Schroeter (noble family)

Schroeter coat of arms on the castle at the Buchenwald in Trebnitz

The noble family von Schroeter is a briefadlige family, originally from the region of Wroclaw comes.

history

Portrait Berta Elisabeth von Schroeter , by Ernst Resch , 1856, National Museum Breslau

The earliest known ancestor of the family is Heinrich Schroeter (1620–1680), a citizen and merchant in Rawitsch . In the 17th century Rawitsch became a place of refuge for Protestants and people of different faiths from Bohemia and Silesia , who fled from the oppression of the Habsburgs . Later sons of the family were given the name "Sigismund" in memory of a prince who protected Protestants at the time. The Elector of Brandenburg Johann Sigismund and the Polish King Sigismund the Elder come into question .

Also important is the Protestant theologian and scholar Sigismund Gottlieb Schroeter (1694–1760), grandson of Heinrich Schroeter. Sigismund Gottlieb was pastor in the Friedenskirche zu Jauer , one of the most important churches in Silesia and today part of the UNESCO World Heritage . Until a burglary in 1962, the picture of “Archdiaconus Schröter” hung in the sacristy of the Friedenskirche for 250 years .

The first noble line refers to Heinrich von Schroeter , who was raised to the Prussian nobility on January 18, 1901 by Kaiser Wilhelm II . The second line refers to Paul von Schroeter , who was raised to the nobility on June 11, 1902, but this has expired in the male line since his death in 1907. Both were sons of the Breslau patrician Hermann Sigismund Schroeter (1824–1880), Herr auf Oswitz, Protsch and Weida, and Berta Elisabeth born. Korn (1832–1914), sister of Heinrich von Korn and granddaughter of Friedrich August Karl von Kospoth .

coat of arms

The coat of arms is as follows:

"Namely a split shield, in the front silver half an erect black shredder beetle, in the rear blue half seven golden ears of corn growing out of green soil. On the shield rests a red lined shield, adorned with gold brackets and borders and with a golden jewel attached A noble crown crowned open steel tournament helmet with black and silver helmet covers on the right and blue and gold on the left, from whose crown the Schröter beetle grows. "

Known family members

Heinrich von Schroeter (1856–1945), Prussian administrative lawyer, district administrator and chief of police
Paul von Schroeter (1858–1907), German administrative officer and entails owner
Günther von Schroeter (1888–1940), senior government councilor and district administrator
Hans-Erich von Schroeter (1891–1947), German major general in the Wehrmacht

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Genealogical manual of the nobility . tape X . CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1972, p. 413 .
^ John Cohn, History of the Rawitsch Jewish Community , Berlin 1915
↑ Christian Friedrich Emanuel Fischer: History and description of the Silesian principality capital Jauer . Jauer 1804, p. 182 . [1]
^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . tape X . CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1972, p. 415 .
↑ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , ninth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1915, p. 857 [2]
↑ Lawrence M. Rheude : Archive for ordinary and heraldry . Ed .: Roland, association for the promotion of the core, coat of arms and seal customer . Dresden 1902, p. 11 . [3]

[GHdA-1] Genealogical manual of the nobility . tape X . CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1972, p. 413 .

[2] John Cohn, History of the Rawitsch Jewish Community , Berlin 1915

[3] Christian Friedrich Emanuel Fischer: History and description of the Silesian principality capital Jauer . Jauer 1804, p. 182 . [1]

[4] Genealogical handbook of the nobility . tape X . CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1972, p. 415 .

[5] Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , ninth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1915, p. 857 [2]

[6] Lawrence M. Rheude : Archive for ordinary and heraldry . Ed .: Roland, association for the promotion of the core, coat of arms and seal customer . Dresden 1902, p. 11 . [3]