Pringsheim

Pringsheim is the name of a well-known German-Jewish family from Silesia . The name was first mentioned in a document in 1794. All Pringsheims are descendants of the Bernstadt Jew Mendel (Menachem) ben Chaim Pringsheim. Rudolf Pringsheim was a great-grandson of this first known Pringsheim.

Name bearer

The following branches of the family were particularly evident:

• Nathanael Pringsheim (1823-1894), botanist
  • Margarethe Pringsheim (1855–1909);
    married to Albert Ladenburg

• Rudolf (also Rudolph) Pringsheim zu Rodenberg (1821–1906), railway entrepreneur (narrow-gauge railways), coal mine owner;
  married to Paula Deutschmann (1827–1909)
  • Alfred Pringsheim (1850–1941), professor of mathematics;
    married to Hedwig Dohm (1855–1942)
    • Erik Pringsheim (1879–1908), lawyer
    • Peter Pringsheim (1881–1963), physicist in Belgium and the USA ;
      married to Emmeke Clément
    • Heinz Pringsheim (1882–1974), archaeologist, musician;
      first marriage to Olga Markowa Meerson , Russian painter, second marriage to singer Mara Pringsheim , b. Duvé
    • Katharina "Katia" Pringsheim (1883–1980);
      married to Thomas Mann
    • Klaus Pringsheim senior (1883–1972), conductor , composer;
      married to Klara (Lala) Koszler (also: Koslerova)
      • Emilie Pringsheim (1912–1976), actress
      • Hans Erik Pringsheim (* 1915)
      • Klaus Pringsheim junior (1923–2001), East Asia historian in the USA, Canada ; married to Hsiu Ping
  • Marta Pringsheim (1851-1921)

• Hugo II. Pringsheim (1845–1915), railway entrepreneur (full-gauge railways), banker, manor owner near Opole, Society of Friends ;
  married to Sophie Wodianer;
  married to Hedwig Johanna Heymann (1856–1938)
  • Paula Pringsheim (born April 26, 1869);
    married to Heinrich von Achenbach (District Administrator) (1863–1933) since 1890
  • Hans Pringsheim (1876–1940), professor of chemistry in Berlin
  • Ernst Georg Pringsheim (1881–1970), natural scientist, botanist ;
    married to Lily Pringsheim , née Chun (1887–1954), politician and member of the Hessian state parliament ;
    from 1929 married to Olga Zimmermann (1902–1992)
  • Fritz (Robert) Pringsheim (1882–1967), professor of Roman and civil law in Göttingen and until 1935 Freiburg / Br., 1939 Sachsenhausen concentration camp ; emigration
  • Helene Pringsheim (born April 3, 1891), married Feiler, lived in Frankfurt am Main and London
  • Paul Pringsheim (1893–1915), killed in action as a war volunteer in France
• Ernst Pringsheim senior (1859–1917), physicist
• Louis Pringsheim (1832–1900), merchant, buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee
• Harry Moritz (von) Pringsheim (1870–1927), reindeer , buried in the old St. Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin-Schöneberg

literature

• Michael Engel : The Pringsheims. On the history of a Silesian family (18th – 20th centuries) . In: Horst Kant, Annette Vogt (ed.): From the history and theory of science. Hubert Laitko on his 70th birthday . Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-929134-49-7 , p. 189–220 ( Online [PDF; 7.3 MB ]).
• Hildegard Möller: The women of the Mann family . Piper, 2005, ISBN 978-3-492-24576-0 .
• Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7759-0476-X .

Web links

• genealogy.metastudies.net
• Mann / Pringsheim on adel-genealogie.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alois Schwarzmüller: Hedwig Pringsheim. 2006, accessed October 7, 2014 . 
2. ^ Institute Theresienstädter Initiative (Hrsg.): Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch. The victims of the transport of Jews from Germany to Theresienstadt 1942-1945. Prague 2000 p. 235
3. ↑ English biography ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF 135kB) Prof. Tony Honoré , Oxford University