Winterfeld (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Winterfeld

The gentlemen (also barons, counts, marquis) von Winterfeld (also Winterfeldt ) are an ancient noble family from the Brandenburg region with the parent company Winterfeld near Salzwedel .

history

origin

According to tradition, the lineage goes back to Saxon nobles who allegedly came to Winterfeld in the Altmark in 926 together with King Heinrich I (also Heinrich der Vogler or Heinrich am Vogelherde) (see also Kneschke, Adelslexikon), after which they named themselves.

Presumably, the lineage is a tribe with the lineage of Wolfenbüttel and the Counts of Peine , which appeared in eastern Lower Saxony as early as 1073 , who had the same coat of arms. In Abel's “Collection of several chronicles” it is reported that Dythleff Voigt von Schladen, a member of the nobles and counts of Schladen , bailiff of Wolfenbüttel, was the builder of Wolfenbüttel Castle , after which he was named. Dythleff's descendant Widekind von Wolfenbüttel , nobilis, first appeared in a document with this name in 1073. A Ludolph von Wolfenbüttel, 1145 guardian of the Riddagshausen monastery , was married to a Countess von Peina (probably the last name bearer). In 1160, Ludolph was referred to as "Count von Peina" in another document relating to the Riddagshausen monastery. Gunzelin von Wolfenbüttel , Count von Peine, Reichstruchseß of Emperor Otto IV and founder of the city of Peine later also belonged to this family .

The Wolfenbüttelers have increasingly thinned out in the region because of the recurring violent disputes with the Bishop of Hildesheim and the ruling house of the Guelphs, which reached its peak in the 13th and 14th centuries and finally ended with the extinction of the Wolfenbüttelers, who remained in the country of origin, in 1361 . Individual members of the family had already migrated to the east (to the Altmark ) in a very early phase and have taken on the new surnames of their new castles. Therefore, a tribal relationship to the places / castles that are partly in the vicinity of the town of Winterfeld and of the same name - but now extinct in the male line - families with similar coats of arms (such as Apenburg , Asseburg , Bartensleben , Berwinkel / Bärwinkel), whose ancestry also and partially proven in a document to be traced back to Wolfenbüttel and Peine. Members of the Winterfelder then soon left the Altmark again for Pomerania and Brandenburg. Riedel (Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis) stated that the Lords of Winter field in 1147 with the Askanier and first Margrave Albrecht the Bear in turning crusade into the Prignitz had come (Brandenburg). According to old Pomeranian country chronicles, members of the von Winterfeld family with Heinrich the Lion also moved from the Altmark to Pomerania, where they finally settled in 1179.

Pomerania and Mecklenburg

The family appeared for the first time in 1286 with Adam von Winterfeld in a Greifswald document, already in a very influential position. His son, the ducal Pomeranian vassal and Marshal Henning, was already sitting in the allodial castles Burg Wolde , Burg Osten and Haus Demmin in Western Pomerania, which he bequeathed to his daughter. His office as marshal then passed to his son-in-law Ludolf Maltzahn . Another bearer of the name, Martin von Winterfeld, sat at the same time on the Müssentin property , which was located in the Gützkow county ; he was a vassal of the Gützkow counts and had made foundations for parishes in the Gützkow county ; his son Heinrich also donated a chapel and an altar for regular masses for the salvation of his soul. Another Martin von Winterfeld, concluded sat (and therefore the higher the Pomeranian nobility belonging) to Kagenow and Sudden Castle (Plotz at Jarmen) and Stolpe auf Usedom and Dargen etc., "where he on hand and neck oriented" - ie the high jurisdiction held -, sold part of his property on Usedom north and east of the city of Usedom in the 30s of the 14th century and made donations to monasteries (especially Pudagla Monastery ).

The sex was intensely involved in the early political disputes between Pomerania , Mecklenburg , the Mark Brandenburg and Denmark, so that the different branches of the family sometimes stood against each other in different camps and at times also fought together against Pomerania or Mecklenburg. The importance of gender at this time in northern Germany is reflected in a document dated May 20, 1330. In it, the Mecklenburg dukes and their branch line, the Lords of Werle , undertake to sign a mutual assistance pact, unless there are disputes with the King of Sweden , King of Denmark and King of Norway and with the Margraves of Brandenburg , Dukes of Saxony , Dukes of Pomerania , Bishops of Havelberg , Former Counts of Schwerin, Lords Gans zu Putlitz , Lords of Winterfeld, Lords of Zwerin ( Schwerin ) and Lords of Thun. Last but not least, an Eckert von Winterfeld from the Uckermark was placed under imperial ban on May 10, 1415 by Emperor Sigismund because of acts of war against the Hohenzollern of the Mark Brandenburg.

While the sex was mostly military in the Middle Ages, the Pomeranian branch also distinguished itself with church dignitaries, as abbots of the Belbuck monastery or, according to tradition, also of Cammin .

Brandenburg-Prussia

A line of trunks of the house, which was seated at the same time in the Mark Brandenburg, begins with Dietrich von Winterfeld (1380–1420 on Dallmin ), probably son of Heyne von Winterfeld, gentlemen on Dallmin. They were endowed with all "free, glorious and justice ..." (LG v. W., family history, part 1). King Wenzel and Emperor Sigismund gave the family, as well as many other selected Prignitz families, a preference with the predicate "noble" (nobili). In a document dated August 29, 1373, in which Margrave Otto of Bavaria ceded the Kurmark Brandenburg to Emperor Karl IV and released the estates from their obligations, the Prignitz nobility was named before the cities, while the cities, on the other hand, were usually named before all counts and the other stands. The winter fields are specifically named at the beginning of this document along with a few other families, with only "other knights" being mentioned in the following. In the Uckermark, the family was also one of the four excluded sexes. The winter fields spread over the centuries with extensive land ownership over many regions of Germany and beyond.

In addition to the mercenary leader Reimar von Winterfeld , who maintained his own self-financed army with 800 riders and led it against the Turks, fought for Henry IV of France against England and in the Schmalkaldic War on the Protestant side or with the statesman Samuel von Winterfeld , who contributed to it to stabilize the Reformation during the Thirty Years' War in Brandenburg-Prussia , the dynasty later exerted a considerable influence on the history of the Mark Brandenburg and Prussia. Georg von Winterfeld, Herr auf Dallmin and Schivelbein , Landvogt der Neumark, was one of the wealthiest noblemen in Brandenburg. In 1620 he acquired the Freyenstein lordship , which included the city, the old Freyenstein Castle and the New Freyenstein Castle . He also acquired half of the Neuhausen lordship including the castle, several villages and regalia and other possessions. Even if the city of Freyenstein was badly destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, the city lords of Winterfeld managed to stabilize the situation and promote development, also with the help of the settlement of war veterans and colonists. This did not always take place without tension between the citizens and city lords. Georg's father Detloff v. Winterfeld, Herr auf Dallmin, Schivelbein, etc., as well as Landvogt der Neumark, also influenced the marriage policy of the Electors of Brandenburg, so that the basis for later spreading to areas further to the east was laid (e.g. on the Hzgt. Prussia / East Prussia). This political line was continued with the military leader - and closest confidante of King Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia - Hans Karl von Winterfeldt (killed in 1757 at the Battle of Moys); the general was often accused (especially by the king's brother, Prince Heinrich) of having caused the Silesian wars. The family also took part in the development of the later Prussian administrative law, with Ulrich von Winterfeldt, a member of the manor house and later member of the Reichstag, or Joachim von Winterfeldt-Menkin, a member of the manor house and Reichstag and founder of the German Red Cross . The family did not accept the count dignity repeatedly offered by Prussia to the Uckermark branch of the family in the 19th century, as they did not want to accept a possible division of the sexes as a result.

German Empire

The name appeared again and again with representatives in important positions of the German Reich , as members of the Reichstag , the Reichsrat and the Herrenhaus as well as in the military.

Denmark and Flanders

But the family also attracted attention in neighboring countries. The Danish feudal barons received the von Winterfeldt as marshals and admirals on May 25, 1671 and founded Denmark's first barony (Wintersborg); this line goes on in the feudal counts of Holck-Winterfeldt and Knuth-Winterfeldt .

In 1706 a Prignitz branch of the family was raised to the status of Spanish marqués as field marshals and governors in Flanders , and in 1719 to the hereditary Dutch count status .

Others

Pictorial coat of arms on the northern prayer box on the nun gallery in the Dobbertin monastery church

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are 24 entries from the daughters of the von Winterfeld families from Neuhof, Neuhausen, Freienstein and Vahrnow from the years 1707 to 1891 for inclusion in the noble women's monastery there . The picture of the coat of arms of the conventual no. 33 Magdalena Dorothea von Winterfeldt, who was registered in 1707, is located in the northern prayer box on the nuns gallery in the Dobbertiner monastery church . The grave of Conventual No. 1475 Luise von Winterfeld, who was expelled from the women's monastery in May 1945 and who died in the neighboring village of Jellen on August 29, 1945, still stands in the Dobbertin monastery cemetery . The Winterfeld daughters also joined other women's monasteries, such as Heiligengrabe Monastery or Ribnitz Monastery .

In the 14th and 15th centuries, a patrician family called "Winterfeld" appeared in Gdansk , who had a wolf's head in their coat of arms. In the Marienkirche in Gdańsk, members of this family donated the Winterfeld Chapel (also called Jakobskapelle) including parish offices and equipped the chapel with handsome winged altars. A winged altar (Winterfeld diptych) is now in the Warsaw Art History Museum.

In 1396 a Styrnad von Winterfeld is named as the chamberlain of King Wenzel of Bohemia and who was in pledge possession of the famous Königstein fortress . In 1374, Emperor Carl (whose wife was a born Princess of Pomerania) stayed in Prenzlau for a long time with his sons Siegismund, Wenzel and Johann as relatives of Duke Swantebor of Pomerania-Stettin. In this context, a Conrad v. Winterfeld mentioned in Prenzlau; It is quite possible that Styrnad is a son of the aforementioned Conrad, who then moved from Prenzlau to Bohemia in the wake of the emperor.

Members of the family are also dealt with in the literature. Theodor Fontane deals with members of the family in his hikes through the Mark Brandenburg . Kleist mentions the name in his play The Prince of Homburg and in the Zerbrochnen Krug . HG Wells brings out a General von Winterfeld in his novel "The War in the Air".

A gender association established in 1857 and a family foundation established in 1887 still connect the members of the house today.

Monuments

There are several monuments of the military leader Hans Karl v. Winterfeldt on the Museum Island in the Bode Museum, on the Zietenplatz in Mitte and on the base of the equestrian monument for Frederick the Great on Unter den Linden. Streets, avenues and squares that are named after members of the gender can also be found in Berlin, Bremen, Groß-Machnow, Dortmund and Prenzlau, but also in Denmark.

Burial places

Gross Spiegelberg Church with the crypt of those from Winterfeld

Each of the different lines had and still has some old, traditional burial sites today. In the Uckermark are the hereditary burials, crypts and mausoleums in Menkin, Neuenfeld and Nieden, which are still in use today. Others are located in Groß Spiegelberg and Schmarsow, in the city ​​church Freyenstein , Neuhausen and in many other places where the family had or has church patronage. In Greifswald Cathedral there is a Winterfeld Chapel and recently several coffins of the Pomeranian and Mecklenburg lines of the Winterfeld were found in crypts under the cathedral. Some magnificent tombs can be found on the family's graves in Berlin, such as the Invalidenfriedhof and Garrisonfriedhof . There is also a listed grave at the Matthäusfriedhof in Berlin-Schöneberg.

Possessions

From the beginning, the sex was always one of those with extensive property, often associated with the right to high jurisdiction and high hunting. Its properties were administered by its own officials, such as Winterfeld judges, bailiffs and bailiffs. Only the possessions should be briefly mentioned here (see also Kneschke and Ledebur), which play a certain role in the family history. Even today the family is still based in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Pomerania and Mecklenburg

There has been evidence that members of the house have been sitting on the castles and lordships of Osten (before 1320–1330), Wolde (around 1350–1428) and Demmin (around 1264–1512), as well as Steinmocker (1340 ) since the 13th and 14th centuries –1805), Kagenow (13th – 18th centuries), Plötz with the Plötzenburg (13th and 14th centuries) and Müssenthin (Müssentin bei Jarmen) (13th century to 1515).

Only archaeological relics or ruins are visible of the mansions in Western Pomerania .

In Uckermark , which belonged to Pomerania until 1250 , the earliest possessions are Arendsee (with the founding of a monastery) and Schönermark. In the 16th century Dambeck (with 16 villages) and Tüzen could be acquired.

Properties in Western Pomerania were z. B. Wintershagen , Schlawe and Nesekow . When the Oderbruch was being drained, the family founded the town of Wintersfelde south of Greifenhagen. In 1675 the estate on the Wustrow peninsula came into possession.

Brandenburg

Since the 14th and 15th centuries, the main distribution was in the Prignitz, Neumark and Uckermark. The Prignitz family castle Dallmin (Winterfeldburg and Lobekeburg ) and, among others, the rule Streesow , Blüthen, Strehlen and Hünerland , Wredenhagen (Winterfeld estate, founded by the family and named after them, owned by the monastery in 1311 Campe transferred, according to Large Universal Lexicon, Volume 57) and Wangelin.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the dominions Sandow with Bergen ( Neumark ), Trebichow and Riesenitz (Neumark) and the dominion Freyenstein with castle, palace and town could be acquired. Georg von Winterfeld acquired half of Neuhausen from the von Rohr family in 1618 . The von Winterfeld family then also acquired Rohr's share of Neuhausen in 1712. In 1738, Johann Gebhard von Winterfeld converted the manor house there into Schloss Neuhausen , a baroque three-wing complex.

Furthermore, the Winterfeld temporarily owned the goods Kehrberg , Karwe with Muggerkuhl , Wendisch-Warnow , Wustrow as well as Vahrnow and Gülitz , Neuendorf and Neustadt an der Dosse and the castle in Perleberg .

In the Uckermark , entire complexes of goods were added at this time, such as the rule Menkin with pertinence ( Wollschow , Woddow, Fahrenholz ) and Schmarsow (Rollwitz) near Pasewalk, Groß-Spiegelberg , Nieden , Rollwitz , Damerow (Rollwitz) , Züsedom, Neuenfeld , Kutzerow and Zernikow as well as the castle freedom (Winterfeldtpalais) in Prenzlau. Further possessions followed in the 18th and 19th centuries, including Felchow and Krieschow and Wiesendorf in Lausitz .

East Prussia

In East Prussia belonged since the 18th century a. a. the Breitenstein and Kugelack estates as well as Montig (Matyki) to the family.

Silesia

Especially in the 17th and 18th centuries, a branch of the family with Konradswaldau near Saarau (Schweidnitz district), Ingramsdorf u. a. and the dominions Fischbach and Kynsburg extensive property in Silesia and thus the Silesian Incolat . Other goods such as the rule of Barschau, Bronau with Groß Räudchen and Groß Saul were added. In the 20th century, this circle expanded with the acquisition of Urschkau Castle (Orsk).

Bavaria

In the Upper Palatinate , the Zangenstein Castle near Amberg came into the possession of the family at the end of the 16th century .

Poland

In the 18th and 19th centuries, other goods complexes were acquired near Poznan ( Pila Castle , Murowana Goslin reign ). In Galicia too , with the rule of Welzik in the 19th century, property was acquired with a circumference of 7 Polish square miles.

Coat of arms of the Giedde af Wintersborg in Danmarks Adels Aarbog 1894

Denmark and Flanders

The Mecklenburg line that emigrated to Denmark founded the barony of Wintersborg in Denmark in the 17th century under Helmuth Otto von Winterfeld (* 1617; † 17 February 1694) (from 1671 Danish baron) and acquired Saebyholm, Langeland and Estrup with Jesterup. The line died out again with his son Colonel Friedrich von Winterfeld (1666-1707) . The name was continued as Graf Holck-Winterfeld and today as Graf Knuth-Winterfeld. The branch of the later Marquis von Winterfeld that moved from Prignitz / Dallmin to Flanders acquired Beaucourt, Blancbourg, Leulinghen and Haleines , among others .

Soviet occupation zone

The expropriations after 1945 in the Soviet occupation zone and beyond affected many properties. For example, from 1868 the Krieschow Castle was owned by the family. Hugo Wichard was the first owner, then his son Dr. jur. Hans Joachim, the grandson of Hans Wichard, was expropriated and expelled in 1945. These family members invested heavily in Krieschow. Not only was the castle rebuilt and modernized, there were also large manor buildings and a remarkable park.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the medieval families is usually older than their family name. The origin of Winterfeld's coat of arms is likely to be in the eastern region of today's Lower Saxony, where important places have the "wolf" in their name (Wolfenbüttel, Wolfsburg).

Gunzelin von Wolfenbüttel, Count von Peine and founder of the city of Peine, apparently already transferred his coat of arms - a wolf stretched over two sheaves of straw - onto it (still today city arms of Peine). His coat of arms is also immortalized on the ancient Quedlinburg coat of arms from 1209. In 1234 his sons testify with a document on which a seal of red wax hangs, which also shows a wolf stretched over two sheaves of straw. Accordingly, the coat of arms was inheritable. More seals appear, sometimes showing the wolf with and without sheaves of straw. The real age of the coat of arms cannot be determined, however, but it may have been in use in various forms long before Gunzelin von Wolfenbüttel.

Even before that, family members in different generations left the eastern region of Lower Saxony again and again and moved to the more promising Slavic regions (Altmark) to the east, where they built or took over new castles and took their names.

A branch probably settled in the town of Winterfeld and adopted this new name. Already the Anklam councilor and fief secretary, heraldist and genealogist Albrecht Elzow confirmed in his "Pomeranian Adelsspiegel" based on his research in 1671 that the two sexes were related to one another . Thus in the winter fields we also find the wolf in early seals with and without sheaves, but also setting over two sheaves. The first name "Detlof" (the wolf), which is sometimes used again and again in the winter fields, can well be based on the old Dythleff von Schladen. The name "Ludolph" mentioned above is also an old word for wolf. This could indicate that the Winterfelder left their old home at a very early stage, namely at a time when the wolf still coined the first name (Dythleff or Ludolph) among the Wolfenbüttel people.

  • The family coat of arms shows in blue a natural wolf jumping over a bound golden sheaf . On the helmet with blue and gold blankets, the wolf growing between two armored arms.
  • Two coat of arms sayings have been handed down with the family coat of arms since the 16th and 17th centuries: "Petit ardua virtus" (strength seeks challenge) and "Moderata durant" (only what is moderate survives).
Baron coat of arms from 1671
  • The baronial coat of arms (fig .: lying here on the Dannebrogorden) from 1671 is quartered and covered with the family coat of arms as a heart shield, in which the wolf jumps over two tied sheaves. The main shield shows a jumping silver steed in the 1st and 4th fields in red (possibly a reference to the Old Saxon origin), in the 2nd and 3rd in gold a bare arm holding a sword emerging from silver clouds. The coat of arms is flanked by two shield-bearers - two standing knights with open helmets and each with a staff in their right hand.
  • The coat of arms of the counts and marquis from 1706 shows the family coat of arms crowned with a leaf crown. On the crown sits a knight's helmet with a cloak and another leaf crown. From the second crown on the helmet the wolf grows again between two armored arms. The coat of arms is flanked by 2 winged griffins, each with a standard hung with a flag. The image of the wolf returns on the flags jumping over a sheaf.

Known family members

  • Adolph Heinrich von Winterfeld (1689–1740), Prussian district administrator
  • Alexander von Winterfeldt (1898–1942), fighter pilot in World War I and II, bearer of the Knight's Cross, lieutenant colonel and group commander
  • Bernhard Carl Marquis von Winterfeld (1689–1760 / 1765) Imperial Field Marshal General; Son of Karl Theodor Marquis v. W. (see below)
  • Borchard von Winterfeld († around 1480), owner of Schlawe Castle, fought the town of Schlawe in Western Pomerania, beheaded by Schlawe's citizens. In the peace treaty (document) of 1485 dictated by the family of the town of Schlawe after further disputes, it was stated that, among other things, a considerable sum of war compensation had to be paid to the family, as well as an annual advance payment (the later so-called bag penny), representatives of the To send the city on a penance walk to the Pope in Rome and to put up the holy blood of Wilsnack and crosses in front of the city gates.
  • Carl von Winterfeld (1784–1852), German lawyer and musicologist; Rediscoverer of Heinrich Schütz
  • Carl Ludwig von Winterfeld (1726–1784), Prussian major general and chief of infantry regiment No. 7 and knight of the Pour le Mérite, canon of Cammin
  • Conradus von Winterfeld was abbot of Belbuck Monastery from before 1475 to after 1490
  • Damian von Winterfeld (16th century), bailiff of the Stolp and Schlawe lands, landowner in Western Pomerania
  • Dethard von Winterfeld (* 1938), professor, German art historian
  • Detloff (also Dietloff) von Winterfeld (1527–1611), electoral councilor, governor of Neumark, commander of the Order of St. John, commander of Schivelbein, guardian of the children of Elector Christian I of Saxony, who died in 1591
  • Detlof von Winterfeldt (1867–1940), Prussian major general and military attaché, chairman of the Armistice Commission, member of the Reichsrat
  • Detlof von Winterfeldt, German-American professor, director of the Homeland Security Center CREATE
  • Emmy von Winterfeld-Warnow (1861–1937), writer and novelist
  • Erika Drees , born von Winterfeldt (1935–2009) was a German doctor, moved from the FRG to the GDR in 1960, civil rights activist, first signatory of the appeal “Aufbruch 89 - Neues Forum” and co-founder of the New Forum on September 9, 1989, the appeal initiated the political change in the GDR.
  • Ernst Graf von Winterfeld († 1724) Imperial Field Marshal General, Royal Spanish Lieutenant General Field Marshal, Captain of the Noble Guard and Governor of Dendermonde / Flanders, 1719 from Emperor Charles VI. placed in the hereditary count status
  • Friedrich von Winterfeld (1666–1707), Danish major general
  • Friedrich von Winterfeld (1875–1949), German lawyer, landowner and politician (DNVP)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Winterfeld (~ 1720–1787), district administrator of the Belgard district
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Winterfeldt (1830–1893), landscape painter
  • Georg von Winterfeld (1580–1657), statesman, governor of Neumark, Commander of Schivelbein, master master of the Order of St. John
  • Georg Adolph von Winterfeld (1738–1805), born on Kehrberg, died at his seat in Sternberg; Herr auf Kehrberg, Krams, Stieten with Buerbek, Malow, Görslow, Gartz etc .; Governor of Heiligengrabe; Officer in the Prussian army; Editor z. B. the minutes of the state parliament sessions of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Protocollum Comitiale), with the aim of bringing more transparency into the processes of parliament - which, however, met with resistance from the other members - and the author of several scientific papers, e.g. B. on the area of ​​France, the ice age drift theory, the origin of the Mecklenburg granite stone (so-called Winterfeld's theory of drifting ice). After his death, his extensive and important library became part of the Rostock University Library
  • Georg Levin von Winterfeld (1674–1728), Prussian major general
  • Hans Karl von Winterfeldt (1707–1757), Prussian lieutenant general, canon of Halberstadt and advisor and friend of King Friedrich II of Prussia
  • Hans von Winterfeld (1857–1914), Prussian infantry general
  • Hans Karl von Winterfeldt (1862–1931), German lieutenant general and chief quartermaster in the First World War. Left behind a scientifically very interesting diary of his time.
  • Hans-Karl Rudolf von Winterfeldt (1863–1949), Prussian colonel and son of the landscape painter Friedrich Wilhelm von Winterfeldt (1830–1893)
  • Helmuth Otto Freiherr von Winterfeldt († 1694), royal Danish high court marshal, chief chamberlain etc., lord of Wustrow / Mecklenburg (allodial possession), founder of Denmark's first barony, Wintersburg; Knight of the Order of Dannebrog; was the father of 17 children; Appointed baron by the King of Denmark in 1671
  • Henning von Winterfeld (before 1290–1330), Pomeranian Marshal, Lord of Burg Osten, Burg Wolde and House Demmin, campaigned for Pomerania to be aligned with Brandenburg / Germany and defended this goal against the interests of Poland and Denmark
  • H. Achim von Winterfeld (1914–1991), German lawyer, represented the federal government in the ban proceedings against the KPD
  • Hugo von Winterfeld (1836–1898), Prussian infantry general and adjudant general of three emperors
  • Joachim Detloff von Winterfeld (1710–1789), large landowner, master of Kehrberg and other estates, bailiff of the Heiligengrabe monastery, through his resolute intervention in 1734 he prevented a bloodbath between thousands of followers of the so-called “Wunderknaben zu Kehrberg” and a Prussian military operation in Kehrberg (cf. Beckmann Th. V. Book II. Cap. 2; cf. Balthasar Rosen: Johann Ludwig Hohenstein, the boy prodigy from Kehrberg, volumes 66-67 by Prignitzer Volksbücher, Richard Rudloff, Verlag Tienken 1926).
  • Joachim von Winterfeldt-Menkin (1865–1945), German lawyer, state director of the Province of Brandenburg, member of the manor house and the Reichstag, founder of the DRK
  • Johann Friedrich von Winterfeld (1609–1667), Provost of Lübeck
  • Jørgen Balthazar von Winterfeldt (1732–1821) was a royal Danish chamberlain, Danish admiral and philanthropist, founded a foundation "Den Winterfeldt-Vossiske stiftelse in Fredensborg" - a hospital, reported regularly on the climate conditions and changes in Greenland and became an honorary member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, was a knight of the Dannebrog Order and holder of the Elephant Order.
  • Juliane Henriette von Winterfeld (1710–1790), ruling abbess of Heiligengrabe
  • Karl Theodor Marquis von Winterfeldt (1646–1712) Imperial Field Sergeant; Royal Spanish Lieutenant General of the Armies, Governor of Lier / Brabant, Commander of Antwerp; Appointed Marquis by King Philip V of Spain in 1706.
  • Kaspar Dietlof von Winterfeld (* around 1672–1725), Prussian colonel, commander of Pillau, and chief of the garrison battalion No. 2 there
  • Leontine von Winterfeld-Platen (1883–1960), actually Leontine von Platen, born von Winterfeld, teacher and writer
  • Luise von Winterfeld (1882–1967), German archivist
  • Ludwig von Winterfeld (General) (1798–1889), Prussian major general
  • Ludwig von Winterfeld (entrepreneur) (1880–1958), German entrepreneur
  • Ludwig Albert von Winterfeld (1832–1906), Prussian administrative officer, playwright and writer
  • Ludwig Gustav von Winterfeld (1807–1874), member of the Prussian manor house
  • Ludwig Gustav von Winterfeld (1807–1874), on Damerow and Pätzig, knighthood director, member of the manor, genealogist; Author of the history of the von Winterfeld family. 3 parts, Damerow, Görlitz 1858-1874, OCLC 865791103 .
  • Margarethe von Winterfeldt (1902–1978), professor, German music teacher
  • Nicolaus II von Winterfeld was abbot of the Belbuck monastery between 1466 and 1475
  • Paul von Winterfeld (1872–1905), professor, German Middle Latin and employee of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica
  • Reimar von Winterfeld (1520–1596), general, canon of Havelberg, Kurbrandenburg Council, Mecklenburg Obermarschall; Large landowner, ruler of Neustadt (Dosse); fought with hundreds of self-recruited riders and horses against the Turks in Hungary, while he provided and financed 800 riders and horses alone, the total Reich aid amounted to 5031 riders, as decided at the Reichstag in Nuremberg; Winterfeld fought on the side of the Protestants in the Schmalkaldic War
  • Richard von Winterfeld (1847–1920), Prussian general of the cavalry
  • Rudolf von Winterfeldt (1829–1894), Prussian infantry general
  • Samuel von Winterfeld (1581–1643), statesman, governor of the Mark Brandenburg
  • Ulrich von Winterfeldt (1823–1908), Prussian district administrator, member of the manor house and senior president of the Reichstag
  • Wilhelm von Winterfeldt (1824–1906), Prussian general of the cavalry
  • Wilhelm von Winterfeld (General, 1821) (1821–1904), Prussian Lieutenant General
  • Wilhelm von Winterfeld (violinist) (1880–1943), German violinist
  • Wilhelm von Winterfeld (artist) (1898–1997), German sculptor

See also

Historical sources

Winterfeld Archives

literature

Web links

Commons : Winterfeld (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albrecht Elzow : Pomeranian Adelsspiegel. of the council and feudal secretariat, Anklam 1671.
  2. ↑ Frhr. v. Ledebur : Märkische research on tribal unity.
  3. ↑ Attempted reconstruction of Wolfenbüttel Castle
  4. ^ F. Spring, 01/2011: geb. Probably 1050 to 1118, nobilis, Vogt of the Pöhlde Monastery, 1073 in the wake of Gertrud von Braunschweig, 1089 hostage for the Margrave Egbert of Braunschweig, enfeoffed by the Emperor with Schwarzfeld, the mountain tenth of Goslar and the Bailiwick of the Monastery of Pöhlde
  5. ↑ Thomas Kantzow (1505–1542), Johannes Micraelius (1597–1658)
  6. ^ Lieselott Enders , 1996
  7. ↑ Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, pp. 162-164
  8. ↑ Ludwig Gustav von Winterfeld : History of the family of Winterfeld
  9. ^ Luise von Winterfeld: History of the family of Winterfeld.
  10. ↑ Nathalie Kruppa: New thoughts on the Quedlinburg coat of arms.
  11. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the Complete Series, pp. 162-164.
  12. ↑ Aces of the Luftwaffe - Alexander von Winterfeldt. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Hans von Winterfeld (* 1857 in Prenzlau ; † 1914 in Wiesbaden ) was a German officer, governor of Metz.