Ploetz (Neumark)
Ploetz is the name of a noble family from New Markets . There is also a Pomeranian family from another tribe, Ploetz (Pomerania) .
history
The family first appears in a document in 1308 with Henric Plotze . With Bernd Plotze , mentioned in a document in 1316 and landlord on Wartenberg (Neumark), the direct line of tribe began . The family has been recorded in Pomerania since 1509. From 1687 Joachim von Plötz built the Saxon manor house Röcknitz . From 1856 to 1905 the Niederlausitz manor Döllingen was owned by the Ploetz.
The Prussian name extension as von Ploetz called von Krause took place on July 15, 1907 in Tromsø ( Norway ) on board the yacht Hohenzollern with a letter of nobility from September 16, 1907, issued at Wilhelmshöhe Castle near Kassel , for Berthold von Ploetz (* 1903).
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a silver swan in blue. On the helmet with blue-silver helmet covers three (blue-silver-blue) ostrich feathers.
Known family members
- Hermann von Ploetz-Döllingen (1816–1879), landlord of Döllingen ∞ Bertha Freiin von der Recke (1814–1848)
- Rudolf von Ploetz (1825–1898), Prussian major general
- Wilhelm von Ploetz (1825–1885), Prussian lieutenant general
- Berthold von Ploetz (1844–1898), politician, member of the Reichstag and the Prussian House of Representatives
- Hans von Ploetz (* 1904), Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr
- Dietrich von Ploetz (1909–1944), district administrator
- Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz (* 1940), German diplomat, most recently ambassador in Moscow
See also
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN 0435-2408 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . I, Volume 19, p. 179.