From Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg

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Coat of arms of the von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg

Von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg is the name of a noble family that originated at the beginning of the 19th century when Johann Gottfried von Hindenburg nominally merged the two older noble families von Hindenburg and von Beneckendorff into a common new line.

The family of those von Beneckendorff

The name Beneckendorff was first mentioned at the end of the 12th century in the Altmark . The gender itself is said to originally come from Swabia.

The Beneckendorff family came to Neumark in the wake of the Margrave of Brandenburg and the Order of the Teutonic Knights . There they acquired fourteen manors at the height of their standing, some of which they received as gifts and others for themselves.

A representative of the family first became well known in the late 15th century with Asmus von Beneckendorff , who at that time lived as a robber baron in the Naugard area , where he preferred to plunder merchants from Danzig . In the centuries that followed, the members of the family distinguished themselves primarily as soldiers in the armies of changing masters: ten Beneckendorff officers died in the Turkish wars . Other representatives of the sex took part in wars in Holland, France, Poland and Sweden.

The von Hindenburg family

The name Hindenburg is derived from the old word hindin , which means something like doe. Hirschkühe ( hinden ) can be found on the family coat of arms of the Hindenburgs. The family probably comes from the Altmark village of Hindenburg .

At the end of the 18th century, Hans-Heinrich von Hindenburg married Katharina von Beneckendorff . From this connection the son Johann Gottfried von Hindenburg emerged.

The common line from Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg

The Beneckendorff and Hindenburg line came into being when a Colonel von Hindenburg who had remained childless at the beginning of the 19th century appointed his nephew Johann Otto Gottfried von Beneckendorff as heir to his West Prussian estates Limbsee and Neudeck . In order to inherit the goods, the elder von Hindenburg made it a condition of his nephew to take the name of Hindenburg . In addition, this had to take over the coat of arms of the von Hindenburg. Since Johann Otto Gottfried von Beneckendorff did not want to do without his old family name, he combined the two names and called himself Johann Otto Gottfried von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg from then on. (See also "The ancestors of Field Marshal von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg in Neumark and in Preuszen by Arthur Semrau" Thorn 1915) It followed Johann Otto Gottfried von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg , from his marriage with the Lowisa Baroness zu Eulenburg-Prassen two Children emerged: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst and Otto Ludwig, who married Eleonore von Brederlow adH Klaukendorf on Aug 13, 1801, when he died in 1855, 9 children of age remained behind. One of these, Hans Robert von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg, was born on May 21, 1816. From the marriage of Robert von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburgs in Posen in April 1845 to the middle-class Luise Schwickart, daughter of the regimental doctor Karl Ludwig Schwickart (born August 26, 1780), the most famous offspring of the family, Paul von Beneckendorff and von, emerged Hindenburg (1847–1934), who, as field marshal, became the head of the German Supreme Army Command in World War I, and from 1925 to 1934, as Reich President, was head of state of the German Reich.

When Paul von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg became known to a wider public after his victory in the Battle of Tannenberg in August 1914, the name von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg - which had previously always been used as a double name - was generally shortened to Hindenburg, as was probably the Until his death, Field Marshal always used the double name on letterheads and business cards - but not on signatures.

Paul von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg's marriage to Gertrud Wilhelmine von Sperling (1860–1921) produced three children: the son Oskar von Hindenburg and the two daughters Irmengard and Gertrud.

Coat of arms of the von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg

coat of arms

The coat of arms from 1789 is quartered, fields 1 and 4 show in blue a black buffalo head with a gold nose ring, 2 and 3 in silver a green tree in front of which a brown hind ( doe ) is walking on a green lawn . Two helmets , on the right one with blue-silver helmet covers four (blue-black-black-blue) ostrich feathers, on the left one with red-silver covers an open black flight .

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  1. ↑ Hans-Otto Meissner: Youth in the Reich President's Palace , 1988, p. 203.