Kortzfleisch (noble family)
Kortzfleisch is originally from Westphalia derived noble family .
history
The family first appears in a document on September 28, 1460 with Hermann Kotvlesch, councilor of the new town of Herford . The family line begins with Hermann Kotfleisch, councilor and mayor (1539–1549) of the old town of Herford . His grandson Hermann Kotfleisch was the mayor of Osterode in East Prussia and the founder of the East Prussian line, which has been called Kortzfleisch since the middle of the 17th century. A Fanzisus Kortzfleisch was a Prussian councilor and bailiff in Tilsit . His son, Colonel Franz Kortzfleisch († May 17, 1742) was raised to the Prussian nobility on July 27, 1731. He was hereditary lordon chocolates and Jägerberg and also had numerous sons: Franz Friedrich (* 1717), Anton (* 1719), Bernhard (* 1720), Andreas (* 1724), Johann (* 1726), Otto (* 25 February 1729) and Leopold (1732-1804). Leopold died a Prussian colonel.
coat of arms
The coat of arms is divided. A field split by silver and gold at the top shows a black eagle soaring on the right and a red eagle on the left, which together carry a green laurel wreath in their beaks. The split field below shows two silver army drums in blue on the left and two Prussian army drums in green on the right. On the helmet with a black-silver-blue blanket on the right, a red, gold-green blanket on the left, a large laurel wreath, behind the shield two upwardly sloping Prussian standards protrude.
Known family members
- Albert von Kortzfleisch (1801–1866), Prussian lieutenant general
- Albrecht von Kortzfleisch (* 1935), German forest scientist
- August von Kortzfleisch (1811–1890), Prussian major general
- Gert von Kortzfleisch (1921–2007), German professor of economics
- Gustav von Kortzfleisch (1854–1910), Prussian major general
- Harald von Kortzfleisch (* 1962), German economist
- Ida von Kortzfleisch (1850–1915), founder of the Reifenstein schools
- Joachim von Kortzfleisch (1890–1945), German infantry general
- Siegfried von Kortzfleisch (1929–2014), Protestant theologian and editor
- Sophie Eleonore von Kortzfleisch (born von Wuntsch; 1749–1823), German writer
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Noble houses B Volume XV, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1984, pp. 267-279.
- Marcelli Janecki (Red.): Handbook of the Prussian Nobility , Volume 1, ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1892, pp. 283f
- Gustav von Kortzfleisch: History of the von Kortzfleisch family. Limbach, Braunschweig 1896 ( digitized version of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
