Bunge (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of the von Bunge family

Bunge is the family name of a Russian-Baltic noble family . They trace their East Prussian origins back to their progenitor Georg Friedrich Bunge (1722–1792), who was born in Stallupöhmen in East Prussia and immigrated to Kiev from Tilsit in the Russian Empire . Scientists , doctors and administrators grew out of this sex .

history

St. Katharinen is the church of the German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in Kiev

The progenitor Georg Friedrich Bunge, whose father was Friedrich Bunge, came to Kiev from Tilsit before 1749 . He was a pharmacist , married Katharina Geither in Kiev and ran his wife's pharmacy . They had 12 children (8 sons and 4 daughters). In 1779 he received Russian citizenship and was in 1791, for himself and his descendants , the nobility deputies meeting at the decision in the Adelsmatrikel the province Kiev entered. He founded the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in Kiev .

His son Andreas Theodor Bunge (1766–1814), who was born in Kiev, took over his father's pharmacy. He became a board member of the botanical garden , assessor and church leader of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Kiev. After his death, his widow and two sons Friedrich Georg (1802-1897) and Alexander Georg (1803-1890) moved to the Estonian Dorpat , which belonged to the Estonia Governorate in the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire.

Friedrich Georg Bunge made by the Baltic jurisprudence earned and was in recognition of his services in March 1875 in the Estonian Knighthood and in June 1875 in the Courland knighthood enrolled , from then on led him and his descendants the title of nobility "of" Bunge.

Nobility

Almost all members of this Bunge family are incorrectly labeled “von”, the entry of Georg Friedrich Bunge in the Kiev nobility register in 1791 did not automatically lead to the nobility predicate “von”, which did not exist in the Russian nobility . Only when he was enrolled in the Baltic knighthoods of Friedrich Georg Bunge did he and his descendants, in accordance with the rules of the knighthoods , use the suffix “von”. “The Baltic knighthoods did not have the right to ennoble, that is, to be raised to the nobility, but they did have the right to enroll; they could determine themselves which German noble families should be entitled to participate in the decision-making state parliaments in order to administer the country to be used. "

  • Friedrich Georg von Bunge (1802-1897)

  • Alexander Georg Bunge (1803-1890)

  • Gustav Bunge (1844–1920)

  • Alexander Alexandrowitsch Bunge (1851–1930)

Family table

Georg Friedrich Bunge (* 1722 in Stallupönen, East Prussia, † 1792 in Kiev), 1779 Russian indigenous people , 1791 Kiev noble family book Katharina Geither († 1797 in Kiev)

coat of arms

The divided head of the shield is split in the lower part silver and blue, the upper part is in gold. At the gap there is an alternating- colored lily , 3 blue-silver-blue ostrich feathers rise from the crest above the blue-gold-silver helmet bulge . The helmet cover is blue-gold and blue-silver.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Since in Russia the nobility was assigned according to different criteria, there are also families among the “aristocrats” who do not belong to the German aristocracy, but bear the name of “von” ... A review of the aristocratic status of all these families was possible due to the mass of us are not made and an occurrence in the collection does not necessarily indicate a German nobility, as some people probably only accepted the "von" when they had lived in Russia for a long time. On: Institut Deutsche Adelsforschung - Deutscher Adel im Zarenreich 1700-1917, guide to short biographies and genealogical data of Germans from Russia [1]
  2. ↑ Compare: Arthur Kleinschmidt , Russia's history and politics presented in the history of the Russian high nobility, Cassel: Kay, 1877, XVI, 560 p. [2]
  3. ^ The Association of the Baltic Knighthoods eV [3]