Schirach (noble family)

Schirach , in Upper Sorbian Šěrach , is the name of a Sorbian- German family from Upper Lusatia , whose direct line of lineages begins in 1485 with George Schirag , farmer in Schiedel near Kamenz . On May 17, 1776 she was raised to the Austrian-Hereditary nobility.

The name probably comes from the Sorbian šěrak for “gray beard , gray head” meaning “old man”.

Lineage

Grave slab of Peter Schirach at the Krebaer church

• Peter Schirach ( Upper Sorbian Pětr Šěrach ; born June 29, 1656 in Schiedel ) - the first theologian of the family; ordained in Wittenberg on October 22, 1686, pastor in Creba , where he died on October 11, 1727. Three sons became theologians:
  • Andreas Nikolaus ( Handrij Mikławš ; born December 30, 1690 in Creba), 1722 deacon in Zibelle , where he also died
  • Adam Zacharias ( Hadam Zacharias ; * April 7, 1693 in Creba; † July 28, 1758 in Malschwitz ), received his Master's degree in Wittenberg in 1716, and after moving to Leipzig in the same year founded a college of preachers with five other Protestant theologians from Upper Lusatia was run under the name Lausitzer Prediger-Gesellschaft and is the oldest Sorbian association. He became pastor in Nostitz on September 5, 1720 and pastor in Malschwitz on January 13, 1730, where he died in 1758
    • Adam Gottlob Schirach (1724–1773) - pastor, physics theologist and writer.
      • Karl Gottlob Schirach (son of Adam Gottlob; Korla Bohuchwał , born February 25, 1764 in Kleinbautzen , † September 16, 1836 in Reichwalde ), pastor and co-editor of the first Sorbian magazine Měsačne pismo k rozwučenju a wokřewjenju .
  • Christian Gottlob ( Křesćan Bohuchwał ; born June 25, 1709 in Creba), 1733 student in Leipzig, was ordained on October 8, 1737 in Dresden and was the indirect successor of his brother in the parish in Nostitz, 1742 pastor in Holzkirch , 1747 in Tiefenfurth , both close Lauban east of the Neisse, where he died on March 9, 1776.
    • Gottlob Benedikt von Schirach (son of Christian Gottlob Schirach) ( Bohuchwał Benedikt ze Šěrach ; born June 13, 1743 in Holzkirch; † December 7, 1804 in Altona ), historian and publicist (including the publication of the Political Journal along with advertisements from scholars and others Things ), professor of history and politics in Helmstedt . He was elevated to the hereditary-Austrian nobility in 1776, entered Danish service in 1780 and became Danish legation counselor .
      • Wilhelm Benedict von Schirach (1779–1866) (son of Gottlob Benedikt von Schirach), German lawyer and publicist (including the publication of the Political Journal along with an advertisement of learned and other matters )
      • Karl Benedict von Schirach (* 1790) (son of Gottlob Benedikt von Schirach), German lawyer and author
        • Karl Friedrich von Schirach , American officer, married. with Elisabeth Baily Norris
          • Friedrich Wilhelm von Schirach (1870–1924), composer
          • Carl Benedikt Norris von Schirach , theater director (1909–1918) in Weimar
            • Rosalind von Schirach (* 1898, † 1981) German singer
            • Baldur von Schirach (* 1907, † 1974), German politician ( NSDAP ), Reich youth leader ; later Reich Governor and Gauleiter in Vienna ; Convicted of crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg Trial , acquitted of the charge of preparing for a war of aggression.
              • Klaus von Schirach (* 1935), German lawyer
              • Robert Benedict Wolf von Schirach (* 1938, † 1980)
                • Ferdinand von Schirach (* 1964), German defense attorney and writer
                • Norris von Schirach (* 1963), German writer
              • Richard von Schirach (* 1942), German author and sinologist
                • Ariadne von Schirach (* 1978), German author
                • Benedict Wells (* 1984), German writer

More people

• Henriette von Schirach (1913–1992), German writer and wife of Baldur von Schirach
• Otto von Schirach (* 1978), American DJ
• Viktoria von Schirach (* 1960), German writer

coat of arms

Quartered, 1: in blue two golden stars diagonally to the right, 2: in gold a white dove sitting on a green branch growing from a black trunk, 3: in silver on a green leafy tree, 4: in green a curved golden snake rising diagonally to the right ; on the helmet with its blue and gold blankets, the pigeon in front of a blue column with three natural peacock feathers.

literature

• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch , series B, 1907 (with stem series and older genealogy)
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B, volume XIV, page 460f., Volume 78 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1981, ISSN  0435-2408 .
• Genealogical manual of the nobility, Adelslexikon Volume XII, Volume 125 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), 2001, ISSN  0435-2408 .
• A short draft of an Oberlausitz-Wendish church history , drawn up by some Oberl. Wendish gospel. Preachers. Budissin, 1767.
• Hermann Konrad Eggers, Die Schirach and von Schirach , in: Vierteljahresschrift für Heraldik, Sphragistik und Genealogie No. 7 (1879), Berlin
• Max von Schirach, History of the von Schirach Family , Berlin 1939.
• Gottlieb Friedrich Otto , Lexicon of Upper Lusatian writers and artists who have died since the 15th century and are now living , Görlitz 1800–03. ND Hildesheim 1983
• Jan Brankačk / Frido Mětšk , History of the Sorbs , Vol. 1, From the beginnings to 1789, VEB Domowina Bautzen, 1977
• German Biographical Encyclopedia [Ed. W.Killy & R.Vierhaus] Vol. 8. Darmstadt 1998
• Rainer Haas:  Adam Gottlob Schirach. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 1356-1360.
• Michael H. Kater, http://books.google.at/books?id=v9xJPe0QchcC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17 Hitler Youth . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-674-01496-1 , ISBN 978-0-674-01991-1 . P. 17. (On the genealogy from Karl Benedict von Schirach to Baldur von Schirach)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Wenzel: Lausitzer surnames of Slavic origin . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1999, p. 222 .
2. ↑ Błažij Nawka: Serah Korla Bohuchwał. In: Nowy biografiski słownik k stawiznam a kulturje Serbow. Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin 1984
3. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , August 28, 2011, No. 34, p. 26