Fölkersahm (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Fölkersahm

Fölkersahm (other spellings Fölckersahm , Foelckersahm , Folkersam , Foelkersam , Fölckersam , Foelckersahm , Fölkersamb , Völckersahm , Voelckersahm , Völckersam , Voelckersam , Völkersahm , Völkersam , Russian Фёлькерзам , transcription: Folkersam , English also Felkerzam ) is the name of Lower Saxony noble family .

history

The family comes from the Lower Saxon nobility and most likely borrowed its name from the place Volkersem near Springe . The family was first mentioned in a document with Heinricus de Volckersen in 1244 and must have immigrated to Livonia by the end of the 14th century . The secure regular series of kurländisch - German tribe begins with Johann von Folkersam (* around 1480 to 1557), which the Waldhausensche Jahrgut in Rossitten's owned and since 1519 Kalkuhnen invested was. In 1620 the family was given the Courland and in 1747 the Livonian indigenous . In 1853 and 1862 relatives were raised to the status of Russian barons . The family currently continues.

coat of arms

Originally, a four-spoke wagon wheel, the bottom spoke of which is missing with the piece of rim attached, was carried in the shield. Later a twelve-spoke, red wagon wheel in silver, the uppermost (12th) spoke and the piece of rim attached to it is missing (the wheel is often also whole, twelve or eight-spoke and blue or gold). Today's coat of arms shows a five-spoke red wheel in silver, the top spoke of which is missing along with a piece of the rim. On the crowned helmet with red and silver blankets a growing, foliage-girdled and wreathed, gray-haired and bearded wild man , on his right shoulder (grasped with both hands) carrying a torn, double-topped, green deciduous tree.

Known family members

• Adrian von Fölkersam (1914–1945), German officer in the Waffen SS
• Dmitri Gustawowitsch von Fölkersahm (1846–1905), Russian admiral
• Georg Friedrich von Fölkersahm (1764–1848), governor of Livonia
• Gustav Georg von Völckersahm (1734–1801), diplomat
• Gustaw Jefimowitsch von Fölkersahm (1799–1849), Russian major general
• Hamilkar von Fölkersahm (1811-1856), Livonian land marshal
• Hans-Henning von Fölkersamb (1889–1984), German major general in World War II
• Jakob Joachim von Völckersahm (1759–1810), Livonian general of the artillery
• Kurt von Fölkersamb (1857–1928), German lieutenant general in the First World War
• Magnus Conrad Armin von Fölkersam (1861–1917), Russian art historian
• Maria Dina Wera Erica von Foelkersam (1893–1942), writer
• Melchior von Fölckersam (1601–1665), statesman from Courland
• Wilhelm von Völkersahm (1712–1791), Livonian lieutenant general

literature

• Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Fölkersahm. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods . Part 3.1: Courland. Görlitz n.d. , pp. 235-254.
• Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods. Livland, Volume 1, Görlitz 1929, pp. 479-496.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility
  • Baronial houses. A 6, volume 37 of the complete series, 1966, pp. 109-118; Freiherrliche Häuser A 12, Volume 72 of the complete series, 1980, pp. 55-61.
  • Nobility Lexicon. Volume 3, 1975, pp. 315-316; Volume 17, 2008, pp. 238-239.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser . 1936 (family series), 1940 and 1942 (continuations)

Web links

Commons : Fölkersahm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kalenberg document book. Lockum No. 100.
2. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses . Part A, Volume 40, 1941, p. 116.