Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Schnorr von Carolsfeld is the name of a Saxon noble family , whose members shaped the mining , hammer and steel industry in the Ore Mountains in the 17th and 18th centuries . The hammer owner Veit Hans Schnorr , who comes from Schneeberg and who owned the hammer works in Auerhammer and Carlsfeld , and his descendants were accepted into the imperial nobility by Emperor Leopold I on April 4, 1687 with the title of Carolsfeld . Through the family owned Weißerdenzeche St. Andreas , which was initially the sole supplier of the kaolin for the Meissen porcelain manufacturer , the Schnorr von Carolsfeld were significantly involved in the production of the Meissen porcelain . The family also produced painters and librarians .

Family members

• Johann Schnorr (1564–1637)
• Veit Hans Schnorr (1614–1664), German hammer owner
• Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1644–1715), German entrepreneur and founder of Carlsfeld
  • Johann Gottlieb Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1713–1788), lawyer and senator
    • Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld (also Johann Veit Schnorr von Carolsfeld ; 1764–1841), German painter
      • Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1788–1853), German painter
      • Eduard Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1790–1819), German architect
      • Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872), German painter and illustrator
        • Karl Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1830–1895), General Director of the Bavarian State Railways
          • Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1862–1933), German librarian (general director of the Bavarian State Library)
            • Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld (legal scholar) (1903–1989), German legal scholar
        • Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld (singer) (1836–1865), German singer (tenor)
        • Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld , b. Eugénia Malvina Garrigues (1825–1904), Portuguese opera singer with a soprano voice, poet and composer
        • Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1842–1915), German librarian (director of the Royal Saxon Public Library in Dresden) and literary historian; Employee of the General German Biography
        • Georg Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1848–1926), Saxon officer
          • Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld (art historian) (1877–1945), German art historian
      • Charlotte Schnorr von Carolsfeld , daughter of the painter Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld and daughter-in-law of Wilhelm Traugott Krug

literature

• Wolfgang Lorenz : The Schnorr family (Schnorr von Carolsfeld). (Erzgebirgische Genealogien 3) Adam-Ries-Bund, Annaberg-Buchholz 1997. ISBN 3-930430-19-3

Web links

Commons : Schnorr von Carolsfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Contents of the estate of the Schnorr von Carolsfeld family in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library