Schröter (noble family)

Coat of arms of those von Schröter

The von Schröter family is a noble family that later settled in Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

history

The family goes back to the first rector of the University of Jena Johannes von Schröter . This was raised to the nobility on December 6, 1557 by Emperor Ferdinand I. The family settled in Mecklenburg at the beginning of the 19th century when the Danish war councilor Christian Heinrich (v.) Schröter († October 14, 1829) acquired the Langensee manor near Bützow in the knighthood of Criwitz in 1805 . The family owned Langensee until 1844, after the death of the war council, his three sons Hans Rudolf, Wilhelm and Göttlieb Heinrich were initially joint owners of the Langensee manor until 1837, then the manor passed to the youngest of the three brothers Gottlieb Heinrich, who Langensee sold to Christian Susemihl after 1844 , who appeared in the Mecklenburg state calendar as a landowner on Langensee from 1846 .

coat of arms

Lehsten describes the coat of arms of the von Schröter family as follows:

“In a blue field a stag beetle ( Schröter ), naturally brown in color, placed upright and with outspread wings. Two red Schröterhorns on the crowned home. Red and blue helmet covers. "

Known family members

• Johannes von Schröter (1513–1593), German physician and first rector of the University of Jena
• Johann Friedrich Schröter (1559–1625), German physician, professor of the art of medicine in Jena, later Physicus in Bautzen
• Hans Rudolf von Schröter (1798–1842), German librarian and archaeologist
• Wilhelm von Schröter (1799–1865), German legal scholar, court judge and Minister of Justice of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg
• Gottlieb Heinrich von Schröter (1802–1866), German history painter and author

literature

• Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775) , JG Tiedemann, 1864, p. 243
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2002, ISSN  0435-2408
• James Bergenthal:
  • Part 1: Schroeter Chronicles: The First Generation Thuringia , ISBN 978-1470012489
  • Part 2: Schroeter Chronicles Moving On , ISBN 978-1470089573
  • Part 3: Schroeter Chronicles: America , ISBN 978-1475075991

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Siebmacher's large book of arms , II, 3rd section, p. 47