Luckner (noble family)
The family of the Counts von Luckner comes from Cham in the Upper Palatinate and is of bourgeois origin. It was raised to the Danish baron status in 1778 and the Danish count status in 1784 .
history
The progenitor of the family is Johann Jacob Luckner , citizen, hop trader and city treasurer in Cham, who was mentioned in a document in 1681 and died in Cham in 1707. With him the uninterrupted line of the family begins . His son was the Cham innkeeper, beer brewer and hops trader Samuel Luckner.
The family owes their rise to the nobility to their son Johann Nikolaus Luckner , who was raised to the status of Danish baron on April 22, 1778 under the granting of the Danish nobility naturalization. After serving in the military, he had served first in the Bavarian, then in the Hanoverian and finally in the French army up to Marshal of France . After he had acquired several estates in Holstein, he was raised to the hereditary Danish count on March 31, 1784. The Catholic Luckner had married a Protestant Dutch woman (née de Cypres), which made the family Protestant. On August 31, 1787 Luckner's brother Franz Luckner and nephew Sebastian Luckner were raised to the nobility of the Electoral Palatinate.
The family owned the goods Blumendorf (1761-1827) and Schulenburg (since 1763, with the Krummbek estate sold in 1803 ) near Oldesloe and Depenau near Preetz (1783-1838) in Schleswig-Holstein . The Schulenburg estate is still owned by the family, but the manor house built in 1912 was sold in 1968.
In addition, family members owned manors in Saxony from 1850: Großdittmannsdorf , Altfranken and an estate in Pennrich . Felix Graf v., Who later became known as "Seeteufel" spent there . Luckner his childhood.
coat of arms
The coat of arms from 1784 is quartered and covered with a heart shield split by black and blue, inside a golden rafter and 6 iron balls lying on top of one another in the shield base; Fields 1 and 4 in silver an upright natural artillery mortar, 2 and 3 in red a silver lion, in his paws a Danebrog flag on the pole.
Well-known namesake
- Count Johann Nikolaus von Luckner (1722–1794), Marshal of France, guillotined in 1794
- Count Johann Heinrich Wilhelm von Luckner (1805–1865), royal Danish chamberlain, court hunter, embassy attaché in Paris and consul general of the Hanseatic cities, builder of the Old Franconia Palace near Dresden
- Count Nikolaus Rudolf Gustav Felix von Luckner (1849–1902), royal Saxon chamberlain, lieutenant colonel
- Julius Ludwig Ferdinand Nikolaus Graf Luckner (1859-1893)
- Felix Graf von Luckner (1881–1966), naval officer and writer
- Heinrich Graf von Luckner (1891–1970), painter, professor at the Berlin School of Fine Arts
- Nikolaus Graf von Luckner (1894–1966) Major General
- Wolf Graf von Luckner (1896–1971), major general
- Ernst-Günther von Luckner (1919–1993), monastery provost in Uetersen
- Hubertus Graf von Luckner (* 1954), commander of the Order of St. John, provost of the monastery in Uetersen
Web links
literature
- Werner Fritzsche: From the family history of Count Luckner. Dresden 2010 .
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, pp. 83-84, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISSN 0435-2408
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VIII, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997
- ↑ Source: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume G XII, 1988, p. 300
- ^ Gut Schulenburg
- ↑ Fritzsche, Werner. The Counts of Luckner at Castle Altfranken and from the Pennrich estate . Dresden, 2006.