Ebel (family name)

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Coat of arms of the Neidenburg line

Ebel is a German family name .

Origin and meaning

The church in Bialla , built under Pastor Ephraim Ebel

Ebel is an old German short form of the first name Eberhard .

First documentary mention is the family name in the 14th century as the name of a Strasbourg sex , that there since 1333 in the Council has been demonstrated the citizenry.

The name Ebel has been recorded in Brandenburg since the 15th century, and in East Prussia since the 16th century , especially in Königsberg , Neidenburg , Osterode and Bialla , and in Hesse , especially in the Lauterbach district .

In Berlin , on April 25, 1461 , Pauel Ebel, a bearer of this name, first acquired civil rights in Berlin . On October 25, 1472, a Heinrich Ebel together with Henning von Krummensee and Hans Matthes from Elector Albrecht III. with Krummensee, town and castle Alt-Landsberg and with all possessions "" item das wuste velt czu helwerstorf "" (Hellersdorf) east of Berlin.

Numerous bearers of the name were jurists and Protestant theologians , from the 19th century also landowners and officers . There are numerous bearers of the name Ebel in the registers of the universities, for example B. from the 16th to the 20th century at the Albertus University of Königsberg .

The bearers of the name were or are as a rule bourgeois, that is, they already had citizenship in the early modern times and were often members of the urban upper class. Much less often they can be assigned to the nobility , such as the Strasbourg line , which died out at the beginning of the 18th century, or Johann Ebel, who was elevated to the nobility on May 5, 1704 for his services as captain of King Frederick I's bodyguard .

Again and again there were family relationships through marriages to well-known families such as B. von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg , von der Osten or von Bassewitz .

Today the name is most common in Berlin.

variants

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Neidenburger line is in red with a split by two fall battlements silver shield main , is a red fish , oblique beams as three golden lilies . On the red-and-silver puffed helmet with red-and-silver blankets, a flight of red-and-silver divided over a corner .

Name bearer

Eduard Ebel's snow falls softly

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Bach : German onomastics . Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1952, Volume I, I, p. 250.
  2. ^ Heraldic-Genealogical Society "Adler" (Ed.): Organ of the Imperial and Royal Heraldic Society "Adler". XIV. Year of the journal, XI. of the yearbook. Self-published, Vienna 1884, p. 92.
  3. ^ Karl Friedrich Pauli : General Prussian State History. Second volume. Publishing house and printing by Christoph Peter Franckens, Halle 1761, p. 418.
  4. ↑ a b Bernhard Koerner : German gender book . Sixty-eighth volume. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1930, p. 79 ff.
  5. ^ Bernhard Koerner: German gender book. Eighty-fourth volume. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1935, p. 564 f.
  6. ↑ Hermann Knodt: History sheets for the Lauterbach district. 11th year, issue 3/4 March / April 1925, p. 53.
  7. ↑ Peter von Gebhardt : The oldest Berlin citizen book 1453-1700. Berlin 1927, Sources and Research on the History of Berlin, Volume I, p. 36.
  8. ^ War Ministry, Secret War Chancellery: Ranking list of the royal Prussian army for 1912. P. 1304.
  9. ^ Association for the history of East and West Prussia (ed.): The register of the Albertus University in Königsberg. III. Tape. Duncker & Humblot , Leipzig 1917, p. 93.
  10. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch : The golden book of Strasbourg. Verlag des Verfassers, Vienna 1885, p. 68 f.
  11. ^ Leopold Freiherr von Ledebur : Adelslexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . First volume: A – K. Publishing house by Ludwig Raub, Berlin 1855, p. 189.
  12. ^ Bernhard Koerner: German gender book. Sixty-eighth volume. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1930, p. 549.
  13. ^ Bernhard Koerner: German gender book. Sixty-eighth volume. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1930, p. 557.
  14. ^ Bernhard Koerner: German gender book. Sixty-eighth volume. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1930, p. 555.
  15. ↑ wiki-de.genealogy.net Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  16. ↑ German coat of arms , register No. 11862.