Woedtke (noble family)
Woedtke is the name of a Pomeranian noble family , which is of a tribe and coat of arms with that of Kleist , which first appeared in a document in 1263.
history
The line of tribe begins in 1389 with Joachim von Woedtke on Woedtke and Zirkwitz . The sex is divided into two lines: I. Line Woedtke, II. Line Sydow. In 1892 a family foundation was established.
The family estates included Woedtke , Zirkwitz , Buslar , Sydow and Bolkow . The eponymous headquarters was one of the oldest in Pomerania and remained in the family until 1945.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a red bar in silver accompanied by two fleeting red foxes . On the helmet with red and silver covers, three iron gag spikes with golden shafts, which have fallen fan-shaped onto three (silver-red-silver) roses.
Known family members
- Georg Eggert von Woedtke (1698–1756), Prussian major general and knight of the order pour le merite
- Heinrich Eggard von Woedtke (1733–1806), Prussian lawyer, last captain of Lauenburg and Bütow
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Woedtke (1736–1776), Prussian officer and general in the Continental Army in the American War of Independence
- Leopold Christian von Woedtke (1792–1872), Prussian major general
- Carl von Woedtke (1824–1901), Prussian district administrator and member of the German Reichstag
- Reinhold von Woedtke (1828–1898), district administrator for the districts of Schlawe and Greifenberg
- Erich von Woedtke (1847–1902), President of the Imperial Supervision Office for Private Insurance, Prussian authorized representative in the Federal Council, lead editor of the first social legislation
- Axel von Woedtke (1848–1920), Prussian lieutenant general
- Peter von Woedtke (1864–1927), sculptor, knight of the Order of St. John
- Alexander von Woedtke (* 1889), SS standard leader
- Fritz von Woedtke (1906–1959), writer
literature
- Genealogical handbook of noble houses. Noble houses A, Volume XI., Limburg an der Lahn 1971, pp. 476–486.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, p. 312, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN 0435-2408 .