Altrock (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Altrock

Altrock is the name of a native to Mecklenburg -derived, and later in Pomerania and Saxony -based noble family .

history

The family line begins with Jürgen Altrock (* around 1672–1753), bailiff in Feldberg , Mecklenburg. In the period 1746–1751, Emperor Franz I successively elevated the following three persons in the service of ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz to hereditary imperial nobility :

• the stable master Daniel Altrock on June 21, 1746
• Forester Georg Altrock on August 12, 1749 and
• the court and chancellery Joachim Altrock on March 22, 1751.

These were the sons of a free farmer and brothers of Mecklenburg-Strelitz's privy councilor Johann August von Altrock, who was raised to the Prussian nobility on April 14, 1744 by Friedrich the Great . The latter had come to the Strelitzschen Hof, had made a career there and then his brothers followed suit.

Allegedly, the Altrock brothers owe the Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz for their elevation to the nobility. She had been delighted by the broad shoulders of the old skirts. One was originally the kitchen boy and the other groom.

Later Pomeranian and Saxon branches of the noble family emerged. In Pomerania, the family owned the Parpat estates in the Greifenberg district and Roggow and Springe in the Regenwalde district . In Saxony she owned the Kesselshain estate and Gröba Castle (from 1919 to 1945).

coat of arms

The coat of arms from 1740 is split. It shows on the right in silver a gold armored and red-tongued half black eagle at the gap, on the left on a green hill a red-tongued silver dog with a gold collar. On the helmet with black and silver blankets on the right and red and silver blankets on the left , a pelican standing in the nest, which cuts its chest and soaks its three cubs with its blood, between two buffalo horns divided by silver and black and left by red and silver.

Known family members

• Georg von Altrock , elected for life member of the Meißner Kreis in the Saxon state parliament, member in the years 1815-1818
• Hugo Alexander von Altrock (1851–1927), Saxon lieutenant general and adjutant general of King Friedrich August III.
• Constantin von Altrock (1861–1942), Prussian lieutenant general, editor of the military weekly paper
• Walther von Altrock (1873–1951), German economist and non-fiction author
• Wilhelm von Altrock (1887–1952), German lieutenant general
• Hartmut von Altrock (1931–2014), German painter and graphic artist

literature

• Constantin von Altrock: History of the lineage of Altrock. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1901, www.Rambow.de
• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Nobility Lexicon. Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, p. 102.
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New German Nobility Lexicon. Volume 1, Leipzig 1859, p. 83.
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, p. 64, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN  0435-2408 .

Web links

• The noble family Altrock (Rambow genealogy)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the land constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). Rostock 1864, p. 3.
2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, p. 64.
3. ↑ Count Lehndorff: The diaries of Count Lehndorff . Story Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86368-034-3 , pp. 99 .
4. ↑ cf. z. B. Christian Friedrich Wutstrack : Addendum to the short historical-geographical-statistical description of the royal-Prussian duchy of Western and Eastern Pomerania. Stettin 1795, p. 274.
5. ^ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon of the Prussian monarchy. Volume 3, Berlin 1854, p. 181.