Jaegersfeld
Jaegersfeld (historically also Jaegersfeldt or Jägersfeld ) is the name of a Prussian noble family that originated in the illegitimate descendants of Margrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt and thus represents a branch line of the House of Hohenzollern. One line spread to the USA towards the end of the 19th century.
history
Margrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt (* 1700; † 1771), called the great Margrave , had a pronounced passion for hunting. Therefore, Emperor Karl VI appointed him . finally the Archhunter of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation . He was married to Sophie , born in 1719 , the sister of Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia , since 1734. But already in 1725 he had become the illegitimate father of a son, of Georg Wilhelm von Jaegersfeld († August 2, 1797 in Lauenburg, Western Pomerania).
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (* 1742, † 1819), who later became the most popular hero of the German War of Liberation, had suffered the displeasure of his commander, General von Lossow, because of his drunkenness and quarrelsome enthusiasm, and was therefore passed over to major the next time he was promoted to major . The older Wilhelm von Jaegersfeld was preferred to him. In January 1773 he wrote indignantly to Frederick the Great: Von Jägersfeld, who has no other merit than being the son of the Margrave of Schwedt, was preferred to me. I ask Ew. [Venerable] Majesty for my farewell. Bold words, especially since the Margrave of Schwedt was not only a Hohenzoller, but also Friedrich's, meanwhile like his sister Sophie, a deceased brother-in-law. The king then had Blücher put into arrest for nine months so that he might think about it. But when Blücher stuck to his explanation, the king declared: The Rittmeister von Blücher has been released from his duties; he can give a damn . After Frederick II's death, Blücher returned to his old regiment and rose to the position of General Field Marshal.
Under Frederick II's successor, King Friedrich Wilhelm II , the royal Prussian major in the von der Schulenburg hussar regiment , Wilhelm (von) Jaegersfeld, received the Prussian nobility on November 27, 1786 in Berlin, recognized as the natural son of Margrave Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt († 1771). In order for the noble family to survive, the son of Wilhelm von Jaegersfeld also had to receive nobility legitimation the following year, since he, Carl Friedrich Jaegersfeld, born in 1771, was born out of wedlock. He was legitimized on May 7, 1787 as the son of Wilhelm von Jaegersfeld and as such received a nobility legitimation in Berlin on September 10, 1787, with the settlement of his father's name and coat of arms.
Carl Friedrich von Jaegersfeld (* 1771; † 1847), in Oldenburg civil and military service since 1800 , was also a landowner. He was married to Oktavia Bellina Gross (* 1772; † 1815) from the north , with whom he had two sons and three daughters. The sons founded an Oldenburg and an American line. Son Georg Friedrich Wilhelm (* 1798; † 1850) married Johanna Henriette Ucken (* 1809; † 1846) in Norden in 1828 , his son Rudolf (* 1829; † 1873), an Oldenburg captain, married Elisabeth Sofie Henriette in Oldenburg in 1863 Auguste Friederike Krimping († 1864); her second marriage in Lichtenberg near Torgau in 1871 was Wally von Bosse, born in Wittenberg in 1840 († Kösen 1919). Rudolf's sister Oktavia (* 1831) died in 1849.
Friedrich von Jaegersfeld (* 1771; † 1847) had the following daughters in addition to the two sons already mentioned, founders of the two lines:
- Amalie Bernhardine Friederike (* 1802; † 1884); In 1824 she married the Oldenburg diplomat, minister and major general Johann Ludwig Mosle (* 1794, † 1877).
- Adelheid Charlotte Elisabeth (* 1804; † 1885); In 1826 she married the Oldenburg bailiff Johann Georg Amann (* 1794; † 1852) and in 1839 became the mother of the future Prussian general Wilhelm Ferdinand von Amann (* 1839; † 1928).
- Rudolfine Annette Hermine (* 1809); she married Dietrich Wilhelm Rasmus († 1871) in Zwischenahn in 1836 .
American line
Friedrich von Jaegersfeld's second son, Wilhelm Gerhard Karl (Vechta † 1842) born in Oldenburg in 1815 , was married to Sofie Franziska Königer (* Vechta 1803) since 1837 . Her two sons settled in the United States. The son Friedrich, born in Vechta in 1838, became a mine owner in Arkansas. In 1886 he married Emma Baumann , who was born in Philadelphia in 1871 in Jordan-Brook, Arkansas . Their two sons were Friedrich (* Jordan-Brook, Arkansas, 1887) and Urach (* Antimony, Arkansas, 1890).
Wilhelm Gerhard Karl's second son, Karl (* Vechta 1841), married Delfine Brady (* Little Rock, Arkansas 1862) in 1880 . Their three children were Karl (* Washington, Arkansas, 1881), Bellina, (* Washington, Arkansas 1884) and Frieda (* Washington, Arkansas, 1886).
coat of arms
The coat of arms, awarded in 1786, shows three (1: 2) turned away golden hunting horns with green cords and tassels in the blue field within the golden shield edge, and in the back a half, royal crowned, golden-armored red eagle at the gap. On the helmet with blue and gold blankets on the right and red and silver blankets on the left, a royal crowned, golden armored red eagle, wearing a hunting horn around his neck as if in a shield.
The hunting horns are an allusion to the gender name, such as the passion for hunting and the archhunt mastery of the progenitor, the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, as the red eagle, as an allusion to the Brandenburg eagle, indicates the princely Brandenburg origin, and thus of the House of Hohenzollern.
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, p. 15, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon from 1888
- ^ A b c Genealogical Handbook of the Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Limburg / Lahn 1987, p. 15
- ↑ Genealogy in Preussen & Lippe
- ↑ Carl Friedrich von Jägersfeld in the German Biography , accessed on May 11, 2015.