Senger and Etterlin
Senger and Etterlin is the name of a noble family from Upper Franconia and later also from Austria .
history
The family line begins with Johann Siegmund Senger (1610–1679), prince-bishop of Bamberg and builder. His grandson Johann Senger on Rickelshausen near Radolfszell, councilor and chief bailiff of the Säckingen monastery , received the nobility from the imperial court palatinate on August 25, 1758 , when the coat of arms was combined with the † von Etterlin . His son Fridolin Erhard Senger auf Rickelshausen, court and government councilor of the Teutonic Order and Obervogt zu Blumenfeld , was raised to the status of imperial knighthood on December 30, 1767 with an improvement in the coat of arms as "Edler von Senger and Etterlin" .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a silver diagonal right bar in green. On the helmet with green and silver covers a closed green flight.
The coat of arms from 1767 is quartered and covered with the family coat of arms as a heart shield, fields 1 and 4 in blue a silver triangle, 2 and 3 in red an inward-facing silver lion (from Etterlin). Two helmets, on the right with green and silver covers the closed green flight, on the left with red and silver covers five (rsrsr) ostrich feathers.
Known family members
- Ferdinand von Senger and Etterlin (1923–1987), German general in the Bundeswehr
- Fridolin von Senger and Etterlin (1891–1963), German general of the tank troops in World War II
literature
- Wolfgang Schmidt : Senger and Etterlin, from (Reichsadel 1758). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 258 ( digitized version ).
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2002, ISSN 0435-2408 , pp. 298-299