Schmidt von Schmidtseck (noble family)

The noble coat of arms awarded in 1662

Schmidt Schmidtseck is the name of in Sweden ennobled , but originate in his Uri , Switzerland accepting sex that later in Prussia came to some renown.

history

The Swedish lieutenant colonel and later Kurbrandenburgiche colonel and heir to Isterbies , Johann Schmied (1610–1680) was raised to the Swedish nobility on December 8, 1662 with the nobility predicate "Schmidt von Schmidtseck" without intrusion into the knighthood . In 1907 and 1912, respectively, it was raised to the Prussian baron status , tied to the ownership of the Woplauken family affiliate in East Prussia .

Also to be traced back to the nobility letter of 1662 are two non-aristocratic families who use the name "Schmidt von Schmidtseck", one of which is nevertheless of agnatic descent. The former goes back to the natural children of the Prussian captain Wilhelm Schmidt von Schmidtseck (1716–1780) and his lover Wilhelmine Riebel, who used the father's name instead of the mother's name. The second family was founded in December 1920 through an authorization to obtain from Harald Meyer (* 1900) in the second marriage of Hauptmann a. D. Heinrich Schmidt von Schmidtseck (* 1868) with Ella Meyer.

coat of arms

The coat of arms (1662) shows in blue with two armored arms protruding from the edge of the shield , but their hands hold two jagged flags facing one another . Below is a fallen horseshoe . On the helmet with blue-silver blankets, arms stretched out between an open blue flight .

Relatives

• Johann Schmidt von Schmidtseck (1610–1680), colonel from Kurbrandenburg, head of the regiment and commander of Magdeburg
• Louis Schmidt von Schmiedeseck, Prussian Colonel and 1887–1890 commander of the Schleswig-Holstein Uhlan Regiment No. 15
• Hilmar Schmidt von Schmidtseck (1863–1912), German administrative lawyer and district administrator
• Walter Schmidt von Schmidtseck (1865–1945), German lieutenant general

literature

• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 8, Leipzig 1868, pp. 242-243.
• Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon of the Prussian Monarchy , Volume 2, Berlin 1856, p. 385.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser , Gotha 1921, pp. 838–839 ; 1923, p. 563; 1925, p. 534; 1927, p. 599; 1929, p. 622; 1933; 1937 and 1941
• Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Limburg (Lahn)
  • Adelslexikon Vol. 12, 2001, pp. 543-544
  • Freiherrlichen Häuser , B 1 (7), 1954, pp. 365-366; B 8 (79), 1982, pp. 347-349

Web links

• Freiherren Schmidt von Schmidtseck on Adelslexikon.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernhard Schlegel, Carl Arvid Klingspor : Den med sköldebref förlänade men ej å riddarhuset introducerade, svenska adelns ättar-taflor , Stockholm 1875, pp. 257-258 (Swedish).
2. ^ Institute for German Aristocracy Research: Prussian acts of grace through name change 1919 to 1932 , accessed on May 22, 2020.
3. ↑ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch , VI. Volume, 6th Department of Extinct Prussian Nobility: Prussian Province of Saxony , Nuremberg 1884, pp. 150–151, Tfl. 98