The Puttkamer

For over 700 years, the Puttkamer were one of the leading families of the so-called "Eastern Elbe landowner nobility", with more than 300 agricultural estates in Hinterpommern. But why is that still of interest today? This family story describes the fates, achievements and black spots of a family that is inseparably linked to Prussian and German history. The wife of Otto von Bismarck was born von Puttkamer. And from daring robber barons and fashionable artist figures, to adventurers and emigrants, to the Berlin police president and the commander of the dreaded "Puttkamer Hussars", this entertaining story shows us the most diverse figures and their contemporary ambivalence, between glamour and backwardness, between Gl.