Thadden

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Coat of arms of those von Thadden,
tribe Nesnachow
Coat of arms of the von Thadden,
Polchow-Rybienke tribe

Thadden , also Tadden , is the name of an old Pomeranian noble family . The family whose branches are in part still belongs to the nobility in Pomerania and tribal related to a same letter noble line that late 18th century ennobled was.

history

origin

The family originally lived in the area of ​​the Teutonic Order of the Dukes of Pomerania-Danzig in East Pomerania. Tadden ( pol. Tadzino ), the family seat of the same name, is now part of the Polish community Gniewino in the Pomeranian Voivodeship .

The family with Geroslaus (also Jarislav) Taditz , that is, son of Tadde or Thaddäus , is mentioned for the first time in a document . He appears in a document issued in Danzig on June 11, 1334 as miles ( Latin knight ).

The spelling of the name changes from Tade, Thade, Thadde, Tadde and Thatt. It was not until the middle of the 17th century that Thadden or Tadden, also Tadda in Polish, became common.

Spread and personalities

The family split early into two tribes with different coats of arms . One tribe had its headquarters in Nesnachow near Vietzig in the northwestern part of the former Lauenburg district in Pomerania . Members of this branch also used the name von Nesnachow (pol. Gniesnachowski) at times . On June 10, 1493, Matthies von Nesenechouw was the first to receive a loan letter from Duke Bogislaw X. of Pomerania about Nesnachow .

The headquarters of the second tribe were Thadden-Enzow and Rybienke in the eastern district of Lauenburg and Polchow, Klanin and Rutzau in the district of Putzig in Pomerellen. There, on February 6, 1469, Peter Tadde zu Rutzau appears in a document. Members of this tribe often called themselves only von Polchow (pol. Polchowki). Members of both tribes were from 1460 to 1637, during which time the state of Lauenburg-Bütow belonged to the Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin , in feudal community.

In 1527 the brothers Claus and Stephan von Thade received, among other things, the goods Dzinzelitz, Bonswitz, Reddestow and Ribienke from the Pomeranian dukes of Lehn. The ownership of the older feudal estates was confirmed. Later, numerous members of the family were in royal Prussian service and became officers in the Prussian army . Georg Reinhold von Thadden was regiment chief and governor von Glatz . He died childless as a royal Prussian lieutenant general of the infantry on December 8, 1784 on his estate Babenz near Rosenberg in West Prussia . His fortune went to his Reddestow cousins.

Johann von Thadden from the House of Reddestow was chief of an infantry regiment, governor of Spandau and knight of the Red Eagle Order . He died in 1817 as a royal Prussian lieutenant general in Halle . One of his sons became chief forest master in Stettin , another was a royal Prussian captain . Christian Ludwig von Thadden died in 1794 as a colonel and chief of a fusilier battalion. He was married to a daughter from the von Billerbeck family. A son from this marriage became royal Prussian lieutenant colonel and commander of the Guard Rifle Battalion . Ernst Dietrich von Thadden became a royal Prussian colonel and wing adjutant . He married Caroline Henriette Countess von Wartensleben .

Gut Trieglaff in Western Pomerania

Her son Adolf von Thadden-Trieglaff became the owner of the Trieglaff estate near Greifenberg in Pomerania , which he bought from his father-in-law. Adolf became one of the main characters of the Pomeranian revival movement, Trieglaff a center of Pietism . In protest against the state church union , the highly conservative Adolf Thadden joined the Old Lutherans . His daughter Marie von Thadden-Trieglaff exerted a great influence on Bismarck . While Reinold von Thadden (1891–1976) and his sister Elisabeth von Thadden (1890–1944) were involved in the Confessing Church and the latter was executed as a resistance fighter in 1944, their half-brother Adolf von Thadden (1921–1996) took a different political direction and was national chairman of the NPD from 1967 to 1971 ; his cousin Eberhard von Thadden (1909–1964) was a National Socialist and prepared the deportation of Saloniki's Jews as a “Judenreferent” in the Foreign Office. After the Second World War , several family members became involved as politicians, scientists, writers and journalists.

Postage line

Heinrich, royal Prussian lieutenant in the field artillery corps and the natural son of the 1784 deceased Royal Prussian Major Franz Heinrich von Thadden, Mitherr on Reddestow and medium-Lowitz, and a natural daughter of the royal Prussian Captain von Schack , received on 18 December 1797 Berlin one Prussian nobility legitimation with settlement of the father's name and coat of arms .

coat of arms

Nesnachow tribe

The coat of arms of the Nesnachow tribe shows a silver griffin in red , underneath a gold star. On the helmet with its red and silver helmet covers, there are two gold stars between three fallen silver-feathered blue arrows.

Polchow-Rybienker tribe

The coat of arms of the Polchow-Rybienker tribe shows in blue two fallen silver crescent moons one above the other, below a gold star. On the helmet with its blue and silver helmet covers, two gold stars can be seen between three upright silver arrows.

Known family members

Adolf von Thadden-Trieglaff (1796–1882)

literature

Web links

Commons : Thadden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hand vest of the Teutonic Knight Order. Book No. 2, fol. 115-116.
  2. ↑ a b c Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XV, Volume 134 of the complete series, pp. 384–386.
  3. ↑ a b New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 9, p. 179.