Rudolf Vitzthum von Eckstädt

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Christoph Rudolf Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt (* December 22, 1861 in Dresden ; † February 14, 1945 there ) was a German attorney general , secret council and genealogist.

Life

He came from the noble family Vitzthum von Eckstädt raised to the rank of count and was the son of the royal Saxon Lord Chamberlain and real secret councilor Hermann Ludwig Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1821-1892) and his wife Paula Luise nee. von Götz (1825–1907).

Rudolf Vitzthum von Eckstädt was the first public prosecutor at the Dresden Higher Regional Court from 1911 . In 1922 he was promoted to attorney general at this authority. He held this position until his retirement in 1926. In retirement he worked a. a. with historical and genealogical research on his family. For example, based on his previous knowledge in the feudal and mortgage archives of the higher regional courts in Dresden and Naumburg, he evaluated archived feudal and mortgage files on the family-owned knights and feudal estates belonging to the Vitzthum von Eckstädt family. In 1936, on the basis of this research, he published the pedigree Paul, Elisabeth, Thekla, Mathilde, Carlotto, Rudolf and Marie Counts and Countesses Vitzthum von Eckstädt at the Central Office for German Personal and Family History in Leipzig . He had previously published articles on a Vitzthum family history at the Central Office in 1935.

Rudolf Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt died in the bombing raid on Dresden on the night of February 14, 1945 at the age of 84.

His sister Marie Countess Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1864–1950), who was two years younger than him, married Count Achaz Werner Ludwig Leopold von der Schulenburg (1853–1917) in Dresden and outlived her brother by five years. She died widowed in 1950 in Fulda.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. olg_dresden.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
personal data
SURNAME Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Christoph Rudolf Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Attorney General, Privy Councilor and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1945
Place of death Dresden