Rennkampff (noble family)

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Coat of arms from 1602
Coat of arms from 1728

Rennkampff ( Russian Ренненкампфы ) is the name of a German-Baltic noble family .

history

Jürgen Rennkamp († 1612), who was a shopkeeper and tailor in Riga and whose further origins are unknown, is considered to be the progenitor of the noble family . His son of the same name, who was also a merchant and citizen of Riga, died in 1621 in the Polish-Swedish War defending his hometown against the Swedes under Gustav II Adolf . Joachim Rennkampff (1618–1658), one of his two sons, was a professor at the city high school from 1644 and later a councilor in Riga. His grandson Franz von Rennenkampff (1678–1727) obtained the recognition of a noble descent in 1719 by the higher regional court of the Dorpater district. The nobility diploma was given to his ancestor in 1602 by Emperor Rudolf II , but was stolen by a servant. The existence of a noble diploma from 1602 was already and later heavily questioned, as no further evidence could be found. Among other things, the assumption was expressed that the alleged nobility diploma was a bourgeois letter of arms . Franz von Rennenkampff's stepbrother, Georg, tried independently of this to obtain an ennoblement and obtained on December 20, 1728 at the imperial court in Vienna by Emperor Karl VI. the award of the knighthood with the predicate "Noble von". Since then, the family has been divided into two lines, the older Palloper line (after the Palloper estate in Livonia) from Rennenkampff and the younger Helmetschen line (after the Helmet estate in Livonia) Edler from Rennkampff . The two lines carry the same coat of arms (after the nobility diploma of 1728).

The family was enrolled in the knighthoods as follows: In the Livonian Knighthood on March 27, 1745 sub No. 160 - retroactive to the year 1714, in the Estonian on July 3, 1752 sub No. 273 Class II, in the Courland sub No. 251 on March 5, 1801 for the Livonian district administrator Paul Reinhold v. R. on Kalzenau etc., Livonia, and Kuckschen, Kurland, and in Oeselschen sub no. 73 on December 8, 1845 for Georg Edler v. R. on Laimjall, or the farmer in Werder Woldemar Edler v. R. adH Sastama or 1896 for Heinrich v. R. adH Pantifer. Admission to the Prussian and Imperial German nobility took place at Potsdam , Neues Palais , on February 2, 1909 by Kaiser Wilhelm II for Karl Otto Woldemar Magnus Ritter and Edler von Rennenkampff and his brother Eduard Ernst Ritter and Edler von Rennenkampff from the Sastama family.

Branches of the family still exist today.

General

The sex of those v. Racekampff is predominantly Evangelical-Lutheran in all of its branches, ie old Lutheran or Augsburg confession. Exceptions to this are the Alexandrowka House, Professor Wladimir Edler von Rennenkampff (Selgs) and his descendants, the family of Privy Councilor Nikolai Edler von Rennenkampff (Kosch) and individual members of the family who, as a result of marriage to Russians, changed to Greek, profess Catholic or Orthodox faith.

Military service took the Rennkampffs in Austrian, French, Dutch, Prussian, Polish, Swedish and predominantly of course Russian armies and navies and brought it to the highest ranks and received many high awards (four knights of the Prussian order " Pour le Mérite ")

coat of arms

The families v. Rennkampff have the following coat of arms according to the diploma of December 20, 1728:

"A shield divided transversely by green and red, the upper part of which on the right a yellow or gold-colored lion inclined to grimness with a red-lipped tongue and a wound tail with its paws a bare sword, its vessel or cross yellow or gold-colored, holding upright except for Half shows excellent. On the left side, however, a white or silver-colored griffin with raised wings, a red-lined tongue, directed towards the lion, a knife in the paws, the shafts of which are yellow or gold-colored, upright up to half. Above the shield appear two opposing, blue-tinted, open-air aristocratic tournament helmets adorned with attached jewels, on the right with green and yellow or gold, on the left with green and white or silver mixed helmet covers. Each helmet is adorned with yellow or gold-colored royal crowns, from the right side of which the lion described in the shield emerges up to half, on the left helmet and crown also the white or silver-colored griffin also described in the shield up to half. "

Property ownership

In the 18th century, there are 20 goods with a total area of ​​around 94,000 hectares. The largest property in Kalzenau comprised around 15,000 hectares. In the 19th century, the family owned 33 estates with around 97,000 hectares, Borkholm with around 12,000 hectares as the largest property. At the beginning of the 20th century, ie until the expropriation in 1919, the family owned 21 estates with 44,000 hectares and two estates, Samarka and Sheremetyeva, with about 25,000 hectares on both sides of the Neva between St. Petersburg and Lake Ladoga .

In Livonia, the family temporarily owned the goods Schloss Helmet with Wrangelshoff, Palloper, Duckershof, Fölck, Wollust, Kiddijerw, Walguta, Alt- and Neu Kalzenau, Klein- and Groß Kamby with Maydellshof, Uelzen, Felix, Waimastfer with Tirmast, Moiseküll, Kürbelshof , Jexi with Pallawa, Warbus, Old and New Pigast, Karstemois, Kokenberg, Neu-Kusthof and Loeweküll. In Estonia the following goods belonged to the family at times: Kono, Konofer, Kosch, Finn and Selgs, at the time of the expropriation they lost an important property in the goods: Pantifer, Borkholm Castle, Tammik, Wack, Wesenberg Castle, Jerwajöggi, Paenküll , Gr. Ruhde, Tuttomäggi, Sastama, Layküll, Moisama, Fersenau and Raeküll.

Personalities

  • Paul Edler v. Rennkampff , 1854–1918, German-Baltic officer, was given command of the 1st Russian Army, which wasdestinedto invade East Prussia , at the beginning of the First World War. Adjutant General of Tsar Nicholas II.
  • Constantin Edler v. Racekampff , 1826–1896, real privy councilor, state secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, director of the highest private chancellery, Sr. Majesty Alexander III., Member of the state council, knight of all high Russian orders including the Alexander Nevsky order with diamonds.
  • Alexander Edler v. Rennkampff , 1783–1854, Imperial Russian cavalry master , major of the cavalry, court councilor, later grand ducal Holstein-Oldenburg upper chamberlain with the rank of vice-superior chamberlain, 1836 knight of the Greek “Order of Redeemer”, founder of the Natural History Museum in Oldenburg, Freemason since 1802 (1842-1849 Master of the chair in the box "Zum goldennen Hirsch"), writer.
  • Alexander Reinhold Edler von Rennenkampff , 1787–1869, member of the Corps Curonia Heidelberg, Livonian landowner of the Kürbelshof, Alt-Pigant and Uelzen estates and district administrator.
  • Gustav Edler v. Rennkampff , 1784–1869, lieutenant colonel, parish judge of the parishes of Helmet, Tarwast and Paistel until 1817, 1818-1826 member of the commission for the introduction of the new farmers' ordinance, 1826 college assessor, 1826 knight of the Order of St. Vladimir, 1827-1836 councilor in the senior management Livonian Aristocratic Goods Credit Society , 1828 director of the literary and practical citizens' association , 1836 aristocratic deputy of the Pernau-Fellin district, elected district administrator in 1847, co-founder and 1834-1836 treasurer of the Society for History and Antiquities in Riga, since 1818 heir to the castle Helmet.
  • Paul Edler v. Racekampff , 1790–1857, Russian major general, 1813 "Pour le Mérite" medal, 1814 awarded the "Legion d´Honneur" [Cross of the Legion of Honor], 1828 holder of the "Golden Sword for Bravery", 1829 from the Persian Shah with the Order "Lion and Sun" 1st class honored with diamonds, 1831 knight of the Order of St. Anne 1st class, 1835 with the Prussian order "Red Eagle" with star, the Austrian order "Iron Crown" 1st class, 1836 the Danish one "Dannebrog" medal 1st class and in 1856 awarded the "White Eagle" medal with swords.
  • Joachim Rennkampff , 1616–1658, Dr. jur. utr. After finishing his studies Joachim became a teacher of law at the high school in Riga and on November 27, 1645 professor iuris prudentiae and politica at the Rigische Stadt-Gymnasium. In 1657 Joachim was councilor and chief builder, bailiff, assessor of the consistory, inspector of the council chancellery, the council printing office, the city library, the city high school and the council pharmacy.
  • Nikolai Karlowitsch Rennenkampff , 1832–1899, Dr. jur. Real State Councilor, Lawyer, Honored Professor, Mayor of Kiev from 1875 to 1879and Rector of St. Vladimir University of Kiev from 1883 to 1890.

swell

  • Baltic genealogical tables, special issue 33 / volume I. Published on behalf of: German-Baltic Genealogical Society e. V., Darmstadt 2004
  • Baltic historical local dictionary. Part 1. Estonia (including Northern Livonia). Cologne, Vienna 1985
  • Baltic historical local dictionary. Part 2. Latvia (South Livland and Courland). Cologne, Vienna 1990

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Essen, Nicolai von: Genealogisches Handbuch der Oeselschen Ritterschaft . Tartu 1935, p. 309-314 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Transehe-Roseneck, Astaf from: Genealogisches Handbuch der Livländischen Ritterschaft . tape 2 . Görlitz 1935, p. 776-785 ( online ).
  3. ^ Stackelberg, Otto Magnus from: Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood . tape 3 . Görlitz 1930, p. 192-212 ( online ).
  4. ^ Stavenhagen, Oskar: Genealogical manual of the Courland knighthood . tape 3 . Görlitz 1937, p. 192-212 ( online ).

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