Cube (noble family)
Cube is the family name of a German-Baltic noble family and comes from the Mark Brandenburg . In the middle of the 18th century the first family members settled in Livonia , from there the family spread to the Baltic States , Germany , Finland and Russia . In 1791 they were raised to the untitled imperial nobility of the Holy Roman Empire . Its attributes lay in intellectual and political initiative, from which scientists and state politicians emerged.
history
As can be documented back to the 16th century , the Cube family comes from the Mark Brandenburg. Their mentions can be found in the regional church registers of the Brandenburg parishes and the university register of the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt in Frankfurt an der Oder .
ancestors
The unbroken line of ancestors begins with Sigmund (Sigesmund) Cube (around 1620–1679), he was a court assessor and citizen (castle master) in Drossen . His son David Cube (1657-1705) was a pastor at Gossow . His sons were Johann David (1686–1758) and Johann Friedrich (1690–1741), the first son was a pastor in Groß Neuendorf and founder of the Cube-Groß Neuendorf line. This line died out with the well-known Berlin theologian Johann David Cube (1724–1791). His brother Johann Friedrich Cube was archdeacon in the Goldin cathedral in Neumark, he founded the Cube-Goldin line.
Goldin Line in the Baltic States
During the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) the two sons of Johann Friedrich Cubes emigrated to Livonia and Courland . The older son Johann Friedrich Gottlob Cube (1735–1792) died childless. The younger son Johann Christlieb Cube (1740–1799) became the progenitor of the Baltic family, from 1778 to 1779 he was pastor of Tirsen and Wellan ( Gulbene parish in Latvia ). On November 24, 1791, he was of Emperor Leopold II. To the chivalric collected Empire nobility. He was married to Fredricke Maria Udam from the Laubern family.
His sons Friedrich Gustav von Cube (1781–1849), head tax and honorary member of the Imperial Law Commission, and Johann Ludwig Ferdinand von Cube (1788–1855), President of the Livonian Chamber of Commerce, State Councilor and civil governor of Livonia, were elected on December 22, 1822 by the öselschen Landtag in Arensburg accepted into the knighthood of Ösel .
The son of Ludwig Ferdinand von Cubes, Julius Gustav von Cube (1815–1888), was a Councilor of State and, in 1857/1858, Vice-Governor of Courland and, from 1858 to 1872, of Livonia. From 1860 he was president of the Riga-Dünaburger railway company. Another son was Maximilian Gotthard von Cube (* 1831 in Kirchholm, † 1910 in Tegernsee), who made a name for himself as a doctor and pulmonologist . He was admitted to the Estonian nobility register on January 31, 1905 at the Reval state parliament .
With the forced resettlement of the Baltic Germans by the National Socialist government after 1939 , the Baltic branch lost its home. Most of the family members came back to Germany, others settled in Canada , the USA , Russia and France .
coat of arms
The heraldic shield is divided into a blue shield base , the upper part is gold with a red paw cross . As a crest is a golden crown on her sits a silver dove with an olive branch , the helmet cover is red and gold.
Matriculations
- In 1791 Johann Christlieb von Cube was raised to the imperial nobility.
- In 1822 Friedrich Gustav von Cube and Ludwig Ferdinand von Cube were enrolled in the Öselschen knighthood.
- In 1893 Maximilian Gotthard von Cube was enrolled in the aristocratic class in the Kingdom of Bavaria and
- In 1905 Maximilian Valentin v. Cube, enrolled in the Estonian Knighthood .
Personalities (selection, chronological)
- Gustav von Cube (1873–1931), architect
- Felix Alexander von Cube (1876–1964), German mountaineering pioneer, natural scientist and doctor. The pic of Cube in Corsica is named after him.
- Irmgard von Cube (1899–1977), screenwriter
- Felix-Eberhard von Cube (1903–1988), composer
- Johann Friedrich Walter von Cube (1906–1984), writer, journalist, editor-in-chief and program director of Bayerischer Rundfunk
- Johann Maximilian Hellmut von Cube (1907–1979), writer a. Radio play author,
- Johann Ernst Felix von Cube (* 1927), cyberneticist , educationalist and author
- Johann Alexander von Cube (1927–2013), theater scholar, journalist, television presenter
- Johann Moritz von Cube (* 1978), countertenor
literature
- Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods (new series) . , Hamburg 2017, Vol. 7, pp. 111–156.
Web links
- Nicolai von Cube, interesting facts about the von Cube family
- Friedrich Gustav and Johann Ludwig von Cube. In: Baltic Knighthood
- Nicolai von Essen, Genealogisches Handbuch der Öselschen Ritterschaft, Tartu, 1935 , pp. 84–96
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Cube. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ voncube.de: Worth knowing
- ↑ Essen, Nicolai von: Genealogisches Handbuch der Oeselschen Ritterschaft Genealogisches Handbuch der Oeselschen Ritterschaft Tartu 1935, page 85
- ^ Cube, Johann David in the German biography
- ^ Johann David Cube. In: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
- ^ Nicolai von Essen: Genealogisches Handbuch der Oeselschen Ritterschaft, Genealogisches Handbuch der Oeselschen Ritterschaft Tartu 1935, p. 88 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ The Kameralhof was the authority that administered the governorship's crown income. Kameralhof . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 6 , issue 5 (edited by Hans Blesken, Siegfried Reicke ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1965, OCLC 832566941 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
- ^ Riga-Dünaburger Railway Company . In: Livonian Gouverneurszeitung , No. 4, January 9, 1888.
- ^ Nicolai von Essen: Genealogical Manual of the Oesel Knighthood Genealogical Manual of the Oesel Knighthood Tartu 1935, p. 90 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Nicolai von Cube: Interesting facts about the family von Cube .
- ^ Coat of arms ”von Cube”. In: Adelsvapen Ösel, Reichs-Adel 1791 adelsvapen.com
- ↑ Pic Von Cube 2247m, Gipfelschau Korsika gipfelschau.jimdo.com