Willisen
Willisen is the name of a German noble family .
Origins
The family comes from the Wetterau . The family line begins with Johann Will, town clerk in Windecken near Hanau . In 1702 he was accepted into the imperial aristocracy and knighthood with Edler von Willisen for the ducal-saxony-naumburg real secret councilor Emanuel Willius (1656–1728). The Saxon Zeitzische nobility recognition took place on October 28, 1702 for the same. The Prussian approval to use the title of baron was granted with the highest cabinet order of January 10, 1863 for Friedrich Adolf von Willisen and his descendants, as well as with the highest cabinet order of April 29, 1866 for his older brothers Carl Friedrich Ferdinand (1788–1873) and Karl Wilhelm and their descendants.
coat of arms
Blazon of the original coat of arms
1702: The coat of arms in gold, on it a jumping natural stag; on the helmet with red and gold helmet covers : the deer growing.
Blazon of the baronial coat of arms
1863 or 1866: the coat of arms is quartered. The first and fourth quarters in red show an upturned, upright golden fox, which is holding an upright silver saw with a golden handle in its forelegs with the saw blade turned inwards. The second and third quarters, in gold, show an inward, leaping natural ten-pointed stag. The coat of arms is crowned with two helmets; on the right helmet with red and gold covers: the fox growing with the saw, on the left helmet the stag growing.
Known family members
- Achim von Willisen (1900–1983), chief forest manager, resistance fighter
- Friedrich Adolf von Willisen (1798–1864), Prussian cavalry general, head stable master and diplomat
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Willisen (1876–1933), Prussian officer, President of the German Protection Association, head of the Aviation School
- Hans-Karl von Willisen (1906–1966), pioneer of radio measurement technology , developer of the German radar system
- Hans von Willisen (1837–1905), Prussian lieutenant general, member of the Prussian House of Representatives
- Karl von Willisen (General, 1788) (1788–1873), Prussian lieutenant general
- Karl von Willisen (General, 1819) (1819–1886), Prussian general of the cavalry
- Karl von Willisen (General, 1858) (1858–1937), Prussian Lieutenant General
- Karl Wilhelm von Willisen (1790–1879), Prussian lieutenant general and military writer
literature
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen houses . B, Vol. 1865 S.1007 , 1866 S.1027 , 1868 S.997f , 1870 S.1030f , 1878 S.977f , 1882 S.976f , 1886 S.1055f , 1891 S.1040f and 1939.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Freiherrliche Häuser B, Vol. III (1963), VIII (1982), XXII (2002).