Koppenfels (noble family)
The von Koppenfels family , originally Kobe von Koppenfels, is a Thuringian-Saxon noble family of the so-called letter nobility , which came from the clothmaker family Kob in Hildburghausen .
Ancestors and relatives of the Kob family had been guild masters and council members of the city of Hildburghausen since the 16th century and even provided the mayor there through the cloth maker Lorenz Kob († December 14, 1672 in Hildburghausen), the grandfather of Johann Sebastian Kobe von Koppenfels .
The family was raised to the hereditary imperial nobility with the addition of Koppenfels by the German Emperor Franz I on April 26, 1754 with the court and consistorial council as well as the real secret council in the duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld , Johann Sebastian Kob (1699-1765) . In 1760 he appears for the first time as Kobe von Koppenfels as an author with this name. His grandson Ludwig Heinrich Kobe von Koppenfels (1780–1861), royal Saxon court and judiciary, received on January 1, 1810 the promotion to the baron status .
Many male family members embarked on military careers, and several others became lawyers . In both professions, the Koppenfels were able to achieve high offices and positions in the Kingdom of Saxony and in the Thuringian duchies. The von Koppenfels family also shaped the history of Dresden for over 150 years .
Personalities
- Johann Friedrich Kobe von Koppenfels (1737–1811), German lawyer, privy councilor and chancellor
- Johann Sebastian Kobe von Koppenfels (1699–1765), German lawyer and court official
- Katharina von Koppenfels-Spies (* 1972), German lawyer
- Martin von Koppenfels (* 1967), German literary scholar and Romance philologist
- Werner von Koppenfels (* 1938), German philologist and translator
- Werner von Koppenfels (mathematician) (1904–1945), German mathematician
swell
- Till von Egidy: The ancestors of the von Egidy and von Koppenfels families, list of ancestors for the brothers Holm, Hans and Max von Egidy in: Studies on Culture and History - Volume 2, editors: Lars-Arne Dannenberg and Matthias Donath, Verlag Zentrum für Kultur // History of Niederjahna 2016
- Family history of the Kobe von Koppenfels, Wolfgang Kobe von Koppenfels, self-published in 1988
- Jürgen Telschow: Die Kobs - history and stories of the Kob family on jürgen-telschow.de , accessed on April 14, 2018
- August Wilhelm Bernhard von Uechtritz: Diplomatic news from noble families ..., 6th part, Leipzig 1793, digitized on Google Books, p. 34ff.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility, Volume 12 of the complete series, Adelige Häuser B, Volume II, 1956, CA Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee, p. 168ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Koppenfels (noble family) in the Dresden City Wiki with links to other family members