Massow (noble family)
The Massow family is a noble Pomeranian family . The name goes back to the place Massow in Western Pomerania.
history
The family is first mentioned in 1259 with a knight Conrad , who named himself after the place Massow in Western Pomerania. Presumably this knight Conrad came from Lower Saxony. Conradus de Massow is also mentioned in a document supposedly from 1253, which is recognized as a forgery, probably from the period between 1306 and 1317.
The lineage of the sex begins about 200 years later. The lines Rohr, Lantow, Bartin and Schwirsen were created. Family members were in the service of the Pomeranian dukes and later the Brandenburg electors and Prussian kings.
Confirmations of nobility
- Silesian incolate in the knighthood on February 2, 1759 in Berlin for the royal Prussian major a. D. Paul von Massow and on June 21, 1781 in Berlin for Valentin von Massow , landlord on Rohr in the Rummelsburg district and later senior marshal.
- Admission to the Dutch nobility on September 22, 1817 for Godefridus van Massow , councilor of the city of Leyden. Dutch baronate on June 22, 1844 for his son Gerlach Cornelis Johannes van Massow , also councilor of the city of Leyden. The Dutch branch of the family has expired.
coat of arms
Two red bars in silver . On the helmet with red and silver covers, two buffalo horns marked like the shield .
Known family members
Ludwig von Massow (1794–1859), Minister of the Royal House
- Apollonia Elisabeth von Massow , poet of evangelical sacred songs, worked in Pomerania in the 17th century
- Kaspar Ewald von Massow (1629 / 1639–1694), Pomeranian district administrator and director of the Stolpescher Kreis
- Kaspar Otto von Massow (1665–1736), Prussian Minister of War
- Joachim Rüdiger von Massow († 1756), Prussian District Administrator of the Rummelsburger Kreis
- Hans von Massow (1686–1761), Prussian lieutenant general and general war commissioner
- Gerlach Cornelis Johannes van Massow (1687–1758), Dutch major general
- Joachim Ewald von Massow (1697–1769), go. Minister of State and Conducting Minister in Silesia
- Valentin von Massow (1712–1775), Prussian Minister of State and War
- Carl von Massow (1735–1807), district administrator of the Randow district and regional director of Western Pomerania
- Friederike Charlotte Louise von Massow (1746–1808), wife of General Friedrich Adolf Riedesel
- Carl Ludwig Ewald von Massow (1748–1808), district administrator of the Guhrau district
- Friedrich Ewald Ernst von Massow (1750–1791), President of the War and Domain Chamber in Marienwerder
- Julius Eberhard von Massow (1750–1816), Prussian Minister of Justice and Chief President of the Court of Justice
- Valentin von Massow (1752–1817), Prussian chief court marshal, director of the Prussian palaces and gardens
- Ewald Georg von Massow (1754–1820), governor and state minister in Silesia
- Friedrich Gottlob von Massow (1754–1833), chief forest master in West and South Prussia
- Godefridus van Massow (1761–1818), Dutch merchant, councilor of the city of Leyden
- Johann von Massow (1761–1805), district administrator of the Rummelsburg district
- Karl Friedrich Heinrich von Massow (1770-1851), Prussian major general
- Valentin von Massow (1793-1854), Prussian lieutenant general
- Gerlach Cornelis Johannes van Massow (1794–1852), Dutch lawyer, councilor of the city of Leyden
- Ludwig von Massow (1794-1859), Prussian Minister of the Royal House
- Frederik van Massow (1798–1876), Dutch nobleman, had himself deleted from the Dutch nobility in 1837
- Wilhelm von Massow (1802–1867), member of the Prussian manor house
- Heinrich von Massow (1810-1896), Prussian major general
- Hermann von Massow (1812–1881), forest clerk, Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Wilhelm von Massow (General) (1815–1899), Prussian general of the infantry
- Louis von Massow (1821–1905), Prussian major general
- Valentin von Massow (1825–1868), Prussian lieutenant colonel, commander of the 1st Guard Uhlan Regiment
- Benno von Massow (1827–1904), Prussian lieutenant general
- Ferdinand von Massow (1830–1878), Prussian major general
- Anton von Massow (1831–1921), Prussian infantry general
- Adolf von Massow (1837–1909), Prussian cavalry officer and politician, member of the German Reichstag
- Robert von Massow (1839–1927), Prussian cavalry general, participant in the American Civil War, President of the Imperial Military Court
- Konrad von Massow (1840–1910), administrative lawyer, go. Upper Government Council at the Audit Office of the German Reich
- Alexander von Massow (1842–1906), Prussian lieutenant general
- Ludwig von Massow-Parnehnen (1844–1914), officer and member of the German Reichstag
- Benno von Massow (1859–1938), Lieutenant General
- Valentin von Massow (1864–1899), head of the Imperial Police Force in Togo
- Ewald von Massow (1869–1942), German lieutenant general, wing adjutant of Kaiser Wilhelm II, SS group leader
- Magdalene von Massow (1870–1936), German colonialist and plantation owner in German East Africa
- Albrecht von Massow (1879–1953), German Major General in the Air Force
- Wilhelm von Massow (1891–1949), German classical archaeologist
- Gerd von Massow (1896–1967), German lieutenant general in the air force, general in pilot training
- Hans-Werner von Massow (1912–1988), organizer of national and international correspondence chess
- Bertl von Massow (1921–1983), organizer of international correspondence chess
literature
- Nobility Lexicon . In: Genealogical manual of the nobility . Volume VIII ( Volume 113 of the complete series). C. A. Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0813-2 , p. 311-312 .
- Stefan Hartmann: Massow (family article). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 361 ( digitized version ).
- Wilhelm von Massow: The Massows - story of a Pomeranian noble family . Book printing of the orphanage in Halle (Saale), 1931.
- Massow. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 19, Leipzig 1739, column 1978–1980.
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Aristocracy , Volume 3, 1899, published by WT Bruer, p. 211 ( digitized version )
- Paul Hermann Adolf von Massow: News about the sex of those von Massow. Mittler, Berlin 1878 ( digitized version )
- Theodor Fontane : Walks through the Mark Brandenburg , Volume 2 ( Oderland ) "Links der Spree" - On the Hohen-Barnim: Steinhöfel (and following)
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Verlag Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1837, pp. 369–373 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Coat of arms of the Massow in the register of arms of the Holy Roman Empire, Nuremberg around 1554–1568
Footnotes
- ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 2, Vol. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1970, No. 570.