Wedderkop (noble family)
Wedderkop , formerly Wedderkopp , Weddersleben head (f) or Wedderkopfius , is the name of one of Lower Saxony derived noble family .
history
According to the family history, as presented in the nobility diploma of 1682, the family came from Brabant and Gelderland ; they were good nobles there. Joachim von Wedderkop, a lieutenant colonel in the army of King Philip II of Spain , left his fatherland because of his faith and moved to Franconia . Joachim's grandson Henning Wedderkopff was initially a lieutenant in Wallenstein's cavalry; he settled in Husum, where he traded “with copper and other things”.
According to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , the family comes from Lower Saxony and begins its line of families with the farmer Magnus Wedderkop from Barum and his son Henning Wedderkop , documented in 1635 († 1662), who was a coppersmith and merchant in Husum . His son was the legal scholar and Schleswig-Holstein statesman Magnus von Wedderkop (1637-1721); he became the progenitor of a number of lawyers, officers and diplomats in the service of Denmark , Sweden and later Prussia .
According to the Hamburger Abendblatt of November 12, 1962, Magnus von Wedderkop (1882–1962) was the last bearer of Wedderkop's name .
Status surveys
- Imperial nobility Vienna on June 17, 1687 for Dr. jur. Magnus Wedderkopp by Emperor Leopold II and admission to the knighthood of Schleswig-Holstein. This means that the sex within the knighthood is one of the recepti (in contrast to the Equites Originarii ).
- Swedish nobility naturalization as "v. Wedderkop ”on November 23, 1693 and introduction to the nobility class of the Swedish knighthood under No. 1282.
Possessions
- Tremsbüttel Castle 1670–
- Gut Steinhorst 1691–1738
- Gut Seegard on Pellworm 1679–1684 / 1689–1768
- Tangstedt 1699-1756
- Moisling 1702-1762
- Gut Neudorf near Lütjenburg 1719–1738
- Property of the Görtz-Palais –1709
- Gut Gelting –1736
- Marutendorf, today part of the Achterwehr
- Sinzig Castle 1934–1954
Streets
- Wedderkopsweg in Braunschweig
- From Wedderkopstraße in Steinhorst
Burial places
- Magnus von Wedderkop was buried in the von Wedderkop Chapel in the south aisle of Lübeck Cathedral . The other von Wedderkop chapel in the south tower of the cathedral was lost in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942.
coat of arms
The coat of arms from 1687 corresponds to that of Edleff Knudsen, who died in 1472 on Seegard . It shows a (half) growing (gold crowned) red lion in gold . On the helmet with red and gold covers the growing lion.
Related coats of arms
- Coat of arms of Steinhorst (Lauenburg)
Well-known representatives
- Magnus von Wedderkop (1637–1721), lawyer and politician
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- Gottfried von Wedderkop (1689–1741), district administrator, bailiff and envoy of the Danish crown, builder of the Steinhorst manor, canon of Lübeck
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- Anna Cathrine von Wedderkop (1721–1774) married Conrad von Holstein, a grandson of Adam Christoph von Holstein and nephew of Ulrich Adolph von Holstein
- Johan Ludvig von Wedderkop (1723–1767)
- Elizabeth Anna Louise von Wedderkop (1765–1836), married to Cay Wilhelm von Ahlefeldt
- Friedrich Christian von Wedderkop (1697–1756), Holstein-Gottorf Minister of State, bailiff in Tremsbüttel , 1742 cathedral dean of Lübeck
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- Anna Margareta von Wedderkop (1716–1760), married to Christian Gerhard von Ahlefeldt, a son of Benedikt von Ahlefeldt
- Magnus von Wedderkop (1717–1771), Swedish upper chamberlain and court marshal, canon in Lübeck
- Johan Ludwig von Wedderkop (1724–1777), in Dollrott, grand ducal district administrator and general hereditary postmaster, canon in Lübeck
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- Magnus von Wedderkop (1758–1825)
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- Adèle von Wedderkop (1792 – probably 1871), diocese and painter
- Theodor von Wedderkop (1802–1887), lawyer and writer
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- Magnus von Wedderkop (1830–1907), married to Elisabeth Post, a great-granddaughter of Liborius Diederich Post
- Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm von Wedderkop (1834–1876)
- Magna Bertha Jenny von Wedderkop (1867–1947), married to Detlev von Bülow
- Anna Maria Louise Emilie Elisabeth von Wedderkop (1874–1945), married to Max Detlef Herman Heinrich von Ahlefeldt, a great-grandson of Ernst Carl von Ahlefeldt
- Anna von Wedderkop (1838–1901), married to Hermann Wilhelm Karl Georg von Dörnberg, a brother of Albert von Dörnberg
- Cordella von Wedderkop (1841–1883), married to Adolf von Plato and posthumously grandmother of Anton Detlev von Plato
- Constantia Henrietta Eugenia Constance Henriette von Wedderkop (1805-1891), married to Otto Ludvig Levin, brother of Carl Herman Levin
- Georg Konrad von Wedderkop (1765–1841), married to Adamine Wilhelmine Nicoline Moltke, a daughter of Friedrich Ludwig von Moltke , since 1774 canon in Lübeck
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- Ludwig von Wedderkop (1807–1882), German judge and parliamentarian
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- Julius von Wedderkop (1849–1921), Oberhofmarschall and house marshal
- Sophie Adamine Friederike Gustava Paula von Wedderkop (1879–1950), married to Alexander von Falkenhausen
- Magnus von Wedderkop (1882–1962), Lieutenant General
- Louise Sophie Albertine von Wedderkop (* 1813), married to Carl Eduard Lillie, a son of Joseph Christian Lillie
- Gabriel Wedderkop (1644–1696), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, pastor of St. Nikolai in Kiel
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- Anna Wedderkop (1675–1703), married to Heinrich Muhlius
- Ida Augusta Wedderkop (1676–1745), married to Timotheus Lütkemann
- Catarina Dorothea Wedderkop (1679–1733), married to Johan Adolf Ovens, a son of Jürgen Ovens
- Matthias Gabriel Wedderkop (1685–1749), pastor in Oldenswort
- Margaretha Elisabeth Wedderkop (1715–1784), married to Friedrich Hensler and mother of Philipp Gabriel Hensler
- Maria Amalia Wedderkop (1692–1757), married to Carl Magnus von Spången and mother of Bengt Gabriel von Spången
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- Anna Catharina Wedderkopf (1715–1786), businesswoman, consultant and women's rights activist.
- Magnus von Wedderkop (1864–1929), married to Else Koenigs, a daughter of Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Koenigs
- Arved von Wedderkop (1873–1954), major, councilor and provost of Uetersen
- Hermann von Wedderkop (1875–1956), writer
- Anneliese von Wedderkop, married to Karl-Friedrich von der Meden
gallery
View into the dean 's chapel with the tombstone of Reimar Peter von Rheder († 1711) and the sarcophagi from the Wedderkop chapel
Gravestone of Arved and Thyra von Wedderkop at the maiden cemetery of the Uetersen monastery
Others
In various novels were literary figures created with surname Wedderkop:
- Theodor Fontane's wife Jenny Treibel from1892 contains Marcell Wedderkopp
- Hilligenlei by Gustav Frenssen from 1905 contained a Wedderkop cash box
- Textbook of love and marriage by Franz Blei from 1928 contains a Herr von Wedderkop
- Stalingrad by Theodor Plievier from 1945 contains First Lieutenant Wedderkop
- The Strudlhofstiege or Melzer and the depth of the years by Heimito von Doderer from 1951 contains Gustav Wedderkopp
- The Ghosts of Thorland by Claus Ulrich Wiesner from 1989 contains a Minister of Finance Wedderkop
literature
- Wedderkop, a handsome generation. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 53, Leipzig 1747, column 1782 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from M. v. Wedderkop .: Wedderkopp, Magnus von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 387-390.
- ↑ Hamburg panorama . In: Hamburger Abendblatt. of November 12, 1962, p. 4.
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, p. 509, Limburg (Lahn) 2005