Woodpecker (noble family)
Specht is the name of an aristocratic family from Lower Saxony , whose direct line of tribes began with Christoph Specht (born February 14, 1599 in Einbeck ), councilor of Einbeck.
Nobelites
The elevation to the imperial nobility with confirmation of the coat of arms took place on September 8, 1785 in Vienna for Heinrich Specht, ducal colonel and brigadier of Brunswick (currently Joseph II ).
The elevation to the Brunswick baron took place on 9 December 1855 in Braunschweig for Maximilian von Specht (1828-1903), a lieutenant in the Austrian Lancers - Regiment No. 4, with Austrian confirmation. Ministerial z of 17 February 1857 in Vienna (currently. . Franz Joseph I. )
coat of arms
In silver two green woodpeckers standing on dry branches, facing each other . On the helmet with red and silver covers, a natural woodpecker on the branch between open black flight .
Personalities
- Friedrich von Specht (1803–1879), major general in Hesse and brigade commander, from 1866 Prussian lieutenant general
- Friedrich Karl von Specht (1793–1877), Colonel and regimental commander of the Duke Braunschweig Infantry Regiment
- Hans von Specht (1825–1913), Braunschweig officer, from 1844 farmer, carter and postmaster in the USA
- Hellmut von Specht (born 1941), German physicist and university professor
- Karl von Specht (1822–1899), German lawyer, most recently at the Imperial Court
- Walter von Specht (1855–1923), Chamberlain in Schaumburg-Lippe, Prussian Major General
- Wilhelm von Specht (1838–1910), Prussian major general
literature
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Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch , Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha
- Part B, 1909, p. 763 (stem series); 1910, p. 763ff ; 1911 to 1933 (continuations).
- Part FA, 1919, p. 928; 1921, p. 896; 1927, p. 647; 1931, p. 499
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Genealogical handbook of the nobility , CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn)
- Noble houses B, Volume VI, Volume 32 of the complete series, 1964, pp. 354–364; B 23, volume 121 of the complete series, 2000, pp. 428-443.
- Adelslexikon , Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, 2002, pp. 445-446.
