Lenk von Wolfsberg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the barons of Lenk von Wolfsberg 1829

The barons of Lenk von Wolfsberg were an Austrian noble family . Several important representatives emerged from the family who were active in the imperial-royal army.

history

The family of German origin named Lenck used to live in Wittingau in the crown land of Bohemia. The rise of the family to great renown took a little longer than 100 years until it died out.

The Imperial and Royal Captain of the 4th Garrison Artillery Joseph Lenck (* August 1, 1739 - December 2, 1817 in Ottakring ), married in 1764 in Platz / Wittingau to Anna Maria Paciver (* 1745 - † 1794), was heard after 48 years of service The highest resolution of Emperor Franz II awarded the nobility with the name "Lenk von Wolfsberg".

Philipp Jakob Lenk Freiherr von Wolfsberg (1766–1837), Joseph's son, was an artillery officer in the imperial army during the Napoleonic wars and played a key role in many battles against the French. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order and on September 20, 1829, by the highest resolution of Emperor Franz I, elevatedto the baron status: "His Imperial and Royal Majesty is a major in the Bombardier Corps and the Order of Mary Theresa -Ritter Jakob Lenk von Wolfsberg, in consideration of his many years of excellent military service, is most graciously deigned to award the baron of the Austrian imperial state tax-free. ".

FZM Wilhelm Freiherr Lenk von Wolfsberg

He married Wilhelmine Carlotta Scholl (1781-1813) in 1804. From this marriage arose son (Nikolaus) Wilhelm, who later became the Imperial and Royal Feldzeugmeister.

From his second marriage with Franziska (* December 27, 1800, † October 14, 1882 in Prague) in 1820 came son August Lenk von Wolfsberg, who embarked on a diplomatic career.

Nikolaus Wilhelm Lenk Baron von Wolfsberg (1809–1894), Jacob's son, also entered the Imperial and Royal Military Service. He was an officer and a technical chemist. Wilhelm occupied himself with the improvement of gun cotton , for which he received a patent in 1864. He also commanded the imperial army and ended his career as a field warrior . During his career he was decorated with medals several times.

In 1833 he married Eveline Aloisia Schreher (1810–1871). From this connection the sons Rudolf and Eugen and three daughters emerged.

August Lenk von Wolfsberg (1820–1889) was an Austrian diplomat, the son of Baron Jakob Lenk von Wolfsberg's second marriage. His career began in 1848 as the Imperial and Royal Consulate General Chancellor in Beirut and led him through many stations up to his last as the Imperial and Royal Consul General in Marseille in 1883. He was married twice without a male successor. August did not have the title of baron. The reason for this is unknown.

Eugen Freiherr Lenk von Wolfsberg 1866
FML Rudolf Freiherr Lenk von Wolfsberg 1866

Rudolf Freiherr Lenk von Wolfsberg (1834–1907), the older of Wilhelm's two sons, also embarked on a military career and made it up to field marshal lieutenant. His marriages with Hemma Edle von Josch (1844–1867) and Paula Freiin Wittenbach von Rotten and Thurnstein (1849–1918) remained childless.

Eugen Freiherr Lenk von Wolfsberg (born July 26, 1836 in Mainz , † February 12, 1905 Baden near Vienna ) also began a military career, but retired as a lieutenant in the artillery. In 1862 he married the entrepreneur's daughter Emma Giseke (born April 14, 1830 in Lüdenscheid ; † March 5, 1903 in Baden near Vienna). He then worked in the commercial area at the Leonische Werken Cornides & Kühmayer AG in Weissenbach an der Triesting . His only child, Gustav (born December 31, 1862 in St. Veit an der Triesting ; † October 13, 1943 in Baden near Vienna), was born there, and married on June 14, 1897 in Wiener Neustadt to Fiametta Brosch Edle von Aarenau , (Born October 1, 1873 in Rovigno , Istria ; † August 13, 1943 in Wiener Neustadt), sister of the head of the military chancellery Alexander von Brosch-Aarenau . Both were killed in an Allied bombing raid. They had two daughters, Emma (* May 16, 1898) and Hyazintha (* March 15, 1900 - October 11, 2001).

So there were no male successors in the family and the family died out in the male line. About the female descendants there are descendants in the families Mayerhoffer von Vedropolje , von Zwehl, Ritter von Polzer, Freiherren Putz von Rolsberg , Freiherren von Sobeck-Skal and Kornitz, Freiherren von Waldstätten , Count Wassilko von Serecki , among others

coat of arms

Coat of arms Lenk von Wolfsberg 1801

1801: Shield cut across. Above in red a curved, gold-rimmed, armored right arm with sword, below in blue on a green three-mountain a natural wolf. The armored arm with the sword rises from the shield above the crowned, targeted helmet. The ceilings are underlaid with silver on the right and blue on the left.

1829: 1829: Shield divided across red and blue. In the upper red field a curved, gold-rimmed arm in armor with a bare sword in one hand, In the lower blue field on a mountain of natural color a natural wolf turned to the right. On the shield rests the baron crown, on which three crowned tournament helmets tremble. The crown of the right helmet bears the inward-facing arm of the upper field, that of the middle a simple black eagle with a red-lipped tongue, outstretched wings and outstretched fangs; those of the left helmet have three flowing ostrich feathers, a blue one between two silver ones. The helmet covers are: those of the middle right red left blue, coated on both sides with silver, those of the right helmet red, those of the left blue, coated on both sides with silver. The shield holders are two upright golden lions on either side with open jaws, tongues lined with red and a tail that is opened over the back.

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser. 1913, 1941.
  • Maximilian Mayerhoffer: Family table and evidence of nobility of the Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch Familie Putz von Rolsberg. Tannheim 1951.
  • Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. 1888.
  • Meyers → Volume 18: Annual Supplement 1890 […] → Main section: p. 0578, from Leimbach to Lenk von Wolfsberg
  • Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 12. Leipzig 1908, p. 405.
  • Franz Sales Kandler: mirror of honor of the kk Austrian army. Verlag Carl Gerold, Vienna 1831, pp. 104, 289.
  • Egger:  Lenk von Wolfsberg, Rudolf and Wilhelm. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 136.
  • Military schematism of the Austrian Empire. 1853, 1856, 1867, part 1, 1871.
  • Constant von Wurzbach : Lenk von Wolfsberg, Jacob Freiherr. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 14th part. Verlag der kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, pp. 361–363 (digitized version )
  • Adler MBC Volume II, (1885–1890)
  • The fatherland. Newspaper for the Austrian Monarchy of October 20, 1894 ( digitized ANNO )
  • Hof- u. State manual of the Kgr. Bavaria. Munich 1867.
  • News about industry, trade and transport. Volume 12, Vienna 1877.
  • Military schematism of the Austrian Empire. kk Hof- und Staats-Druckerey, Vienna 1837, p. 346.
  • Streffleurs Austrian Military Magazine. Volume VII, Volume 3, Issue VIII, Verlag Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1866, p. 193.

Web links

Commons : Lenk von Wolfsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Intelligence Gazette No. 84, in Wiener Zeitung No. 84, from Tuesday, April 14, 1818, p. 750
  2. ↑ Adler MBC Volume II, (1885–1890)
  3. ↑ a b c Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser. 1913.
  4. ↑ CoResNo.com | Collegium Res Nobilis Austriae
  5. ↑ Constant von Wurzbach: Lenk von Wolfsberg, Jacob Freiherr. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 14th part. Verlag der kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, p. 361.
  6. ↑ Constant von Wurzbach: Lenk von Wolfsberg, Jacob Freiherr. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 14th part. Verlag der kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, pp. 361–362.
  7. ^ Prague newspaper of November 3, 1829
  8. ^ A b c Maximilian Mayerhoffer: Family tree and evidence of nobility of the Putz von Rolsberg family. Tannheim 1951.
  9. ^ Egger:  Lenk von Wolfsberg, Wilhelm. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 136.
  10. ↑ Constant von Wurzbach: Lenk von Wolfsberg, Jacob Freiherr. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 14th part. Verlag der kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, pp. 362–363.
  11. ↑ Lenk von Wolfsberg (noble family). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 136.
  12. ↑ Badener Zeitung No. 86, from Saturday, October 30, 1943, p. 4
  13. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses: at the same time the nobility register of the associations united in the honorary association of the German nobility. Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1941, p. 251 f.
  14. ^ Constant von Wurzbach: Biographical Lexicon of the Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 14th part, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, p. 361 ff.