Lossow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Lossow

Lossow , also Lossau or Lossaw , is the name of a traditional Brandenburg aristocratic family . The family whose branches are in part to today's tribal akin same two letter noble branches. Two lines were due to adoptions in the 18th century and 19th century ennobled .

history

origin

The family is first mentioned in documents in 1208 with Henricus de Lozstowe . The uninterrupted line of trunks begins with the miles ( lat. Soldier , warrior, in the Middle Ages also knight) Petzko (Petrus) de Lossowe on Gramzow . He was the margravial councilor of Brandenburg and is mentioned in documents from 1300 to 1323.

Grave slab of Hans von Lossow (1523–1605) in Magdeburg Cathedral (destroyed in 1945)
Otto von Lossow (1868–1938)

According to Kneschke , Lossow near Frankfurt an der Oder had been the family's original headquarters since 1305 . It appears for the first time in a document in 1328. In 1438 the Lossows sold the village and the Freihof to the Frankfurt patrician Rakow . According to other sources, the family is from Lostau at Moser in Jerichower Land and was descended related to the noble family von Katte who Gesamtlehn sat and together with the Old Klitsche and Wust were wealthy.

Spread and personalities

Members of the family settled in Silesia early on . Ludwigsdorf and Bankau near Kreuzburg in Upper Silesia and Niedwitz and Starpel in the former Duchy of Glogau were among their oldest possessions. Otto von Lossow appears around 1320 as one of the most distinguished councilors of Duke Konrad von Oels. Tasso von Lossow († around 1354), presumably a son of Otto, also rendered important services to the duke.

Johann (Hans) von Lossow (* 1523), Lord of Luckeln and Bresa, was Commander of the Teutonic Order in Buzow in 1578. He died in 1605 as land commander and governor of the Saxon Ballei . Petrus Lossovinus von Lossau († 1616) was prelate and canon in the cathedral monastery of St. Johannis in Breslau . Caspar von Lossow was captain of the Silesian dukes and estates. He distinguished himself in a battle against the Poles in 1623. Bernhard von Lossow was lord of Ludwigsdorf at the beginning of the 18th century and was able to continue the line with four sons and two daughters. His son Caspar Heinrich von Lossow became a resident of the Pless estate and married Maria von Larisch and Ellguth. Georg Wilhelm von Lossow, their son together, became an imperial captain.

Johann Georg von Lossow was a royal Polish lieutenant colonel and a royal Prussian administrator of the Oletzko office . Matthias Ludwig von Lossow, born in 1717, came from his marriage to Johanne Constanze von Zastrow from the House of Bankau. In 1734 he joined the Prussian von Glasenapp regiment and took part in all of Frederick the Great's campaigns. In 1782 he retired as lieutenant general and died unmarried a year later.

Daniel Friedrich von Lossow from the house of Niedewitz (1721–1783) joined the "von Natzmer" hussar regiment at the age of 20 and was promoted to colonel in 1761 . He stood in high favor with King Frederick II., Who gave him out of gratitude a precious, with diamonds studded snuffbox presented. He took part in all campaigns during the Second Silesian War , the Seven Years War and the War of the Bavarian Succession and received the order Pour le Mérite after the battle at Pretsch (October 29, 1759) . He became chief of the Bosniak Corps and the Black Hussar Regiment and took his leave in 1781 as Lieutenant General. Since his marriage to Sophie Elenore von Zedmar remained childless, he adopted Johann Christoph Koehler, Prime Lieutenant in the Bosniak Corps ( see also: Briefadelige Linien).

Members of the family served in numerous other German states during the 18th and 19th centuries, where they gained property and reputation. Gustav Heinrich von Lossow, royal Bavarian customs inspector in Bremen , was in the nobility of the July 27, 1876 Adelsmatrikel registered in the Kingdom of Bavaria, also on 20 February 1877, the brothers Oskar von Lossow, Mayor of Lindau , Louis von Lossow, royal Bavarian Captain and company commander in the 11th Infantry Regiment , and Adolf von Lossow, royal Bavarian captain in the general staff, as well as their cousin Hans von Lossow, royal Bavarian Oberpost- und Bahnamtsoffizial. The royal Bavarian second lieutenant in the 7th Infantry Regiment Maximilian von Lossow was on December 14, 1886, Ludwig von Lossow, merchant in Hof , on July 14, 1910, and Walter von Lossow, pastor in Sulzbürg , on April 21, 1916 in the aristocratic class in Kingdom of Bavaria enrolled.

On August 3, 1904, Ludwig von Lossow, the royal Saxon major general and commander of the Königstein Fortress , received an entry in the royal Saxon register of nobility under the number 118 .

A family association was founded in Berlin on November 23, 1940 .

Postage-like lines

Johanna and Elenore, the natural daughters of Friedrich von Lossow, royal Prussian major in the "von Suter" hussar regiment , received a Prussian nobility legitimation in Berlin on March 16, 1799 with the settlement of their father's name and coat of arms.

The son of Johann Heinrich Koehler, who appeared as a citizen and merchant in Rhoden in the Principality of Waldeck in 1733 , Johann Christoph Koehler, royal Prussian lieutenant in the Bosniak Corps, received the Prussian nobility on May 6, 1777 in Berlin as Koehler called von Lossow . He was also the adoptive son of the royal Prussian major general and head of the Bosniak Corps Daniel Friedrich von Lossow, whose marriage remained childless. The coat of arms awarded is similar to Lossow's, but shows the lynx in front of an upright blue lance.

The royal Prussian lieutenant colonel a. D. Leopold Kopka, son of Christoph Kopka (* 1731), royal Prussian cavalry master in the Bosniak regiment , received the Prussian nobility as Kopka von Lossow in Berlin on October 2, 1823 . He was the adoptive son of the royal Prussian major out of service Alexander Koehler called von Lossow and since then has carried the coat of arms of the ancient Lossow, which shows the lynx in front of a blue-tarnished lance with a blue shaft.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows an upright natural lynx in the shield, which is divided by silver and red diagonally to the left . On the helmet with red-silver covers, the lynx between two buffalo horns divided by silver and red across the corner (occasionally in front of six alternating red and silver cock or ostrich feathers).

Known family members

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : Regesta Archiepiscopatus Magdeburgensis. 2. Theil, Magdeburg 1881. p. 133. No. 320.
  2. ↑ a b c d Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, pp. 62–63.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 6, p. 17.
  4. ↑ lossow-ff.de
  5. ↑ altmarkadel.de
  6. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, p. 356.
  7. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, pp. 416–417