We deliberately do not use an old family coat of arms. In 2012, we commissioned a heraldist to design our own family coat of arms for the Andreas Stephan Wagner branch of the family, which was then entered in the Lower Saxony coat of arms roll “Zum Kleeblatt”.

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Both coats of arms are registered and therefore legally protected. One is the Wagner family coat of arms and the other is the (new) coat of arms of the barony.

Coats of arms usually represent people, families or certain groups of people.
As there are no longer any class distinctions today, any citizen can bear a coat of arms in Germany, for example. It is important to note that you are not authorised to simply adopt the coat of arms of a family with the same surname. Anyone who bears a false coat of arms (this is generally known as stealing a coat of arms) is liable to prosecution.