Schaffgotsch hans-ulrich rudel biography
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Hans-Ulrich Rudel (–), German ground-attack pilot during World War II; Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch (–), Silesian nobleman, fought in the....
Schaffgotsch family
Silesian noble family
The Schaffgotsch family is the name of an old and influential Silesiannobility which dates back to the thirteenth century.
Some of its members played important roles in the public life of Bohemia, then Habsburg monarchy and later Prussia.
History
Around 1240, the first Schaffgotsch appears in a Silesian document as Sibotho de nobili Familia Ovium (ovium is the Latin word for "sheep", the translation of the German word Schaf(f)).
Hans-Ulrich Rudel, fighter pilot, colonel; Andrzej Rudy, soccer player; Otto Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch, general; Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch: de.According to tradition, Sibotho came in the entourage of Duke Henry I the Bearded and his wife Hedwig of Andechs.
One of Sibotho's successors, the knight Gotsche II Schoff (†1420), bought extensive possessions in the foreland of the Giant Mountains (Riesengebirge) and Jizera Mountains (Isergebirge) at the end of the fourteenth century: the Kynast and Greiffenstein dominions.
The Schaffgotsch family thus became the most important noble family in the Jelenia Góra Valley (Hirschberger Tal).
