Götz von Olenhusen
Götz von Olenhusen is the name of a noble family from Lower Saxony with the parent company of the same name near Göttingen.
history
The family appears for the first time with Peter Götz , citizen of Münden since 1533, † 1560, with whom the family line begins. For his son, the ducal Brunswick Chamber Councilor Dr. jur. utr. Joachim Götz auf Olenhusen and Lutterbeck , on July 13, 1591, an imperial coat of arms was improved in the form of a confirmation of nobility. In 1595 Joachim Götz von Olenhusen obtained the position of hereditary kitchen master in Braunschweig between Deister and Leine .
coat of arms
The coat of arms from 1591, divided diagonally to the left, shows a growing silver lion above in red , and a red oblique left bar in gold below. On the helmet with red and gold helmet covers on the right and red and silver covers on the left, an eight-pointed gold star between two gold and red divided lion paws with claws turned inwards.
Coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book
people
- Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen (* 1935), German lawyer and author, honorary professor at the University of Düsseldorf
- Irmtraud Götz von Olenhusen (* 1952), German historian and university professor
- Karl Götz von Olenhusen (1847–1933), German manor owner, member of the German Reichstag
- Leo Götz von Olenhusen (1855–1942), German lieutenant general
- Peter Götz von Olenhusen (* 1952), German lawyer
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1978, ISSN 0435-2408 , p. 176