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The Korff family or Korff-Schmising family is an ancient German noble family, known since the first half of the 13th century that originated in the County of Mark, Westphalia.




History



The family first appears in a document from 1241 with knight Henricus von Kersekorff. Since 1354, part of the family has been called Korff-Schmising (also Schmysing or Schmysingk). Members of the family distinguished themselves mostly as politicians and diplomats. They held the title of Count in the Kingdom of Prussia granted to them on 17 January 1816 by Frederick William III of Prussia and Count in the Russian Empire, granted to them on 1 January 1872 by Alexander II of Russia. Apart from being incorporated into the Russian nobility, the family was also part of the Baltic German nobility and Polish nobility. Until 1615, the original ancestral seat of the Korff family was Harkotten Castle in the Bishopric of Münster, later acquired by Ketteler family.




Surname


Korff is also a surname.




Notable people


Arnold Korff (1870–1944), Hollywood actor and director
André Korff (born 1973), German bicycle racer
Baruch Korff, (1914–1995), Jewish community activist
Hans-Peter Korff (born 1942), German actor
Johann Albrecht von Korff (1697–1766), diplomat, president of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Michael Von Korff (born 1949), American epidemiologist
Serge Alexander Korff was an assistant of Governor-General of Finland
Serge Alexander Korff (1906-1989), American physicist
Werner Korff (1911–1999), German Olympic ice hockey player
Yitzhak Aharon Korff, grand rabbi, diplomat and consultant in international law and business, entrepreneur




See also


Korf (disambiguation)




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