Holtzendorff or von Holtzendorff can refer to:
* (german: (
pl.) die Herren von Holtzendorff), a
Brandenburgian (Old Märkisch) noble family, an
Uradel
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der
Uckermark
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Geography
The region is nam ...
, later
Silesia
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Ostpreußen
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Pommerania
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, Royal Saxony, and
Mecklenburg
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Georg Holtzendorff
Count Georg Holtzendorff (also spelled ''Holzendorff'') was a painter of Saxony, specialist in landscapes, figure subjects and cherubs, who sought refuge in England in consequence of the Franco-Prussian War.
Works
Holtzendorff worked for th ...
, 19th-century German painter
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Henning von Holtzendorff
Henning Rudolf Adolf Karl von Holtzendorff (9 January 1853 – 7 June 1919) was a German admiral during World War I, who became famous for his December 1916 memo about unrestricted submarine warfare against the United Kingdom. He was a recipient o ...
(18531919), a German admiral
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Joachim Wilhelm Franz Philipp von Holtzendorff
Joachim Wilhelm Franz Philipp von Holtzendorff (October 14, 1829 – February 4, 1889), German jurist, born at Vietmannsdorf (a village in Templin), in the Mark of Brandenburg, was descended from a family of the old nobility.
He was educated at ...
(18291889), a German jurist
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German-language surnames