Frankenberg (noble family)
Frankenberg is the name of an ancient Silesian noble family who named themselves after the Frankenberg Castle near Frankenstein in the Principality of Münsterberg . Descendants of the Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf as well as Frankenberg and Proschlitz tribes still exist today.
The male line belonging to the von Lüttwitz line Frankenberg-Lüttwitz is described under Lüttwitz .
history
The family was first mentioned in a document on March 31, 1206 in Dresden with Henricus de Frankenberg as a witness to Margrave Dietrich von Meißen . The trunk series begins with Dietrich von Frankenberg, documented 1283–1323.
Status surveys
- Bohemian barons with improved coat of arms Vienna February 12, 1655 for Hans Wolf von Frankenberg, on Buchelsdorf etc.
- Bohemian count Vienna August 28, 1700; Association of names and coats of arms with those of the barons of Schellendorf, who died out in their male line, on July 4, 1714; both for Hans Wolfgang Wenzel Freiherr von Frankenberg, on Buchelsdorf etc., Real Privy Councilor and Vice Chancellor of the Kingdom of Bohemia , son of Hans Wolf Freiherr von Frankenberg, on Buchelsdorf etc.
Lines
Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf
The Ludwigsdorf tribe named themselves after Ludwigsdorf (now Polish: Bystre) near Oels .
Counts line of Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf
This line, which became extinct in the male line in 1937, came directly from Hans Wolfgang Wenzel von Frankenberg, Baron von Schellendorf, who was drafted in 1700. To hers Graf Fred von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf, Freiherr von Schelldorf (1835-1897), on Tillowitz etc., royal Prussian Privy Councilor and Major a. D., member of the Prussian State Council and member of the Prussian mansion for life, Knight of Honor of the sovereign Order of Malta , who married Princess Luise zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1851–1920) in Slawentzitz in 1872 . She was the daughter of the royal Prussian general of infantry à la suite of the army , Prince Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen , Duke of Ujest , and Princess Pauline zu Fürstenberg . Their children were Count Konrad and Countess Luise. Count Konrad von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1877-1937) was the last male representative of this count's line.
Konrad Graf von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf
Count Konrad von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1877–1937) was a knight of honor of the sovereign Order of Malta and married Alice Friedmann (1879–1927), the daughter of a factory owner, who was born in Berlin in London in 1907 . There were no children from the marriage, but Countess Alice was first married to the divorced businessman George Solman, with whom she had two daughters, Yvonne Solman (* 1902 in Berlin; † 1946 in Cairo ) and Liselotte Solman (* 1903 in Berlin). They were adopted by Count Konrad as her second husband in 1926. That is why they used the names Countess von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf as their birth names. Yvonne von Frankenberg was married three times, first to Berlin's Berti Treek, then to music publisher Otto Fürstner (1886–1958), from whom she was divorced, and finally to the commercial attaché of the Egyptian embassy , de Nasr. Her sister Liselotte had been with Dr. jur. Clemens Graf von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg (* 1896), head of GEMA's legal department , married. She was divorced from him in 1931. In 1935 she married Ben Meigs in London and later lived in New York . The sister of the last Count von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf, Countess Luise (1879-1941), married in 1901 in Tillowitz the on Castle Laer born Lubbert Graf von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg (1872-1932), the Royal Prussian Vice equerry and Major a. D., formerly à la suite of the army. The couple's final resting place is a mausoleum in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .
Frankenberg and Proschlitz
The Proschlitz tribe primarily provided officers. In the 17th and 18th centuries there were members of Omichau (from 1679 Dietrich von Frankenberg) and (until 1724) of Boroschau, and in the 18th century also Lessa, Buchwald and Klein Germans .
coat of arms
- The family coat of arms shows three (2: 1) upright red bricks or shingles in gold . On the helmet with red and gold covers a natural fox with three black and three silver cock feathers in its mouth .
- With the count's coat of arms Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf in the diploma of 1714 on the occasion of the name and coat of arms union with the barons of Schellendorf, who have died out in the male line, the main shield is four-sided and covered with a quartered middle shield , which in turn is covered with the family coat of arms as a heart shield ; Middle shield: in fields 1 and 4 in red three green mountains rising in steep peaks ( Counts of Hochberg ), 2 in black a golden crowned right-facing golden lion (also Count von Hochberg), 3 in black a left-facing silver fox (variant of the family coat of arms ornament ) ; Main shield ( Freiherren von Schellendorf ): 1 and 4 in silver a red bar, accompanied above and below by four blue alarm clocks, 2 and 3 in black an inward-facing, golden crowned golden lion. Three helmets; on the right and left a growing crowned golden lion (Barons von Schellendorf), on the middle with red and gold blankets a natural-colored fox sitting to the right with three red cock feathers in its muzzle (heraldic helmet).
Important representatives
- Abraham von Franckenberg (1593–1652), from Ludwigsdorf, mystic
- Egbert von Frankenberg (* 1967), German state politician (CDU)
- Emanuela von Frankenberg (* 1961), Swiss actress
- Johann Heinrich von Frankenberg (1726–1804), Archbishop of Mechelen and Cardinal
Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf
- Adalbert von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1833–1900), Prussian lieutenant general, military writer
- Albrecht von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1900–1940), hut director
- Alexander von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1855–1921), German lieutenant general
- Christian Moritz Alexander von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1732–1794), Prussian major general, chief of the 11th Hussar Regiment
- Egbert von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1858–1941), director of the Coburg-Gotha court theater, writer
- Emil von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1813–1900), German major general
- Friedrich von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf ( Fred von Frankenberg ; 1835–1897), German politician, MdR
- Gerhard von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1892–1969), German zoologist and politician (SPD)
- Hans von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1849–1920), Prussian lieutenant general
- Hans-Heydan von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1869–1946), German major general
- Hermann von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1865–1931), German administrative lawyer and local writer
- Joseph Ignatius Graf von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1698–1741), General Field Sergeant
- Karl Gottlob Ludwig Sylvius von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1732–1795), German major general
- Karl Wolfgang von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1730–1791), Prussian major general
- Leopold von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1785–1878), German lawyer and politician, MdR
- Moritz von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1820–1890), German major general
- Richard-Alexander Eberhard von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1922–1973), German racing drivers
- Robert von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1807–1873), German infantry general
- Sylvius Eberhard von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1682–1764), Royal Swedish and Princely Hesse-Kassel Real Privy Councilor, Oberamtmann zu Schmalkalden and manor owner, see Sylvius Eberhard von Franckenberg
- Sylvius Friedrich von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorff (1728–1815), Gothic Privy Councilor and Minister
- Sylvius Karl von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1689–1775), Württemberg Privy Councilor and Chief Chamberlain, Chancellor of the University of Tübingen
Frankenberg and Proschlitz
- Arthur von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (1835–1895), German major general
- Carl Magnus von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (1696–1757), German court officials
- Egbert von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (Lieutenant General) (1841–1898), German Lieutenant General
- Egbert von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (politicians) (1909–2000), German politicians (NDPD) and military scientists
- Friedrich von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (governor) (1600–1650), governor of Württemberg and Oels
- Friedrich von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (General) (1791–1858), Prussian lieutenant general
- Johann Heinrich von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (1643–1698), governor of Württemberg and Oels
- Karl von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (1746–1819), Prussian major general
- Oskar von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (1856–1932), German major general
- Sylvius von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (1732–1795), Prussian major general
- Viktor von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (1873–1934), Prussian land surveyor
- Werner von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (1868–1933), German major general
literature
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. , Part A, 33 vol., Gotha 1934, p. 181.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, pp. 347-350. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975, ISSN 0435-2408
- Poscharsky, Peter: Frankenberg, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 348 ( digitized version ).
- Eckhart Leisering: Acta sunt hec Dresdene - the first mention of Dresden in the document of March 31, 1206. Saxon State Archives, Mitteldeutscher Verlag (mdv), Halle (Saale) and Dresden 2005, pages 96, ISBN 978-3-8981-2320-4 . First mention of Henricus de Frankenberg pp. 5/13/55/102
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses 1857. Seventh year, p. 193f.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses 1873. Third and twentieth year, p. 165f.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1904. Fifth year, p. 259ff.
Web links
- Website of the von Frankenberg family
- Egbert von Frankenberg, My Family in History , website
- Portrait gallery of those von Frankenberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Genealogical manual of the nobility . Count's houses A. Volume IV, Volume 28 of the complete series, c. A. Starke Verlag Limburg (Lahn) 1962, pp. 191-193.
- ^ Regest of the Breslau State Archives