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Prittwitz

Prittwitz is the name of a Silesian noble family of the Wczele coat of arms, whose first documented member is one Petrus de Prawticz from 1283.

Among its members are:

  • Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz (1795–1885), Royal Prussian Lieutenant-General of Infantry, Supervised the building of the large fortress in Ulm
  • Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron (1833–1904), Royal Prussian Lieutenant-General
  • Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848–1917), German general
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron (1884–1955), German Ambassador to the United States under the Weimar Republic, from 1928 until April 14, 1933
  • Heinrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron (1889-1941), German general killed during the Siege of Tobruk as a Commander of the 15th Panzer Division