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Mallinckrodt is a German noble house from County of Mark in Westphalia.

History
The family was first mentioned in a 1241 document that featured a knight named Ludwig de Mesekenwerke. The family later named themselves after their seat Castle Mallinckrodt, which they owned as a fief of the Lords of Volmarstein from around 1250. The family also owned a number of the surrounding farms, including Gut Obergedern and Gut Hoven in Oberwengern (later Howe House). Gamburg Castle has been owned by the family since 1980.

Dortmund branch
A younger branch of the family goes back to "Evert Mallinchroide (Eberhard Mallinckrodt)", who was mentioned in a document from 1488–1516 and died in 1526 - landowner in Recklinghausen and Dortmund. His descendants did not originally belong to the patriciate of the city, but rose to the notable bourgeoisie of the city in the 16th century. The Mallinckrodts belonged to the guild of the garment tailors and earned their fortune with the cloth trade. The membership in those guilds where, since 1589, more than 30 members of the family were demonstrably active, gave the family a seat in the city council.

From 1605 to 1805 there were 16 representatives of the family in the Dortmund council. Two of them became mayors and another four held the office of city judge.

At the beginning of the 20th century there was a dispute among aristocracy researchers about the nobility recognition of this Dortmund line, since the direct descent to the old noble family of the ``von Mallinckrodt '' could not be proven. In 1902-1903 the von Mallinckrodt family was recognized as the Uradel (Ancient Nobility) by the Heraldic authority in Berlin.

Franz Mallinckrodt was the mayor of Dortmund between 1812 and 1832. His nephew was the publicist Arnold Mallinckrodt (1768-1825). Detmar von Mallinckrodt (1769–1842) was the Supreme Government Council (Oberregierungsrat) who worked in Aachen and retired in Paderborn. His children were politicians Hermann von Mallinckrodt and Georg von Mallinckrodt as well as the founder of the order Pauline von Mallinckrodt, who was beatified in 1985 and who also founded the Mallinckrodt Gymnasium in Dortmund. .

The further rise of this branch of the family took place outside of Dortmund. In the Rhineland and Belgium they worked as cloth traders. Edward Mallinckrodt Sr. (1845–1928), a grandson of Arnold Mallinckrodt, founded the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works company in 1867 with his two brothers Otto († 1878) and Gustav († 1877) in St. Louis, Missouri. In the 20th century, Georg Wilhelm von Mallinckrodt (* 1930) moved to London, where he married Charmaine Schröder and became a partner in Schroders.

Nobility elevations and recognition
Detmar Mallinckrodt, squire on estate Böddeken (today in Wewelsburg) in the former  Büren district and royal Prussian Vice President in Aachen, was raised to the  Prussian nobility on July 18, 1834 in Berlin. His descendants received the Prussian recognition of the old nobility and belonging to the old noble family of the  von Mallinckrodt  on July 4, 1903. On September 18, 1912, the Royal Herald's Office in Berlin declared that the nobility conferred in 1834 no longer existed as such, but had ceased to exist through the recognition of 1903.

The same recognition of nobility was received on July 19, 1902 by Gustav von Mallinckrodt, wholesale merchant, factory and landowner, as well as his brother Felix's (died in 1880) widow Anna and sons Paul and Max.

Coat of arms
In gold, a red ball set with three narrow, pointed black leaves; on the helmet with black and gold covers, two growing arms in black sleeves with silver facings and natural-colored hands, whose upright index fingers are stuck through a smooth gold ring.

Personalities

 * Bernhard von Mallinckrodt (1591–1664), dean of Münster cathedral
 * his nephew Bernhard von Mallinckrodt († 1676), canon in Münster
 * Hermann von Mallinckrodt (1821–1874), German parliamentarian and co-founder of the Catholic Center Party
 * Pauline Mallinckrodt (1817–1881), founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Christian Love, beatified in 1985
 * Arnold Andreas Friedrich Mallinckrodt (1768–1825), writer, publisher and publicist
 * Eberhard von Mallinckrodt (before 1600–1658), cathedral cantor and cathedral waiter in Münster
 * Gustav von Mallinckrodt (1859–1939), German industrialist and politician
 * Heinrich von Mallinckrodt (1590–1649), cathedral vicar in Münster and cathedral cantor in Osnabrück
 * Max von Mallinckrodt (1873–1944), pseudonym: Max Wetter, landowner and writer
 * Meinulf von Mallinckrodt (1861–1947), from 1897 to 1926 district administrator of the Meschede district
 * George von Mallinckrodt (1930–2021), German merchant banker
 * Rebekka von Mallinckrodt (* 1971), historian

Literatur

 * Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Band VIII, Band 113 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997,
 * August Meininghaus: Der soziale Aufstieg der Dortmunder Mallinckrodt. In: Beiträge zur Geschichte Dortmunds und der Grafschaft Mark 44, 1938, S. 369
 * Dietrich von Mallingrodt, Werner Frese (Bearbeiter): Die von Mallinckrodt zu Steinberg und ihre Nachkommen in Dortmund und Paderborn. In: Beiträge zur Geschichte Dortmunds und der Grafschaft Mark 78, 1987, S. 31
 * Gustav von Mallinckrodt: Urkundenbuch der Familie von Mallinckrodt. Erster Band: Urkunden 1250–1580, Carl Georgi Verlag, Bonn 1911 (Digitalisat)
 * Gustav von Mallinckrodt: Urkundenbuch der Familie von Mallinckrodt. Zweiter Band: Urkunden 1581–1650, Nachträge 1397-1627, Aufschwörungen, Register, Siegel und Denkmäler, Carl Georgi Verlag, Bonn 1911 (Digitalisat)
 * Kurt Theodor Otto Friedrich von Mallinckrodt: Sippendatei derer von Mallinckrodt 1241–1990. Dortmund: Selbstverlag, 1992
 * Christoph Franke: Wirtschaft und Politik als Herausforderung. Die liberalen Unternehmer (von) Mallinckrodt im 19. Jahrhundert (= Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, Beiheft 88), Stuttgart 1995.

Weblinks

 * Wappen der Mallinckrodt im Wappenbuch des Westfälischen Adels