Manstein (noble family)

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Manstein is the name of an old Prussian noble family that produced many high officers and generals from the 18th to the 20th century.

Coat of arms of those von Manstein

history

origin

The family appears for the first time in a document in 1308 and 1311 with Mansto, nobilis de Samethia ( Samaiten ), the Bishop Eberhard von Ermland on April 24, 1321 confirmed the possession of 25 Hufen Landes in Schardeniten (Schardenigk near Seeburg ).

According to Zedlitz-Neukirch , the von Manstein were related to the von Steinmann family.

Personalities

Important personalities emerged from the family, who achieved the highest dignity, especially as officers in the Prussian army .

Ernst Sebastian von Manstein (* 1678) died in 1747 as an imperial Russian lieutenant general and governor of Reval . The son Christoph Hermann von Manstein (* 1711) came from his marriage to a daughter from the von Ditmar family . Like his father, he was initially in Russian service, but entered Prussian service in 1745 and died in 1757 as a Prussian major general . Leopold Sebastian von Manstein (1717–1777) was promoted to chief of the cuirassier regiment "von Horn" in 1762 and promoted to major general in 1764. He received the highest Prussian order of bravery Pour le Mérite from King Friedrich II . In 1768 his king gave him the administration of Tilsit and in 1770 that of Cöslin .

Gustav von Manstein (* 1805), a descendant of the aforementioned Christoph Hermann, became lieutenant general and commander of the 6th division in 1863 . In 1866 he received the order Pour le Mérite for his services during the German-Danish and German wars. In 1867 he became the commanding general of the IX. Army Corps and promoted to General of the Infantry in 1868 . For his success in the Franco-Prussian War , he received a grant of 100,000 thalers. In 1873 he said goodbye and died in 1877. Albrecht Gustav was the adoptive grandfather of Erich von Lewinski, known as von Manstein (1887–1973), Field Marshal General in World War II .

Possessions

Around 1700 the von Manstein family owned the Juckstein estate in the former Ragnit district . In 1727, relatives to Kaukern in the district of Insterburg and to Thomsdorf in the district of Preußisch Eylau were wealthy. In 1747 Laack in Estonia was owned by the von Manstein family and in 1781 Eichstädt in the Osthavelland district in Brandenburg , Fuchswinkel near Neisse and Kaschewen near Wohlau in Silesia . For a time, Pudliszki in the Kröben district in the province of Posen was owned or partially owned by the family.

coat of arms

The divided coat of arms shows above in red (also in gold) a growing red-banded silver (also black) dog, below with red and silver sheathed. The dog growing on the helmet with the red and silver blankets .

  • Variant of the coat of arms of those von Manstein

  • Variant of the coat of arms of those von Manstein

Known family members

literature

Web links

Commons : Manstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle of Peter von Dusburg in Scriptores rerum Prussicarum 1. pp. 174–177.
  2. ↑ Original in the Episcopal Archives Frauenburg / Codex diplom. Warmensis 1, no.208.
  3. ^ A b New Prussian nobility lexicon. Volume 3, pp. 350-352.
  4. ^ New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 6, pp. 121-122.
  5. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series.