List of the noble families named Meißner

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Meißner is the name of several ennobled families in the German-speaking area.

Meißner from Poland I

Coat of arms of the Polish-Baltic von Meißner ( Baltic Wappenbuch )

According to the “Knight Bank Farewell” of July 18, 1634, the von Meißner family, belonging to the Polish nobility , was enrolled in the second class ( “as proven by seals and letters, that is, documents” ) of the Courland knighthood .

Ledebur noted in his Adelslexikon, published in 1855, that the noble family Meissner in East Prussia was wealthy in " Crummteich (Königsberg) and in Tapiauschen " and denotes them with a prefixed cross as already extinguished, the same information (with the spelling Crumteich ) brings in Meckelburg his draft of a nobility register printed in 1855. The von Meißner family is also described as extinct in the Baltic Book of Arms from 1882.

When Crumteich is an estate in the parish of Schaaken , whose current name is Selenopolje (Зеленополье) and which is 16 km northeast of the city center of Königsberg . The current name of the small town of Tapiau about 40 km east of Koenigsberg in the former Wehlau district is Gwardeisk (Гвардейск).

The coat of arms shows three green rose petals growing fan-shaped from a green hill on a golden background; on the helmet with green-gold covers two of the growing leaves between a golden flight .

Meißner from Poland II

Coat of arms "Lubicz" of the von Meißner ennobled in 1791

The Protestant family begins with Johann Meißner , a banker in Warsaw and a royal Polish Privy Councilor . On December 22, 1791 he received the hereditary Polish nobility. Settled in South Prussia , he received royal Prussian nobility recognition in Berlin on May 9, 1802 .

The coat of arms in the aristocratic letter of 1791 is that of the Polish coat of arms community "Lubicz": In the blue shield there is a horseshoe with a silver cross at the top, open at the bottom and enclosing a silver cross; on the helmet with blue-silver covers three silver ostrich feathers.

Meißner from Transylvania

The Lutheran family, who came from Transylvania , began their lineage with Andreas Meißner , a city doctor in Mediasch, who was documented in 1778 . His son was the naturalist Paul Traugott Meißner (* 1778, † 1864). After the untimely death of his father, his stepfather, the Medias parish priest Johann Wagner († 1830) took care of him. After studying chemistry in Vienna and obtaining a master's degree in pharmacy in Pest , he took over the management of a pharmacy in Kronstadt and married the daughter of the previous owner, Sarah Elisabeth von Langendorf. Finally, he sold the pharmacy and moved with his family to Vienna, where in 1815, at the suggestion of the imperial personal physician, Andreas Joseph Freiherr von Stifft (* 1760; † 1836), he was adjunct and later professor of technical chemistry at the newly established polytechnic institute was appointed. In 1835 he was appointed professor of general chemistry at the polytechnic institute with the “highest resolution” of January 29, 1842, but resigned from the professorship on January 31, 1845. On January 15, 1850, he opened extraordinary lectures on heat at the Polytechnic . Paul Traugott Meißner left a son, one of his daughters was married to the evangelical superintendent Andreas Ritter von Gunesch , the second to the scholar Adam Freiherr von Burg , and the third to the Hofrat, doctor and professor Karl Sigmund von Illanor in Vienna.

His son was the Austrian-Braunschweig railway pioneer Karl Ludwig Meißner (* 1809; † 1868), emeritus professor of building sciences at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig . As a knight of the Iron Crown Order, 3rd class, he was awarded the hereditary Austrian knighthood on March 10, 1866 in Vienna . He left three sons.

The lawyer Friedhelm Ritter von Meißner headed the Schwerte correctional facility from 1990 to 1993 after several years at the former penal institution in Westphalia-Lippe . From 2011 to 2012 he was head of the correctional facility in Bochum . Friedhelm Ritter von Meißner is married and has three grown children.

The coat of arms in the nobility diploma from 1866 shows under a black shield head , inside a growing golden double-headed eagle, a split shield, inside on the right in the blue field on green ground a red-roofed church with a golden cross, on the ridge of which stands a natural-colored stork on the right adjoining tower with tower clock and with a red dome, which is decorated with a golden cross, on the left in the golden field a red diagonal bar covered with three golden stars; Two helmets rest on the shield, on the right with black and gold covers the growing double-headed eagle, on the left with blue and gold covers on the right, red and gold covers on the left, a closed red flight with a sloping beam at the front and blue at the back ; Motto : "Faithful and true".

Meißner from Moravia

Coat of arms of the Meissner von Hohenmeiß, 1916

The Catholic lineage of the Meißner von Hohenmeiß begins its line with Rudolf Meißner , k. u. k. Colonel i. R. He received the imperial Austrian hereditary nobility as "Meißner von Hohenmeiß" by "highest resolution" of December 11, 1916. The nobility diploma was issued on March 18, 1917 in Vienna.

Karl Josef Maria Ferdinand Meißner von Hohenmeiß was born on March 28, 1896 in Olomouc , Moravia . He received his doctorate on April 3, 1922 at the philosophical faculty of the University of Leipzig . Between 1937 and 1944, the University of Leipzig also subsequently revoked academic degrees for political or ideological reasons. Karl Josef Maria Ferdinand Meißner von Hohenmeiß was deprived of his doctoral degree after expatriation by decision of September 21, 1942 due to the loss of German citizenship. In June 1990, the Leipzig Rector apologized on behalf of the Academic Senate for injustices that had occurred over the past decades. In July 2001, the University of Leipzig officially rehabilitated those affected by the depromotions during the Nazi era.

The Hamburger Abendblatt referred to a member of the sex as a "cocaine baroness" in 1985 and announced that the senior citizen was sentenced to five and a half years' imprisonment for smuggling 846 grams of cocaine from Peru to Germany and for trading drugs.

The coat of arms in the nobility letter from 1917 shows in a red shield behind a green three-mountain a seven-pinned golden wall, surmounted by a golden eagle, which holds two slanted swords with golden conceptions in its claws; on the helmet with red and gold covers an open red flight, each wing covered with a flaming gold grenade.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Carl Arvid von Klingspor : Baltisches Wappenbuch; Coats of arms of all noble families belonging to the knights of Livonia, Estonia, Courland and Oesel . Stockholm 1882, p. 82 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Carl Arvid von Klingspor: Baltisches Wappenbuch; Coats of arms of all noble families belonging to the knights of Livonia, Estonia, Courland and Oesel . Stockholm 1882, p. 50 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ TK25 sheet 1189 Powunden (1937). (No longer available online.) In: Kartenarchiv kulomzin.ru (East Prussia holdings). Archived from the original on January 28, 2012 ; Retrieved May 28, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ostpreussen.kulomzin.ru
  4. ↑ TK25 sheet 1392 Tapiau (1936). (No longer available online.) In: Kartenarchiv kulomzin.ru (East Prussia holdings). Archived from the original on January 28, 2012 ; Retrieved May 28, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ostpreussen.kulomzin.ru
  5. ^ Carl Arvid von Klingspor: Baltisches Wappenbuch; Coats of arms of all noble families belonging to the knights of Livonia, Estonia, Courland and Oesel . Stockholm 1882, plate 70 ( digitized )
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Complete Series Volume 113, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg / Lahn 1997, pp. 404-405
  7. ↑ Eugen von Friedenfels :  Meißner, Paul Traugott . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 248-251.
  8. ↑ Eugen von Friedenfels:  Meißner, Karl Ludwig Ritter von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 245 f.
  9. ^ Message from the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia on January 31, 2011: Friedhelm Ritter von Meißner new director of the Bochum prison .
  10. ^ After the series of outbreaks: Head of the Bochum prison suspended. In: Spiegel Online . February 24, 2012, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Leipzig University Archives : Philosophical Faculty: Note on doctoral files Meißner von Hohenmeiß, Ferdinand (PDF; 74 kB)
  12. ↑ Leipzig University Archives : Revocation of academic degrees in National Socialism, Leipzig: 1937 to 1944  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archiv.uni-leipzig.de  
  13. ^ Cocaine baroness convicted . ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 30, 1985 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / suche.abendblatt.de