Selchow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Selchow

Selchow is the name of an old Brandenburg noble family . The family, some of which still exist today, belongs to the Neumark nobility . It later came into possession and prestige in Thuringia , Pomerania and Silesia .

According to the yearbook of the German nobility , another noble family von Selchow appears in the 14th century, which was based in Havelland and Teltow , there with the Selchow parent company of the same name . The gender, which also has another coat of arms (a right point in the shield), died out early.

history

origin

The family is first mentioned in a document in 1242 with Henricus de Selchow . Heinrich appears in the document as a witness to the Brandenburg margraves Johann and Otto , who transfer numerous goods to the Lehnin monastery . The unbroken line of trunks begins with Kaspar von Serlchow auf Lieben im Sternberger Land , who died in 1536.

Selchow, which gave the family its name, is not far from Frankfurt (Oder) and belonged to the Sternberg district in the Neumark. The village ( pol. Żelichowo ) is now a district of Krzyż Wielkopolski (formerly Kreuz (Ostbahn) ) in the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland .

Spread and personalities

After Kneschke , Nicolas von Selchow also belonged to the family. He appeared as a witness in 1338 together with other nobles in a confirmation letter given to the magistrate of the city of Cölln by Elector Ludwig von Brandenburg about the establishment of an altar of the Sankt-Petri-Kirche . Joachim von Selchow, canon of Stargard in Pomerania , bequeathed two silver marks each to the archdeacon and his official in 1528 .

Hans Melchior von Selchow auf Lieben, Bieberteich and Beelitz , a great-grandson of the progenitor Kaspar von Selchow, died around 1670 as the electoral Brandenburg state director of the Sternberg district. He married Eva Katharina von Ilow († 1661) in 1645. Daniel Valentin and Valentin Heinrich, two sons of the couple, were the founders of the two lines of the family.

1st line

Daniel Valentin von Selchow, the founder of the first line on Bieberteich, died as the master of Bieberteich, Beelitz and Grabow. His son Wolf Asmus from his second marriage to Anna Elisabeth von Lossow was able to continue the line. Wolf Asmus von Selchow auf Bieberteich and Beelitz (* 1689) became royal Prussian colonel and commander of the Glasenapp regiment on foot , adjutant general to the king and canon of Cammin .

His son Friedrich Wilhelm von Selchow (* 1722) on Bieberteich and Beelitz, later also on Vehra , Henschleben , Tunzenhausen and Branderode died in 1789 as a royal Prussian major out of service and knight of the Order of St. John . Friedrich Wilhelm attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium and joined the Prussian army in 1736 . He was wounded 13 times during the Seven Years' War . In 1787 he became district administrator in the County of Hohenstein . Friedrich Wilhelm was married twice, his first marriage from 1750 to Ernestine Friederike Meurer (1731–1757) and from 1759 in his second marriage to Henriette Sophie Luise von Wurmb (1733–1791). After his death, his second wife, Henriette Sophie Luise, nee von Wurmb, applied for a widow's pension, which was refused. Friedrich Wilhelm, a son from his first marriage to Ernestine Friederike Meurer, became his heir. The goods to Vehra, Henschleben and Tunzenhausen came from her.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Selchow (1754–1819) on Vehra and Henschleben was a chamberlain in the princely service of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . From two marriages he had twelve children, seven sons and five daughters. The eldest son Karl Ludwig von Selchow (* 1777) died in 1846 as a Prussian lieutenant a. D. He left four daughters, of whom Emilie von Selchow (1806–1881) the princely black castle-sondershausen chamberlain , councilor and castle captain August Eduard von Wurmb († 1885), and Auguste Friederike Wilhelmine von Selchow (1815–1875) the later Prussian General of the Infantry Hermann von Holleben (1804–1878), director of the life insurance institute for the army and navy and member of the Prussian mansion , married.

Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm von Selchow (* 1791) auf Schonwitz, the youngest son of Friedrich Wilhelm and half-brother of Karl Ludwig, died in 1868 as a royal Prussian chamberlain and Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John. In 1818 he married Josepha Friederike von der Marwitz (1802–1869). The marriage produced ten children, of whom Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen von Selchow (1828-1897), royal Prussian government councilor and Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John, and Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard (1830-1880), Prussian prime lieutenant , were able to continue the line with sons and daughters.

2nd line

Daniel Heinrich von Selchow, the brother of Daniel Valentin and founder of the second line on Klauswalde, died as the master on Klauswalde near Beelitz . He married Eva Sophie von Ilow from the Kirschbaum family. Her grandson Heinrich Gottlob von Selchow (* 1704) on Klauswalde became a royal Prussian colonel. Johann Heinrich Christian von Selchow (* 1732) came from his marriage to Sophie Marianne Freiin von Rimbach in 1731 . He studied law at the University of Göttingen , where he in 1755 to Dr. jur. PhD and an associate professor of law. In 1782 he was appointed privy councilor in Hessen-Kassel and in 1783 chancellor of the University of Marburg . Johann Heinrich Christian was married twice, his first marriage from 1758 to Elenore Rosine von Weise, the marriage was divorced in 1762, and his second marriage to Johanna Dorothea von Hanstein (1747-1827). He died on April 21, 1895 in Marburg.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Selchow (* 1769) in Rettkewitz in Pomerania, a son of Johann Heinrich Christian from his second marriage, died in 1845 as a Prussian captain a. D. and District Administrator of the Lauenburg district in Danzig. Friedrich Wilhelm was married to Friederike Ludowika Amalie Kummer (1783–1864) from 1800. The marriage resulted in twelve children, two sons and ten daughters, three of whom died before their parents.

Adelheide Emma Erdmuthe von Selchow (1802-1883), the eldest daughter, married Wilhelm Kasimir Ludwig Boguslaw Graf von Schwerin-Schwerinsburg († 1874) in 1823 . Of her brothers, Leonhard Rudolph Mordian (1809-1893), Prussian lieutenant general and most recently commandant of Kassel and Adolf Albrecht Hugo von Selchow (1810-1878), was royal Prussian senior government councilor in Frankfurt an der Oder and legal knight of the Order of St. John. The eldest brother Werner Ludolph Erdmann von Selchow (1806-1884) on Rettkewitz with Karolinenthal became royal Prussian agriculture minister. He studied law and was initially from 1843 to 1845 district administrator of the Lauenburg district. From 1848 to 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and from 1851 a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . From 1856 to 1862, Werner Ludolph Erdmann was district president in Frankfurt an der Oder, and in 1862 he became president of the Province of Brandenburg and a member of the Prussian State Council . Otto von Bismarck appointed him to his cabinet as Minister of Agriculture in 1862. An office that he held until his retirement in 1873. He was also dean of the Brandenburg cathedral monastery , legal knight of the Order of St. John and royal Prussian major. Werner Ludolph Erdmann married Karoline Louise von Hanstein (1813–1882) in 1835 and left two sons and nine daughters.

The eldest daughter Gertrud Juliane Pauline von Selchow (* 1836) married the royal Prussian senior government councilor Albert Heinrich Rudolf Sack and her younger sisters Hedwig Johanna Karoline (* 1843) 1863 Heinrich Paul von Geißler, Prussian lieutenant general , and Hildegard Anette Bertha (* 1845) 1867 Hermann von Lettow-Vorbeck († 1913), Prussian general of the infantry. Thusnelda Wilhelmine Emilie von Selchow (* 1839) married the royal Prussian government councilor Franz Friedrich Erdmann von Gottberg († 1869) in 1859 . They were the parents of Klementine Elsbeth Anna von Gottberg (1885-1958), a staunch opponent of National Socialism and the only female member of the Brandenburg Provincial Brotherhood of the Confessing Church . Martha Marie Klementine von Selchow (* 1842), another sister, became lady-in-waiting of Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, who later became the wife of Duke Wilhelm of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

The two sons of Werner Ludolph Erdmann and Karoline Louise, Friedrich Wilhelm Otto and Hans Heinrich Christian, were in Prussian military service. Friedrich Wilhelm Otto von Selchow (1851-1914) on Karolinenthal last served as prime lieutenant in the hussar regiment "Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt" (Pomeranian) No. 5. His marriage to Hedwig Johanna Wilhelmine Kratz (* 1851) had four children emerged. The only son Werner Heinrich Bogislaw von Selchow (1877-1943) became a naval officer, writer and free corps leader . He was an avowed National Socialist, but not a member of the NSDAP . Werner Heinrich Bogislaw died on February 6, 1943 in Berlin. Hans Heinrich Christian von Selchow (* 1855), his uncle and brother of Friedrich Wilhelm Otto, was a Prussian captain and company commander in the 7th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 96. In 1885 he married Angela Friederike Juliane Countess von Hopffgarten (* 1855). The couple had six children, five sons and one daughter.

Possessions

After Ledebur , the family was in Brandenburg in 1417 to Lindow, 1451 to Kirschbaum, 1537 to Lieben, 1614 to Beelitz in der Neumark and Bieberteich, 1630 to Schermeisel near Zielenzig , 1674 to Radach near Drossen , 1688 to Malkendorf and Pinnow near Sternberg , 1709 Clauswalde near Sieversdorf , 1711 to Görbitsch , 1742 to Gandern near Sternberg , 1748 to Trebus near Lebus , 1767 to Reichenwalde near Ziebingen , 1773 to Grabow and Gründel and 1779 to Kuhdamm near Soldin .

In Pomerania in 1803 Rettkewitz near Neuendorf in the former district of Lauenburg , in Silesia in 1836 Nippern near Nimkau in the district of Neumark and Rudnick in the district of Ratibor and in Thuringia in 1774 Branderode in the district of Nordhausen , 1776 Vehra and 1777 Henschleben in the district of Weißensee owned or partially owned by Selchow.

In the middle of the 19th century, members of the family in the Kingdom of Prussia zu Rettkewitz (1857) in the Lauenburg district in Pomerania were wealthy. The royal Prussian district administrator of the Ratibor district, Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen von Selchow, owned Ponientzütz in the Ratibor district and the royal Prussian chamberlain Friedrich Eduard von Selchow was lord of Pommerswitz and Altwiendorf near Leobschütz in the Leobschütz district and Schonowitz in the Ratibor district. Wilhelmine von der Marwitz, married chamberlain von Selchow, also owned Rudnick in the Ratibor district.

coat of arms

Coat of arms in the Silesian Wappenbuch

The coat of arms shows three (red, blue, red) roses in silver bars . On the helmet with blue-silver helmet covers on the right and red-silver helmet covers on the left, three (silver, blue, red) ostrich feathers .

Known family members

literature

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , Volume 10, p. 200.
  3. ↑ a b c Genealogical Handbook of the Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, page 285
  4. ↑ a b c New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 8, p. 458.
  5. ↑ a b c Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 948 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ A b Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon der Prussischen Monarchy , Volume 2, Rauh, Berlin 1856, p. 440.
  7. ↑ Reinhold Cramer: History of the Lande Lauenburg and Bütow. Volume 1: The Story. Königsberg 1858, p. 86 ; Yearbook of the German Nobility. Volume 3, Berlin 1899, p. 476.