Kessel (Thuringian noble family)

Family coat of arms of those of Kessel

Kessel is the name of an old noble family from Thuringia who first appeared in a document with Erich Kessil in 1388. The name changed between Keßeler , Keßlar and Kessel .

history

The direct family line begins with Klaus von Keßler († 1443), Gutsherr auf Zeutsch (today a district of Uhlstädt-Kirchhasel ) and Schwarza (today a district of Rudolstadt ) and Zinsherr in Keßlar (today a district of Blankenhain ).

Nobility uprisings

• Prussian count conditions on February 9, 1774 Berlin for Carl Wilhelm von Kessel , royal Prussian lieutenant in Cuirassier - Regiment "from Schlabrendorff" .
• Prussian baron on September 18, 1873 with a diploma from September 28, 1873 in Berlin as "von Kessel und Zeutsch" , primogenitur and linked to the property of Fideikommiss Raake in the district of Oels ( Lower Silesia ), for the state elder Georg von Kessel , Fideikommissherr auf Raake .

coat of arms

• The family coat of arms shows in blue a golden hunting horn (medieval shape: Hifthorn with ribbon) over three (2: 1) golden stars. On the helmet with blue and gold covers, a gold star between two natural stag sticks .
• The count's coat of arms from 1774 has the same shield as the family coat of arms. Shield holders are two crowned eagles standing against one another .
• The baron's coat of arms from 1873 has the same shield as the family coat of arms. Shield holders are two natural hunting falcons with golden tied brown caps, which are equipped with three (blue-gold-blue) ostrich feathers .

Known family members

Epitaph Heinrich von Kessel (Orlamünde City Church)

• Albrecht von Kessel (1902–1976), German diplomat, brother Friedrich von Kessels
• Bernhard von Kessel (1817–1882), Prussian infantry general, adjutant general to Kaiser Wilhelm I.
• Emil von Kessel (1804–1870), Prussian major general
• Eugen von Kessel (1890–1934), German news office manager
• Friedrich von Kessel (1896–1975), German politician
• Guido von Kessel (1832–1903), manor owner and member of the German Reichstag
• Gustav von Kessel (General, 1760) (1760–1827), Prussian lieutenant general
• Gustav von Kessel (General, 1797) (1797–1857), Prussian major general
• Gustav von Kessel (General, 1846) (1846–1918), Prussian Colonel General
• Hans von Kessel (General) (1867–1945), German major general
• Hans von Kessel (journalist) (1894–1973), German journalist and political activist
• Julie boiler (born 1973), journalist and ZDF - editor , sister of Sophie von Kessel
• Julius Leopold Albert von Kessel (1830–1915), Prussian lieutenant general
• Kurt von Kessel (1862–1921), manor owner and member of parliament
• Kurt von Kessel (chemist) (1925–1995), doctor of natural sciences , chemist / researcher
• Maximilian von Kessel (1885–1945), cloth manufacturer in Cottbus
• Mortimer von Kessel (1893–1981), German general of the tank troops in World War II
• Silvius von Kessel (* 1965), Erfurt cathedral organist
• Sophie von Kessel (* 1968), German actress

See also

• Boiler (family name)

literature

• Christiane von Kessel and Zeutsch: von Kessel, pictures and reports. Darmstadt 1979.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN  0435-2408
• Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Second volume, published by WT Bruer, Berlin 1898, p. 232.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Dresden, documents no.4647