Heyking (noble family)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coat of arms of those von Heyking

Heyking is the name of Baltic, and later Polish noble family , that of which to Berg and jülichschen nobility belonging race of Lords of Hucking derived. Towards the end of the 15th century a line of the Lords of Hucking moved to the Baltic States , adopted a new coat of arms and continues to use the name Heyking to this day.

history

The Lords of Hucking (also: Hoeckinck von Mülfort ), later named after the property in the historical Gemünd von Buir district , appeared for the first time in a document with the knight Conradus dictus Hukinc on August 10, 1303. The documented line of the Heyking branch begins with Johann Heyking around 1400. His line appears between 1490 and 1500 with Wilhelm Heyking in Kurland , where his descendants described themselves as coming from Jülich and the Buir family. Gotthard Hoiking (also Gotthard Heucking ), owner of the manorTurpentine in Courland, was enrolled in the First Class of the Courland Knighthood on October 17, 1620 . A power of attorney dated September 13, 1633, which he had given Anton Freyaltenhoven to represent his claims to the inheritance of a Heucking from the Buir house who had died in Jülich.

The entire Heyking family received the Russian recognition of the right to use the baron title through Senatsukase on September 21, 1853 and April 3, 1862 respectively .

Friedrich Alfred Baron von Heyking had been Plenipotentiary of Courland since 1859. His son Edmund Friedrich Gustav von Heyking (* 1850; † 1915) studied law and economics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1874 he was employed by the government of Tsar Alexander II in Saint Petersburg in the ministry , and in 1876 he was sent to Philadelphia . In 1878 he was editor- in- chief in Riga . In 1881 he received his doctorate in Berlin and in 1884 married Elisabeth von Flemming (* 1861; † 1925), who became known as a writer under the married name of Heyking. Edmund von Heyking was sent to Beijing a few years later as the German Reich's envoy . The couple's two sons, Alfred and Günther, died in Flanders in 1917 during the First World War .

Ernst von Heyking (* 1862; † 1940), born in West Prussian Neuchâtel , was district administrator for the Pless district from 1899 to 1907 , and from 1903 to 1908 he was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the Opole administrative region . From 1908 to 1911 he held the office of police president and from 1911 to 1918 that of governor in the Prussian province of Posen and later in the province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia .

Born in Rastenburg in 1894 , Rüdiger von Heyking was commander of the 6th Air Force Field Division from September 1942 to November 1943 . Since 1943 Lieutenant General , he was commander of the 6th Paratrooper Division from May 1944 and was captured in September of the same year. At the end of 1955 he was released from Soviet captivity and died a few weeks later in 1956 in Bad Godesberg .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the von Stromberg family
Coat of arms of those von Heyking

After immigrating to Courland, the family adopted a new coat of arms, similar to that of Stromberg's Baltic : divided into blue and silver (humiliated) at the top, with a golden lion on top striding to the right; on the helmet with blue-silver covers a golden lion growing between open blue flights . In historical representations, the ceilings are also blue-gold above and blue-silver below or blue-gold on the right and blue-silver on the left; the crested lion also appears in full figure and the flight is also divided into blue-red or red-blue corners ( square ).

The coat of arms of those of Stromberg shows above a silver shield base , in it two blue wavy bars (streams), a red lion striding right on four pointed red mountains on a silver background; on the helmet with red and silver covers an open flight, red on the right, blue on the left.

Well-known namesake

See also

  • NN Hekling (Polish Hejking ; † 1672), royal Polish officer

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Genealogical Handbook of the Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag Limburg (Lahn) 1984, pp. 201 f.
  2. ↑ Original of the document in the State Archives Düsseldorf , Herrschaft Odenkirchen, No. 2.
  3. ^ Carl Arvid von Klingspor : Baltisches Wappenbuch ; Coats of arms of all the noble families belonging to the knights of Livonia, Estonia, Courland and Oesel, Stockholm 1882, plate 46 ( digitized )