Opel (family)

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Coat of arms of the von Opel family

Opel is the name of a German family of entrepreneurs.

history

origin

The family originating from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Rheinfels begins the documented family line with the farmer Peter uf dem Scheyd in Dachsenhausen near Braubach , † between 1571 and 1580, whose son Michel Scheidt , farmer in Dachsenhausen, has had the family name Oppel (Opfel) since around 1595 led.

development

The branch of the entrepreneurial family, later known through the Opel brand , goes back to the locksmith Adam Opel (1837–1895) from Rüsselsheim and the innkeeper daughter Sophie Scheller (1840–1913) from Dornholzhausen . The company he founded, Opel, has produced sewing machines and bicycles, and later motor vehicles, among other things. In 1962, Irmgard von Opel and her two sons founded Chio Chips , today an Intersnack brand, on their Petersau estate .

Some of Adam Opel's descendants were raised to the hereditary grand-ducal Hessian nobility in Darmstadt . The first nobility award took place on March 13, 1917 for the brothers Dr.-Ing. E. h. Wilhelm Opel (1871–1948) , factory owner and Privy Councilor of Commerce in Hesse , and Heinrich Opel (1873–1928) , factory owner in Rüsselsheim . Another nobility award took place on January 17, 1918 for another son of Adam Opels, Carl Opel (1869–1927) , engineer, factory owner and Hessian commercial councilor.

Opel mausoleum in Rüsselsheim

Some members of the family also achieved sporting success in the fields of automobile sports, bicycle racing, rowing and tournament riding.

The family's burial place is the Opel mausoleum , built in 1924 in the old Seilfurt cemetery in Rüsselsheim am Main , not far from the Opel factory.

coat of arms

The coat of arms, awarded in 1917 and 1918, shows a black bar in a gold shield, covered with three silver wheels, each with five spokes. On the helmet with black and gold covers a growing, gold-reinforced black griffin , one of the wheels in its claws .

Genealogy (descendants of Adam Opel )

  1. Adam Opel (1837–1895) ⚭ 1868 Sophie Scheller (1840–1913)
    1. Carl Opel (1869–1927), with Opel since 1918
      1. Sophie Eleonore von Opel (1896–1971)
      2. Hans von Opel (1899–1948)
      3. Eleonore Johanna Carola von Opel (1908–1998)
      4. Georg von Opel (1912–1971) ⚭ 1938 I) Irmgard von Opel (1907–1986), ⚭ II) 1957 María Eugenia Adelaida Herrán Olozaga (1918–1964), ⚭ III) 1965 Sigrid Revers (* 1945)
        1. I) Carlo von Opel (* 1941) ⚭ Marion Schöntag
          1. Alexander von Opel (* 1979)
          2. Jeanette from Opel (* 1982)
        2. I) Heinz von Opel (1943–2006) ⚭ Claudia-Ulrike Hurlin
          1. Ivonne von Opel (* 1973) ⚭ 2007 Johannes Joachim Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau (* 1976)
          2. Sonja von Opel (* 1976) and Florian Fischer (* 1978)
            1. Felix von Opel (* 2001)
          3. Christoph von Opel (* 1980)
        3. III) Georg von Opel (* 1966)
        4. III) Gregor von Opel (* 1968)
    2. Wilhelm Opel (1871–1948), from Opel ⚭ Martha Bade since 1917
      1. Fritz von Opel (1899–1971) ⚭ Emita Herrán Olozaga (1913–1967)
        1. Frederick von Opel (* 1947)
        2. Marie Christine von Opel (1951-2006)
      2. Elinor von Opel (1908–2001) ⚭ I) 1925 Willy Sachs (1896–1958), ⚭ II) 1963 Carlo Kirchner (1894–1979; authorized signatory at Fichtel & Sachs)
        1. I) Ernst Wilhelm Sachs (1929–1977)
        2. I) Gunter Sachs (from Opel) (1932-2011)
          1. Rolf Sachs (* 1955)
    3. Heinrich Adam Opel (1873–1928), from Opel since 1917 ⚭ Luise Emilie Weber (1878–1928)
      1. Heinz von Opel (1899–1922)
      2. Margit von Opel (1902–1968)
      3. Irmgard von Opel (1907–1986) ⚭ I) 1927 Karl Georg Külb (1901–1980), ⚭ II) 1938 Georg von Opel (1912–1971)
    4. Friedrich Franz Opel (1875–1938)
    5. Ludwig Opel (1880-1916)

Companies

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ geneall.net Opel
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg / Lahn 1999, p. 24 f.