Schele
Schele is the name of an old Westphalian - Lower Saxon noble family .
history
The sex first appeared in 1235 with Wennemar Schele ( Winemarus Luscus ). He was named as a witness in a document from Count Ludwig von Ravensberg . In a document from Minden Bishop Johann von Diepholz from 1244 Meinfried Schele ( Meinfridus Luscus Mindensis ) was mentioned as a Mindish ministerial and in another Minden document Hartmann Schele appeared in 1247, who from 1260 onwards, together with his brother Reinecke , called himself a knight . In the same year Gerhard Schele followed as a member of the Mindischer Ritterkreis and from 1281 Rabodo (I.) Schele .
Since the first names Gerhard, Hartmann and Rabod were often given to relatives in the early days, the family can be distinguished from other genders of the same name, especially from the Paderborn region . The uninterrupted line of trunks begins in 1350 with Rabodo (II.) Schele. Until the second half of the 14th century, the Lords of Schele belonged to the Mindischen nobility. In 1396, Rabodo (III.) Married Schele, the heir to the Schledehausen family from the Osnabrück diocese . You move to the castle of the same name (also Sledesen) east of Osnabrück , which is later renamed Schelenburg .
In the middle of the 16th century, two broad lines form. The older one, zu Schelenburg, expires in 1774 and the younger one, von Welved, is still in bloom today. The younger line was again divided into an older branch, which died in the second half of the 17th century, with the branches to Welved in Holland and Welbergen in the Münsterland and a younger branch with branches to Kuhof in Osnabrückschen and Hudenbeck in Ravensberg. While the Hudenbeck branch went out, the Kuhof branch inherited the Schelenburg in 1774 and was able to develop into three houses.
The first house is 1838 Hanover , the second house a 1841 Prussian 1843 also permit a Prussian for guiding the house and the third Freiherr title been granted. The two well-known Hanoverian ministers Georg Freiherr von Schele (* 1771; † 1844) and Eduard Freiherr von Schele (* 1805; † 1875) come from the oldest of the three houses .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a golden cross with a tournament collar in red. On the helmet is a red shaft with a peacock plume. The helmet cover is red and gold.
The increased coat of arms shows the family coat of arms in fields 1 and 4, in fields 2 and 3 three black wolf fishing rods (2: 1) of the † Schledehausen family in gold. On top of it two helmets, on the right the trunk helmet and on the left a helmet with black and gold covers, on top of it two black wolf rods as in the shield.
Sign holder : 2 golden lions, motto : PERSEVERA, VINCES .
Name bearer
- Arnold von Schele (* 1849; † 1922), manor owner, officer and member of the German Reichstag
- Balduin von Schele (* 1836; † 1903), manor owner and member of the German Reichstag
- Eduard von Schele zu Schelenburg (* 1805, † 1875), Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hanover and Postmaster General in Frankfurt am Main
- Friedrich von Schele (* 1847; † 1904), governor of German East Africa, lieutenant general and governor of the royal house of invalids in Berlin
- Georg von Schele (* 1771; † 1844), State Minister of Hanover
- Helmuth von Schele (* 1858; † 1922), German administrative officer
- Johann Daniel Victor von Scheele (* 1705; † 1774), lieutenant general and district administrator
- Ludwig von Schele (* 1778; † 1824), District Administrator of the Wiedenbrück district (1816–1817)
- Sweder Schele (* 1569; † 1639), manor owner, member of the state parliament, author of an important house book
literature
- Otto Hupp: Munich Calendar 1930 . Book u. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1930.
- Hans Joachim Behr: Schele, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 642 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Adelslexikon Vol. XII (= Genealogical Handbook of the Adels . Volume 125 of the entire series). CA Starke Verlag, 2001, ISSN 0435-2408 , p. 366-367 .
- Hans-Joachim Behr: The barons of Schele to Schelenburg . Georg, Eduard and Arnold von Schele. In: Klaus J. Bade et al. (Ed.): Schelenburg - Kirchspiel - Landgemeinde . 900 years of Schledehausen. Bissendorf 1990, p. 251-295 .
- Hans-Joachim Behr: "Affairs of Saxon officers of Hanover origin" . The dismissal of Major Arnold von Schele. In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen . tape 99 , 1994, pp. 223-229 .
- Gunnar Teske: Sweder Schele (1569-1639) . In: Friedrich Gerhard Hohmann (Hrsg.): Westfälische Lebensbilder 19 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia ). New series 16. Aschendorff, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-402-15117-4 , p. 31-51 .
