Görschen (noble family)
The von Görschen family is an old, central German aristocratic family whose origins go back to the 12th century. The family name is derived from their original headquarters, the place Goresin ( Görschen ) or from an even older oppida goresin (Görschenburg / Görschen fortress ) near Lützen , which was named by Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg in 998 , the name itself being old Sorbian Is of origin and means something like "moist".
Name variations are de Goresin , de Gorsne , de Gorssen and von Goerschen .
history
The first known representative of the sex is Conradus de Gorsne , who appears on June 22, 1186 as a "witness". The trunk series begins on June 12, 1271 with miles nobilis vir Petrus de Görsene . In the course of the next generations, the family was mainly divided between the manors and districts of Großgörschen (until 1736), Kleingörschen (until 1784), Kleineichstädt (until the beginning of the 17th century), Auligk bei Groitzsch (until 1918), Lützen-Meuchen ( to 1736) and Wildschütz (1st half of the 18th century) and had their most successful period from the 18th to the 20th century. Furthermore, the family from Lorenz von Görschen, Imperial Councilor and Lord of Groß-Görschen, is one of the ancestors of several European royal and princely houses through the marriage of his daughter Eva to Erasmus von Bothfeld , Lord of Burgwerben .
From Georg Christoph von Görschen (1707–1748), captain in the Schwarzburg regiment under Johann Adolph von Diepenbroick, three main lines developed, with the first remaining in the area around Auligk based on the manor there until the beginning of the First World War . Some descendants from this line later settled on the one hand in the Fürstenwalde area and on the other in New York. A second line was formed via Georg Christoph's son and royal Saxon forest master Otto Heinrich von Görschen (1746–1833), whose son Karl Heinrich von Görschen (1784–1860) settled in the German-Dutch border area near Aachen for work and became the progenitor of the Aacheners Görschen was. The third line passed through Groß Gaglow into the Neuruppin area and held high officer ranks for five generations. As a Protestant family, many family members were also knights of honor or convent members of the Order of St. John .
The von Görschen family was related by marriage to other noble families such as von Horn , von Massow , von Rockhausen , von der Mosel and others. Today the family is largely extinct apart from less than 10 people.
Significant family members
- Ottilie von Gersen / Görschen (* before 1505, † after 1525) was a German nun and the wife of the reformer Thomas Müntzer .
- Karl Friedrich Alexander Freiherr von Görschen (* 1738; † 1818); Major general in the Imperial Army of the Habsburg Monarchy .
- Karl Heinrich von Görschen (* 1784; † 1860); Prussian secret and upper government councilor in Aachen, master at Vaalsbroek Castle
- Otto (Friedrich Ferdinand) von Görschen (* 1824; † 1875), Prussian lieutenant colonel in the 24th Infantry Regiment
- Robert (Oskar Julius) von Görschen (* 1829; † 1914), regional court assessor; Legal advisor and chairman of the board of directors of Aachener und Münchener Feuerversicherungsgesellschaft (predecessor of AachenMünchener VersicherungsAG); Initiator of the Aachen Bismarck Tower and the Einhard Gymnasium in Aachen; Chairman of the supervisory board of the Eschweiler mining association
- Robert (Walter Ernst Richard) von Görschen (* 1864; † 1936); Government Vice President in Aachen; Chairman of the supervisory board of the Aachen and Munich fire insurance companies; Honorary Senator of the RWTH Aachen ; Honorary citizen of the city of Aachen; Right knight of the Order of St. John
- Bruno Hans Otto Friedrich von Görschen (* 1865; † 1939), legal advisor of the Aachen and Munich fire insurance companies; Chairman of the supervisory board of the Aachen reinsurance company and the Eschweiler mining association; Right knight of the Order of St. John
- Hans Wolf von Görschen (* 1894; † 1945), banker and businessman in Cologne and Rotterdam , honorary senator of the University of Greifswald , legal knight of the Order of St. John. He was arrested as a resistance fighter of the Kreisau Circle in The Hague on December 5, 1944 and executed in Germany in April 1945.
Otto von Görschen, Lieutenant Colonel Neuruppin
Otto Heinrich von Görschen, head forester in Dessau and father of Karl Heinrich von Görschen and Louise von Görschen, the wife of Friedrich von Raumer
Karl Heinrich von Görschen, go. ORegRat and progenitor of the Aachener Görschen, painting by Johann Baptist Joseph Bastiné
Robert von Görschen, son of Karl Heinrich; Legal Counsel Aachen
Robert von Görschen, son of Robert the Elder Ä., Regional Vice President Aachen
coat of arms
On a blue plate a slanted golden key with a beard turned upwards and downwards. On the helmet an upright key between two to six black cock feathers. Several variations of the colors of the key and shield can be found in different sources.
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , year 26, Gotha 1926, Justus Perthes publishing house
swell
- Archive of Hans-Thorald Michaelis
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ descendants of Lorenz Goerschen
- ↑ Gersen is possibly a different spelling for Görschen . Compare Manfred Bensing: Thomas Müntzer. 4th edition Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1989, p. 49; Thomas Müntzer Edition: Correspondence , ed. Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, August 15, 2011, p. 558; Berent Schwineköper (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 11: Province of Saxony Anhalt (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 314). Kröner, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-520-31401-0 , p. 579; Small writings on the history of the Reformation (1842–1880): Thomas Müntzer and the Peasants' War (1842–1878) , Böhlau-Verlag, 1990, p. 325; New communications from the field of historical and antiquarian research , Vol. XIV (1878), No. 2, p. 405
- ^ Hans Wolf von Görschen - entry in the British National Archives