Goßler (noble family)

Coat of arms of the von Goßler family

Goßler , also Gossler , is the name of a family that presumably comes from the village of Gosel in the Egerland and represented a noble family from 1813.

history

The proven trunk series begins with Johann Goßler († before September 1, 1638). He was the owner of a farm in Wildenau bei Asch that was fiefdom from the burgrave office in Eger . His son Hans Goßler acquired real estate in Gürth (today part of Bad Brambach ) in the Vogtland between 1610 and 1631 and was appointed magistrate of the Voigtsberg office. His grandson Christoph Goßler (1689–1750) finally came to Magdeburg .

The Prussian War and Domain Councilor Christoph Goßler (1723–1791) and Dorothee Katharina Neumann (1731–1800) had, among others, Christoph Goßler , Wilhelm Christian Goßler (father of Friedrich Franz Theodor Goßler and Hermann Joseph Goßler ), August Wilhelm Goßler and Conrad Christian Goßler as children. Conrad Christian Goßler was ennobled in 1813 and was the father of Gustav Albert von Goßler , Karl Gustav von Goßler , Eugen von Goßler and Clara von Goßler .

Gustav Albert von Goßler was the father of Karl Ferdinand Konrad von Goßler and Martin Gustav Wilhelm von Goßler .

Karl Gustav von Goßler was the father of Gustav Konrad Heinrich von Goßler , Heinrich Wilhelm Martin von Goßler , Konrad Ernst von Goßler and Albert Theodor Wilhelm von Goßler .

Eugen von Goßler was among other things the father of Karl Max Eugen Alfred von Goßler .

Nobility rise

The elevation to the Westphalian nobility took place on February 27, 1813 with a diploma of July 10, 1813 in Napoleonshöhe for Conrad Christian Goßler . The Prussian nobility recognition followed on February 6, 1816.

coat of arms

The squared coat of arms is covered with a central shield, in it three red (2: 1 or 1: 2) roses in silver, field 1 in silver and blue, 2 in gold a red princely hat turned up with ermine, 3 in silver crowned black eagle, 4 in gold a bundle of fasces , in which is a silver ax turning inwards. On the helmet with red and silver covers on the right and blue and silver covers on the left, three red roses on green-leafed stems.

Known family members

Father of the progenitor of the noble family

• Christoph Goßler (1723–1791), Prussian merchant and merchant, owner of silk manufacture , Prussian war and domain council, owner of Gut Königsborn and Wahlitz ∞ Dorothea Christiane Jähne (1731–1800)

Brothers and their descendants of the ancestral father of the noble family

• Christoph Goßler (1752–1817), Prussian Privy Councilor of Justice, senior auditor and chamber judge, author
• Wilhelm Christian Goßler (1755–1835), Prussian Privy Councilor and Justice
  • Friedrich Franz Theodor Goßler (1800–1856), assessor at the Berlin and Hamm Regional Court, later a Franciscan and author of theological writings
  • Hermann Joseph Goßler († 1853), Prussian higher regional judge
• August Wilhelm Goßler (1757–1825), Prussian tribunal councilor

Ancestor of the noble family

• Conrad Christian Goßler , from 1813 von Goßler (1769–1842), attorney general and real secret senior judicial officer

I. Line of the noble family

• Gustav Albert von Goßler (1807–1869), administrative lawyer, real secret council and minister of state
  • Karl Ferdinand Konrad von Goßler (1841–1900), Prussian manor owner and district administrator
    • Konrad von Goßler (1881–1939), German cavalry general
  • Martin Gustav Wilhelm von Goßler (1843–1898), Prussian lieutenant general

II. Line of the noble family

• Karl Gustav von Goßler (1810–1885), lawyer and chancellor of the Kingdom of Prussia
  • Gustav Konrad Heinrich von Goßler (1838–1902), Prussian Minister of State and Culture, High President of the Province of West Prussia
    • Wilhelm Gustav von Goßler (1883–1945), author and district administrator of the Naugard district
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Martin von Goßler (1841–1927), Prussian infantry general, state and war minister
    • Eugen von Goßler (1885–1962), Prussian captain, poet and friends with Else Lasker-Schüler , among others
  • Konrad Ernst von Goßler (1848–1933), Prussian infantry general and governor of the Mainz fortress
  • Albert Theodor Wilhelm von Goßler (1850–1928), Prussian lieutenant general

III. Line of the noble family

• Eugen von Goßler (1823-1892), Prussian manor owner, district administrator, member of parliament and secret councilor
  • Karl Max Eugen Alfred von Goßler (1867–1946), Prussian manor owner, district administrator and politician

Female line of the noble family

• Clara von Goßler (1827–1864), composer, daughter of the progenitor Conrad Christian Goßler

Web link

• Von Goßler family on German biography

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1978.
• Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Noble Houses , Part B 1941, page 187, Verlag Justus Perthes , Gotha 1941.
• Wilhelm von Goßler: The family von Goßler in ancestral sequences. G. Reichardt printing works, Groitzsch near Leipzig 1939.
• Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode : New German Biography , Volume 6, Berlin, 1964, pp. 650 ff.
• Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740-1806 / 15 , Walter de Gruyter , 2009, p. 336 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, III. Volume, 7th Division; The nobility of the Duchy of Anhalt; Author: Ad. M. Hildebrandt; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1869, p. 3
2. ^ Marion Schulte: About the bourgeois conditions of the Jews in Prussia: Aims and motives of the reform period (1787-1812) . Walter de Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-030603-3 , p. 509 ( google.de [accessed on March 11, 2018]).