Bronsart from Schellendorff

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Coat of arms of the Bronsart von Schellendorff

Bronsart von Schellendorff is the name of an old Prussian noble family .

history

The family appears for the first time in a document with Nicolaus Brunsereyte , who is enfeoffed in 1339 by the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Dietrich von Altenburg, with 15 hooves near Modgarben ( Amt Barten , East Prussia ). The direct line of trunks begins with Heinrich Bronserth , who was mentioned in a document in 1480 and was no longer alive in 1510.

A later extinct branch of the family settled at Schwickershausen Castle in Thuringia in the 16th century ( Bronsart zu Schwickershausen ).

The family has borne the name of Bronsart since the 17th century . The adoption of the name Bronsart von Schellendorff took place in 1823 in the assumption of tribal equality with the extinct noble family of the Barons von Schellendorff . The royal Prussian approval for the continuation of this name was granted on November 2, 1891 in Potsdam ( Neues Palais ).

The from Braunsberg in East Prussia native royal Prussian Lieutenant General Henry Bronsart of Schellendorff (1803-1874) and his in Kassel originating wife Antoinette Drege ( de Rege , 1810-1873), the first in Gdansk , later Berlin and Potsdam and both last in Hannover lived , and their twelve children became the first parents of the well-known Bronsart von Schellendorf (f) family of officers, who produced numerous Prussian military officers from the imperial era .

The East Prussian estate of the family included the Schettnienen estate , where Heinrich's second son Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff settled, who, like his father, made it to lieutenant general and was Prussian Minister of War from 1883 to 1889 . His older brother, Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf , was the only male descendant who did not pursue a military career and became a musician, most recently as general manager of the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Weimar .

A younger brother, the royal Prussian general of the infantry Walther Bronsart von Schellendorff , was accepted into the Mecklenburg knighthood on December 2, 1878 . He also served as Prussian Minister of War from 1893 to 1896. He lived with his nine children on Gut Marienhof near Güstrow since 1880 . The youngest brother Heinrich Bronsart von Schellendorff (1841–1879) also belonged to the Mecklenburg nobility and was a adjutant to Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Lieutenant General i. R. Friedrich Bronsart von Schellendorff lived in Brunshaupten on the Runenberg farm since 1919 .

Notation

The spelling of the syllable -dorf (f) in the names of members of this family also varies considerably in contemporary sources and is inconsistent in registry and church official documents, military and genealogical documents and funerary inscriptions as well as in the literature, sometimes even with one and the same person ( -f / -ff) handled.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a red bar in silver accompanied by seven blue alarm clocks. On the helmet with blue-silver covers two buffalo horns marked like the shield.

Name bearer

Bronsart von Schellendorff.jpg

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preuss. Document book, Vol. III, No. 247
  2. ^ Gerd Hankel : The Leipzig trials. German war crimes and their prosecution after the First World War. Hamburg 2003, pp. 212-216.