Puke (noble family)

Coat of arms of those von Kotze

Kotze , also Cotze, Cozze, Cottze, Cozcze, Koze, Kotzé, Kosse, Kotzschen, Kotzsch or Kotzsche, is the name of an old Upper Saxon - Magdeburg noble family . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

The family first appears in a document in 1112 and then in 1234 with Theodoricus Cozce , or 1243 with Tidericus Kotze , while the line of trunks begins in 1316 with Hermann von Kotze . He was in the Duchy of Magdeburg and in the Merseburg Abbey and between Merseburg and Halle , among others in Ammendorf , Altenhausen , Alvensleben, Beesen , Döllnitz, Dornburg / Elbe , Groß Germersleben (1489-1830), Klein Germersleben , Lodersleben and Klein Oschersleben , Großkugel , Tornau, Parchen considerably wealthy. The family was feudal owners of estates in Kirchscheidungen from 1454 to 1540.

The family's gravestones can be found in the church cemeteries of Lodersleben and Klein-Oschersleben.

The gender of those von Kotze is sometimes confused with the Knutons in Kneschke's " Deutsches Adels-Lexicon " .

coat of arms

The coat of arms from 1592 shows a forward-looking, black-clad man standing in silver with golden hair and a beard. A silver greyhound with a gold collar sits on the helmet with its black and silver blankets.

Known family members

• Jakob Kotze (1590–1606), German liberal arts student at the University of Tübingen
• Hans Wilhelm von Kotze (1802–1885), District President of Köslin 1864/66 and Erfurt 1867/74
• Gustav von Kotze (1806–1880), Prussian lieutenant general
• Gebhard von Kotze (1808-1893), Prussian lieutenant general
• Ludolf von Kotze (1840–1917), manor owner, district administrator and member of the Prussian House of Representatives
• Hugo Hans von Kotze (1843–1921), Prussian lieutenant general
• Leberecht von Kotze (1850–1920), German Chamberlain and Court Ceremony Master Wilhelm II.
• Hermann von Kotze (1851–1925), Prussian lieutenant general
• Stefan von Kotze (1869–1909), adventurer and author of numerous books
• Hans Peter von Kotze (1873–1915), German administrative officer
• Hans Ludolf von Kotze (1876–1952), German administrative officer
• Hans Gebhard von Kotze (1889–1942), German major general
• Hans Ulrich von Kotze (1891–1941), civil servant in the Foreign Office, from 1938 to 1941 envoy in Riga

literature

• George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : Document regests for the history and genealogy of the gentlemen von Kotze. Publishing house E. Baensch jun, 1866.
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 5, Leipzig 1864, p. 254.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN  0435-2408
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). 1905. Sixth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1904, p. 394 ff.

Web links

• The von Kotze family in the Wildenfels Castle Archives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Detailed diplomatic-historical description of the former Primat and Ertz-Stifft, but now secularized by the Westphalian peace treaty, Hertzogthum Magdeburg , Volume I, Halle 1749, p. 813/4.
2. ↑ Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt: Genealogical tables or gender registers: both of the noblest noble families residing in the Saal-Creyse with knight goods as well as of the noblest old and new, partly dead, noble families, patricians and commoner families in Halle , Hall 1750, P. 85.