Lambsdorff
Lambsdorff is the name of - originally Westphalia - German Baltic Uradels gender, the full name . Gen from Wenge Lambsdorff called.
This name gives a double indication of its place of origin: Its bearers named themselves after the knight's seat House Wenge in what is now Dortmund's urban area von der Wenge . The name addition (and later count title) Lambsdorff goes back to an old spelling of the current Dortmund district of Lanstrop , in which the Wenge house is located. The small moated castle remained in the family's possession from the beginning of the 13th century until 1648 and returned to their property in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
history
The family first appeared in a document with the knight Henricus de Wenge on July 29, 1239. While one line in Westphalia remained resident and Catholic (the Freiherren von der Wenge ), another (that of the Wenge called Lambsdorff ) emigrated to the Teutonic Order State in the Baltic States at the beginning of the 15th century , where it was resident and wealthy in Livonia later switched to the Lutheran denomination. On October 16, 1620 it was registered in the Courland and on July 7, 1800 in the Livonian knighthood registers. On 1./13. In July 1817 the Baltic line was elevated to the status of hereditary Russian count in the shape of the Russian infantry general Matthias von der Wenge, called Lambsdorff . The Prussian authorization to use the name Freiherr von der Wenge, Graf von Lambsdorff was granted with a diploma on October 6, 1880.
The Westphalian line died out in 1850 with Friedrich Florens Raban Freiherr von der Wenge, son of Clemens August von der Wenge . Wenge House and Beck Castle then passed to the descendants of his sister, a married Countess Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms of the von der Wenge family shows a black gate tower with an open portcullis and three pointed roofs, each with a golden flag waving to the right. On the helmet with black and silver covers the gate tower between an open black flight.
people
Baltic Line (Lambsdorff)
- Gustav Matthias Lambsdorff (1745–1828), Russian officer, civil governor of Courland (1796–1798)
- Matthias von der Wenge, Count Lambsdorff , Russian infantry general, raised to the hereditary Russian count status in 1817
- Nicolaus Lamsdorff (1804–1877), Russian major general
- Konstantin Graf Lamsdorff-Galagan (1841–1900), Russian lieutenant general
- Wladimir Nikolajewitsch Lamsdorf (1845–1907), Russian politician
- Georg Graf von Lambsdorff (1863–1935), District President in the Prussian administrative district of Gumbinnen (1915–1919)
- Gustav Graf von Lambsdorff (1867–1937), Prussian lieutenant general
- Paul Graf von Lambsdorff-Galagan (1879–1954), Russian Councilor and State Secretary
- Ralf Graf von Lambsdorff (1883–1970), President of the Baltic Red Cross
- Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926–2009), German politician (FDP), Federal Minister of Economics
- Hagen Graf Lambsdorff (* 1935), former German ambassador to the Czech Republic and Latvia (1991–1993)
- Udo Graf Lambsdorff (1939–2011), German film producer
- Alexandra Countess Lambsdorff (* 1945), German economist
- Nikolaus Graf Lambsdorff (* 1954), German diplomat, including ambassador in the permanent German mission in Kuala Lumpur (since August 2017)
- Johann Graf Lambsdorff (* 1965), Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Passau and founder of the Corruption Perception Index
- Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (* 1966), German politician (FDP) and nephew of Otto Graf Lambsdorff
Westphalian Line (Wenge)
- Friedrich Florenz Raban Freiherr von der Wenge (1702–1775), Major General General of the Electorate of Cologne, Imperial Field Sergeant and Lieutenant General, Lieutenant General of Münster, builder of Beck Castle in Bottrop
- Franz Freiherr von der Wenge zu Enckingmühlen and Dieck (1707–1788), cathedral capitular of the Hochstift Münster, with the construction of the St. Antony hut, founder of iron smelting in the Ruhr area
- Clemens August Freiherr von der Wenge (1740–1818), on Wenge and Beck, electoral Cologne secret council and chief hunter, Munster lieutenant general, governor of the city of Munster, Prussian lieutenant general
literature
- Roland Seeberg-Elverfeldt: Genealogy of the Counts v. der Wenge called Lambsdorff , Bonn 1986 (= German Family Archives . Volume 93).
- Nobility Lexicon . Volume VII (= Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility . Volume 97). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Anton Fahne, The Lords and Barons v. Hövel , Volume 1, pp.197ff
Individual evidence
- ↑ Westfälisches Urkundenbuch, Volume 3, edited by Roger Wilmans , Münster 1871, p. 199.
- ↑ Further examples of a splitting of originally West German noble families into a Westphalian and a Baltic line are the Vietinghoff (noble family) and the Frydag (Freytag-Loringhoven).
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Volume GA IV, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1962, p. 358.
- ↑ Genealogy of the Counts of Wenge called Lambsdorff: Barons of the Wenge Counts of Lambsdorff, Counts Lamsdorf-Galagan
- ^ Genealogy. Handbook of the nobility, volume GA XVIII, page 228, Starke-Verlag 2006
- ↑ www.lambsdorff-cie.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Curriculum vitae of Nikolaus Graf Lambsdorff on the homepage of the German Consulate General Hong Kong ( Memento from August 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.geneagraphie.com