von Rosenberg-Gruszczynski
unknown (to verify in the GHdA)
Arms: Avalokitesvara, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Horst von Rosenberg-Gruszczynski began his career in the Life Grenadier Regiment King Frederick William III and led a brigade from 1915 to 1918; the couple latterly lived at Wannsee outside Berlin, he a lieutenant general in retirement. Their son Franz Heinrich, born at Metz in 1896, fell on 27 September 1915 at Ripont in the Champagne, shot through the head while repelling a French attack; he lies in the military cemetery at Vouziers. His brother Friedrich was severely wounded in March 1918; the sisters were Elisabeth and Dorothea.
A noble family; its first mention and coat of arms remain to be added from the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility.
Sources: Degener Verlag, Deutsches Familienarchiv vol. 160 »von Gerlach – Lebensbilder einer Familie« (in German); Wikipedia articles on the families named; Wikimedia Commons (coat-of-arms images). Given to the best of our knowledge. Jürgen von Gerlach: von Gerlach. Lebensbilder einer Familie in sechs Jahrhunderten (Deutsches Familienarchiv 160), Insingen 2015 (in German). All sources. For corrections or additions, please contact the family administration.