Salviati (Prussian noble family)

Family coat of arms of those of Salviati

Coat of arms of those of Salviati from 1830

Salviati is an Italian family who immigrated to Prussia around 1740 and was ennobled in 1830. A connection to the important Florentine family of the Salviati other coats of arms has not been proven.

history

Angelo Maria Salviati (* 1717; † February 25, 1782) immigrated to Prussia around 1740 . His grandsons, the brothers Peter Heinrich August and Wilhelm Salviati, were accepted into the Prussian nobility on September 12, 1830. Heinrich von Salviati (born March 26, 1786, † February 14, 1856) was secret legation councilor and chargé d'affaires in Stuttgart, Wilhelm Prussian captain in Berlin.

Alexander von Salviati (1827–1881) was a Prussian lieutenant general . In 1869 he became chief of the General Staff of the VI. Army corps in Breslau , with which he took part in the war against France in 1870/71 . Most recently, since 1878, he was commander of the 27th Division (2nd Royal Württemberg) .

Dorothea von Salviati (1907–1972) was married to Wilhelm von Prussia (1906–1940), the eldest son of the imperial German-royal Prussian Crown Prince Wilhelm .

Hans-Victor von Salviati (1897–1945), Sturmbannführer , was a full-time leader in the staff of the SS main office and head of the Remonteanstalt . Since 1941 he was adjutant to General Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt . He was executed by the National Socialists on April 22, 1945 for participating in the July 20, 1944 uprising .

coat of arms

The coat of arms from 1830 is quartered , 1 and 3 in red an ancient Roman silver urn with a handle formed by two coiled snakes, 2 and 3 in silver a green sage branch lying obliquely to the left over three red balls ( family coat of arms ). On the helmet with red and silver covers on the right, green and silver covers on the left, three silver ostrich feathers.

literature

• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 4, 1837, p. 144, digitized
• Hans Victor von Salviati: History of the family von Salviati. Langenfeld 1983.
• Deutsches Adelsarchiv eV (Ed.): Genealogical manual of noble houses . Noble houses B. Volume XV, Limburg an der Lahn 1984, pp. 413-416.
• Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian Nobility . Volume 1, pp. 498f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernhard von Poten :  Salviati, Alexander von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 286.
2. ↑ Der Spiegel 8/1967 of February 13, 1967, Heinz Höhne: The order under the skull. The history of the SS. 18. Continuation: The SS and July 20, 1944 ( digitized version ; accessed on August 1, 2014)
3. ↑ Freiherr Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , Neues Prussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 4, S. 144, digitized