Waldersee (noble family)
Waldersee is the name of a German noble family , a morganatic line of the Ascanians . The family from Anhalt-Dessau was raised to the Prussian count in 1786 .
The ancestral seat of the Counts of Waldersee is now Gut Waterneverstorf , which is also called Gut Waldersee after its current owners , in the municipality of Behrensdorf on the Great Inland Lake in eastern Schleswig-Holstein .
history
The family of the Counts of Waldersee comes from a premarital union of the Ascanian Prince Leopold III. Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau with Johanne Eleonore née Hoffmeyer, later wed von Neitschütz (1739–1816), daughter of the First Preacher at the Reformed Church in Zerbst and sister of the Archdeacon at the Dessau Great Church. From this connection three children, two daughters and one son, were born. This, Franz Graf von Waldersee (1763-1823), a German civil servant and writer, received his family name in reference to the old, extinct noble family of the Waldesians or after the former Waldersee Castle in Anhalt, and on October 15, 1786, became a Prussian count raised. In 1795 his father gave him the Palais Waldersee in Dessau as a residence. He married the granddaughter of Wilhelm Gustav von Anhalt-Dessau (his second cousin) Luise Karoline Casimira Sophie Countess von Anhalt (1767–1842). They had three sons and three daughters.
When the male line of the Counts of Holstein-Holsteinborg became extinct in 1897 , their Holstein estate, Waterneverstorf, was passed on to the Counts of Waldersee, who still own the property today.
coat of arms
The coat of arms from 1786 is quartered in gold and red and covered with a silver heart shield, inside a royal crowned (Prussian) black eagle. Three helmets with red and gold covers: on the right two growing crossed arms decorated with black and gold, each holding a natural peacock feather in their bare hands, on the middle a red pointed hat on the middle one, on the left a ducal crowned (Silesian) black hat Eagle. Shield holders are two inward-looking golden lions.
The coat of arms of the Counts of Waldersee goes back to that of the old, extinct noble family of the Waldesians . The coat of arms of the Counts of Waldes, which consisted of six fields in red and yellow, six flags, as well as three tufts and fronds, was modified by Prince Joachim Ernst into the coat of arms of the Princes of Anhalt and later in the great state coat of arms of the Duchy of Anhalt integrated. In this form it also forms the basis for the coat of arms of the Counts of Waldersee. The colors can also be found as part of the coats of arms of Dessau and Dessau-Roßlau as a symbol for the Waldersee district .
Known family members
- Alfred Graf von Waldersee (1832–1904), Prussian Field Marshal General
- Bernhard Graf von Waldersee (* 1952), German diplomat
- Etta Countess von Waldersee , b. von Le Fort (1902–1978), Vice President of the German Red Cross
- Franz Heinrich Graf von Waldersee (1791–1873), Prussian general of the cavalry
- Friedrich Graf von Waldersee (1795–1864), Prussian lieutenant general and military writer
- Friedrich Franz Graf von Waldersee (1829–1902), Prussian lieutenant general
- Georg Graf von Waldersee (1860–1932), Prussian lieutenant general
- Gustav Graf von Waldersee (1864–1945), Prussian major general
- Marie Countess von Waldersee (1837–1914), German-American sponsor of social institutions
- Paul Graf von Waldersee (1831–1906), Prussian military musician and musicologist
Family table
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Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau (1676–1747) |
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Wilhelm Gustav Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1699–1737) |
Prince Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau (1700–1751) |
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| Albrecht Count of Anhalt (1735–1802) |
Leopold III. Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1740–1817) |
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| Luise Karoline Casimira Sophie Countess of Anhalt (1767–1842) |
Franz Graf von Waldersee (1763–1823) |
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Franz Heinrich Count of Waldersee (1791–1873) |
Eduard Graf von Waldersee (1793–1867) |
Friedrich Count von Waldersee (1795–1864) |
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| Georg Graf von Waldersee (1824–1870) |
Alfred Graf von Waldersee (1832–1904) |
Marie Countess of Waldersee (1837–1914) |
Paul Graf von Waldersee (1831–1906) |
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| Franz Graf von Waldersee (1862–1927) |
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| Georg Graf von Waldersee (1888–1966) |
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| Jürgen Graf von Waldersee (1920–2008) |
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Bernhard Graf von Waldersee (* 1952) |
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literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XV, Volume 134 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2004, ISSN 0435-2408
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Waldersee. In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon .
- ^ Ingo Bubert, Hanspeter Walter: Manors, manors and castles in eastern Holstein. 5th edition, Sventana, Schellhorn 2003, ISBN 3-927653-09-8
- ^ Chronicle of Gut Waldersee
- ^ Eduard Vehse: History of the German courts since the Reformation, Volume 37-38 . Hoffmann and Campe, 1856 ( full text in the Google book search).
- ↑ Bernhard Heese: The Counts of Waldersee and the Waldeser Castle. In: The New Series of the Dessau Chronicle. Walter Schwalbe (Ed. H. de Roth), Dessau 1926/29, pp. 105-107.
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XV, Volume 134 of the complete series, p. 395, Limburg (Lahn) 2004.
- ^ W. Hosäus: Waldersee, Franz Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 696-698.
- ^ Herbert Papendieck: The coats of arms of the districts and independent cities of the state of Saxony-Anhalt. Ziethen 1996, p. 54.
- ^ Heinrich Lindner: History and description of the state of Anhalt . Ackermann, 1833, p. 258 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Large state coat of arms of the Duchy of Anhalt