Prittwitz

Family coat of arms of those of Prittwitz

Prittwitz is the name of an old, very widely branched Silesian noble family , which first appears in a document with Petrus de Prawticz in 1283 and carries the Polish family coat of arms Wczele . The uniform naming with "von Prittwitz and Gaffron " only took place in accordance with the decree of the Prussian heraldry on November 29, 1882.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms is made of black and gold. On the helmet with black and gold helmet covers a growing Mohrin with crooked arms and a fluttering gold forehead band.

Known family members

The Prittwitz coat of arms legend

• Alexander von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1838–1915), Russian major general
• Bernhard von Prittwitz († 1561), officer in the service of the Polish crown
• Bernhard von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1845–1923), state elders of Upper Silesia
• Bernhard Karl Heinrich von Prittwitz (1796–1881), Prussian major general, fortress commander of Thorn
• Carl Baron von Prittwitz (1797–1881), Russian cavalry general and adjutant general of Tsar Nicholas I.
• Carl Bernhard Freyherr von Prittwitz and Gaffron from the house of Lorzendorf (1735–1786), Prussian lieutenant colonel, chamberlain to Queen Elisabeth Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern , court marshal of the King of Prussia (1786) and lord of the Krippitz and Ulsche estates in Silesia
• Christian Wilhelm von Prittwitz (1739–1807), Prussian officer in the “Alt-Bevern” regiment , District Administrator von Frankenstein
• Curt von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1849–1922), German admiral à la suite, member of the Prussian manor house
• Erich von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1888–1969), German philologist, cultural functionary, and spa and spa administration official
• Ernst von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1833–1904), Prussian lieutenant general, honorary citizen of Wyk auf Föhr (1864)
• Ernst Sylvius von Prittwitz (1730–1800), Prussian lieutenant general and adjutant general of Friedrich Wilhelm II.
• Friedrich-Wilhelm von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1884–1955), German ambassador to the USA (1927–1933), resigned as the only German ambassador when Hitler came to power in 1933, later a member of the Bavarian state parliament, co-founder of the CSU
• Friedrich Bernhard von Prittwitz (1720–1793), elder of the district of Opole and landowner in Lower Silesia
• Friedrich Karl von Prittwitz (1798–1849), Russian major general, director of military and civil engineers
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard von Prittwitz (1764–1843), won Karl Friedrich Schinkel for representative buildings in Quilitz (Neuhardenberg) and represented the Prussian aristocratic opposition as an intermediary to Minister / State Chancellor von Hardenberg
• Georg von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1861–1936), German colonial officer and Africa explorer
• Hans von Prittwitz (1833–1880), Russian major general
• Hans von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1840–1916), Prussian lieutenant general
• Heinrich von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1889–1941), German lieutenant general
• Joachim Bernhard von Prittwitz (1726–1793), Prussian general of the cavalry, expanded Neuhardenberg Castle
• Joachim Bernhard Hermann von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1929–2013), Mayor of Windhoek ( Namibia ) 1969–1971
• Karl von Prittwitz (1790–1871), Prussian infantry general, honorary citizen of Potsdam (1843)
• Karl von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1833–1890), Prussian major general
• Kaspar Leonhard Moritz von Prittwitz (1687–1746), governor of the Duchy of Oels and consistorial president, paid homage to the Prussian king in 1741 as the leader of the Silesian nobility
• Leo von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1878–1957), Russian major general
• Leonhard von Prittwitz (1799–1875), German landowner, judge and politician
• Max von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1876–1956), German major general
• Maximilian von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1848–1917), Prussian Colonel General, Commander of the 8th Army on the Eastern Front (1914)
• Moritz von Prittwitz (General, 1747) (1747–1822), German lieutenant general
• Moritz von Prittwitz (General, 1795) (1795–1885), German infantry general and fortress builder
• Moritz von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1819–1888), German judge, administrative lawyer and district administrator
• Nicolaus von Prittwitz (1835–1897), Russian lieutenant general
• Paul von Prittwitz (1791-1856), Russian lieutenant general and senator
• Robert von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1806–1889), Prussian district president
• Volker von Prittwitz (* 1950), German political scientist
• Walter von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1840–1901), Prussian lieutenant general
• Wolfgang Moritz von Prittwitz (1731–1812), Prussian lieutenant general

See also

• List of German noble families N - Z

• The cousins of Wahlstatt
• Other people with the name Prittwitz:
  • Cornelius Prittwitz (* 1953), German legal scholar

literature

• Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses A Volume VI, Volume 29 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1962, and more recent volumes, ISSN  0431-1299 .
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISSN  0435-2408 .
• Robert von Prittwitz : The v. Prittwitz noble family . Publisher Wilhelm Gottl. Korn, Breslau 1870 ( full text ).
• Peter Grupp:  Prittwitz and Gaffron, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 732 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1856 p.508ff , 1868 p.643ff
• Staff of the family v. Prittwitz on January 1, 1875, digitized
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1901, p.706ff

Web links

Commons : Prittwitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Johann Georg Theodor Grasse: The treasure of legends of the Kingdom of Saxony 726) Where the Pritt jokes got their names from , Volume 2, Dresden 1874, pp. 114–115; Source: Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH ; License: Public domain

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dorotheenstadt Tote, 1775–1788, p. 524
2. ^ Johann G. Knie: Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia, together with the attached evidence of the division of the country into the districts of the three royal governments, the principalities and districts contained therein, with an indication of the area, the mean elevation above the sea, the inhabitants, buildings, the cattle herd, etc. Grass, Barth und Co., Breslau 1845 p. 566 digitized