Raven (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Raven

Raven is the name of an old noble family from Uckermark , whose oldest ancestral seat is Groß Luckow near Strasburg .

They are not to be confused with the ravens from Mecklenburg.

history

Groß Luckow Castle , Uckermark

The family was first mentioned on October 16, 1235 with a Raven as a witness for Bishop Konrad von Cammin . Herbord von Raven , died before 1287, was a feudal man of Margrave Johann II of Brandenburg, founder and builder of the city of Neubrandenburg , where he held the office of city ​​school . The safe trunk line begins with Wernecke von Raven , 1375 on Groß-Luckow and Schwarzensee in the Uckermark. Groß-Luckow was owned by the family at least since Gerhard von Raven , documented in 1367, until the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone. In 1995 it was bought back by the family.

Members of the family had also been accepted into the Mecklenburg knighthood since 1757 . In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are 16 entries by daughters of the von Raven family from 1772 to 1914 from Boeck, Nossentin, Schmackentin, Thelkow and Doberan for inclusion in the noble women's monastery there .

The Raven were a typical Prussian noble family who provided the Prussian army with numerous officers. The most famous member of the family was General Eduard von Raven (Held von Düppel ), who was seriously wounded in 1864 when he stormed the Düppeler Schanzen and was awarded the order Pour le Mérite on King Wilhelm I's deathbed . Theodor Fontane set him a literary memorial in his war reporting on the German-Danish War in 1864.

Raven from Einbeck

The patrician family Raven from Einbeck is not related to the above family, but has its own coat of arms . They do not have the prefix of in their names, because the Raven were never raised to the nobility. The line began in 1285 with Ludolf Raven. It was first mentioned in a document from the Hildesheim Bishopric . The Raven provided councilors in Einbeck to Johann Raven around 1355. During the Thirty Years War Jobst Raven held the office. Although the coats of arms of the von Raven and the Raven from Einbeck (whose coat of arms contains a swastika ) differ significantly, there were always confusions in the family relationships.

Owned by the von Raven family

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a fire-breathing red panther in silver . Three red ostrich feathers on the helmet with its red and silver covers .

Known family members

  • Christian Georg Ferdinand von Raven (1769–1831), Rittmeister and hereditary lord on Müsselmow and Holzendorf, 1818–1830 monastery captain in Dobbertin monastery
  • Conradus Raven, first documented mention (1278–1304), knight, marshal and stewardess of the Margraves of Brandenburg
  • Eduard von Raven (1807–1864), Prussian general, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
  • Ernst von Raven (1816–1890), landscape painter
  • Hans Christoph von Raven (1618–1688), District Administrator of the Uckermark and the State of Stolpe
  • Herbord von Raven (* unknown; † before 1287) first town mayor of Neubrandenburg, gender is disputed
  • Otto Christoph von Raven (1729–1799), Mecklenburg-Schwerin district administrator
  • Otto von Raven (1778–1810), Prussian officer, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
  • Otto von Raven (1797–1878), member of the Prussian House of Representatives
  • Raimar von Raven (1848–1920), Prussian lieutenant general
  • Ulrich von Raven (1767–1800), Prussian officer
  • Werner von Raven (1875–1928), German doctor and tropical medicine
  • Werner Alborus Küneke von Raven (1784–1814), Prussian officer
  • Wilhelm von Raven (Colonel) (1770–1836), Prussian Colonel
  • Wilhelm von Raven (General) (1802–1866), Prussian major general
  • Wolfram von Raven (1924–2003), publicist

Literature and Sources

literature

Printed sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 439
  2. ^ Fontane : The Schleswig-Holstein War. In: Baltica. Flensburg 1997, pp. 251-52.