Lewinski (noble family)
Lewinski is the name of an old Pomerellian - Kashubian noble family .
origin
The gender was originally called Royk . Under Polish rule it took over the name of its long-standing estate Lewyn (today Lewino ), for which the first Polish king Sigismund I had confirmed his hereditary noble possession to a Jakob Royk in 1526 :
“Date est privilegium nobilibus [...] Jacobo heredibus de villa Lewyn in terra Pomoraniae et districtu Mirochoviensi sitta”
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the family then bore the double name of Royk Lewinski . As the last of his family, an Andreas Royk is mentioned in 1662 as a taxpayer in Lewino. While one of his two sons settled in Kositzkowo and his descendants can be traced back to the 20th century, the other and his descendants lived on other property in Lebno and later in Tockar, Karthaus / West Prussia . The last of this family branch, born in Dargelow in 1747 , left Kashubia and entered Prussian service. At the beginning of the 18th century, only the name Lewinski appears in the documents .
coat of arms
A silver lion in red with a sword in its front paws. On the helmet with red and silver covers there are three (red, silver, red) ostrich feathers .
Known family members
- Alfred von Lewinski (1831–1906), Prussian infantry general
- Alfred von Lewinski (1862–1914), Prussian major general
- August Alfred Friedrich von Lewinski (1866–1957), Prussian major general
- Eduard von Lewinski (1829–1906), Prussian general of the artillery
- Erich von Lewinski gen. Von Manstein (1887–1973), German field marshal
- Felix von Lewinski (1869–1936), Prussian major general
- Henning von Lewinski (1902–1981), diplomat and naval officer
- Kai von Lewinski (* 1970), German lawyer and university professor
- Karl von Lewinski (1858–1937), Prussian lieutenant general
- Karl von Lewinski (1873–1951), German lawyer and diplomat
- Oskar von Lewinski (1873–1913), Prussian officer and military attaché
- Wilhelm von Lewinski (1867–1942), Prussian major general
- Wolf-Eberhard von Lewinski (1927–2003), German music and theater critic
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume VII, p. 325, volume 97 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 .
- Genealogical manual of the nobility. Noble houses B. Volume XV, p. 296f., Volume 83 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility. Noble houses B. Volume XXVI, p. 249ff., Volume 140 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2006.
- Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1909 p.485f , 1913 p.484f Lewinski Stamm Tempski