Lucius (noble family)
Lucius is the name of a Thuringian family, the direct line of which began with Andreas Lucius in Seehausen near Frankenhausen . His son Jacob Lucius acquired in 1691 in Erfurt , the civil rights , Johann Anton Lucius (1742-1810) founded the Erfurt 1763 textile factory of the same name .
Nobility uprisings
Prussian nobility as "von Lucius" (unlimited) and Prussian baron as "Lucius von Ballhausen", hereditary to the successor in the possession of the Fideikommiss Klein-Ballhausen to be founded and then according to the right of the firstborn ( primogenitur ) to this property, or as " Lucius von Stoedten ”, for the successor in possession of the Fideikommiss to be founded of the manor Stoedten (southeast of Schwerstedt ) with the Gut Groß-Ballhausen and hereditary to this property on May 5, 1888 at Charlottenburg Palace for Robert Lucius as landlord at Groß- and Klein-Ballhausen and Rittergut Stödten in Thuringia, royal Prussian State Minister and Minister for Agriculture, Domains and Forests as well as Lieutenant Colonel of the Landwehr - Cavalry .
coat of arms
- Family coat of arms: In red two silver pikes swimming right on top of each other. On the helmet with red-silver ceiling , an open, silver and red diagonally split flight . Motto: Non dormire .
- Coat of arms from 1888: divided; above in silver a six-spoke red wheel , below the family coat of arms . On the helmet with red and silver covers an open flight, divided across the corner by silver and red. Motto: Non dormire .
Name bearer
- Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten (1869–1934), later Hellmuth Freiherr Lucius von Ballhausen, German envoy
- Otto Freiherr Lucius von Ballhausen (1867–1932), Prussian district administrator
- Robert Freiherr Lucius von Ballhausen (1835–1914), Prussian Minister of Agriculture
- Robert von Lucius (* 1949), German correspondent
- Wulf D. von Lucius (* 1938), publisher of Lucius & Lucius Verlagsgesellschaft and honorary professor at the University of Hohenheim
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Page 79, Volume 113 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0813-2
- Robert Voigt: Family tree of the Lucius family , Berlin 1883
- Robert Freiherr Lucius von Ballhausen : The Erfurt family Sebastian Lucius , Berlin 1894 with addendum 1902
- Robert von Lucius : The Erfurt family Lucius , in: Erfurter Heimatbrief No. 37 (1978), page 28-37
