The Maizière family is a German noble family of

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ancestry that migrated from the

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to what is now Germany in the late 17th century. Several family members have had and still have important roles in German politics and business. The name derives from

Maizières-lès-Metz Maizières-lès-Metz (, literally ''Maizières near Metz''; Lorrain: ''Mach'ire'') is a commune in the Moselle department, Grand Est, northeastern France. Anciently part of the Duchy of Lorraine, Maizières was within the Holy Roman Empire ...

, a village in the

Moselle The Moselle ( , ; ; ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A sm ...

department, now in France, with which ancestors were connected.

Important family members

*Gustav Maiziere, doctor ** (1841–1898), ''Landgerichtspräsident'' of

Neuruppin Neuruppin (, , in contrast to ":de:Alt Ruppin, Old Ruppin"; ; North Brandenburgisch dialect, Brandenburgisch: ''Reppin'') is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, the administrative seat of Ostprignitz-Ruppin district. It is the birthplace of the noveli ...

and one of the authors of the

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. *** Walter de Maizière (1876–1915), lawyer ****

Clemens de Maizière Clemens is a Late Latin, German, and Dutch masculine given name and a surname, meaning "merciful". Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adelaide Clemens (born 1989), Australian actress * Andrew Clemens (1857–1894), American folk a ...

(1906–1980), GDR lawyer, Member of the Ost-CDU and a

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spy *****

Lothar de Maizière Lothar de Maizière (; born 2 March 1940) is a German former politician of the Christian Democratic Union. In 1990, he served as the head of the first and only democratically elected government of East Germany, holding this office during the fi ...

(born 1940), GDR lawyer, Member of the Ost-CDU, later the only democratically elected

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****

Ulrich de Maizière Karl Ernst Ulrich de Maizière (; 24 February 1912 – 26 August 2006) was a German general. He served in the army of three German states: the '' Reichswehr'' of the Weimar Republic, the ''Wehrmacht'' of Nazi Germany, and the German Army of W ...

(1912–2006),

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of the

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1966–1972 ***** (born 1950), former member of

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's board of directors *****

Thomas de Maizière Karl Ernst Thomas de Maizière (; born 21 January 1954) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2011 and 2013 to 2018, as well as Federal Minister of Defence f ...

(born 1954), Chief of the Chancellor's Office and later Minister in the cabinet of

Angela Merkel Angela Dorothea Merkel (; ; born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office. She was Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and Leade ...

References

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