Kamptz (noble family)

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Kamptz is the name of an old, originally Mecklenburg noble family . The family, some of which still exist today, belongs to the nobility in the county of Schwerin and later also acquired property and reputation in Pomerania , Saxony , Silesia and Neumark . There is a tribal relationship to a line that received Prussian nobility legitimation in the 19th century .

history

origin

Seal of Hinrik Kampzen (Heinrich von Kamptz) on a document dated June 7, 1356 on the occasion of a peace treaty between his liege lords, the princes of Werle (including Bernhard von Werle) with the dukes of Mecklenburg Albrecht and Johann.

The family with dominus Tessemarus de Campitz was first mentioned in a document on September 17th, 1286 in Rostock . In the certificate, Heinrich , Prince of Werle , confirms for himself and in the name of the Prince of Rostock the Neuenkamp monastery that his uncle, Prince Borwin of Rostock , granted the exemption from the transit duty in Marlow . Tessemarus is named as a witness. The uninterrupted line of the family begins with Heinrich von Kamptz , councilor and vassal of Prince Bernhard von Werle , who appears in documents from 1353 to 1359.

The family's main house of the same name was in the former county of Schwerin . The village was no longer in their possession when the family first appeared at the end of the 13th century. Especially in the early days, the spelling of the name often changes from Kamptz, Kampz, Kampzen, Kamzen, Camzen, Campz and Campzow.

Spread and lines

Already at the beginning of the 14th century, the family split into two main lines, of which the older line died out in the second half of the 14th century. The younger main line also divided into two lines in the middle of the 17th century with the houses at Dratow and Deven (today the district of Groß Plasten ).

A branch came to the Odenwald in the middle of the 17th century . Hans Joachim von Kamptz married Anna Maria Bibiana von Rodenstein in 1643 , the heir and last name of this old family. After the marriage, Hans Joachim became a member of the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Odenwald of the Franconian knight circle . His grandson Johann Raab von Haxthausen (1665–1713) was an Electoral Palatinate General Feldzeugmeister and an Imperial Lieutenant Field Marshal .

Hans von Kamptz, a great-grandson of the progenitor Heinrich von Kamptz, appears in a document in 1444 and 1474 as lord of Dratow and Langwitz (today part of Schwinkendorf ). His grandson Jürgen von Kamptz died in 1574 as the lord of Dratow and Karnitz (today the district of Neukalen ). He was married twice, his first marriage to a daughter of the von Wotzenitz noble family from the Karnitz family and his second marriage to Anna von Buggenhagen . His grandson Eggerd von Kamptz, son of Hans von Kamptz (* 1541) and his wife Elisabeth von Horn , was the progenitor of both lines of the family. Eggert died in 1607 as a gentleman in Deven und Klein-Plasten (today part of Groß Plasten ) and left behind the two sons Philipp Ernst and Christoph Altwig from his marriage to Marie Erdmuthe von Blixen .

First line

Philipp Ernst von Kamptz (1604–1671), gentleman on Klein Plasten, married Margarethe von Wakenitz and founded the first line. Christoph Albrecht von Kamptz (1712–1765), her descendant in the third generation, became a knight's deputy and was lord of large and small Dratow, large and small Plasten, Rockow , Eichhof and Schwasdorf in Mecklenburg. In 1739 he married Sophie Charlotte von Schuckmann (1719–1778). Her sons Christoph Albrecht, Joachim Friedrich and Gustav Ernst divided the first line into three further branches.

First branch

The founder of the first branch, Christoph Albrecht von Kamptz (1741–1816), lord of Groß and Klein Dratow, Sophienhof, old and new Sapshagen (today districts of Klocksin ), became ducal upper chamberlain of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , minister and chamber president. His sons Karl Christoph Albert and Bernhard Joachim Ulrich came from his marriage to Louise Friederike Amalie von Dorne (1751–1800) in 1767. The two sons were the founders of the two branches of the first branch.

Karl Christoph Albert von Kamptz (* 1769), the son of the founder of the first branch, died in 1849 as a royal Prussian secret minister of state and justice and a knight of the Order of the Black Eagle . He left two sons and a daughter from his marriage to Hedwig Susanne Luzie von Bülow (1783–1847) in 1802 . Albert Ludwig von Kamptz (* 1810), the youngest son of the couple, died in 1884 as a royal Prussian real secret councilor and district president of Erfurt , dean of the Naumburg cathedral monastery , knight of honor of the Order of St. John and member of the Prussian mansion .

Bernhard Joachim Ulrich von Kamptz (* 1781), the founder of the second branch, died in 1855 as the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz Chamberlain, Oberlanddrost and Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John. His son Karl Ludwig Georg von Kamptz (1808–1870) became royal Prussian secret legation councilor and authorized minister to Hamburg . In 1842 he married Helene Freiin von Schleinitz for the second time . Their daughter, Louise Bernhardine Karoline von Kamptz (* 1841), was the wife of Carl Wilhelm von Zehender (1819-1916), senior medical advisor and professor at the University of Rostock .

Second branch

The founder of the second branch of the first line Joachim Friedrich von Kamptz (* 1742), lord of the Stadthof in the Friedeberg district in the Neumark and later to Rahnisdorf and Buckau in the Schweinitz district , died in 1809 as a ducal captain of Mecklenburg-Schwerin out of service . The three sons from his marriage to Henriette Tugendreich Christiane Freiin von Rechenberg from the House of Schönberg (1749–1807), Karl Heinrich Albert, Hans Wolf and Friedrich August, divided the second branch into three branches in 1772 .

Karl Heinrich Albert von Kamptz (* 1773), the founder of the first branch, died in 1825 as a royal Prussian tax council, senior customs inspector at Naumburg an der Saale and major out of service. He married Louise Karoline Albertine von Kamptz in 1804 and was able to continue the branch with three sons. His son Friedrich Adolf von Kamptz (* 1806) died in 1888 as a royal Prussian city and district judge in Görlitz and his younger brother Kurt Karl von Kamptz (* 1814) died in 1877 as a royal Prussian senior government advisor and lecturer in the Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests as well as member of the Higher Administrative Court .

Hans Wolf von Kamptz (1763–1831), the founder of the second branch, became a Prussian major in the 8th Leib-Infantry Regiment . He left behind a son and a daughter from his marriage to Antoinette von Oertzen (1799–1863) in 1817 .

Gustav Ernst von Kamptz (1763-1823), the founder of the third branch, was the owner of Klein Plasten (until 1785), Rockow and Eickhof (until 1789). He died in 1823 as the ducal chamberlain of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, landdrost and captain of Mirow . His son Georg Eduard Magnus von Kamptz (1791-1854) came from his marriage in 1787 to Sophie Elenore Elisabeth von Holstein (1768–1839), a lady-in-waiting to Princess Christiane von Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Georg Eduard Magnus, Herr auf Zöbelwitz, Kuschwitz, Baesau (until 1848) and Schlatzmann in the district of Freistadt in Silesia and a major in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, married Hedwig von Zülow in 1812 and was able to continue the branch with six sons and four daughters. Four sons served as officers in the Prussian army . The youngest son Wilhelm Mathias Adolf von Kamptz (* 1831) died in 1893 as a Prussian colonel out of service and was most recently in command of the Landwehr district of Sondershausen. His older brother Ludwig Karl Adolf von Kamptz (1820–1890) became a kuk major and last served in the 6th Dragoon Regiment .

Second line

Christoph Altwig von Kamptz († 1688), gentleman on Deven and Plasten, married Agathe Margarethe von Platen from the Granskewitz family around 1645 and founded the second line. Eggart Christoph von Kamptz (1667–1738), the couple's son, Herr auf Devern, left a male offspring Joachim Ernst von Kamptz (1717–1780) from his marriage to Margarethe Dorothea von Bohlen (1671–1730), which he entered into in 1704 . His son August Ernst von Kamptz (* 1757) died in 1817 as a Prussian major general and commander of the Cosel fortress .

Wilhelm Adolf Ernst von Kamptz (1807–1889), August Ernst's only son from his second marriage in 1798 to Karoline Juliane de l'Homme de Courbière (1775–1843), died out of service as a Prussian major general. Most recently he served as Colonel and Commander of the 8th Fortress Artillery Regiment . His first wife Luitgarde Hulda Ferdínande Henriette de l'Homme de Courbière (* 1820), whom he married in 1838, died in 1844. Johanne Ernestine von Velten (* 1825), his second wife, he married in 1846. The couple had four sons and three daughters. Of the daughters, Luitgarde Margarethe Karoline von Kamptz (* 1844) became head of the deaconess house in Frankfurt am Main . Son Oltwig Wilhelm Adolf von Kamptz (1857–1921) was major general and commander of the Imperial Protection Force for Cameroon .

Possessions

The family was in Mecklenburg with Groß and Klein Dratow from 1404, in Gutow from 1406, in Lanckwitz and Rambow from 1444 and in Groß and Kleinplasten from 1450. During the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries Dratow and Sophienhof were added .

The parent company in Pomerania was Pentin (today part of Gützkow ) near Greifswald , an estate that the family still owned in 1640. In the middle of the 19th century, the family in Prussia also owned Schlatzmann in the Glogau district and Nieder Hapersdorf in the Goldberg district .

Family association

A family association was founded on November 1st, 1900.

Postage line

August (* 1811), the natural son of the Prussian major August von Kamptz (1783–1847), as a Prussian lieutenant colonel a. D. , and Wilhelmine Melan from Friedeberg in the Neumark , received a Prussian nobility legitimation on July 8, 1822 in Berlin , with the settlement of his father's name and coat of arms .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a red lily in silver . On the helmet with red-silver helmet covers three (red-silver-red) ostrich feathers.

After 1616, the color of the white or silver feather appears to have been changed to black in the crest ("in memory of the misfortune of 1550") :

“The same thing consists in a red heraldic lily (heavy lily) in a silver French shield; The helmet decoration is made up of three ostrich feathers, the middle one of which is black and the other two are red. The helmet covers are red, silver and black. The colors of the lily and the shield have always been red and silver, the three ostrich feathers on the other hand, according to Levin Kamptz, were still white in 1616 and the helmet covers were white and red ... "

- quoted from Carl Gustav Immanuel von Kamptz: The von Kamptz family. Bärensprungsche Hofdruckerei, Schwerin 1871. p. 38

Heraldic saga

According to tradition, a Duke Johann von Mecklenburg went to Paris to study theology. There he met the Count of Marseille and the Prince of Cyprus, as well as a Count of Henneberg. The young people formed a close alliance of friendship. In order to tie this closer together, Johann promised the first two that he would have two sisters as wives and he himself became engaged to the sister of the Henneberger. After only a year, the Count of Marseille was murdered by his brother and his wife was taken prisoner. A knight of her husband by the name of de Champs freed her from the dungeon and led her back to Mecklenburg. Her brother Johann gave it to the French to be his wife out of gratitude, who changed his name from de Champs to Kamptz and put the lily in his coat of arms in memory of his homeland.

Known family members

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, p. 113.
  2. ↑ Listed and printed by: Carl Gustav Immanuel von Kamptz: The von Kamptz family. Bärensprungsche Hofdruckerei, Schwerin 1871. p. 43
  3. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch 3, pp. 234–235, No. 1866.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Jahrbuch des Deutschen Adels Volume. 2, WT Bruer, Berlin 1898, pp. 206-221.
  5. ↑ New Prussian Adelslexicon Volume 3, pp. 68–69.
  6. ↑ a b New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 5, Page 17
  7. ↑ CGI von Kaptz: The von Kamptz family. See the coat of arms on p. 38f.
  8. ↑ Johann Georg Theodor Grasse : Legends of gender, name and coat of arms of the nobility of the German nation. Reprint-Verlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-8262-0704-1 , pp. 75-76.