Merkatz (noble family)
Merkatz (sometimes also Meerkatz ) is the name of a German noble family .
history
The first representative of this generation, which was on September 28, 1737 Colonel of artillery Johann Friedrich von Merkatz (1698-1763) for his services by King Friedrich Wilhelm I to the Order of De la Générosité excellent and at the same time in the personal nobility raised . As a coat of arms, he received a damascene shield resting on two golden cannon tubes, inside a mortar on a golden carriage .
His brother, the Prussian major Joachim Wilhelm von Merkatz and his son, the then Prussian captain Johann Friedrich Ludolf von Merkatz , were raised to the hereditary nobility on November 9, 1770 for the services rendered by Frederick II during the war and received today's family coat of arms . His adoptive son, a Prussian staff captain in the field artillery corps , was subsequently elevated to the nobility by Friedrich Wilhelm II on December 31, 1791 as Karl Pfendner von Merkatz ; his descendants are listed as "Merkatz of the Pfendner tribe". The Federal Minister a. D. Hans-Joachim von Merkatz ( DP / CDU ) is his great-grandson.
coat of arms
Argent, a green lawn on sitting and chained monkey ( Monkey ), holding a red apple. On the helmet with blue and silver blankets a growing red-clad virgin with a green diamond wreath in her right hand.
Known family members
- Johann Friedrich von Merkatz (Colonel) (1698–1763), Prussian Colonel
- Johann Friedrich von Merkatz (1729–1815), Prussian lieutenant general
- Karl Pfendner von Merkatz (1759–1823), Prussian major general
- Felix von Merkatz (1861–1940), German major general
- Friedrich von Merkatz (1876–1949), major in the Reichswehr Ministry, author
- Hans-Joachim von Merkatz (1905–1982), German politician and Federal Minister ( DP / CDU )
literature
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Genealogical manual of the nobility . Limburg / Lahn, CA Starke Verlag
- B 1, 1954, pp. 290-295.
- B 10, 1972, pp. 305-311.
- Nobility Lexicon . Volume 8, 1997, pp. 446-447.
- Genealogical paperback of the knight and noble families. Brno 1890.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the letter aristocratic houses . Justus Perthes , Gotha 1911, pp. 630-632.
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Nobility Lexicon . Volume 3, p. 385.
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Nobility Lexicon. Volume 5, p. 327. Coat of arms of Colonel Merkatz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873 , Berlin 1874
- ↑ 644 [632] - M - Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses - page - digital collections - digital collections. In: digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .