Seydewitz (noble family)

Family coat of arms of the von Seydewitz family

The von Seydewitz family belongs to the Meissen nobility and was resident in Prussia and Saxony .

origin

The family is probably named after the town of Seydewitz on the Elbe in Mühlberger Pflege . Albertus de Sydewicz zu Mühlberg first appeared in a document on May 12, 1299.

The sex is probably not related to the extinct Vogtland-Saxon von Seydewitz from Seidewitz near Casekirchen , two districts of the municipality of Molauer Land in Saxony-Anhalt . They were the owners of the Janisroda , Mechelgrün, Hartmannsgrün and Rodersdorf estates as well as the village of Oeglitzsch and had one (or three) wolf tang (s) in their coat of arms.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms is split in gold and black , in the golden field three (2: 1) natural Moor's heads. On the crowned helmet with black and gold covers a natural carrot's trunk .

Ranks

The older line ( August Friedrich von Seydewitz ) was raised to the imperial baron status in Vienna on July 10, 1731 (“Noble Panner and Baron of the Holy Roman Empire”), and received the imperial count on February 23, 1743 in Frankfurt am Main.

Known family members (chronological)

August Friedrich von Seydewitz (1696–1775), Imperial Councilor of the Imperial Court
Curt Gottlob von Seydewitz (1735–1809), Saxon Chamberlain, Lieutenant Colonel and Commissioner of the Meißnischen Kreis
Johann Christoph Heinrich von Seydewitz (1748–1824), Mecklenburg court architect
Karl Friedrich August von Seydewitz (1769–1816), Bavarian general
Carl Christian von Seydewitz (1777–1857), German-Danish painter
Friedrich Ferdinand Leopold von Seydewitz (1787–1872), Prussian administrative officer
Heinrich von Seydewitz (1799–1868), Prussian major general
Max Graf von Seydewitz (1800–1872), Prussian district administrator
Otto Theodor von Seydewitz (1818–1898), President of the German Reichstag
Carl Friedrich von Seydewitz (1826–1897), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
Oskar von Seydewitz (1836–1902), German administrative officer and manor owner
Paul von Seydewitz (1843–1910), Saxon Minister of Education (1892–1906)
Damm von Seydewitz (1845–1899), Prussian chamberlain and governor of Prussian Upper Lusatia
Hugo von Seydewitz (1849–1915), Prussian major general
Ernst von Seydewitz (1852–1929), Saxon Finance Minister

literature

Otto Theodor von Seydewitz, Max Seydewitz: Contributions to the history of the family von Seydewitz. Vol. 1 covers the period from 1299 to 1875 with 2 tab. And 1 tab. Görlitz 1875 and continuation 1890; Vol. 2. The period up to 1942, including 1942.
Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2002, pp. 319-321, ISSN 0435-2408
Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1910, p.737

Web links

Commons : Seydewitz family - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Sächsisches Staatsarchiv - Main State Archive Dresden , Certificate 1608.

^ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms . VI. Volume, 6th Division; Extinct Prussian nobility: Province of Saxony , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1884, pp. 155–156.

[1] Sächsisches Staatsarchiv - Main State Archive Dresden , Certificate 1608.

[2] George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms . VI. Volume, 6th Division; Extinct Prussian nobility: Province of Saxony , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1884, pp. 155–156.