Tschammer (noble family)
The von Tschammer family is a Silesian nobility. The first tangible family member was the knight Sambor, who was first mentioned in a document on July 8, 1248. The secured family line begins with Georg von Tschammer on Iscositz around 1400. The spelling of the family name changes between Sambor, Zambor, Czambor, Tschambor and Tschammer. On July 8, 1725, the younger line for the cousins Ernst Balthasar, on Thiergarten and Kampern, and Heinrich Oswald von Tschammer und Osten, on Petersdorf, was raised to the Bohemian baron class. The older line was on March 9, 1920 for Hans von Tschammer und Osten (1856–1922), royal Saxon lieutenant colonel, in the Saxon region. Register of nobility under no. 552. Both lines still exist today.
coat of arms
Family coat of arms ( Rogala ): Split, right in silver the right rod of an eight-ended natural deer antler, left in red a left silver buffalo horn ; on the helmet with red and silver covers the antler pole and the buffalo horn.
Well-known namesake
- Ernst Adolf Ferdinand Sebastian von Tschammer und Osten (1739–1812), Prussian major general
- Georg von Tschammer and Quaritz (1869–1918), German politician and State Secretary for Alsace-Lorraine
- Hans Echart von Tschammer und Osten (1885–1946), German major general
- Hans von Tschammer und Osten (1887–1943), Reich Sports Leader and member of the Reichstag
literature
- Tschammer (encyclopedia entry). In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon . Volume 17, Altenburg 1862, pp. 881-882.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , New general German adels-lexicon , Volume 9, page 292 ff.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1867. Seventeenth year, p.972 ff.
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 4, p.279 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocesan Archives Wroclaw c. 47 and Codex diplomaticus Silesiae No. 677
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon, Volume XV, p. 51, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 2004
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume A XXVI, p. 560, 2001 and Volume FA IX, 1975