Brevern (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Brevern

Brevern is the name of a German-Baltic noble family from Livonia and Estonia , which in 1694 was awarded the Swedish nobility title "von Brevern". The family originally comes from Lutherstadt Eisleben in the former county of Mansfeld . Your family group now has around 125 members.

history

The origin of the noble family "von Brevern" began with Johannes Brever (Breuer) a councilor and merchant in Frankenstein ( Silesia ). His son Johann Brever (married in 1587 to Barbara Mellin from Nordhausen) was pastor in Alberstedt from 1578 to 1603 and pastor, dean and court preacher to the Count of Mansfeld-Hinterort in Schraplau from 1603 to 1616 , he died in 1617. His son Johann Brever was a count Mansfeld consistorial secretary in Eisleben and married to Magdalena Happach. He died of the plague on September 2, 1626. Her son, Johannes Brever (Breverus) (1616–1700), moved to Riga in 1634 . There he became pastor at the cathedral and superintendent of Riga. His son from his marriage to Sophie von Dunten (1635–1685), Hermann von Brevern (1663–1721), was President of the Castle Court in Riga and Vice-President of the Livonian Court Court . In this capacity he received on October 5, 1694 the Swedish nobility title "von Brevern". After the annexation of Livonia by Peter the Great , he was Vice President of the Reichsjustizkollegium (Ministry of Justice) in St. Petersburg. He was married to Katharina v. Reutern (1679-1746). The couple had 10 children; the youngest son Peter is the progenitor of today's family. It was entered in the Livonian nobility register in 1721 and in the Estonian one in 1745. The family settled in Estonia through the second marriage of Katharina von Brevern (to General Hermann von Bohn) and acquired extensive estates. It later branched into an Estonian and a Courland line.

Coat of arms of Count Pontus Alexander Ludwig von Brevern-de la Gardie

With Pontus Alexander Ludwig von Brevern (* 1814, † 1890), the nephew of the last Estonian Count De la Gardie achieved the hereditary Russian count in 1852 and was now called "Count Brevern-de la Gardie". Christoph Engelbrecht von Brevern (1782–1863) became governor of the governorate of Courland in 1827 and received the Courland indigenate in 1833 ; his son Ivan von Brevern (1812-1885) was also governor of Courland and later senator in Saint Petersburg . In Courland , the Breverns did not own any goods, but temporarily in the neighboring governorates of Kovno and Vitebsk , as well as an estate in Szagarren and Dritzan .

After the First World War , the family's property was expropriated and several family members left the Baltic States . The remaining family members were relocated to the area around Posen, what was then the Warthegau in 1939 . In early 1945 they fled the Red Army . Today most of the family members live in Germany and in twelve other countries. The family council of the family foundation, which includes all born and married, adult Breverns, currently has 125 members.

Ancestors of the von Brevern family

  • Johannes Brever, councilor in Frankenstein ( Silesia ), son:
  • Johann Brever, † 1617, pastor, dean and court preacher of Count David von Mansfeld-Hinterort in Schraplau, married in 1587 to Barbara Mellin from Nordhausen, son:
    • Johann Brever, † September 2, 1626, Consistorial Secretary at Eisleben, married to Magdalena Happach, son:
      • Johannes Brever (Breverus), born March 11, 1616 in Eisleben; † May 12, 1700 in Riga , (Livonia), married in 1st marriage to Hedwig Samson, † 1657, in 2nd marriage with Sophie von Dunten , * 1635; † 1686, son:
        • Hermann Brevern , born July 20, 1663 in Riga; † July 3, 1721 in Saint Petersburg , lawyer, 1694 he was awarded the Swedish title of nobility "von Brevern", ancestor of the von Brevern family, married to Katharina von Reutern , * 1679; † 1746, children: Beate von Reutern, Adam Ludwig von Breveren on Jaggowal , * 1708; † 1761, founder of the Brevern family on Jaggowal, sons:
          • Karl Hermann von Brevern , born October 22, 1704 in Riga; † January 3, 1744 in Saint Petersburg. He was a member of the cabinet in Russian services and, among other things, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg.
          • Peter von Brevern, born August 29, 1711 in Lübeck ; † September 6, 1756 in Reval , married to Gertrude Magdalena von Kursell , sons:

Estonian line (excerpt)

  1. Heinrich Johannes (Iwan), born January 16, 1749 † in Moscow; † October 27, 1803 in Estonia, married to Anna Elisabeth Staël von Holstein , children:
    1. Karl Peter Ernst von Brevern, * 1772 in Kostifer; † 1794
    2. Katharina Margarethe von Brevern, * 1774 in Tallinn ; † 1836 in Tallinn, married in 1st marriage to Karl von Ramm and in 2nd marriage to Hans Heinrich von Klugen, children: Elisabeth von Ramm, Karoline von Ramm, Ulrika von Ramm
    3. Gertrud Helene von Brevern, born June 29, 1776 in Kostiver; † March 22, 1857 in Tallinn
    4. Anna Wilhelmine von Brevern, born May 19, 1780 in Kostifer; † January 31, 1863 in Jelgava
    5. Heinrich Johannes (Iwan) von Brevern on Kostrifer, born March 19, 1775 in Kostifer; † April 28, 1850 in Tallinn, married in first marriage to Helene Margarethe Sophie von Benkendorff and in second marriage to Maria De la Gardie , son:
      1. Pontus Alexander Ludwig Count Brevern-de la Gardie , born January 4, 1814 in Kostifer; † March 20, 1890 in Hapsal , married to Maria Alexandrowna Wojeikowa, born June 11, 1828, children: Nikolai Brevern de la Gardie; Maria Brevern de la Gardie; Catherine Brevern de la Gardie; Olga Brevern de la Gardie and Woldemar Brevern de la Gardie

Courland Line (excerpt)

  1. Christoph Engelbrecht von Brevern, * 17./28. December 1782 in Kostifer; † January 4, 1863 in Mitau , Estonian district administrator, governor of Courland (1827–1852), 1833 Courland indigenous people ; married to Julie Charlotte von Strandmann (1790-1830)
    1. Anna (Annette) Elisabeth (1808–1889), married to Efim Antonowitsch von Kleist (1794–1857), Russian major general
    2. Julie Auguste (1811–1890), married to Ernst von Oelsen , † 1848
    3. Iwan von Brevern (baptismal name Iwan, called Johann), born December 3, 1812 in Jörden (Estonia); † April 29, 1885 in St. Petersburg, Vice-Governor of Livonia , then Governor of Courland (1858–1868), Senator in Saint Petersburg, married to Catharina Arps von Arpshofen (1817–1904)
      1. Marie (1841–1916), married to Julius von Oelsen, † 1895
      2. Georg von Brevern, born April 1, 1843 in Lagena; † March 3, 1898 in Riga, Russian major general and commander of a reserve brigade with the rank of division general , married to Anna Wilhelmine Rücker, * 1850
      3. Alexander von Brevern, born March 27, 1845 in Mitau; † January 10, 1897 in Mitau, married to Elisabeth Caroline Theophile von der Ropp from the Juchnaitschen house (1848–1887)
        1. Catharina Isalie, * 1874, married to Georg Fürst von Lieven ; † 1910
      4. Nicolai von Brevern, born August 2, 1848; † January 22, 1919, judge at the Warsaw Court of Appeal , State Councilor , married to Alexandrine Henriette von Zoege von Manteuffel , * 1855
      5. Woldemar von Brevern, born December 12, 1857 in Riga; † July 9, 1905 between Grobiņa (Latvia) and Gawesen (murdered by revolutionaries), peasant commissioner in Grobiņa, married to Barbara Wöhrmann, * 1862
        1. Dimitri (1888-1889)
        2. Johann (Hans) von Brevern, * February 25, 1890 in Mitau, civil servant of the Courland Governorate, Russian officer , merchant in Harbin ( Manchuria ), married to Olga Gosronow, * 1896 in Ashgabat ( Turkmenistan )
          1. Helene, * 1924 in Harbin
    4. Therese Catharina Amalie (1814–1883), married to Alphons von der Ropp, † 1883
    5. Caroline Barbara (1816–1837), lady-in-waiting to Her Majesty the Russian Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna
    6. Emilie (1820–1895), married to Gustav Wevell von Krüger (widower of her sister Elisabeth)
    7. Alexander Christoph von Brevern , born January 10, 1825 in Kiekel ; † October 21, 1896, Russian general
    8. Elisabeth Juliane Gertrud, born January 10, 1825; † 1865, married to Gustav Wevell von Krüger, Councilor of the Courland Governor's Government, Council of State
    9. Claudine Elisabeth Marie (1829–1901), married to Gregor von Brevern at Altenhof (Estonia)

Family Foundation v. Breverns

In the “Family Foundation v. Brevern ”, a foundation under civil law, the family association is organized and managed. The foundation day will be on the 11th / 25th March 1862 specified. The foundation owned three houses in Reval , it was confirmed by Estonia in 1934 and approved in Germany in 1942. The compensation payments determined in accordance with the provisions of the Burden Equalization Act went to the Foundation. In 1967, with the consent of the family council - the highest decision-making body, the foundation was relocated to Hanover . The main task is to keep the family together in the foreground. According to § 5 of the “Constitution of the Family Foundation”, the purpose of the foundation stipulates that family members in need should be helped, that the upbringing and training of young family members should be facilitated, that general prosperity should be increased and that a secure existence should be created for ambitious members and finally family cohesion is to be promoted.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ v. Brevern worldwide - family history .
  2. ↑ Jaggowal is an Estonian village in the rural municipality of Jõelähtme .
  3. ↑ Kostifer / Kostivere, in the rural community Jõelähtme (German: Jegelecht).
  4. ↑ “During the reorganization of the administrative and judicial system in 1889, the parish court, which had previously exercised a certain degree of supervision over the management of the municipal administrations, was dissolved and peasant commissioners appointed by the governor were introduced. ... The B. were entrusted with the control and supervision of the rural self-government. "Source: Article" Bauernkommissar " . In: Baltic Legal Dictionary .
  5. ↑ v Brevern-worldwide, organization .