Riecke (family)

The Riecke family (partly also from Riecke ) originally came from Mecklenburg . She is a family of scholars who produced a large number of doctors and high-ranking officials in Württemberg . Heinrich Riecke emigrated to Württemberg in 1681, which was heavily depopulated during the Thirty Years' War . In 1685 he was able to settle in Stuttgart as a citizen and surgeon . He is considered to be the progenitor of the Riecke family in Württemberg. His great-grandson had gone to Brno for several years and was the first Protestant clergyman there after Emperor Joseph II had issued the patent of tolerance .

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1. Heinrich Riecke (1658–1707), surgeon, settled in Stuttgart
   1. Victor Heinrich Riecke (1697–1755), doctor, ducal court doctor, city and official physician in Stuttgart
      1. Ludwig Heinrich Riecke (1729–1787), official physician and professor of obstetrics in Stuttgart
         1. Victor Heinrich Riecke (1759–1830), Protestant pastor and schoolmaster, first Protestant clergyman from Brno after the tolerance patent
            1. Leopold Sokrates von Riecke (1790–1876), doctor, professor of surgery and obstetrics in Tübingen
            2. Friedrich Joseph Pythagoras von Riecke (1794–1876), mathematician and forest scientist, professor in Hohenheim
            3. Gustav Adolf Riecke (1798–1883), Protestant clergyman and pedagogue, rector of the Esslingen teachers' college
            4. Emil Amand Lebrecht Riecke (1810–1888), educator, economics and court counselor
               1. Albert Riecke (1857–1923), teacher, professor at the Royal High School in Ludwigsburg.
               2. Johanna Emma Rosa Schulek (née Riecke) (born February 8, 1850, in Stuttgart), married to Frigyes Schulek
                  1. János Schulek (1872–1848), Hungarian architect.
         2. Johann Victor Ludwig von Riecke (1771–1850), city and official physician in Stuttgart, professor of medicine
            1. Christian Heinrich von Riecke (1802–1865), German administrative lawyer and civil servant, court judge and court chamber director
               1. Karl Viktor von Riecke (1830–1898), Württemberg civil servant and Minister of State for Finance
            2. Victor Adolf von Riecke (1805–1857), royal court physician, full member of the Württemberg statistical office
               1. Karl Victor Eduard Riecke (1845–1915), German physicist, professor in Göttingen

literature

• Eberhard Emil von Georgii-Georgenau : Biographical-genealogical sheets from and about Schwaben , Stuttgart 1879, pp. 730-748.
• Karl Viktor von Riecke :  Riecke, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 508-512.

Footnotes

1. ^ Emil Riecke dataset on d-nb.info (last accessed on April 2, 2019).
2. ^ Albert Riecke dataset on d-nb.info (last accessed on April 2, 2019).