Wartenberg (Altmark-Northern Thuringian noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Wartenberg

The von Wartenberg family is an old aristocratic family that was based in the Altmark and northern Thuringia . It is not to be confused with the Bohemian Wartenberg family of the same name from another tribe. His parent company of the same name was located in the Stendal district . The first documented representative of the family is Fridericus de Wardenberge, who is mentioned in the oldest document of the city of Perleberg from April 6, 1239. The family line began with Achim von Wartenberg around 1540.

coat of arms

The coat of arms, divided obliquely to the left, is silver above without a picture, below it shows nine (4: 3: 2) golden rye grains in red. On the helmet with red-silver covers 3 golden tournament lances, outside with jagged flags divided from red over silver, in the middle from silver over red.

Known family members

Göttingen, Stadtfriedhof: graves of Max von Laue and Hans-Joachim von Wartenberg (1880–1960)

• Hartwig Karl von Wartenberg (1711–1757), Prussian lieutenant general
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Wartenberg (1725–1807) Prussian Lieutenant General, Knight of the Black Eagle Order
• Rudolf von Wartenberg (1816–1898), Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the cadet corps
• Georg von Wartenberg (1846–1919), Prussian major general
• Maximilian von Wartenberg (1854–1910), Prussian major general
• Hermann von Wartenberg (1857–1917), Prussian general of the cavalry
• Friedrich von Wartenberg (1859–1943), Prussian major general
• Oskar von Wartenberg (1859–1925), Prussian major general
• Heinrich Karl von Wartenberg (1865–1940), Prussian major general
• Hans Joachim von Wartenberg (1880–1960), full professor of chemistry at the University of Göttingen
• Bodo von Wartenberg (1890–1954), German major general
• Ludolf von Wartenberg (* 1941), politician, Member of the Bundestag (CDU)
• Marion von Wartenberg (* 1957), German pastor and trade unionist

See also : Wartenberg (Bohemian noble family) - other families of this name

literature

• Klaus Dietrich von Wartenberg: 750 years of Wartenberg 1239–1989, The family of those von Wartenberg. Hanover 1989.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XV, Volume 134 of the complete series, p. 465, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2004, ISSN  0435-2408
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses. 1908. Ninth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907, p. 777 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Volume A XXV, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1998, ISBN 3-7980-0817-5 , p. 532.
2. ^ Riedel: Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis. Vol. AI, p. 123.
3. ↑ Geneal. Handbook of the nobility. Adelslexikon Volume XV, Starke, 2004, ISBN 3-7980-0834-5 , p. 465.