Helldorff
The von Helldorff family , also von Helldorf , is a Meissnian nobility . Your headquarters are likely to be Hellendorf .
history
An Ulrich (noble kingdom) von Helldorf is mentioned for the first time in 1147, but it is only from 1410 that the line of the Helldorfs can be fully documented. In the 15th century she was part of the knighthood of Naumburg Abbey .
Later the family was one of the largest landowners in Thuringia and in the province of Saxony and temporarily owned 30 manors. Georg Friedrich von Helldorf was known in the Fruit-Bringing Society under the name "The Applicant". In 1730, the Vice High Court Judge in Leipzig and Chamberlain Wolf Heinrich von Helldorf acquired the Gröst manor from the von Breitenbauch family . His successor, Johann Heinrich von Helldorf, canon of the Merseburg monastery , chamberlain from the Electoral Saxony, bought the manor and moated castle of St. Ulrich from Friedrich Wilhelm von Witzleben in April 1770 , as well as Stöbnitz and Müelte (Geiseltal) , which the family up to expropriation by the Land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945.
His son Ferdinand Heinrich von Helldorf, electoral governor of Saxony, acquired the estate and Bedra Castle in Braunsbedra from the Brühl heirs in 1793 . In 1803 he also bought the Wohlmirstedt estate . His eldest son Wolf (1794–1864) followed Wohlmirstedt and Runstedt and was raised to the Prussian count in 1840 under the law of the firstborn, his brother Carl (1804–1860) took over St. Ulrich, Stöbnitz, Oechlitz and Gröst acquired it in 1859 Manor Zingst near Vitzenburg , the other brother Heinrich (1799–1873) inherited Bedra and in 1828 acquired the manor Baumersroda . His sons Karl (1828–1895), on Baumersroda, Otto (1833–1908), on Bedra, and Ferdinand (1835–1893), on Buchwäldchen, became, like their father, Prussian district administrators. Otto von Helldorff was also a member of the Reichstag from 1871 , where he led the faction of the German Conservative Party for about ten years , of which he was founding chairman since 1876.
Bedra, Wohlmirstedt, Zingst and Baumersroda also remained in the family until 1945.
When Heinrich von Helldorff married Margarete von Posern in 1917, Rammenau Castle in Upper Lusatia came into the family; Margarete von Helldorff was also expropriated in 1945.
Own
Bedra Castle
Wohlmirstedt manor
Runstedt Manor
family members
I. line ( Nödlitz )
- Heinrich August Freiherr von Helldorff (1794–1862) on Nödlitz (sold in 1823), Prussian major general
2nd line, 1st branch
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Johann Heinrich von Helldorff (1726–1793), Electorate Chamberlain and Canon of the Merseburg Monastery , Electorate Chamberlain , buys St. Ulrich in 1770
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Ferdinand Heinrich von Helldorff (1764–1815) , Saxon governor of St. Ulrich, bought Bedra in 1793 and Wohlmirstedt in 1803
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Wolf Graf von Helldorff (1794–1864), raised to Wohlmirstedt and Runstedt, Prussian chamberlain, in 1840 to the primogenic count status
- Ferdinand Graf von Helldorff, (* 1869- † ....) on Wohlmirstedt Rittmeister
- Wolf Heinrich Graf von Helldorff (1896–1944), auf Wohlmirstedt (until 1931), member of the Reichstag of the NSDAP , police president of Berlin , blackmailer of Jews (“ Helldorff donation ”), executed because of contacts with the resistance
- Julius von Helldorff (1827–1908), on Runstedt, district administrator and member of the German Reichstag
- Ferdinand Graf von Helldorff, (* 1869- † ....) on Wohlmirstedt Rittmeister
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Heinrich Ferdinand von Helldorff (1799–1873) , on Bedra, Baumersroda and Petzkendorf, Prussian chamberlain and politician
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Karl von Helldorff (1828–1895), on Baumersroda, Prussian district administrator
- Heinrich von Helldorff (1870–1936), on Baumersroda, Bedra, Petzkendorf, Leiha and Schalkendorf, President of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Province of Saxony
- Otto von Helldorff (1833–1908), on Bedra, Petzkendorf, Leiha and Schalkendorf, conservative politician and Prussian chamberlain
- Ferdinand von Helldorff (1835–1893), in a book forest, Prussian district administrator
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Karl von Helldorff (1828–1895), on Baumersroda, Prussian district administrator
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Carl von Helldorff (1804–1860), in St. Ulrich, Stöbnitz, Oechlitz, Gröst and Zingst, Prussian chamberlain and politician
- Carl Heinrich von Helldorff (1832–1905), on Ortisei, officer and politician
- Bernhard von Helldorff (1806–1884), Prussian chamberlain
- Heinrich von Helldorff (1833–1876), Prussian district administrator
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Wolf Graf von Helldorff (1794–1864), raised to Wohlmirstedt and Runstedt, Prussian chamberlain, in 1840 to the primogenic count status
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Ferdinand Heinrich von Helldorff (1764–1815) , Saxon governor of St. Ulrich, bought Bedra in 1793 and Wohlmirstedt in 1803
- 2nd line, 2nd branch
- Wolf von Helldorff (1862–1915), Prussian major general; Division commander
Other representatives:
- Georg Friedrich von Helldorff (1643–1718), Prime Minister of Saxony-Weißenfels; Chancellor and Consistorial President; jurist
- Johann Julius von Helldorff (1655–1734), councilor of the Electoral Saxon district
- Wolf Heinrich von Helldorff (1699–1750) , Imperial Colonel; Electoral Saxon Vice Chief Justice
- Oskar von Helldorff (1829–1899), Saxon diplomat; Envoy in Vienna
- Heinrich von Helldorff (1832–1897) , politician; Saxony-Weimar member of the state parliament and real secret council
- Georg von Helldorff (1834–1907), State Minister of Saxony-Altenburg and Real Privy Councilor
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows in silver the front part of a jumping brown or red mule (donkey). The mule growing on the helmet with the red and silver covers .
Elevation of rank
On October 15, 1840, the Prussian Chamberlain and Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John, Wolf Heinrich Hans von Helldorff on Wohlmirstedt and Runstedt, was raised to the Prussian count status under the law of primogeniture by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV to pass on the manor of Wohlmirstedt to the eldest son from a noble marriage.
literature
- [Otto] Walter: The family v. Helldorf: Dominium Bedra, orphanage printing house, Halle a. P. 1905
- Georg Schmidt: The sex v. Helldorff, Buchdruckerei d. Orphanage 1911
- Georg Schmidt: The sex v. Helldorff, Dept. 2/3, Buchdruckerei d. Orphanage 1911
- Ernst Devrient : The Helldorff family; Vol. 1: family history; with 1 colored coat of arms title page u. 40 Collotype, edited by Karl-Roderich v. Helldorff, Degener Verlag 1931
- Ernst Devrient: The Helldorff family; Vol. 2: Document book; with 1 genealogical overview, 11 parent u. 16 pedigrees, edited by Karl-Roderich v. Helldorff, Degener Verlag 1931
- Genealogical manual of the nobility, noble houses A volume I, page 134, volume 5 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1953, ISSN 0435-2408
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN 0435-2408
- Friedrich Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen : Helldorff, von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 474 ( digitized version ).
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1901 (1), p.387ff, 1901 (2), p.373ff , 1902, p.343ff , 1904, p.329ff , 1906, p. 293ff