohm.
"Greetings from Esbeck in Brunswick, where our great-grandfather Christoph Jakob Hobohm was born on 14.1.1764, and which is also the home of his father Hans Henning Hochbom, born 1735 dies 1810, and his grandfather Andreas Hochbaum, who had moved here from Eilsleben in the Boerde. Andreas and Hans Henning were "Brinksitzer" and linen weavers. There are many places in the Boerde where Hobohms, as they all now write their names, reside. Some 26 different Hobohms still livein Eilsleben. Ummendorf, Barleben und Wanzleben are similar nests of Hobohms. According to old tradition, the Hobohms immigrated from Holland, probably under the Great Elector (Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, 1620-1688 a.D.). In Holland the name Hoogboom is very common."
This passage is followed by references to: Rudolph
Hobohm + 29.11.1904 Great-grandmother Johanna Maria
Hobohm, née Guenther, born 9.12.1768 on the Steinweg in
Quedlinburg. Her great-grandson Max Hobohm.
A further greeting from the hometowns of Molmerswende
and Wippra in the Harz: Where great-grandfather
Christoph Jakop Hobohm was pastor from 1794 to 1831. He
died at the age of 68 on 19.11 1831 in Wippra.
Greetings from Biesenrode in the Harz: Grandfather
Rudolph Hobohm, pastor from 1832 to 1848. Father Rudolph
Hobohm was born here on 5.4.1840, as were his six
siblings.
Greetings from Axien on the Elbe: Grandfather Rudolf
Hobohm, pastor in Axien from 1848 to 1850, died
1.12.1802 of a stroke in the church, born 19.10.1802 in
Molmerswende.
Greetings from the Nimritz in Sachsen-Weimar: Father
Rudolph Hobohm, pastor from 1873 to 1884, Otto Hobohm
born.12.7.1879.
Greetings from Melkow and Klein Mangelsdorf: Father
Rudolph Hobohm, pastor of Melkow from 1894 to 1904, +
29.2.1904. Agathe Hobohm,+ 7.1.1897, Otto Hobohm,
teacher in Klein Mangelsdorf.
Greetings from Oschersleben where Otto was rector
from 1911 to 1918.
This section of more than 100 pages contains poems,
pious quotations, and historical references to the
Altmark (1134-1170). Also discourses in Dutch and old
German script, as well as a map of the Brunswick-Eilsleben-Magdeburg
area. The cover page has the title "Gretings from
three centuries from the Hobohm family for the silver
wedding of Otto and Lieschen Hobohm, Strasburg
12.10.1928". Max Hobohm seems to have made the
largest contribution.
A further long discourse is dated Quedlinburg, 1.11.1940:
Volume VI of the Hobohm Family Chronicles. The life
story of Carl Rudolf Hobohm, born 5.4.1840 in Biesenrode,
died 29.11.1904 in Melkow, and Johanna Friederike Agathe
Ottilie Hobohm, née Mueller, born 13.4.1845 in Jeetze,
died 7.1.1897 in Melkow. Presented with the assistance
of his siblings by Maximilian Hobohm in Quedlinburg in
the wartime years 1940-43. This is followed by notes:
Vol. 1 (already published) Origins and Spread of the
great Hobohm clan based on statistical reports from
various assistants in Germany, and the Netherlands,
biology, characterology, research into names and
heraldry. Vol. 2 (not yet published): The Hobohms in
Eilsleben Vol. 3 (not yet published) Christoph Jakop
Hobohm und Johanne Marie Hobohm, née Guenther. Vol. 4
(completed but not yet published) Rudolf Hobohm and Emma
Hobohm, née Junghann, their youth to their marriage.
Vol. 5 (already published): Carl Rudolf Anton Hobohm and
Johanne Friederike Agathe Ottolie Hobohm, née Mueller.
Max Hobohm mentions that the eight copies of Volume
VI have approximately 4000 pages.
Since Vol.VI refers frequently to Nimritz, and to a
Carl Rudolf August born 1870, it is likely to be this
line of the Hobohms that found its way across to
Argentina (or is there more?).
Erhard Hobohm, 13 April 2003
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