Oppen (noble family)
Oppen is the name of an old Upper Saxon - Brandenburg noble family .
history
The family first appears in a document with the knight Konrad von Opin , who is mentioned in a document dated December 1, 1271 as Castellan in Belzig , Saxony . The family line only begins with Rudolf von Oppen , who is documented from 1361 to 1388.
From the Belzig area, the family spread to Electoral Saxony , Brandenburg (including Kossenblatt , Werder , Falkenberg , Pritzhagen , Tornow and Altfriedland ) and Anhalt , and later to Prussia and Silesia as well as Holstein .
Family branches
Through name and coat of arms associations with the Friccius von Schilden (on Gut Haseldorf , Holstein) and the barons von Huldenberg , the line of Oppen-Schilden and 1840 Oppen von Huldenberg emerged .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a silver diagonal cross covered with a red rose in blue. On the helmet with blue-silver covers a wreath consisting of alternating red and silver roses, which is wound around a silver-tipped blue pointed hat. On this stand three natural peacock feathers behind an upturned silver crescent moon.
Known family members
- Matthias von Oppen (dean) (around 1565–1621), economist and church politician
- Ludwig von Oppen (1704–1779), Prussian colonel and commander of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 2 "Prince of Prussia"
- Joachim Friedrich Wilhelm von Oppen (1747–1815), Prussian major general
- Adolf Friedrich von Oppen (1762–1834), Prussian lieutenant general
- Georg von Oppen (general) (1795–1876), Prussian major general
- Karl von Oppen (1824-1896), Prussian lieutenant general, commandant of Breslau
- Hans Ludwig Waldemar Oppen von Guldenberg (1837–1901), landowner in today's Berlin district of Adlershof , local politician in what was then the Teltow district
- Gustav von Oppen (1867–1918), Prussian colonel, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Heinrich von Oppen (1869–1925), landowner of Altfriedland and Metzdorf ; Administrative officer, parliamentarian and police chief
- Matthias von Oppen (lawyer) (1873–1924), District President of the Reg.-Bez. Allenstein (1918–1924) and District Administrator in Samter (1904)
- Joachim von Oppen (1879–1948), manor owner and agricultural functionary
- Rudolf von Oppen (1887–1954), German major general
- Konrad von Oppen (1904–1987), Member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament (1959–1970)
- Dietrich von Oppen (1912–2006), theologian and social ethicist
- Georg-Sigismund von Oppen (1923–2008), German officer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Gebhard von Oppen (* 1938), physicist, professor at TU Berlin , author of numerous specialist publications
- Georg-Wilhelm von Oppen (* 1945), lawyer and mayor of Kirchzarten until 2008
- Felix von Oppen (* 1966), physicist, professor at the Free University of Berlin
See also
literature
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Second volume, published by WT Bruer, 1898, p. 661. Digitized
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses. 1907, 1923.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Coat of arms of the Oppen near Siebmacher
- George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : Document book on the history of the noble family von Oppen. Digitized
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ New communications from the Thuringian-Saxon History and Antiquity Association XV, p. 411
- ↑ Oppenstrasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein and also Oppenplatz .
- ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch. Volume 8, 2018, p. 421.