Pringsheim

Pringsheim is the name of a famous German family of Jewish descent from Silesia. The name was first mentioned in 1794. All Pringsheims are descendants of the Jews Bernstadt Mendel ( Menachem ) b. Chaim Pringsheim. Rudolf Pringsheim was a great-grandson of this first known Pringsheim.

Bearers of the name

The following branches of the family were particularly in evidence:

  • Rudolf ( also Rudolph) Pringsheim to Rodenberg ( 1821-1906 ), railroad entrepreneur ( narrow gauge railways ), coal mine owners; married to Paula German man (1827-1909) Alfred Pringsheim (1850-1941), professor of mathematics; married to Hedwig Dohm (1855-1942) Erik Pringsheim (1879-1908), lawyer
  • Peter Pringsheim (1881-1963), a physicist in Belgium and in the United States; married to Emmeke Clément
  • Heinz Pringsheim (1882-1974), archaeologist, musician; married to Olga Markova Meerson, Russian painter
  • Katharina " Katia " Pringsheim (1883-1980); married to Thomas Mann
  • Klaus Pringsheim senior (1883-1972), conductor, composer; married to Clara ( Lala ) Koszler Emilie Pringsheim (1912-1976), actress
  • Hans Erik Pringsheim (* 1915)
  • Klaus Pringsheim junior (1923-2001), East - historian in the U.S., Canada; married Hsiu Ping
  • Hugh II Pringsheim (1845-1915), railroad entrepreneur (full gauge railways ), banker, estate owners in Opole, Society of Friends; married to Sophie Wodianer; married Hedwig Johanna Heymann (1856-1938) Paula Pringsheim ( born April 26, 1869); Married since 1890 with Heinrich von Achenbach ( district administrator ) ( 1863-1933 )
  • Hans Pringsheim (1876-1940), Professor of Chemistry in Berlin
  • Ernst Georg Pringsheim (1881-1970), naturalist, botanist; married to Lily Pringsheim, born Chun (1887-1954), politician and Hessian State Parliament; 1929 married to Olga Zimmermann ( 1902-1992 )
  • Fritz ( Robert ) Pringsheim ( 1882-1967 ), Professor of Roman and civil law in Göttingen and until 1935 Freiburg / Br, 1939 Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. ; emigration
  • Paul Pringsheim (1893-1915), like as a volunteer in France
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