Family Timeline

Earliest known direct ancestors found in Westphalia, Germany who were ennobled there

Jürgen enters service of Duke Karl, becomes captain of Anzen (Anstla), Livonia

A Hermann Pohlmann can be found in Hille, who owned the Pohlmannsche Hof or Meyerhof, part of a family branch who resided in Westphalia

Jöran Polman the Younger becomes owner of Ugglansyrd through marriage to Christina Lilliesparre, which remained in the family for 175 years

Johan and his brother, Gustaff, are knighted at Stockholm Castle by Queen Kristina with the name Påhlman

Carl Gustaf Påhlman taken prisoner in Perevolochna during the fateful Battle of Poltava; banished to Siberia for 14 years

Reinhold Wilhelm von Pohlmann presented evidence of his noble origin to the “Matrikul Commission of the Estland Province” and, together with his brothers, Otto (a cornet) and Gustav (a lieutenant colonel of the Russian service), was included in the noble matrikul of this province.

Reinhold Wilhelm von Pohlmann was called, by a personal Imperial decree, from his villages to St. Petersburg: the Empress Catherine the Great entrusted his care to her Princess Augusta of Württemberg (born in 1764, died in 1788), who lived at the court

Thanks to his beautiful handwriting, Otto Magnus Påhlman develops a writing method which he began to teach