Prittwitz

The Prittwitz family is the name of a Silesian noble family of the Wczele coat of arms, whose first documented member is one Petrus de Prawticz from 1283.

Notable members

 * Bernhard von Prittwitz († 1561), officer in the service of the Polish crown
 * Carl Bernhard Baron von Prittwitz und Gaffron from the house of Lorzendorf (1735–1786), Royal Prussian Lieutenant Colonel, Chamberlain to Elisabeth Christine, Hofmarschall to the King of Prussia, Allod of Krippitz and Ulsche in Silesia
 * Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz (1795–1885), Royal Prussian Lieutenant-General of Infantry, Supervised the building of the large fortress in Ulm
 * Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron (1833–1904), Royal Prussian Lieutenant-General
 * Maximilian von Prittwitz (1848–1917), German general


 * Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron (1884–1955), German Ambassador to the United States under the Weimar Republic, from 1928 until April 14, 1933
 * Heinrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron (1889-1941), German general killed during the Siege of Tobruk as a Commander of the 15th Panzer Division