Mutius (noble family)
Mutius is the name of an aristocratic Silesian family that still exists today.
history
The family is said to originally come from Italy and has been in imperial service since the 16th century . Philipp Jakob von Mutius auf Rohndorf distinguished himself as an imperial cavalry officer and received a letter of arms from Emperor Matthias around 1615 . Members of the sex were also in the Hanoverian and French military services.
Franz Josef von Mutius (* 1704 in Glogau , † 1788 in Berthelsdorf ), court and judiciary as well as chancellor of the cathedral monastery in Breslau , was after he was under Emperor Karl VI. had already been royal Bohemian fiscal in the hereditary principalities of Schweidnitz, Jauer and Liegnitz , conferred the Prussian nobility by the Prussian King Friedrich II in a letter of nobility dated December 30, 1745 . He acquired Altwasser ( Stary Zdrój ) in 1751 .
Many of his 17 children died early; Josef Bernhard von Mutius (1751–1816) became a judicial advisor and state elder and increased the family's holdings considerably. In the county of Glatz he acquired the dominions Seitenberg ( Stronie Śląskie ) and Gellenau ( Jeleniów ), and in the Neumark the manor Kertschütz and Wüstung. At the accession to the throne of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. he represented the Principality of Schweidnitz in the hereditary homage in Berlin for the estates . He died unmarried. Johann Karl Jakob von Mutius (* July 25, 1758; † May 13, 1816), lord of Börnchen and Thomaswaldau became major general of the cavalry, planted the family in his marriage, entered into Oels on October 13, 1788 with Charlotte Friederike, née. Freiin von Lühow (* December 23, 1758 in Neuwied ; † September 4, 1811 in Börnchen) continued. His children, including Karl von Mutius (1790-1858), heir to the property of Josef Bernhard von Mutius, were baptized Protestants. His youngest brother Franz Josef Karl von Mutius (* November 2, 1765 - December 17, 1849), lord of Berthelsdorf, Thiemendorf, Maureck, Kumern, Bischdorf, Eilau, Niklasdorf and Preilsdorf, chamberlain and landscape director of the principalities of Schweidnitz and Jauer had from his marriage, concluded in Breslau on July 8, 1789 with Wilhelmine, b. Kracker von Schwartzenfeldt (* November 6, 177 - May 5, 1829) descendants.
In the 19th century, members of the family held the office of elder of the principalities of Schweidnitz and Jauer and often held high Prussian military posts. Hans von Mutius (1825–1883) on Gellenau married Gerta von Bethmann-Hollweg (* 1831), a daughter of Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg . The brothers Max (1865–1942) and Gerhard von Mutius (1872–1934) came from this marriage .
Gellenau remained in the family's possession until 1945. The last family members, including Dagmar von Mutius and Gerta Scharffenorth , were only expelled from there in autumn 1946.
The Prussian Rittmeister Eugen von Mutius came into possession of all the former goods of his grandfather, Count Gottlob Sigismund von Zedlitz-Leipe , namely Rosenthal, Mörschelwitz, Christelwitz and Bankwitz in the Schweidnitz district and Albrechtsdorf in the Breslau district, after his mother Louise von Mutius Born Countess von Zedlitz-Leipe († 1864) already inherited the goods Bankwitz and Christelwitz from her brother and he himself inherited the goods Rosenthal and Mörschelwitz in 1851 through the death of his uncle's widow.
Possessions
- Altwasser, Bärengrund, Bischdorf, Eilau, Kertschütz,
- Berthelsdorf, Thiemendorf, Maureck, Kumern, Bischdorf, Eilau, Niklasdorf and Preilsdorf
- Henndorf desert
- In County Glatz :
- Lordship of Plomnitz , Kieslingswalde and Alt Waltersdorf
- Seitenberg rule with Biehlendorf , Kamnitz , Gompersdorf , Johannesberg , Klessengrund , Alt - and Neu-Mohrau , Mühlbach , Schreckendorf and Wilhelmsthal .
- Gellenau rule with Groß Georgsdorf , Klein Georgsdorf , Sackisch , Järker , Tanz , Tassau and the Blasewey colony (from 1945 Błażejów )
coat of arms
The coat of arms, awarded in 1615, shows a shield that is divided from blue to red by a silver oblique left bar . All in all, a perfect, jumping horse without bridle with a raised tail. The shield is covered by an open knightly tournament helmet, tarnished in blue and lined in red, with five golden temples and attached uniform jewel , also covered with an alternately silver and blue twisted bead , from which a half-leaping silver horse protrudes between two eagle wings , of which the right one is silver and the left one is blue. The helmet covers are silver and blue on both sides.
The coat of arms, awarded in 1745, shows a jumping white, unbridled horse within a golden shield border in the field divided from blue to red by a slanted silver bar. On the crowned helmet with blue and silver blankets a jumping white horse between open flight, silver in front and blue in the back.
Heraldic representations
Coat of arms (1745) according to the Silesian Wappenbuch (1847)
Mutius coat of arms seal with baron crown
Known family members
- Johann Karl von Mutius (1758–1816), Prussian major general , father of Louis
- Louis von Mutius (1796–1866), Prussian general of the cavalry
- Peter von Mutius (1828–1904), Prussian major general
- Wilhelm von Mutius (1832–1918), Prussian lieutenant general
- Albert von Mutius (1862–1937), Prussian lieutenant general
- Maximilian von Mutius (1865–1942), Prussian major general
- Gerhard von Mutius (1872–1934), diplomat
- Theodor von Mutius (1909–1977), German flotilla admiral
- Gerta Scharffenorth , b. von Mutius (* 1912), political scientist and theologian
- Bernhard Ludwig von Mutius (1913–1979), Secretary of the German People's Congress
- Albrecht von Mutius (1915–1985), Protestant theologian
- Carl von Mutius (* 1918), officer and press officer at the German UN mission in Geneva
- Dagmar von Mutius (1919–2008), writer
- Franz von Mutius (1925–2011), administrative lawyer
- Albert von Mutius (* 1942), legal scholar
- Bernhard von Mutius (* 1949), philosopher and social scientist
- Hans-Georg von Mutius (* 1951), Judaist
- Erika von Mutius (* 1957), doctor and university professor
literature
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian nobility lexicon or genealogical and diplomatic news from the princely, countless, baronial and aristocratic houses residing in the Prussian monarchy or related to it, indicating their descent, property, coat of arms and that of them emerged civil and military figures, heroes, scholars and artists . Volume 3: I-O. Leipzig: Reichenbach 1842, pp. 438–441. ( Digitized version )
- Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian Nobility. Volume 2, Berlin: Mittler 1893, pp. 441-446 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , Neues Prussisches Adelslexicon , Volume III, Leipzig 1837, p. 439
- ^ Ducker Collection : Rosenthal ( Memento of the original dated June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ After Zedlitz (lit.), p. 438.
