Rautter (noble family)
Rautter , historically also Rauter or Rautern , the name of a Prussian in the male line extinct noble family .
history
The Rautter were an East Prussian family who probably came to Prussia from Austria with the order . The line of tribe begins with Niclaus Rewter , officially named 1454–1487, mercenary captain of the German order and 1464 captain zu Gerdauen ( Russian Schelesnodoroschny ). He was on 16 December 1474 Grand Master Heinrich Reffle of Richtenberg with the genetic Will comb invested .
In the period that followed, the family produced numerous captains in the Duchy of Prussia , and they also produced some Prussian and Poland-Lithuania officers.
The main line Willkamm ( Polish Wielewo ) expired in 1759, but the children of the Brandenburg lieutenant colonel Ernst Ludwig von Rautter (1684–1738) received the Prussian nobility legitimation from his connection with the Berliner Katharina Fehrmann von König on February 6, 1737 .
The main line of Mehleden went out with Samuel Christoph Gottlieb von Rautter (1735–1792), and with him the entire family. In 1791 he founded the Fideikommiss Mehleden.
The Willkamm line, legitimized in 1737, found its way into the male line with the Prussian captain Gustav Ludwig Johann von Rautter (1788–1814), who fell in the Wars of Liberation . His younger daughter Auguste von Rautter (1813–1855), heiress von Willkamm, married the Prussian Second Lieutenant in the 5th cuirassier regiment Otto Bernhard von Pressentin (1788–1855) in 1833 . For this, on May 8, 1833, the Prussian name and coat of arms association with those of add v. Press agent called Rautter adH Willkam .
His grandson Christoph von Pressentin, called Rautter adH Willkam (1858–1943), was appointed chamberlain by Kaiser Wilhelm II. In 1913, during the commemoration of the wars of liberation 100 years ago, he was named Count v. Rautter Welcome comb into the count conditions raised . The title of the count is patrilinear .
coat of arms
The main coat of arms shows in red a freely floating, three-pinned silver oblique right bar (also interpreted as a tree branch with three small stumps turned upwards). On the helmet with red and silver covers, a closed, black flight covered with the shield image on the front .
Personalities
- Luise Katharina von Rautter (1650–1703), East Prussian landowner and hydraulic engineering entrepreneur
- Ludwig von Rautter (1663–1717), Prussian court judge, president of the Samland consistory
- Carl Friedrich von Rautter (1698–1758), Prussian major general and chief of Infantry Regiment No. 4
literature
- Johann Friedrich Gauhe : The Holy Roman Empire Genealogical-Historical Adels-Lexikon , Part II, Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig 1747, Sp. 939 u. Sp. 1729 .
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels Adelslexikon , Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2000, pp. 206-207; Volume XVII, Supplements, Volume 144 of the complete series, 2008, p. 487.
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Otto Titan von Hefner , Alfred Grenser , George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg
- III. Volume, 2nd section, 1st volume, The blooming nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia: Edelleute , 1878, p. 306, Tfl. 360 ( press clerk, called v. Rautter )
- VI. Volume, 4th Department, Dead Prussian Nobility: Province of Prussia , 1874, Tfl. 49.
- VI. Volume, 10th department, Extinct Mecklenburg nobility , 1902, Tfl. 72.
- Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon , Volume 2, Ilmenau 1826, p. 292
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 7, Leipzig 1863, pp. 369-370 .
- Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy , Volume 2, Berlin 1856, p. 262 .
- Prussische Provinzial-Blätter , Volume 12, Königsberg 1851, p. 190 .
- Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European Family Tables New Series Volume XXI Brandenburg and Prussia 2 , published by JA Stargardt, Marburg 2002, Tfln. 142-144.
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 4, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1837, pp. 90–91 .
- Genealogical paperback of the knights and Aristocratic families 1879. Fourth year, S430ff , named by Pressentin von Rauter
Web links
- Good welcome on ostpreussen.net
- "Auguste" Ottilie Friederike Wilhelmine Louise von Rautter Erbfrau on Willkamm
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 7, Leipzig 1863, pp. 245-246 .
- ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Count's Houses A 2, Volume 10 of the complete series, 1955, pp. 339-340; A 6, volume 47 of the complete series, 1970, pp. 306-307.
- ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Adeligen Häuser , Part A, Volume 38, 1939, p. 413 (Article v. Pressentin gen. Von Rautter regarding the coat of arms of Rautter)