Berg (Brandenburg noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Berg

Berg is the name of an old Brandenburg noble family who came from the Uckermark . Branches of the family still exist today.

Origin and Distribution

The family comes from Mark Brandenburg as a territory in the Holy Roman Empire , which became the Electorate of Brandenburg at the end of the 12th century. It appears for the first time in 1375 with Lüdeke and his son Hans von dem Berge , with whom the uninterrupted line of trunks begins. The family had lived in a castle in the Uckermark since the 16th century . Family members have belonged to the Prussian counts since 1842. A family association of the Counts and Lords of Berg has existed since 1925 and holds an annual family day.

coat of arms

Blazon : The family coat of arms shows in blue a red bar with a silver border surrounded by 14 golden spheres (coins) . On the helmet with blue-silver covers three (red, silver, red) ostrich feathers.

Known family members

• Bernhard Sigismund von Berg († 1753), Prussian colonel and head of the Magdeburg Land Regiment
• Kurd von Berg-Schönfeld (1856–1923), district president of the Hanover government
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Berg , also von Berg-Markienen (1866–1939), Prussian officer, civil servant and politician. Head of the Secret Civil Cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon. Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN  0435-2408 . P. 328.
• Genealogical handbook of the nobility, noble houses. Volume XVI, Volume 76 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1981, pp. 1-5.
• Leopold von Ledebur : Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Berlin 1854, Volume 1, p. 51.
• Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). Rostock 1864, p. 17.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1905, sixth year, p.79ff

Web links

• The von Berg family in the Wildenfels Castle Archives

See also

• List of noble families named Berg

Individual evidence

1. ^ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : Landbuch Kaiser Karls IV. S. 137, 139, 140-146.