Magnus (noble family)

The barons of Magnus are a noble Prussian family. Friedrich Martin Magnus (1796–1869) received the Prussian nobility on March 2, 1853 and was also given the status of baron on December 18, 1868 .

The family came through the F. Mart banking house. Magnus to wealth and was the owner of the Kuhna , Tielitz and Wendisch-Ossig estates in the Görlitz district (today Gmina Zgorzelec ) as well as Upper and Lower Oelsa in the Rothenburg district in Prussian Silesia and Drehsa in the Kingdom of Saxony .

coat of arms

Divided across, a six-pointed gold star in blue above, four silver stakes in black below. The barons crown: the crowned helmet with a blue and gold cover on the right and a black and silver cover on the left. He wears a black eagle that looks to the right and is also armored between two buffalo horns, the right blue of which is covered with the six-pointed golden star, the left is divided nine times by black and silver.

Known family members

• Friedrich Martin Magnus (1796–1869), head of the bank
• Anton Iwan von Magnus (1821–1882), envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary minister at the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgischer Hof ⚭ Helene von Brünnow († January 23, 1859)
• Viktor Karl von Magnus (1830–1872), British Consul General, head of the bank ⚭ 1866 Christine Magnus, daughter of Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802–1870)
• Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802–1870), physicist ( Magnus effect )
• Eduard Magnus (1799–1872), painter

literature

• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. to the year 1872 p. 412ff , 1873 p. 424f , 1893 p. 559f.