Seydlitz (noble family)
The family of Seidlitz (also Seidlitz or Zeidlitz ) is part of the Silesian nobility and appears first documented in 1287 by Otto de Sidelicz .
Origin and history
Due to their naming of historians suspected Johann Sinapius a Vandal origin of the sex of the von Seidlitz and mentioned in his "Silesian curiosities" that they are already in the Wendish wars to have been around the year 931 knightly soldier. It is also reported that in 627 a Robert Seidlitz was a knight on the army expedition to the Holy Land and is said to have sacrificed his spirit to God there along with other knights. In the middle of the 7th century a Bernhard Seidlitz († 653 Rome) is said to have served as master of ceremonies for Eugene I , and in 1010 Konrad Seidlitz as cathedral cantor in Bamberg.
Members of the family appear in the 13th century as castellani (castle residents) and barones , whose ancestral houses were in Thuringia, Bohemia and Silesia. A common origin with the Silesian family von Kurzbach is assumed due to the coats of arms.
The family flourishes in three tribes: von Seydlitz and Gohlau , von Seydlitz-Kurzbach and von Seidlitz and Ludwigsdorf , whose more detailed genealogical connection has not yet been established.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows three red fish in silver on top of each other. On the helmet with its red and white blankets, two upwardly sloping tournament lances with flags of a confused color between a red and a silver buffalo horn are attached and interlaced with them.
Known family members
- Ernst Julius von Seidlitz (1695–1766), Count of Peilau, founder of a congregation of brothers in Gnadenfrei , uncle of Karl von Holtei's foster mother
- Alexander Gottlieb von Seydlitz (1700–1782), Prussian major general
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (1721–1773), Prussian cavalry general
- Florian von Seydlitz (1777–1832), Prussian major general
- Ernst von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1784–1849), founder of Seydlitz's geography
- Hermann von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1810–1895), Prussian lieutenant general
- Rudolf von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1812–1870), German manor owner and court official
- Kurt von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1849–1913), Prussian major general
- Woldemar von Seidlitz (1850–1922), art historian
- Ernst Julius von Seidlitz-Sandreczki (1863–1930), German majorate leader and member of parliament
- Adolf von Seidlitz (1865–1943), district administrator, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
- Wilfried von Seidlitz (1880–1945), German geologist and paleontologist
- Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888–1976), German general of the Second World War, Vice President of the National Committee for Free Germany
- Adolf von Seydlitz-Sandreczki (1896–1945), landowner and member of the state brotherhood council of the Silesian Confessing Church
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1914–2009), former CEO of Paul Hartmann AG
- Werner von Seydlitz (1927–2016), Swedish entrepreneur, born in East Prussia. Founder of the MP-Bolagen company in Vetlanda , Sweden .
Ships named Seydlitz
- Seydlitz des Norddeutscher Lloyd, German aid ship in the First World War
- Seydlitz , large cruiser (battle cruiser) of the German Imperial Navy
- Seydlitz , heavy cruiser of the German Navy, unfinished
See also
literature
- Rudolph von Seydlitz and Kurzbach: Personal directory of the now living generations of the Seydlitz family. Enners, Düsseldorf 1888 ( digitized version )
- Yearbook of the German Nobility , Volume 3, Verlag von WT Bruer, 1899, p. 424 (digitized version) and p. 436 (digitized version)
- Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume 69, 1979
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Volume 128, 2002, Adelslexikon
