Puttkamer

The Puttkamer family (also abbreviated to v. Puttkamer) is a widely extended German noble family whose earliest ancestor is first recorded between 1257 and 1260 in Sławno, Farther Pomerania.

Puttkamer
Coat of arms of the Puttkamer family
Parent family	Swienca family
Current region	Pomerania
Place of origin	Sławno
Members	Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, Jesco Carl Eugen von Puttkamer, Jesco von Puttkamer
Traditions	The first name of "Jesco"

History

The Puttkamer family considers Swienca family to be their first documented ancestors.^[1] However, despite using almost the same coat of arms, historians are divided on this issue.^[2]

While some of its branches have awarded with the title of Graf, others are entitled to the lesser Freiherr. According to a widespread family tradition, many firstborn Puttkamer sons receive the first name of Jesco. The branch of the family moved in the 16th century to Livonia and from there to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Pęzino Castle with a relief with the coat of arms of the family

Persons

• Georg Ludwig von Puttkamer (1715–1759), Prussian general killed at Battle of Kunersdorf
• Gertrud von Puttkamer (1881–1944), German erotic writer
• Jacek Antoni Puttkamer [pl] (1740–1802), Polish-Lithuanian military officer, member of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, signer of the Constitution of 3 May 1791
• Jesco von Puttkamer (General) [de] (1876-1959), German Generalleutnant.
• Jesco Carl Eugen von Puttkamer (1919–1987), Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Lisbon & Belgrade. He was Ambassador to Israel at the time of the 1972 killings at the Munich summer Olympics
• Jesco von Puttkamer (1933–2012), engineer and NASA manager
• Jesko von Puttkamer (1855–1917), German military chief and governor of German Cameroon from 1895 to 1907
• Johanna von Puttkamer (1824–1894), Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck
• Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer (1900–1981), Rear Admiral and naval adjutant to Adolf Hitler
• Martin-Anton Freiherr von Puttkamer (1698–1782) Prussian Major-General
• Peter von Puttkamer (born 1962), documentary filmmaker
• Robert von Puttkamer (1828–1900), Prussian statesman
• Wawrzyniec Puttkamer [pl] (1794–1850), Polish nobleman

Notes

Regarding personal names: Freiherr is a former title (translated as 'Baron'). In Germany since 1919, it forms part of family names. The feminine forms are Freifrau and Freiin. Regarding personal names: Until 1919, Graf was a title, translated as 'Count', not a first or middle name. The female form is Gräfin. In Germany, it has formed part of family names since 1919.

Literature

• 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, ISBN 3-7686-5064-2
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Band XI, Band 122 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISSN 0435-2408