Schüssler (noble family)
The von Schüssler family comes from the county of Mansfeld in Saxony-Anhalt . Major General Otto von Schüßler (1825–1899) was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility in 1884 because of his military service . Only Otto von Schüßler, his descendants and his wife, Olga Freiin von Strombeck (1836–1890), daughter of the councilor Hermann Freiherr von Strombeck and granddaughter of Friedrich Karl von Strombeck , were allowed to carry this title of nobility.
history
The family record of the ancestors of Otto von Schüßler begins with the birth of Peter Schüssler in 1656 in Groß-Salze near Magdeburg. Both Peter Schüssler and the next five generations were soap makers and traded in soap and oil products nationwide. More detailed records of Johann Carl Leberecht Schüssler, who was born in Groß-Salze in 1781, provide information about the entrepreneurial commitment and the family estates of the time. Johann Carl Leberecht Schüssler was also the first Rathmann of the city of Groß-Salze and was considered a patron of the region. He was married to Mrs. Christine Wilhelmine Anger, daughter of Joachim Anger. Together they had eight children, one of whom was Karl Otto Schüssler, who was later ennobled. The last records of the Schüssler as soap boilers come from the year 1904. After the death of Carl Leberecht in 1862 the factory was relocated from Groß-Salze to Magdeburg and operated there under the name of the son AC Schüssler, household and toilet soap Factory. In the year Adolph Schüssler died in 1904, the factory was no longer owned by the family.
Otto and Olga von Schüßler had two children. Helene (1858–1929) married the later Prussian Major General Franz von Issendorff (1851–1908) in 1878 . This marriage resulted in a daughter, Olga Marie Ottonie (* 1878), who married Helmuth von Brüning , son of the entrepreneur Adolf von Brüning , in 1898 . From the marriage of Otto and Olga von Schüßler came their son Georg (1861-1927), who later became the Prussian lieutenant general and knight of the order Pour le Mérite . Wilhelm married Anna von Marées, daughter of Karl Gustav Albert von Marées, in 1888. The couple had two children, Margarethe (* 1895) and Otto Georg von Schüssler (* 1903). After the death of Anna in 1907 Wilhelm married Lucie Perrignon de Frénoy, daughter of Louis Hypolith Perrignon de Frénoy. From this marriage comes a daughter Irmgard Margarethe (* 1909).
Otto Georg von Schüssler married Marie Margarethe Grothmann in 1931, daughter of the school advisor and patent attorney Heinrich Grothmann. This marriage resulted in two sons, Heinrich (* 1933) and Eckart (* 1937).
In 1958 Heinrich married Anne Marie Freiin von Gall, daughter of Colonel Waldemar Paul Karl Fritz Erna Freiherr von Gall. From this marriage two children Christiane (* 1963) and Riklef Georg (* 1968) emerged. Both children are married and have children of their own. In 1978 Heinrich married Ingrid Hausmann, daughter of Louis Hausmann, in his second marriage.
Eckart married Hannelore Hagen in 1965. This marriage resulted in two sons, Nikolas Hagen, born in 1971 and Florian Georg, born in 1973. Both sons are married and have children of their own.
In January 2016 there were 17 namesake, 12 of whom were descendants of Karl Otto von Schüssler.
literature
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1915. Ninth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1914, p. 860.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gotha, 1931
- ↑ Kgl. Heraldry, 1885.
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses 1891. Forty-first year, p. 907.
- ^ Magdeburg City Archives
- ↑ City Archives Schönebeck
- ^ Magdeburg newspaper. September 1, 1904.
- ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses. 1901. First year, Justus Perhes, Gotha 1900, p. 443.
- ^ History of the knights of the order "Pour le Mérite" in World War II. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Berlin 1935.