Ditfurth (noble family)
Ditfurth is the name of an old German aristocratic family from the Harzgau with the parent company of the same name in today's Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .
history
origin
The family first appears in a document in 1148 with the Ministerial Hoimarus de Dhitvorden . Even before the historical appearance, members of the family held the hereditary marshal's office of the immediate Imperial Monastery of Quedlinburg until 1517 and in this position provided the Landgrave and Count's Court on the Hosekenberg on the border of the monastery area not far from Ditfurt .
Lines
Theodor von Ditfurth distinguishes between a Quedlinburg (Marschall) line, a Halberstädter line, an Aschersleber (Anhalter) line and a Blankenburg line.
The Quedlinburg line appeared around 1148 and went out around 1521. Its members were ministerials of the imperial, free-world monastery of St. Servatii. Theodor von Ditfurth suspects the main residence to be in the nearby village of Ditfurt .
The Halberstadt line is documented from 1155 and expired around 1410. Its members were ministerials of the bishops of Halberstadt and lived as castle men in Wegeleben.
Theodor von Ditfurth assumes the same descent for the Aschersleber (Anhalter) line as for the Halberstadt line. Its members were ministerials from the Counts of Aschersleben . The line became extinct in the 14th century.
The Blankenburg line is documented from the 12th century. The officially certified trunk series begins with Hans von Ditforde († before 1458). According to Theodor von Ditfurth, all today's bearers of the name in Franz (IV.) Dietrich von Ditfurth (1674–1745) have a common ancestor.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms is divided three times by gold and blue. On the helmet with its blue and gold covers stand two buffalo horns labeled like the shield.
Known family members
- Anton von Ditfurth (1588–1650), German administrative officer and member of the Fruit Bringing Society
- Otto Arthur von Ditfurth (around 1635–1695), Hanoverian court master, envoy, mining captain, Drost and privy councilor
- Franz Dietrich von Ditfurth (1738–1813), Freemason
- Wilhelm von Ditfurth (1780–1855), Prussian general of the infantry, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Franz Wilhelm von Ditfurth (1801–1880), folk song collector, singer, poet, writer, lawyer and hymn poet and collector
- Maximilian von Ditfurth (1806–1861), Elector of Hesse officer and military historian, member of the Electorate of Hesse assembly of estates
- Wilhelm von Ditfurth (politician) (1810–1876), German manor owner, politician and government official
- Barthold von Ditfurth (1826–1902), Prussian infantry general
- Franz von Ditfurth (1840–1909), German manor owner, politician and government official
- Theodor von Ditfurth (1846–1922), Imperial Privy Councilor
- Bodo Borries von Ditfurth (1852–1915), Prussian major general and pasha in the Ottoman army under Abdülhamid II.
- Wilhelm von Ditfurth (General, 1852) (1852–1915), Prussian major general
- Kurt von Ditfurth (1856–1924), German lieutenant general
- Friedrich von Ditfurth (1856–1927), Prussian lieutenant general
- Hans von Ditfurth (1862–1917), German administrative officer and manor owner
- Wilhelm von Ditfurth (General, 1874) (1874–1949), German major general, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Hans Kurt von Ditfurth (1885–1945), Prussian government councilor
- Hoimar von Ditfurth (1921–1989), German psychiatrist, television presenter and science journalist
- Christl Ditfurth (* 1943), Austrian ski racer
- Jutta Ditfurth (* 1951), German social scientist, journalist and politician, daughter of Hoimar von Ditfurth
- Christian von Ditfurth (* 1953), German historian, author and lecturer, son of Hoimar von Ditfurth
literature
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974, ISSN 0435-2408
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Volume 1, 1896, published by WT Bruer, p. 495ff. Digitized
- Theodor von Ditfurth: history of the sex of Ditfurth. Third part. Timeline. Commissions-Verlag by HC Huch, Quedlinburg 1894.
- Jutta Ditfurth : The Baron, the Jews and the Nazis. Journey into a family story. Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-50273-2 . ( online review at literaturkritik.de )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Original in the state archives Wolfenbüttel