Brauchitsch

Coat of arms of the von Brauchitsch

Brauchitsch is the name of an old Silesian noble family with the parent house Brauchitschdorf (today's name: Chróstnik, earlier names before the renaming in Brauchitschdorf: Krostenik or Crustenik) near Lüben (Lubin) in Lower Silesia , who lived with the knight Velislaus on Chrostnik (Crustenik) in The year 1259 first appears, and in 1418 the family line begins with Hans von Brauchitsch , landowner on Oberau .

Historical picture of the Brauchitsch coat of arms

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a jumping, red-armored black stag in silver . A fallen black crescent moon on the helmet with black and silver covers .

Known family members

A Brauchitsch knight at the top right of a depiction of the Battle of Liegnitz (1241) from the 14th century

• Nikolaus von Brauchwitz (mid 15th century), knight in the Teutonic Order, Thirteen Years War
• Georg von Brauchwitz (middle of the 15th century), German knight in the Thirteen Years' War
• Heinrich von Brauchitsch the Elder Ä. (1652–1743), district judge of the district of Olecko (Marggrabowa / East Prussia)
• Georg von Bruchwitz (1517–1605), Ducal Pomeranian Council
• Johannes von Brauchitsch (1590–1684), father of Heinrich von Brauchitsch, d. Ä.
• Karl von Brauchitsch (General, 1780) (1780–1858), Prussian general of the cavalry
• Karl von Brauchitsch (General, 1822) (1822–1896), Prussian major general
• Carl von Brauchitsch (1755–1839), Landstallmeister von Trakehnen
• Ludwig Matthias Nathanael Gottlieb von Brauchitsch (1757–1827), Prussian lieutenant general in 1814, honorary citizen of Berlin in 1822
• Eduard von Brauchitsch (General, 1798) (1798–1869), Prussian general of the infantry
• Eduard von Brauchitsch (General, 1827) (1827–1889), Prussian major general
• Adolf von Brauchitsch (1800–1876), Prussian Senior Justice Council and Vice-President of the Higher Appeal Court
• Wilhelm von Brauchitsch (1820–1884), politician, member of the Reichstag
• Gustav von Brauchitsch (1822–1873), 1873 Prussian major general
• Otto August von Brauchitsch (1827–1889), Prussian major general
• Heinrich von Brauchitsch (1831–1916), Prussian judge, district administrator and member of the Reichstag
• Bernhard von Brauchitsch (1833–1910), Prussian general of the cavalry
• Max von Brauchitsch (1835–1882), member of the German Reichstag
• Hermann von Brauchitsch (1840–1916), 1894 Prussian lieutenant general
• Konrad von Brauchitsch (General) (1853–1916), Prussian major general
• Louis von Brauchitsch (1857–1930), 1912 Prussian major general
• Richard von Brauchitsch (1861–1918), Prussian lieutenant general
• Gottfried von Brauchitsch (1866–1924), Prussian major general
• Adolf von Brauchitsch (1876–1935), 1929 German major general
• Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), 1940 German field marshal
• Georg von Brauchitsch (1885–1940), German classical archaeologist
• Konrad (Kunz) von Brauchitsch (1890–1947, Eberhard's father), frigate captain, head of the Reichsschallarchiv
• Manfred von Brauchitsch (1905–2003), racing driver
• Bernd von Brauchitsch (1911–1974), German officer
• Eberhard von Brauchitsch (1926–2010), manager and business consultant
• Boris von Brauchitsch (* 1963), photographer
• Claudia von Brauchitsch (* 1974), journalist and television presenter

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Noble houses A Volume XXVIII. Volume 138 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN  0435-2408 .
• Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Volume 1, 1896, published by WT Bruer, p. 262 ff. Digitalisat
• Genealogical paperback of the primeval nobility. Volume 2, 1893, p. 101 ff.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses , 1904, fifth year, p.143ff
• Name-Codex of the Teutonic Order officials, grand masters, land masters, territorial officers, commander, bailiffs, nurses, grand master compans, crusaders and mercenary captains in Prussia. Johannes Voigt, Königsberg 1843.
• Large complete universal encyclopedia of all sciences ..., Volume 4, page 1125, Johann Heinrich Zedler, 1733
• Silesian curiosities, part I - noble families , pages 294, 295 - Johannes Sinapius, Liegnitz, January 3, 1720

Web links

Commons : Brauchitsch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brauchitschdorf ( Memento from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 323 kB), accessed December 11, 2008, 1:20 pm
2. ↑ Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae, Vol. 7, 1875; Regesta on Silesian history, Th. 2: Up to the year 1280 . Published by Colmar Grünhagen , accessed December 11, 2008
3. ↑ Schirrmacher, Document Book of the City of Liegnitz, No. 8