Schoeler (noble family)
The Schoeler family is one of the many bourgeois Brandenburg-Prussian families who, due to their mostly military merits, were raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility in the 18th century and then continuously held high posts in the Prussian and German armies into the 20th century .
The safe line of the family began with Johannes Scholer, who died in 1672, landowner on the Ohl near Oberwiehl in the Gummersbach district.His descendant, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Schoeler , royal Prussian engineer-captain in Wesel and later major general, was appointed by King Friedrich II on March 21, 1769 raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility.
coat of arms
Quartered, 1 and 4 in gold a black bar pinned on both sides, 2 and 3 in blue 3 silver posts, of which the third only reaches up to the center of the field. On the helmet there is a natural peacock feather with blue and gold covers.
Known family members
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Schoeler (1731–1817), Prussian major general
- Moritz Ludwig von Schoeler (1771–1855), Prussian infantry general, Deputy Minister of War
- Friedrich von Schoeler (1772–1840), Prussian infantry general
- Friedrich Ludwig von Schoeler (1797–1869), Prussian lieutenant general
- August von Schoeler (1798–1866), Prussian general of the infantry
- Daniel von Schoeler (1800–1879), Prussian lieutenant general
- Alexander von Schoeler (1807-1894), Prussian general of the infantry, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Joseph von Schoeler (1834–1915), Prussian lieutenant general
- Roderich von Schoeler (1862–1935), German infantry general, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Gisela von Schoeler , married von Bandel , widowed Baroness von Chiari (1898–1971), actress, chairwoman of the Bad Pyrmont district association of the Europa-Union , holder of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Sasha von Schoeler (1939–2000), actress, born as Alexandra-Xenia Elizabeth Anne Marie Fiesola von Schoeler
- Andreas von Schoeler (* 1948), politician and manager, a. a. Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main from 1991–1995 and Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior from 1976–1982
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility. Volume XX, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1993.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2002, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Max Schöler: The Scholer / Schöler / Schöller families, including further writing differences. Flamm Druck, Waldbröl 1992.