Blumenthal (noble family)
Blumenthal is the name of an old Maerkisch s noble family with the same parent in the Prignitz .
history
The family first appeared in a document on June 17, 1241 with the knight and margravial Brandenburg councilor Nicolaus de Blumendal . The secure line of trunks begins with Rutger von Blumenthal , documented from 1305-1318, who sat in a castle on Horst (today part of the municipality of Blumenthal in Prignitz).
It is divided into six houses:
- The Horst House: Prussian counts on October 2, 1786
- The House of Pröttlin : imperial baron status on March 6, 1646
- The source village: Prussian counts (in the primogeniture ) on September 19, 1883.
- The Steinhöfel house : Prussian counts on October 2, 1786
- The House of Suckow: Prussian counts on October 5, 1840
- The House of Vehlow : state count on January 9, 1733
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows in gold (also in the shield split by black and gold) a grapevine with three blue grapes and three green leaves. On the helmet with black and gold blankets a growing virgin in a dress split by gold and black with a green wreath and long golden hair, who later grows out between right black and left golden flight and holds a green wreath in her right hand.
The baronial and ducal houses have gemehrte crest.
Blumenthal (1864)
The Prussian general of the infantry Heinrich von Blumenthal (1815-1892) was ennobled in 1864 under the name of Blumenthal . This family went out with his son Heinrich Ewald Karl Friedrich von Blumenthal (* 23 August 1846, † 14 July 1899).
Known family members
In alphabetical order:
- Adam Ludwig von Blumenthal (1691–1760), Prussian Minister of State and War, Knight of the Black Eagle Order
- Albert von Blumenthal (1797–1860), Prussian lieutenant general
- Albrecht von Blumenthal (1889–1945), German classical philologist
- Christoph Caspar Freiherr von Blumenthal (1638–1689), Brandenburg diplomat
- Georg von Blumenthal (1490–1550) Chancellor of the Viadrina, Bishop of Lebus, Bishop of Ratzeburg
- Georg Ewald von Blumenthal (1722–1784), Prussian major general
- Hans von Blumenthal (officer) (1722–1788), Prussian lieutenant colonel, commander of the Garde du Corps regiment and knight of the order Pour le Merite, 1786 Count von Blumenthal
- Hans-Jürgen Graf von Blumenthal (1907–1944), German resistance fighter
- Heinrich Georg von Blumenthal (1716–1756), Prussian major
- Heinrich von Blumenthal (Mayor) (1765–1830), Franco-German Chamberlain, Mayor of Magdeburg
- Joachim Christian von Blumenthal (1720–1800), Prussian minister
- Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal (1607–1657), Brandenburg statesman
- Julia von Blumenthal (born 1970), German political scientist and professor at Humboldt University
- Karl von Blumenthal (1811–1903), Prussian major general
- Leonhard von Blumenthal (1810–1900), Prussian field marshal
- Robert von Blumenthal (1806–1892), District President in Danzig (1840–1863) and District President in Sigmaringen (1863–1873)
- Viktor von Blumenthal (born 1940), educationalist
- Werner von Blumenthal-Suckow (1815–1883), member of the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation
literature
- Hans von Blumenthal: Family history of the counts and lords of Blumenthal. Velhagen & Klasing 1904.
- Hans Bellée : Blumenthal. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 330 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume I, Volume 53 of the Complete Series, pp. 442-444. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1972, ISSN 0435-2408
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Gräfliche Häuser. Born in 1873 (with stem series)
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses . Sixth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1905, p. 85.
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1909, p. 51 f. ; 1913, p. 81.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis AX, 1856, p. 200, no. 35.