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The von Plessen Family

The origins of the well-known von Plessen family of Mecklenburg probably lie in the 12th or at least the 13th centuries.

The progenitor of the Mecklenburg von Plessens was Helmold von Plesse (1263-1283). The family resided mainly in the area around Klütz from the 14th until the beginning of the 18th centuries.

The coat of arms of the von Plessens of Mecklenburg depicts a striding black bull on a golden ground, and atop the helmet two red half-wheels stuck all around with twenty-one arrow shafts bearing peacock feathers (formerly stars) at their apex.

Some representatives of the family:

Carl Graf (Count) von Scheel-Plessen (811-1892), German politician
Daniel von Plessen (1606-1672), German government official and county commissioner of Mecklenburg
Elisabeth Plessen (born 1944; Elisabeth Charlotte Marguerite Augusta Gräfin [Countess] von Plessen), German writer and translator
Leopold von Plessen (1769-1837), diplomat, chamberlain, and minister of state
Victor Baron von Plessen (1900-1980), German explorer
Hermann Karl von Plessen (1803-1877), lieutenant general
Hans Georg von Plessen (1841-1929), colonel general in the rank of field marshal
Hennecke von Plessen (1894-1968), district economic advisor of the Nazi Party in Mecklenburg
Christian Ludwig Scheel von Plessen (1676-1752), minister of state
Wilhelm August von Plessen (1808-1887), minister of state

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