List of bearers of the Guelph Order

This list of the bearers of the Guelph Order is not complete.

The order was awarded by the King of Hanover between 1815 and 1866 . Between 1815 and 1837 he was in personal union also king of Great Britain and Ireland . On May 20, 1841, the order classes were expanded.

Grand Cross

Alexander II Nikolayevich (1818–1881), Tsar of the Russian Empire
Johann Ernst von Alvensleben (1758–1827), German statesman
Christian Günther Graf von Bernstorff (1769–1835), Danish and Prussian ministers
Joseph Ignaz Graf von Beroldingen (1780–1868), officer and diplomat in the service of the King of Württemberg
Thomas Brisbane (1773-1860), English astronomer and governor of Australia (1831)
Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge , last Hanoverian viceroy
Claus von der Betten (1742–1826), Hanoverian Minister (1815)
Johann Friedrich Graf von der Betten (1769–1840), Hanoverian general field master (1815)
Ferdinand I (1793–1875), Emperor of Austria
Julius Freiherr von Haynau (1786–1853), Austrian military master and owner of Infantry Regiment No. 59
Ferdinand Georg August Duke of Saxony
Friedrich III. von Hessen-Kassel (1747–1837), prince and officer
Friedrich Wilhelm IV. (1795–1861), King of Prussia
August Otto von Grote (1747-1830), Prussian minister and diplomat (1815)
Sir Colin Halkett (1774-1856), British officer (1820)
Ernst Prince of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1789–1850), Russian general
Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich Duke of Saxony
Eugen Baron von Maucler (1783–1859), Württemberg politician and bibliophile
Moritz von Sachsen-Altenburg (1829–1907), Prince of Sachsen-Altenburg
Georg von Schele zu Schelenburg (1771–1844), Hanover State, Cabinet and Foreign Minister
Theodor Franz Christian von Seckendorff (1801–1858), Prussian diplomat
Gebhard Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg (1763-1818) was a large landowner
Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1785–1854), Prussian Minister of State, (February 24, 1841)
Ludwig Samson Heinrich Arthur Freiherr von und zu der Tann (1815–1881), Bavarian general of the infantry
Georg Heinrich Nieper (1748–1841), Vice President of the Provincial Government in Hanover
Georg Ludwig Nieper (1778–1832), King. Hannoverscher Landdrost (1827)
Wilhelm Gottfried von Werlhof (1824)
George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster (1794–1842), British Major General (1833)
Carl Ernst von Malortie (1804–1887), last court marshal in the Kingdom of Hanover

Commander (before 1841)

Wilhelm Dietrich Hermann Flebbe (1755–1837), Privy Councilor
Friedrich Ludwig von Münchhausen (1758–1827), lawyer (1819)
Adolf von Wangenheim (1797–1858), State Councilor and President of the Higher Tax and Treasury College in the Kingdom of Hanover
Johann Christoph Salfeld (1750–1829), theologian, consistorial director and abbot at Loccum Monastery (1818)
Arnold Heeren (1760–1842), historian
Karl Wilhelm Hoppenstedt (1769–1826), Privy Councilor of Justice and Undersecretary of State in Hanover (1822)
Dietrich Wilhelm Stolte (1770-1851), major general
Sir John Conroy, 1st Baronet (1786-1854), British court official (1827)
Wilhelm Dietrich Hermann Flebbe (1755–1837), Privy Councilor (1828)
William Howe Mulcaster (1786-1837), British naval officer (1831)
Sir Nesbit Willoughby (1777-1849) British Admiral (1832)
Francis de Rottenburg (1757-1832), British general
Phineas Riall (1775-1850), British general (1833)
Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons (1790-1858), British admiral and diplomat (1835)
Sir John Franklin (1786–1847), British polar explorer, rear admiral and governor of Tasmania (1836)
James Bremer (1786-1850), British Rear Admiral (1836)
Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet (1784-1854), British colonial governor
Andrew Clarke (1793–1847), Governor of Western Australia
Augustus Frederick d'Este (1794–1848)
Sir Robert Henry Dick (1785–1846), British major general
Sir Benjamin D'Urban (1777–1849), British Lieutenant General and Governor
Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st Baronet (1793–1875), British writer and politician
Sir James Hillyar (1769–1843), British Rear Admiral
Sir John Harvey (1778-1852), British officer and colonial administrator
Sir Home Riggs Popham (1762-1820), British Rear Admiral

Commander 1st class (from 1841)

Friedrich Freiherr von Teuchert (1797–1872), Austrian Feldzeugmeister and second owner of the Imperial and Royal Line Infantry Regiment No. 59
Johann August Freiherr von Wächter (1807–1879), diplomat and Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg
Adam Ernst Rochus von Witzleben (1791–1868), Grand Ducal Oldenburg Chamberlain and court official
Friedrich August Wilhelm Niemeyer (1801–1877), Privy Council of War in the Kingdom of Hanover (1865)

Commander II class (from 1841)

Konrad Ludwig Georg Baring (1773–1848), Hanoverian lieutenant general
Carl von Jacobi (1790–1875) Hanoverian general and war minister
Ferdinand von Dorbenck (1791–1867), Prussian officer, 1843 Commander's Cross
Theobald von Rizy (1807–1882), Austrian lawyer and politician

Knight

Albrecht Friedrich Georg Baring (1767–1835), Hanoverian lawyer
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Baurmeister (1787–1840), Prussian officer (1832)
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), German zoologist and anthropologist
Gottlieb Johann August Brauns (1751–1820), bailiff of Ratzeburg
Otto Jacob Heinrich Friedrich Brauns (1775–1855), Dr. jur., cousin v. Gottlieb JABrauns, chief magistrate in Blumenthal
Heinrich Rudolph Brinkmann , legal scholar (1834)
Hans Ernst Bütemeister (1750–1837), chief magistrate in Diepholz
Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel (1796–1869), master builder and grand ducal court architect of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1860)
Andreas Cleeves (1778-1830), Major in the King's German Legion
Anton Heinrich Dammert (1765–1829), German hydraulic engineer
Hans Burchard Otto von der cone Landdrost in the administrative district of Aurich 1818–1823
Johann Hermann Detmold (1807–1856), lawyer and member of the German National Assembly (1850)
George Gawler (1795–1869), Governor of South Australia (1837)
Georg Wilhelm Glünder (1799–1848), officer, author and editor, later second director of the Polytechnic School in Hanover
Theodor Hagemann (1761–1827), lawyer, (1818)
Jakob Freiherr von Hartmann (1795–1873), Bavarian general of the infantry (1846/47)
Erhard Hartung von Hartungen (1819–1893), doctor and homeopath in Vienna
Wilhelm Valentin Havemann (1800–1869), historian (1858)
Wilhelm Herschel (1738–1822), German-British astronomer (1817)
Karl Gustav Himly (1772–1837), surgeon and ophthalmologist (1820)
Karl Wilhelm Hoppenstedt (1769–1826), Privy Councilor of Justice and Undersecretary of State in Hanover (1821)
Heinrich von Idler (1802–1878), upper bailiff in Württemberg and member of the state parliament

Johann Gottfried Heinrich Kirchweger (1809–1899), railway engineer

Onno Klopp (1822–1903), historian

Hermann Koch (1814–1877), German secret mountain ridge and father of the physician and Nobel Prize winner Robert Koch

Friedrich Kohlrausch (1780–1867), Hanover general school director

Konrad Johann Martin Langenbeck (1776–1851), German anatomist, surgeon and ophthalmologist

Wilhelm von Leonhardi (1812–1856), German author and Hessian diplomat

Georg Otto Ferdinand Lohde (1770–1851), first mayor of the entire city of Hildesheim

Georg Jacob Friedrich Meister (1755–1832), privy councilor and law professor in Göttingen

Christian Friedrich Mühlenbruch (1785–1843), German legal scholar

Conrad Friedrich Eberhard Niemeyer (1769–1857), secret chancellery in Hanover (knight since 1819)

Arnold Ludwig August Nöldeke (1798–1870), Chief Postmaster of Hanover (1856)

Georg Ludwig Nieper (1778–1832), King. Hannoverscher Landdrost (1821)

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758–1840), doctor and astronomer

Consistorial director Pelizäus , Hildesheim

Consistorial Councilor and Professor Dr. Pott , Göttingen

Henry Sykes Stephens (1795 / 96–1878), senior adjutant to the last Hanoverian viceroy.

Alexander von Salviati (1827–1881), later a Prussian lieutenant general

Moritz von Thümmel , travel stable master and chamberlain of the Duke of Saxony

Johann Gerhard Wilhelm Uhlhorn (1826–1901), theologian, abbot of Loccum and senior consistorial councilor (1862; in 1859 he was awarded the order in the fourth class)

Anton Christian Wedekind (1763–1845), German historical researcher

Friedrich Georg Christian von Wichmann (1779–1861), awarded in 1815, officer in the King's German Legion, later educator of princes

Johann Wilhelm Heinrich Conradi (1780–1861) physician, professor in Marburg, Heidelberg and Göttingen

Christian Tønsberg (1813–1897), Norwegian publisher

Silver cross

Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) architect and university professor (1864)
August Müller (1799–1872), pastor of the Aegidienkirche in Hanover from 1832 to 1872 (1864)
Ludwig Preiss (1811–1883) botanist (1856)
Karl Wedekind (1809–1881), German-Italian oil importer and patron
Carl Heinrich Wünsch (1779–1855), architect and court building advisor
Johannes zum Sande (1802–1878), lawyer and politician (1863)

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Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring (1755–1830), anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor
Friedrich Adolf Freiherr von Willisen (1798–1864), Prussian cavalry general and diplomat (1857)

literature

Handbook for the Province of Hanover, Volume 1846 List of medals from p. 37
Chronological list of medal winners from 1815 to 1837 (in English) in: History Of The Orders Of Knighthood Of The British Empire; Of The Order Of The Guelphs Of Hanover; And Of The Medals, Clasps, and Crosses, Conferred For Naval And Military Services , Vol. 4, London: John Hunter, 1842, p. iv - xvii; limited preview in Google Book search

Web links

Commons : Royal Guelphic Order - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Johann Heinrich Friedrich Berlien: The Elephant Order and its Knights: a historical treatise on the first traces of this order and its further development up to its current form, and next a material on the personal history according to the sources of the royal The Secret State Archives and the Royal Chapter Archives in Copenhagen , Copenhagen 1846
^ Minister of the Kingdom of Hanover
↑ ^a ^b Kaspar Friedrich Gottschalck: Almanach der Ritter-Orden, Volume 3, 1819 p. 245
↑ ^a ^b ^c Herzoglich-Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeldischer Staats-Calendar to the year 1819 , Meusel, Coburg 1819
↑ Inside title in Der Hofmarschall ...
↑ according to the tomb in Sonneborn
↑ ^a ^b Hoppenstedt, KW , in: The learned Teutschland: or, Lexicon of the now living Teutschen writers, Volume 22, Part 2, / Meyersche Buchhandlung, 1831, p. 837
↑ according to the history of the Hanover family Niemeyer
↑ Footnote , in: EH Ludwig Stawitzki: History of the Royal Prussian 25th Infantry Regiment and its tribe of infantry von Lützow'schen Frei-Corps , Koblenz 1857, p. 186f.
^ Schaedtler, Heinrich: Brief description of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphen Order . Hanover 1816, p. 26 .
^ General newspaper Munich. 1839, Retrieved October 19, 2018 .
↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover . 1851, p. 541 ( google.de ).
↑ Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenbergs Hörer . S. 128 .
↑ Walter Deeters, Martin Tielke: Hans Burchard Otto from the ceiling in the Biographical Lexicon of the East Frisian Landscape Foundation, Volume 4, Aurich 2007, pp. 92–93.
↑ Friedrich Gottschalck, Almanach der Ritter-Orden, Volume 3, p. 248
^ Karl Karmarsch: Georg Wilhelm Glünder , in: Die polytechnische Schule zu Hannover , second, very expanded edition, "With three sheets of images of the institution's building", Hannover: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung , 1856, p. 154 and above , online about Google books
↑ according to the history of the Hanoverian family Niemeyer
↑ Arnold Nöldeke : Altiki the page. Memoirs of an Excavator, ed. by Elisabeth Weber-Nöldeke, Hildesheim 2003, p. 6.
↑ ^a ^b Beata Mache (Ed.): Impartial universal church newspaper for the clergy and the educated world class of Protestant, Catholic, and Israelite Germany. (PDF; 831 kB) New ed. on behalf of the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research and the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History. Online publication after the edition Frankfurt am Main, 1837. - Duisburg, 2009.

[Elephant-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Johann Heinrich Friedrich Berlien: The Elephant Order and its Knights: a historical treatise on the first traces of this order and its further development up to its current form, and next a material on the personal history according to the sources of the royal The Secret State Archives and the Royal Chapter Archives in Copenhagen , Copenhagen 1846

[Minister-2] Minister of the Kingdom of Hanover

[Gottschalk-3] Kaspar Friedrich Gottschalck: Almanach der Ritter-Orden, Volume 3, 1819 p. 245

[Staats-Calender-4] Herzoglich-Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeldischer Staats-Calendar to the year 1819 , Meusel, Coburg 1819

[5] Inside title in Der Hofmarschall ...

[6] rding to the tomb in Sonneborn

[Teutschland22-7] Hoppenstedt, KW , in: The learned Teutschland: or, Lexicon of the now living Teutschen writers, Volume 22, Part 2, / Meyersche Buchhandlung, 1831, p. 837

[8] rding to the history of the Hanover family Niemeyer

[9] Footnote , in: EH Ludwig Stawitzki: History of the Royal Prussian 25th Infantry Regiment and its tribe of infantry von Lützow'schen Frei-Corps , Koblenz 1857, p. 186f.

[10] Schaedtler, Heinrich: Brief description of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphen Order . Hanover 1816, p. 26 .

[11] General newspaper Munich. 1839, Retrieved October 19, 2018 .

[12] Hof- und Staats-Handbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover . 1851, p. 541 ( google.de ).

[13] Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenbergs Hörer . S. 128 .

[14] Walter Deeters, Martin Tielke: Hans Burchard Otto from the ceiling in the Biographical Lexicon of the East Frisian Landscape Foundation, Volume 4, Aurich 2007, pp. 92–93.

[15] Friedrich Gottschalck, Almanach der Ritter-Orden, Volume 3, p. 248

[16] Karl Karmarsch: Georg Wilhelm Glünder , in: Die polytechnische Schule zu Hannover , second, very expanded edition, "With three sheets of images of the institution's building", Hannover: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung , 1856, p. 154 and above , online about Google books

[17] rding to the history of the Hanoverian family Niemeyer

[18] Arnold Nöldeke : Altiki the page. Memoirs of an Excavator, ed. by Elisabeth Weber-Nöldeke, Hildesheim 2003, p. 6.

[UUKZ-19] Beata Mache (Ed.): Impartial universal church newspaper for the clergy and the educated world class of Protestant, Catholic, and Israelite Germany. (PDF; 831 kB) New ed. on behalf of the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research and the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History. Online publication after the edition Frankfurt am Main, 1837. - Duisburg, 2009.