Diers Family

The Origin Of The Name DIERS
The name Diers dates from the first name Dierich. In the 15th and 16th century most people in the countryside had only a first name. For example Dierich had a son called Johann. If there were two Johanns in the village, he was called Dierichs Johann and in the dialect of Lower German they made "Diers Johann" or "Johann Diers" out of it.

By this in Northern-Germany many Diers-lines exists which are not related to each other.
The Diers who emigrated to the United States haven't changed the writing of their name. Accordingly there is a different pronounciation in German and English. Changing the written name to DEARS would have been the nearest to the German pronounciation.

The Diers-Family-Days

There is a meeting of the Diers-Families with ancestors from Heidkamp/Heidkamperfeld in the Ammerland near by Oldenburg.
The oldest Person named Diers of the Heidkamp-Farm is

Johann Diers, * 1635 in Heidkamp - 03.1680 in Heidkamp.
With his wife from the Emje-Farm he had a daugther, who inherited the farm.

This daughter Anne Diers, * 1668 - 12.1750 in Heidkamp
married Frerk Schröder from Borbeck (village next to Heidkamp).

Their daughter Talke Diers * 08/13/1691 - 09/17/1714 in Heidkamp
inherited the farm and married Jürgen Öltjen from Heidkamp. He called himself Jürgen Diers.

Their first son was called Friedrich Diers * 01/03/1709 - 11/27/1786 in Heidkamp.
He inherited the farm and married Wübke Bruns

They called their first son also Friedrich * 12/13/1746 - 07/23/1785 in Heidkamp.
He married Grethe Meinardus from Oldenbrok. They had seven children:
Wübke Margarethe Diers   * 11/18/1772 - 12/20/1852
Margarethe Diers               * 10/25/1774 - 12/11/1777
Friedrich Diers                   * 05/05/1776 - 06/17/1843
Hinrich Gerhard Diers       * 03/10/1778 - 02/25/1783
Johann Hinrich Diers         * 04/09/1780 - 07/05/1783
Jürgen Diers                      * 02/10/1782 - 10/11/1862
Margarethe Elisabeth Diers * 07/03/1785 - 05/19/1835.

While Friedrich Diers as the oldest son became the farm-owner, Jürgen Diers built up a new farm in Heidkamperfeld.

On February the 24th 1935 started the first Diers-Family-Reunion in the Gasthaus Blohm in Metjendorf. 66 people attended, who were all descendents from Jürgen Diers.
The meeting was organised by Heinrich Diers. He was a famous author in Lower German dialect.

After the war further Diers-Family-Reunions followed (in brackets the number of participants)

  2. am 05/15/1955 in the Müsselkrug in Borbek (152)
  3. am 08/21/1960 in the Hof von Oldenburg in Rastede (191)
  4. am 06/07/1965 in the Etzhorner Krug in Oldenburg-Etzhorn (168)
  5. am 09/06/1970 in the Gasthof Karl Rabe in Wiefelstede (185)
  6. am 05/16/1976 in the Schützenhof in Oldenburg-Eversten (214)

   From 1980 - 1996 Jochen Imlau organized the Diers-Family-Reunions

  7. am 08/02/1981 on the Jürgen-Diers-Farm in Heidkamperfeld (193)
  8. am 08/10/1986 in the Gasthof Rabe in Wiefelstede (200)
  9. am 09/15/1991 in the Hof von Oldenburg in Rastede (148)
10. am 08/24/1996 in the Hof von Oldenburg in Rastede (175)

   From 2001 on Dirk Rode organized the Diers-Family-Reunions
11. am 08/04/2001 by Wöbken in Hundsmühlen (133)
12. am 07/08/2006 on the farm of Helmut and Ute Diers in Ohmstede (194)
13. am 17/09/2011 by Martens in Bokel (129)

  The 14th Diers-Family-Reunion will be in 2016.



The Diers-Family-database

In the following database are only the Diers-Ancestors:

⇒  The ancestors of the Diers-Family, shown with the PAF-Program

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