Adliges I wear a name that is common in Switzerland was not a very fancy name, it only contains one "of". Just as in "von Arx," for example, or "von Wartburg. Kommuner a Swiss name. I never had particular problems with it until I came to Germany.
suddenly had this very noble, many people feel that I was comfortable.
In Switzerland, it was never an issue at all, Switzerland is deeply Republican, the aristocracy was abolished even before dawn. It is possible that my name centuries ago was a noble time, but I've never thought about it big. My name containing just like that.
In Germany, the relationship with the needle is slightly more complicated. There
the nobility that is still very much here - not legally, but as a stand, as arrogance, as a feeling. The nobility ruled the country until the First World War, he dominated in the second world war, the generals, he led in 1944 from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler, and today he still has many possessions (except those in Silesia and East Prussia, of course), also influence.
This can be for a Swiss, the royalist nostalgia is far from all, cause strange problems.
It started when I received letters in which I was addressed as "Mr. Arx. It continued that people call me "Lord Arx" responded, and that finally, I was even at work an e-mail address that was "arx@firma.de.
The "from" is here not as part of the name, but as a kind of nobility that can be easily omitted. Some people even deliberately omit to say: you just picture blank. And some nobles leave it away ostentatiously, to show that they are embourgeoisified. The former Green Party politician named Jutta von Ditfurth for example, is called Ditfurth - which has a symbolic value to me as the Swiss was not so clear.
When I told people that I would yet but von Arx, I harvested a strange look: I made me suspicious of this claim of the noble conceit.
In Switzerland, my name is just a normal name, no one would ever think to simply cut him in half. Here is my name for the arrogant nobleman, and who the "from" there is evidence to show only that he values its noble status.
And I'm still not a nobleman.
I will just keep my name.