Diringshofen (noble family)
The von Diringshofen family (often also Düringshofen ) is an originally bourgeois German noble family .
Origin and history
The family of Diringshofen that originally bore the name Diring and was bourgeois, received for Caspar Diring on July 15, 1495 Worms by Emperor Maximilian I. a crest letter . On April 23, 1649, Caspar Diringh, citizen and trader in Posen , was granted a knightly nobility confirmation with the addition of Diringshofen, combined with an improvement in the coat of arms . The two lines Nieder-Landin and Sabow descend from his sons, of which the former may still flourish in Brazil , the latter in Germany. Today's family members call themselves against the diploma appropriately named form Diring of Diringshofen , by the then Prussian herald office unopposed, only by Diringshofen . The family settled in Prussia and owned the Sabow estate in the Pyritz district in Pomerania from 1654 and, as Fideikommissherrren, the Passow estate in the Uckermark until the 20th century. She also owned the Villa von Diringshofen in Potsdam , which Lieutenant General Max von Diringshofen had built as a retirement home in 1912, but which was acquired in 1927 by Prince Friedrich Sigismund of Prussia .
The younger sons of the family primarily served the Prussian crown as civil servants and, above all, as officers, with several members of the family reaching general ranks.
The most famous representative of the family was the Prussian major general Bernhard Alexander von Düringshofen (1714–1776), head of the 24th Infantry Regiment, which was temporarily named after him .
coat of arms
a) Coat of arms of 1495: divided , above in silver a green diagonal right-hand stream, below in red 6 upright silver arrows next to each other; on the helmet with red-silver covers a black eagle , the chest covered with 2 upwardly slanted silver keys.
b) Coat of arms from 1649: Quartered and covered with a golden heart shield , inside a crowned black eagle, the chest covered with 2 upwardly slanted silver keys; 1 in silver a green oblique stream, 2 and 3 in red on a green three-hill an inward-turned, gold-crowned golden lion with an upright silver arrow in its paws, 4 in red 6 upright silver arrows next to each other, helmet like 1495.
Known family members
- Kaspar Wilhelm von Düringshofen († 1743), Prussian colonel and chief of the Magdeburg Land Regiment
- Bernhard Alexander von Düringshofen (1714–1776), Prussian major general
- Karl von Diringshofen (1817–1890), Prussian lieutenant general
- Ernst von Diringshofen (1859–1911), Prussian major general
- Max von Diringshofen (1855–1936), Prussian lieutenant general
- Richard von Diringshofen (1858–1944), Prussian major general
- Max Rudolf Wilhelm von Diringshofen (1876–1959), German lieutenant general
- Heinz von Diringshofen (1900–1967), professor of aerospace medicine
literature
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, pp. 447-448
- JT Bagmihl, Pommersches Wappenbuch , volumes 3–5, p.134
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume II, CA Starke Verlag . Limburg, 1974, p. 494.
- ↑ a b Genealogical manual of the nobility. Volume AB XIV, p. 181ff.
- ↑ Weblink family tree of the Stolte / von Diringshofen family
- ^ Illustration of the coat of arms from 1649 in Genealogy. Handbook of the nobility. Volume AB XIV, p. 183.