Small worries (noble family)
The von Kleinsorgen family is a German noble family.
history
The lineage of the family, originally from the county of Lippe , begins with Cord Kleinsorge († before 1476), who was enfeoffed with the Lippehof in Lemgo in 1464 . The Brandenburg secret chamber councilor Heinrich Balthasar Kleinsorgen was raised to the imperial nobility on May 3, 1698 , as was Johann Philipp Kleinsorgen, Wolfgang Wilhelm Kleinsorgen and Ida Wilhelmina Kleinsorgen, the children of the deceased electoral Cologne judge to Werl Caspar Kleinsorgen. Johann Wolfgang von Baptist Kleinsorgen, front Austrian postmaster in Freiburg i. Br., Was raised to the Austrian baron status in 1792 , Maximilian von Kleinsorgen, Fideikommissherr at Gut Schüren, to the Prussian baron status in 1846.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms of those von Kleinsorgen shows a golden Drudenfuß in red and was modified with later noble elevations and improvements. The coat of arms of the Prussian barons of Kleinsorgen (1846) is quartered and shows a black dog foot in gold at the top right, a red lion at the top left, an imperial orb with a red heart in black at the bottom right, and a black wing in gold at the bottom left.
Known members
- Gerhard von Kleinsorgen (1530–1591), electoral Cologne scholar and historian
- Karl von Kleinsorgen (1829–1889), politician, member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the North German Reichstag
- Adolf von Kleinsorgen (1834–1903), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
- Christoph von Kleinsorgen (* 1980), German racing cyclist
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility. Volume 91: Adelslexikon VI. Limburg an der Lahn 1987, p. 268.
- The Wickede farm and the family (von) Kleinsorgen. Association for history and home care Wickede (Ruhr), May 1984, No. 5, pp. 4–21.
