Loebell (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Loebell

Loebell , also Löbell or Leubel , is the name of an old Silesian noble family . The family, some of whose branches still exist today, later acquired property and prestige in Poland and Courland .

There is no tribal relationship to the noble family von Löbl, who came from Austria , and the Pomeranian family von Lepel and Lepell, who also have different coats of arms .

history

Wall grave of the von Loebell family in the Wilmersdorf cemetery
Ernst Friedrich Christian von Loebell

The family with Fritzko von Lobel , who appears in a document on July 16, 1290, is mentioned for the first time. As early as 1368, members of the family at Beltsch and Sandewald near Guhrau in Lower Silesia , as well as in Dober near Sagan in 1450 , in Soritz in 1460, in 1505 in Obernigk not far from Trebnitz and in 1506 in Koischkau near Liegnitz .

Johann von Loebell called Leubel, Pastor zu Grösen, was accepted into the Courland knighthood on February 17, 1645 . There the family was wealthy in the 18th century for Strusseln, Rinkuln, Sahlingen and Sachten and since 1807 also for Puhnen. Johann Sigismund von Loebell, later royal Polish colonel and chamberlain and son of the aforementioned Johann von Loebell, received the Polish indigenous community on March 23, 1676 .

Many members of the family later served as officers in the Prussian army . For example, Karl Georg and Ernst Friedrich Christoph, who come from two different lines in the Kurland region. Karl Georg von Loebell died in 1841 as a lieutenant general , chief of the gendarmerie and commandant of Berlin . Ernst Friedrich Christoph von Loebell died in 1845 as a lieutenant general a. D. An important representative of the family from recent times was Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell (1855–1931). He became a member of the Reichstag in 1898 , Undersecretary of State in 1907 and was Prussian Interior Minister from 1914 to 1917 . Even after the death of his son Dietrich, he built a family grave at the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is split. Right divided by silver and black diagonally right, left red without image. On the helmet with red and silver helmet covers on the right and black and silver helmet covers on the left, five (black, red, silver, red, black) ostrich feathers.

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  1. ↑ a b Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 4, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632799 , p. 220, no. 1295.
  2. ↑ Original in the Glogau city ​​archive or printed by GA Tschoppe, Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel : Document collection on the history of the origins of the cities in Silesia and Upper Lusatia. Hamburg 1832, p. 406.
  3. ↑ a b New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 5, pp. 599-600.
  4. ↑ a b c Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, pp. 4-5.