The Houseof Faust
Fide • Honor • Hereditas
Generations of ambition, preservation, enterprise, and inheritance.
A Chronicle of the Faust Family
About the Faust Legacy Archive
The Faust Legacy is a privately maintained family chronicle bringing together genealogy, surviving records, family tradition, historical research, and archival reconstruction. The archive preserves the history associated with the Faust name while documenting areas where surviving records are incomplete, translated, reconstructed, or based upon family tradition.
Introduction
“The history of the Faust family is not the history of one man, one fortune, or one generation. It is the history of a house that survived by continuously changing itself.”
The Family Philosophy
Six principles, held across three centuries
Preservation
Never destroy what earlier generations sacrificed to build.
Independence
No single business, government, or institution should determine the family's survival.
Education
Inheritance without competence is dangerous.
Privacy
Influence should never depend upon attention.
Continuity
Every generation should leave the family stronger than it found it.
Ambition
A dynasty that refuses to grow eventually becomes a museum.