Maschwitz (family name)

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Maschwitz is a family name that can be traced in central Germany , around Leipzig and in Silesia , and a place after which the name bearers were named.

origin of the name

The settlement name is derived from a Slavic proper name and developed from forms such as Mas (ovici), Masuiz, Maswiz and Maschewitz to the final form Maschwitz. The village of the same name Maschwitz is now part of the village of Oppin in the town of Landsberg in the Saale district . The three Central German settlements / desolations Maschwitz near Nempitz (archaeological excavations from the 11th century), Maschwitz near Storkwitz (1180) and Maaschwitz near Leisnig an der Mulde also fall within the same period of establishment. The earliest name evidence dates from 1156 from a handover certificate from Margrave Conrad the Great before he went to the monastery in 1156 at the Petersberg monastery near Halle (Saale). In 1441 the name is documented in its current spelling.

Name bearer

  • Georg Eduard Maschwitz (1838–1909), German-Argentine banker.
  • Carlos Maschwitz (1862–1910; second son of Georg Eduard), engineer, was handed over the construction management for the railway line Buenos Aires - Córdoba in 1901. In recognition of his achievements, the Ingeniero Maschwitz station was named after him on this route . It developed into a city and is now a suburb of Buenos Aires . In 1910 he became Minister of Construction, but died in an accident that same year.
  • Eric Maschwitz (1901–1969), entertainer, 1947 head of BBC London
  • Ulrich Maschwitz (1937–2018), German ecologist, behavioral biologist and university lecturer in zoology

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festschrift for the 800 - year - celebration of the place Nempitz with the title "Wüstung Maschwitz rediscovered?
  2. ^ Alfred Schmekel - Historical topographical description of the Merseburg bishopric, 1858
  3. ^ Paul Kehr: Document book of the Hochstift Merseburg
  4. ^ Document dated January 8, 1246, Saxon Main State Archives Dresden, DCM 50
  5. ^ Gustav Hertel, The Halleschen Grund- und Schöffenbücher (1266-1460), 1882

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