The House of Puttkamer (also abbreviated to ''v. Puttkamer'') belongs to a widely extended German noble family whose earliest ancestor is first recorded between 1257 and 1260 in
Schlawe (Sławno),
Farther Pomerania. While some of its branches have the title of ''Graf'' (
count
Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York ...
), others are entitled to the lesser ''Freiherr'' (
baron
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or kn ...
). According to a widespread family tradition, many firstborn Puttkamer sons receive the first name of "Jesco".
Persons
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Georg Ludwig von Puttkamer (1715–1759), Prussian general killed at
Battle of Kunersdorf
The Battle of Kunersdorf occurred on 12 August 1759 near Kunersdorf (now Kunowice, Poland) immediately east of Frankfurt an der Oder (the second-largest city in Prussia). Part of the Third Silesian War and the wider Seven Years' War, the bat ...
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Gertrud von Puttkamer (1881–1944), German erotic writer
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Jesco Carl Eugen von Puttkamer (1919–1987), Ambassador of the FRG to Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Lisbon & Belgrade. He was Ambassador to Israel at the time of the 1972 killings at the Munich summer Olympics.
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Jesco von Puttkamer
Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer () was a German-American aerospace engineer, senior manager at NASA, and a pulp science fiction writer.
He was an advocate of human space exploration, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligen ...
(1933–2012), engineer and NASA manager
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Jesko von Puttkamer
Jesko Albert Eugen von Puttkamer (2 July 1855 in Berlin – 23 July 1917 in Berlin) was a German colonial military chief, and nine times governor of Kamerun:
*13 May 1887 – 4 October 1887
*14 August 1890 – 2 December 1890
*31 December 18 ...
(1855–1917), German military chief and governor of German
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the ...
from 1895 to 1907
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Johanna von Puttkamer
Johanna Friederike Charlotte Dorothea Eleonore, Princess of Bismarck, Duchess of Lauenburg (née von Puttkamer; 11 April 1824 – 27 November 1894) was a Prussian noblewoman and the wife of the 1st Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck.
Earl ...
, Prussian noblewoman, wife of
Otto von Bismarck
Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (, ; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman and diplomat. From his origins in the upper class of ...
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Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer (1900–1981), Rear Admiral and naval adjutant to
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and the ...
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Martin-Anton Freiherr von Puttkamer (1698–1782) Prussian Major-General
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Peter von Puttkamer (born 1962), documentary filmmaker
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Robert von Puttkamer (1828–1900), Prussian statesman
Notes
Literature
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Otto Hupp: ''Münchener Kalender 1925''. Verlagsanstalt München/Regensburg 1925.
* Ellinor von Puttkamer: ''Geschichte des Geschlechts von Puttkamer'', Neustadt an der Aisch 1984, Deutsches Familienarchiv Band 83-85,
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Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels
The ''Almanach de Gotha'' (german: Gothaischer Hofkalender) is a directory of Europe's royalty and higher nobility, also including the major governmental, military and diplomatic corps, as well as statistical data by country. First published ...
, ''Adelslexikon'' Band XI, Band 122 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000,
External links
Homepage des Verbandes des Geschlechtes v.Puttkamer e.V.(German)
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Puttkamer family
German noble families
Pomeranian nobility