Rintelen (noble family)

Coat of arms of the von Rintelen family
in the register of arms of the Westphalian nobility

Rintelen is the name of a Herford councilor family , whose family line begins with Albert von Rintelen , councilor and mayor of the old town of Herford, mentioned in a document between 1303 and 1317.

Nobility rise

Elevation to the Prussian hereditary nobility on June 16, 1913 in Berlin with a diploma of May 27, 1914 for the then royal Prussian major general zD Wilhelm Rintelen . He was the son of Viktor Rintelen and grandson of Wilhelm Rintelen .

Coat of arms (1914)

In blue a shining golden sun (family coat of arms, seal from the year 1366) over a horizontal downwardly flaming golden beam of fire. On the helmet with blue and gold covers the sun between open blue flight .

Name bearer

Emil von Rintelen (1897–1981), German ambassador
Enno von Rintelen (1891–1971), German infantry general
Franz von Rintelen (1878–1949), German officer and spy
Fritz-Joachim von Rintelen (1898–1979), German philosopher and university professor
Wilhelm von Rintelen (1855–1938), Prussian lieutenant general

Individual evidence

↑ At that time, the form of the name “von Rintelen” did not yet indicate membership of the German nobility, but was merely a designation of origin. That will u. a. also clear from the fact that they, like other bearers of the name, later only bore the simple name " Rintelen " .

literature

Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Page 430, Volume 121 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISBN 3-7980-0822-1
Genealogical manual of the nobility, noble houses B Volume XXI, page 461f., Volume 108 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1995, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4
Wilhelm (von) Rintelen : News about the Herford i. W. from Rintelen or Rintelen family and other families of the same name . In: Wellers Archive for Heraldry and Heraldry, Volume 2, Kahla 1902
Wilhelm (von) Rintelen: News about the von Rintelen family from Herford . Stargard 1909
Wilhelm von Rintelen: The patrician family of Rintelen. A family and class history study . Publisher H. Degener, Leipzig 1922
Ludwig Rintelen: The Rintelen family in 7 centuries , Godesberg 1954

[1] At that time, the form of the name “von Rintelen” did not yet indicate membership of the German nobility, but was merely a designation of origin. That will u. a. also clear from the fact that they, like other bearers of the name, later only bore the simple name " Rintelen " .