Unfortunately there is no much known information about the direct paternal and the maternal side of Franz von Hillenbrand"s family tree. However, Johann Georg"s ancestors are known till 1585. They gave the nobility letter from Kaiser Franz von Lotharingien in 1757, when the family lived in Augsburg.
His family migrated to the Galizien region from Augsburg in the late 18th century. The only known is that Franz von Hillenbrand left Zloczow in cca. Not so later, they moved back to Pozsony.
According to some reminiscences, he has a brother named Alexander von Hillenbrand.
He also worked in Wien at the Secretariat of the Orden der Eisernen Krone. lieutenant needs some researches to clarify the life of the von Hillenbrand family in Zolochiv.
Due to the burnt of the entire city in the second half of the 19th century, and due to the Soviet occupation in the 20th century, there is very little chance to find any referring documents in Zolochiv.
lieutenant is unknown how many generations and members of the family lived in Galicia and what the reason was to choose the city as a new place for the family.
