Ohlen and Adlerskron

Coat of arms of those of Ohlen and Adlerskron

Ohlen and Adlerscron or Ohl von Adlerscron or Ohlen and Adlerskron is a Silesian noble family.

history

The sure lineage of the family begins with Friedrich Ohl , 1527 citizen and trader in Breslau. A letter from King Sigismund II August of Poland dated 1548 referred to the Ohlen family as Equites Poloniae ( Polish knights or riders ). The German nobility diploma goes back to the brothers Friedrich, Johann Gottfried and Joachim Ohlen, who were allowed to call themselves "Ohlen von Adlerskron" from March 2, 1672. Friedrich's son, Christian von Ohlen and Adlerskron, was raised to the status of baron on April 3, 1699. The line split in 18/19. Century on the lines of those at Masselwitz and those at Eisdorf.

coat of arms

• 1665: The coat of arms is quartered , in 1 and 4 with a black eagle on a gold background, halved connected to the split line, in 2 and 3 a gold crown on a black background.

Coat of arms of the Barons von Ohlen and Adlerskron

• When it was raised to the baron status in 1699, a golden heart shield was added, in which the black imperial double-headed eagle of the Holy Roman Empire floats with a crown hanging over it. In fields 1 and 4 a whole, golden crowned black eagle in gold, in field 2 a golden lion in black, holding a golden crown in his right hand, in field 3 a slanted golden anchor in black.

Known members

• Wilhelm von Ohl and Adlerscron (1696–1739, died as a lieutenant in the battle of Grocka )
  • Sophie Therese von Ohl and Adlerscron (1728–1764, only child of Wilhelm, second marriage to Ernst Balthasar Siegmund von Taubadel )
• Adolf Sylvius von Ohlen and Adlerscron (1727–1800), Silesian district administrator
• Albert Johann Maximilian Friedrich von Ohlen and Adlerscron (1786–1860), son-in-law of Ferdinand Eßlair
  • Ignes von Ohlen and Adlerscron (1829–1895), wife of Karl von Hülsen
• Friedrich Freiherr von Ohlen and Adlerscron, father of the ug
  • Pauline von Ohlen and Adlerscron (1803–1886), wife of Wilhelm von Spankeren, mother of Rudolf von Spankeren
• Ernst von Ohlen and Adlerscron (1828–1848), Silesian district administrator in Namslau
• Kurt von Ohlen and Adlerskron (1846–1900), member of the German Reichstag
• Johanna Freiin von Ohlen and Adlerskron (1860–1924), second wife of Karl Ernst von Kleist
• Helene von Ohlen and Adlerskron (1867–1901), wife of Heinrich von Zedlitz and Neukirch
• Franz Freiherr von Ohlen and Adlerscron, father of the ug
  • Herbert Freiherr von Ohlen and Adlerscron (1895–1958), officer and association functionary
• Emmy von Ohlen and Adlerscron (1837–1895), wife of Eduard Georg von Bethusy-Huc
• Friedrich Freiherr von Ohlen and Adlerscron † 1942, Major i. G. the Wehrmacht

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 6, Leipzig 1865, pp. 592-593.

literature

• Joachim Freiherr von Ohlen: History of the Silesian family Ohl von Adlerscron (v. Ohlen and Adlerscron) , CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), 1971
• Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , third year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1909, p. 566ff
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN  0435-2408 , pp. 6-7