The Schwenkbeck Clan
in Laichingen and America
 
 

Conrad Schwenk 1601-86 was a linen weaver and virtually all his male descendants in Laichingenfollowed that tradition for many centuries.  His grandson Georg Schwenk 1669-1739 broke with that tradition and became a baker. For how long, we do not know. We do know that he returned to the linen weaving trade and became head of the Conrad Schwenk Linen Weaving Company. However, he baked long enough for the community to begin calling him Georg Schwenk-bek.  Bek was an earlier word for Beck, or baker in English.  His three surviving children carried this new family name and it has continued down to the present day. Virtually every male descendant of Georg in Laichingen was a weaver.  A full history of this interesting  clan will be included  here in the coming months. See the tree-graph below plus a copy of an original church book record.

 

Below is a copy of an original document copied from the Laichingen church records.
This is particularly significant for the Schwenkbeck Clan because the pastor took the
pains to enter the father and grandfather of  Georg Schwenk beck above his name.
This document leaves no doubt that Georg Schwenk b 1669 descended from Conrad
Schwenk b 1601. Note the word Bekh after Georg's name.  Again, this graphic will copy,
then print easily onto a standard sheet of paper.

 

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This page created on 4 Dec 1997
and updated on 17 Feb 1998