Scherer

Scherer, Schierer and Scherrer is a Christian, Swiss/German and Ashkenazic Jewish surname, and may refer to:

The first traces of the Schierer (von Walthaimb zu Falkenau) family date back to 1289 with Schierer Bernhard Ritter von Klosterneuburg an arbitration judge at the Court of Albert I., Duke of Austria. Written recordings of the medieval Schierer family are dating back to the founders of the first Bohemian glassmakers in the XVth century. Paul Schierer the Elder, born in 1443, owned a large number of glass houses and invented the colouring process of blue glass by adding cobalt (c27). Thus the Schierer family was appointed purveyors to the Court of Hapsburg and ennobled for their services by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolph II, in Prague in 1592 and confirmed in 1663 by Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. Forced by the 30 years war (1618-1648) the knighted converted Protestant branches of the Schierer family extended to Sweden and to Denmark having their Baronial status confirmed. The converted Roman Catholic branches of the family remained in the Kingdom of Bohemia and Lower Austria, Litschau and Vienna. The latter branche was confirmed as Knights and raised to Freiherrlich, Barony of the Holy Roman Empire.

The motto of the family Schierer (von Walthaimb zu Falkenau) Inspiratio - Reverentia - Cognoscere.

Family members are among others: