Bernuth (noble family)
Bernuth is the name of from the ehemigen County Barby originating noble family .
history
The family first appeared in a document in 1655 with the bourgeois Hans Barnuht in Groß Rosenburg an der Saale , district of Schönebeck , where the first Bernuths worked as teachers for several generations.
On November 20, 1786, the brothers Johann Matthias and Jacob Johann Christian von Bernuth were raised to the Prussian nobility . Both were in the Prussian civil service, Johann Matthias as the Prussian war and domain chamber director in Kleve ; he brought the family to the Rhenish-Westphalian area. His brother was the Prussian War and Domain Tax Council in Hamm .
Since 1850 the Bernuths were also to be found in West Prussia , in the Emden district , in the provinces of Posen , Silesia and Pomerania , in Austria , as well as in the United States . Major General a. From 1910, D. Leo von Bernuth lived in a villa built for him in Eisenach in the Karthäuserhöhe colony.
A family association has existed since 1911.
coat of arms
In gold on a sloping red-silver battlement wall, a striding black bear with a silver collar. On the helmet with black and gold blankets on the right and red and silver on the left, the bear growing, in its paws holding a golden oar between an open flight of silver herons . The right wing has 4 stripes (red, red, blue, red), the left wing has six red stripes.
Known family members
- August von Bernuth (1808–1889), Prussian Minister of Justice
- Bernhard Johann von Bernuth (1863–1942), German manor, landlord and industrialist in the sugar industry
- Christa von Bernuth (* 1961), German journalist and novelist
- Christoph von Bernuth (* 1968), German opera director
- Clemens von Bernuth (1848–1922), Prussian major general
- Emil von Bernuth (1797–1882), Prussian district administrator
- Ernst von Bernuth (1833–1923), German officer and landscape painter
- Friedrich Heinrich von Bernuth (1789-1859), Prussian administrative officer
- Fritz von Bernuth (General) (1819–1906), Prussian major general
- Fritz von Bernuth (Manager) (* 1942), Managing Director of the Franz Cornelsen Foundation, long-time managing director of Cornelsen Verlagsholding
- Friedrich von Bernuth (1757–1832), civil servant in French and Prussian services
- Jakob von Bernuth (1729–1797), Prussian War and Domain Tax Council
- Johann Ludwig von Bernuth (1770–1857), Prussian War and Domain Councilor and Chief Finance Councilor in Berlin
- Johann Matthias von Bernuth (1716–1797), Chamber Director of the War and Domain Council in Kleve
- Julius von Bernuth (conductor) (1830–1902), German composer and conductor
- Julius von Bernuth (General, 1861) (1861–1957), German major general
- Julius von Bernuth (General, 1897) (1897–1942), German major general
- Julius August von Bernuth (1782–1857), German civil servant
- Leo von Bernuth (1851–1944), Prussian major general
- Otto von Bernuth (1816–1887), Prussian civil servant, police president in Berlin and district president in Cologne
literature
- History of the von Bernuth family. Gülzow 1922.
- Wolf Dietloff von Bernuth, von Bernuth'scher family association: The Bernuth book. Neustadt / Aisch (Degener & Co) 1986.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . 17/1958, 52/1972 and 78/1981, as well as the nobility dictionary.
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1909. Third year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1908, p.36ff family series and older genealogy.