Löwensprung dipper

Coat of arms of the Lölhöffel von Löwensprung

Lölhöffel von Löwensprung , also "von Lölhöffel", is the name of an East Prussian noble family .

history

The first representative on record in 1516 was Petrus Lolhebel from Elbing . Several lines were formed in Königsberg (extinct in 1710), in Elbing (extinct there in 1730), Insterburg , Memel and Silesia (extinct around 1800). Johann Lölhöffel from Elbing, surgeon and court master of the Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, achieved imperial nobility in 1647 with the predicate "von Löwensprung". Georg Friedrich Lölhöffel from Insterburg, Royal Prussian Councilor and envoy in Warsaw, received this title in 1713 for the Prussian line.

The Prussian (Memel) line came from Heinrich Lölhöffel von Löwensprung (1705–1763), Royal Polish Councilor and personal physician to King August III. in Warsaw , who married Constance Jauch (1722–1802), daughter of the major general and Baroque architect Joachim Daniel von Jauch (1688–1754). After the death of her husband she Polonized the name in " Lelewel ". The son from this marriage, Karol Mauricy Lelewel (1748–1830) married a niece of the Archbishop of Mahiljou and Catholic Metropolitan of Russia Kasper Kazimierz Cieciszowski , obtained the Polish indigenous community and became a member of the Sejm . The grandsons of Heinrich von Lölhöffels were the Polish freedom fighters Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861) and Jan Pawel Lelewel (1796–1847). The other son Prot Lelewel (1790-1884) took part in the Napoleonic Wars in the Battle of Leipzig , became an officer of the French Legion of Honor and holder of the Virtuti Militari order . In order to preserve the family fortune, he did not join the Polish November uprising of 1831 like his brothers , later became the leading Imperial Russian civil servant and wrote memoirs. The great-great-grandson of Heinrich von Lölhöffel is the Nobel Prize laureate for literature and the author of “Quo vadis” Henryk Sienkiewicz (1847–1916).

In the 19th and 20th centuries, several members of the von Lölhöffel family appeared as Prussian generals.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a golden lion in blue , holding a red vase with silver may flowers in its paws under a silver shield head with a black eagle flight . On the crowned helmet with black and silver helmet covers on the right and blue and gold on the left, the growing lion with the vase.

Known family members

Constance von Lölhöffel born. Jauch (1722–1802)

• Adolf Lölhöffel von Löwensprung (1841–1928), Prussian major general
• Erich Lölhöffel von Löwensprung (1845–1915), Prussian lieutenant general
• Edith Lölhöffel von Löwensprung (1896–1941), German sports doctor
• Friedrich Wilhelm Lölhöffel von Löwensprung (1717–1780), Prussian lieutenant general
• Hedwig von Lölhöffel (1913–1986) was the daughter of Erminia von Olfers-Batocki and the last owner of the Tharau estate . She wrote, among other things, Tharau is somewhere else. A song, a village and its people (Düsseldorf 1987). In 1973 she received the East Prussian Landsmannschaft's culture award for literature.
• Helmut Lölhöffel (1944–2018), German journalist
• Jan Paweł Lelewel (1796–1847), engineer in Poland and Switzerland
• Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), historian and member of the Polish government 1830–1832
• Johann Christoph Lölhöffel von Löwensprung (1780–1836), Prussian major general
• Kurt Lölhöffel von Löwensprung (1844–1916), Prussian major general

literature

• Erich von Lölhöffel: Lölhöffel-Lelewel, a Prussian-Polish family connection. in: Old Prussian gender studies. New episode (APG new episode), volume 5.
• Prot Lelewel: Pamietniki i Diariusz Domu Naszego. (Memories and diary of my parent company), edited by Irena Lelewel-Friemannowa, Breslau / Warsaw / Krakow 1966.
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2002, ISSN  0435-2408 , pp. 14-15

Web links

• Descendants of Karol Mauricy Lelewel (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ OT von Hefner, A. Grenser, GA von Mülverstedt, Ad. M. Hildebrandt, J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, III. Volume, 2nd section, 1st volume, The blooming nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia, Edelleute, 1878, p. 244