The members of the family who had served the Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg left the Residenz Güstrow in 1696 and turned to Lüneburg, which was equal to a Free Imperial City. In 1701 they gained the citizenship () of Lüneburg. Even though the family there brought forth clerics and jurists thereunder a canon, a secular canon and a dean as well as a senator of Hannover it was not only confined to the urban educated middle class (). Other members of the family acted as merchants – listed 1699 at the „Uraltes löbliches Kramer-Amt“, the Merchants Guild at Hamburg – and subsequently as internationally acting merchants.