Tschirschnitz (noble family)

Tschirschnitz is the name of a Hanoverian postal nobility .

history

The Tschirschnitz family comes from Silesia. The Royal Hanoverian Major General and Adjutant General Wilhelm Tschirschnitz was raised to the nobility by King Georg V of Hanover on May 15, 1856 . The nobility diploma was issued on June 6, 1856.

coat of arms

The coat of arms, awarded in 1856, shows in a silver coat of arms a warrior in ancient Roman costume, but without a helmet, who wields a battle ax in his right hand on green ground. On the crowned helmet with red and silver covers an erect silver thorn, between two silver buffalo horns each covered with a red bar.

Name bearer

Anton Josef Pepino (draftsman): August von Tschirschnitz (1893) in the guest book of Neubeu Castle

• Wilhelm von Tschirschnitz (1796–1873), Hanoverian general of the infantry

• August von Tschirschnitz (1829–1916), Privy Councilor and department head in the Prussian War Ministry
• Adolf von Tschirschnitz (1837–1912), Lieutenant in the Hanoverian Army, District Administrator of Sonderburg, Schleswig-Holstein
• Julius von Tschirschnitz (1834–1890), Saxon lieutenant general

literature

• Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian Nobility. First volume, ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1892, p. 577f.