Kaler
The Kaler family (since 1757: von Kaler zu Lanzenheim ) comes from Tyrol . The gender can be traced back to the 16th century.
origin
The Kaler come from the Puster Valley in Tyrol. The progenitor of the family is Johann Kaler , born around 1570, citizen and red tanner in the local Niederdorf (South Tyrol) . He married Maria Strobl on November 8, 1600, the name "Kaler" was mentioned for the first time in a document.
Awards ceremony
Emperor Ferdinand II (HRR) (1578–1637) and Claudia de 'Medici (1604–1648), Archduchess of Austria and Duchess of Tyrol, awarded the brothers Bernhard Kaler (1613–1682), red tanner and merchant in Niederdorf, and Christoph Kaler (1610–1658), district judge of the Haller Damenstift , on May 21, 1635 a coat of arms (three red roses and two golden lions).
Ennoblement
On January 3, 1757, the district judge Christoph Albert Kaler (1696–1767 ) was raised to the hereditary-Austrian nobility (imperial nobility) by Empress Maria Theresia (1717–1780). Christoph Albert Kaler had made a contribution to national defense as captain of a sniper company, which he also financed. The name “Lanzenheim” goes back to a mansion that Christoph Albert Kaler built a few years before his ennoblement in Tristach near Lienz.
from Metz-Kaler to Lanzenheim
The K. u. K. Hauptmann Gustav Metz-Kaler (son of K. and K. telegraph inspector Gustav Metz, * Radautz in Bukowina 1844, † St. Egyd 1904) was nephew and adoptive son of Mauritius von Kaler zu Lanzenheim , Imperial Councilor and Chief Inspector of the Austrian State Railways. On September 18, 1917, by imperial supreme resolution, the hereditary Austrian nobility, predicate and coat of arms transfer as in future from Metz-Kaler to Lanzenheim . The diploma was handed out in Vienna on February 8, 1918.
Patronage
Alexander Christoph von Kaler zu Lanzenheim (1731–1802), district judge and administrator of Heinfels Castle in the Puster Valley, was patron saint of the parish church of St. Ulrich (Lavant) from 1781 until his death .
coat of arms
The coat of arms of 1635 and 1757 shows in black a silver bar covered with three red roses, accompanied above and below by a striding, red-tongued golden lion . On the helmet with black and gold covers on the right and red and silver covers on the left, a growing, red-tongued golden lion between an open flight, black on the right and red on the left, each covered with a rose beam.
The coat of arms of Metz-Kaler zu Lanzenheim from 1918 is the same as that of Kaler zu Lanzenheim, but the right wing of the crest is only black.
Well-known namesake
The most famous descendant of the Kaler is the Austrian workers leader Emil Kaler-Reinthal (1850-1897), an illegitimate son of Wilhelmine von Kaler zu Lanzenheim (1824-1906).
Konstanze von Kaler zu Lanzenheim (1895–1991) was married to Gustav Koenigs (1882–1945). He was a German administrative lawyer and State Secretary whom the conspirators of July 20, 1944 had designated as Reich Transport Minister.
The artists Gerhard Schmidt-Kaler (1920–2008) and Michael von Kaler (* 1961), the astronomer Theodor Schmidt-Kaler (1930–2017) and the geologist Hermann Schmidt-Kaler (* 1933) also became known.
literature
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Genealogical manual of the nobility . CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn:
- 1977: Noble Houses B, Volume XII (= Volume 64 of the complete series).
- 1990: Noble houses B, Volume XIX (= Volume 99 of the complete series).
- 2010: Noble Houses B, Volume XXXII (= Volume 148 of the complete series).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag Limburg ad Lahn 1998, p. 9