Dieskau (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Dieskau

The von Dieskau family , mostly Dießkau at the time , was a Meissen noble family from the town of the same name, Dieskau in the Saalekreis .

history

Dieskau Castle
Good Benndorf

The family was first mentioned in 1225 with Otto de Disgave miles . The trunk series begins with Otto von Dieskau (first documented mention 1265). The headquarters was the Dieskau Castle .

The family u. a. in Moritzburg , Giebichenstein , Knauthain , Alsleben , Lochau , Beesen , Hohenthurm , Oeglitzsch , Trotha , Großzschocher , Queis , Benndorf , Altdöbern (1570 to 1587), Glesien and others. The von Dieskau served as cavalry masters, princely-episcopal advisers, court marshals, warriors, Pfänner etc. and were in the service of the archbishops of Magdeburg, the bishops of Merseburg and the Saxon electors and held the office of hereditary kitchen master of the archbishopric of Magdeburg.

The line of those from Dieskau at the headquarters in Dieskau expired in 1744.

On February 12, 1853, Karl Heinrich Wilhelm von Dieskau from Danzig , who lived in Brussels, was elevated to the baron status of the Principality of Reuss-Schleiz. The title of baron was confirmed for his son in the Kingdom of Prussia.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those of Dieskau

The family coat of arms shows in blue a (mostly) left-turned, silver swan sent to flight or a goose with spread wings, covered by a red sloping bar . On the helmet with a blue-silver-red bead , a flight , blue on the left and silver on the right, in between an overturned red brim hat with a red cord looped upwards, both ends of which, pulled sideways through the brim, fly off below. The helmet covers are blue silver or left blue silver, right red silver. The sloping bar in the Dieskau coat of arms was only used to distinguish it, it was not part of the original coat of arms (to distinguish the coat of arms of those of Geusau ). They are also related to the coat of arms of Gans and the Gans zu Putlitz .

Personalities

Jerome III von Dieskau (1565–1625)
  • Karl Wilhelm von Dieskau (1701–1777), Prussian lieutenant general and inspector general of the artillery
  • Julius von Dieskau (1798–1872), German lawyer and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)

Barons

Fischer-Dieskau

The ministerial official Joachim Fischer (1896–1977) traced the suffix Dieskau and his ancestors back to Carl Heinrich von Dieskau , who died in 1782 without male descendants.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1878, eighth and twentieth year, p. 137 ; 1888, eighth and thirtieth year, p. 148ff ; 1890, fortieth year, p. 143f ; 1892, year forty-second, p. 155.