Beckedorff (noble family)
The von Beckedorff family (also Beckedorf ) was a Prussian noble family that goes back to Georg Philipp Ludolph Beckedorff (1778-1858), who was raised to the Prussian nobility on November 3, 1840 , as the royal Prussian senior government councilor and owner of the Grünhof manor in Pomerania .
Personalities
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Georg Philipp Ludolph Beckedorff (1778–1858), Prussian conservative publicist, educator, ministerial official and landowner.
- Friedrich Ludwig Emil von Beckedorff (1818–1893), Prussian lieutenant general.
- Ernst von Beckedorff (1823–1868)
- Erich von Beckedorff (1855–1936), Prussian lieutenant general.
coat of arms
- Blazon : In the split shield on the right in blue a floating arm in armor in silver, which holds three ears of corn in its fist, on the left in silver a half black eagle.
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 1, Leipzig, 1859, p. 257.