Linger (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Linger family

Linger is the name of a Prussian noble family . The family, whose members primarily as officers in the Prussian Army served, was the beginning of the 18th century ennobled .

history

origin

After Kneschke , the imperial lieutenant colonel Wilhelm Heinrich Linger and his son Martin Ferdinand Linger, captain from Brandenburg and artillery master , belonged to the family. His son Salomon Linger was also in the military service of the Elector of Brandenburg. The genealogical handbook of the nobility begins the secured line of the family with the latter Salomon Linger. He died in 1683 as a kit master from Brandenburg. His two sons Christian Nicolaus and Jakob Salomon come from his marriage to Marie, a née Wiese. They became the founders of the two lines of the family.

Lines and personalities

Christian Nicolaus Linger (* 1669) joined the Prussian artillery as a bombardier in 1688 and was promoted to captain in 1701. He distinguished himself during the Palatinate War of Succession and the War of Spanish Succession in numerous artillery missions and was promoted to major . For his services, King Friedrich I elevated him to the Prussian nobility on March 12, 1705 at Cölln . As a Prussian major general , he was raised to the imperial aristocracy on January 24, 1732 in Vienna . He died on April 17, 1755 as a Prussian general of the artillery . Christian Nicolaus was married twice, his first marriage from 1698 to Katharina Elisabeth Graefen († 1711) and his second marriage from 1716 to Susanna Maria Kunsch von Breitenwald († 1745). From his first marriage there were five children, four daughters and a son, Christian Ludwig von Linger (1711–1788). He became a Prussian major and married Katharine Dorothea Antoinette Küchmeister von Sternberg († 1812). The couple left a son and daughter. In 1791, with the death of his son Friedrich Albrecht Gustav Ludwig von Linger (* 1757), the line in the male line became extinct .

Wilhelm von Linger (* 1720), Christian Nicolaus' only son from his second marriage, died in 1756 as a Prussian major in a cuirassier regiment. His marriage to Maria Elisabeth Oppermann remained childless.

Jacob Salomon Linger (* 1676), the brother of Christian Nicolaus von Linger, died on May 25, 1729 as a Prussian lieutenant colonel in the field artillery regiment. He married Marie Elisabeth Lüderts in 1710 and Philippine in 1723, widowed von Lüderitz and née Kunsch von Breitenwald. His son from his first marriage, Peter Salomon Linger (* 1719), received the Prussian nobility in Berlin on December 3, 1787 in the form of a nobility renewal. He died on July 11, 1793 as a Prussian colonel and chief of the Silesian garrison artillery in Neisse . From his marriage to Maria Elisabeth von Linger, née Oppermann and widow of Wilhelm von Linger, who died in the same year, in 1756, he had two sons, one of whom died in childhood, and three daughters. Son Karl Wilhelm von Linger (1757-1805), Prussian captain and company commander in the field artillery regiment, was able to continue the line. He left four sons and a daughter. The eldest son Karl Wilhelm Peter Anton von Linger (* 1788), Prussian second lieutenant in the Guard Fusilier Battalion , died on June 2, 1813 Glatz from a wound which he in on May 19, 1813 liberation wars in combat in Königswartha get would have. The second oldest, Wilhelm Karl Hans von Linger (1794–1871), became a Prussian lieutenant general , the third-born Hermann Karl von Linger (* 1798) died in 1883 as a Prussian captain a. D. and the youngest, Rudolf Karl von Linger (1801–1885), became a Prussian colonel.

Of the brothers, Wilhelm Karl Hans and Rudolf Karl were able to continue the male line. The first one married Friederike Luise Amalie Gericke (1797–1864) and left two daughters and a son. In 1887, with the death of his son Eduard Karl von Linger (* 1829), Prussian secondary lieutenant, this branch of the male line became extinct. His uncle Rudolf Karl married Friederike Amalie Heubach in 1841. The couple had three daughters and a son, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolf (* 1845), a Prussian lieutenant. His son James Elias (* 1877) emerged from his marriage to Margarete Ellis in 1875.

Wolff von Linger

Sophie Mathilde von Linger (* 1820), daughter of Wilhelm Karl Hans von Linger and Friederike Luise Amalie, née Gericke, married Julius Wolff , later Prussian Lieutenant General on March 4, 1846 in Berlin . They received one on September 13, 1873 in Berlin Awarded the Prussian nobility as Wolff von Linger .

coat of arms

Coat of arms from 1705

The coat of arms is split. On the right in silver a black feathered golden bird's foot , on the left in gold a blue bar covered with three (2, 1) golden stars . On the crowned helmet with blue and gold helmet covers on the right and black and silver helmet covers on the left, a golden animal foot, holding up a bare sword, between an open flight , as marked as the left field .

Coat of arms from 1787

The coat of arms from 1787 is similar to the coat of arms awarded in 1705, the difference is that the bottom of the left field is silver, and on the crowned helmet with blue and gold helmet covers on the right and black and silver helmet covers on the left, a silver-clad arm, holding a bare sword, between an open one as the left box labeled flight.

Known family members

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 5, pp. 565–566.
  2. ↑ a b c Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, p. 401.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. Third year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1909, pp. 480–482.