Klitzing (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Klitzing

Demerthin Castle , Prignitz (Brandenburg), owned by the family from 1468–1945

Klitzing is the name of an old medieval noble family .

history

The sex appears first documented in 1265 with dominus Henricus Clizing and begins 1371 regular series with Beteke Clizing .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three (2: 1) silver-topped red Tatar caps in gold . On the helmet with the red and gold blankets stands a growing Tatar body in red robe with silver lapels and a cap like in a shield.

Name bearer

• Hans Caspar von Klitzing (1594–1644), Swedish lieutenant general
• Georg Ernst von Klitzing (1698–1759), Prussian major general
• Karl Kuno Ludwig von Klitzing (1728–1785), Prussian major general
• Adolphine von Klitzing (1772–1844), writer
• Friedrich von Klitzing (1779–1844), Prussian officer and composer, involved in the mysterious disappearance of the British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst in Perleberg in 1809 , which in turn was writers such as Robert Heinlein ( Elsewhen ), H. Beam Piper ( He Walked Around The Horses ) and R Lionel Fanthorpe ( Time Echo ) inspired
• Max von Klitzing (1815–1902), landowner and member of the German Reichstag
• Leberecht von Klitzing (1822–1899), German manor owner and member of the German Reichstag
• Leberecht von Klitzing (1827–1895), German manor owner and member of the Prussian House of Representatives
• Wilhelm von Klitzing (1828–1894), Prussian district administrator of the Lublinitz district , governor of the province of Silesia
• Richard von Klitzing (1842–1907), infantry general
• Georg von Klitzing (1847–1922), landowner, lawyer and politician
• Hans von Klitzing (1854–1930), politician, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
• Günther von Klitzing (1857–1902), Prussian district administrator for the Striegau district
• Henning von Klitzing (1859–1927), President of the Chamber of Agriculture of Silesia, District Administrator
• Bogislaw von Klitzing (1861–1942), Prussian district administrator and general landscape director in the province of Posen
• Leberecht von Klitzing (1872–1945), German rear admiral
• Hans-Henning von Klitzing (1885–1964), Prussian district administrator and government vice-president
• Lebrecht von Klitzing (* 1939), German medical physicist , brother of Klaus von Klitzing
• Klaus von Klitzing (* 1943), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• Kai von Klitzing (* 1954), child and youth psychiatrist

literature

• Georg Schmidt : The von Klitzing family, vol. 1, Charlottenburg 1891
• Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Year book of the German nobility , Volume 2, 1898, published by WT Bruer, p. 266 - digitized
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, page 289, Volume 91 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN  0435-2408

Web links

Commons : Klitzing family  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the von Klitzing family

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch , No. 1054; Gercken , Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , Vol. 1, Salzwedel 1769, p. 47