Lüderitz (noble family)

Coat of arms of the von Lüderitz

Luderitz is the name of altmärk een Uradelsgeschlechts with the same parent company .

history

The first representative of the family, mentioned in a document on September 30, 1247, was Johannes de Lüderiz . The gender appeared early on in two tribes, the closer connection of which is not clear. Cuno von Lüderitz was governor of the Altmark in 1424 . The family was wealthy in the Altmark and in the rest of the Mark Brandenburg . The Prussian chief forest master Friedrich Wilhelm von Lüderitz received the Prussian Indigenate on November 30, 1703 .

Coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book 1605

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a red, slanted wolf anchor (wolf scythe, part of the wolf tang ) in silver . On the red and silver puffed helmet with such blankets, the anchor fell and set with six ostrich feathers divided by red and silver.

Known family members

Henriette Sophie Christine von Lüderitz, née von Rochow, around 1750, painting by Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski , Rochow Museum Reckahn

Friedrich Ulrich Wilhelm von Lüderitz (1635–1713), Prussian major general, commandant of Küstrin
Hans Erdmann von Lüderitz (1655–1732) Prussian major general
David Hans Christoph von Lüderitz (1699–1756), Prussian major general
Samuel Ludwig von Lüderitz (1699–1778), Prussian envoy to the Swedish court, real secret council and from 1736 president of the semi-urban government
Wilhelm Adolph von Lüderitz († after 1763), Prussian Colonel and leader of the F6 Free Battalion
Karl Friedrich von Lüderitz (1701–1762), Prussian colonel and chief of the Berlin Land Regiment
Karl Ludwig von Lüderitz (1714–1778), Prussian Colonel and Chief of the 2nd Artillery Regiment (Breslau)
Friedrich Wilhelm von Lüderitz (1717–1785), Prussian colonel and master hunter
Hermann von Lüderitz (1814–1889), Prussian lieutenant general and politician, member of the Reichstag and the Prussian House of Representatives
Karl Philipp Lüderitz (1817–1900), Prussian lieutenant general
Otto von Lüderitz (1818–1885), Prussian lieutenant general
Wilhelm von Lüderitz (1828–1882), Prussian major general
Franz Adolf Eduard von Lüderitz (1834–1886), businessman and de facto founder of German South West Africa

literature

Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, p. 96, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISSN 0435-2408 .
Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses . Justus Perthes , Gotha 1919, p. 466ff ( stem series).

Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Nobility Lexicon . Volume 3, Leipzig 1837, p. 315f.

Web links

Entry to family v. Lüderitz in the castle archive
Entry to family v. Lüderitz to the nobility of the Altmark
Coat of arms of the v. Lüderitz in Siebmacher's coat of arms book of 1701, Volume 1, Plate 172 (Cuderitz) and Volume 3, Plate 141 (Lyderitzen)

Individual evidence

^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis. A, V, 36.
^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1865, Volume VI, p. 39.
^ Leopold Freiherr von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Berlin 1856, Volume II, pp. 60-61.
↑ Caspar Abel : Stifft-Stadt- und Land-Chronick of the current Principality of Halberstadt. Bernburg 1754, p. 324, no.11.

[1] Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis. A, V, 36.

[2] Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1865, Volume VI, p. 39.

[3] Leopold Freiherr von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Berlin 1856, Volume II, pp. 60-61.

[4] Caspar Abel : Stifft-Stadt- und Land-Chronick of the current Principality of Halberstadt. Bernburg 1754, p. 324, no.11.