Sievers (noble family)
Sievers is the name of several noble families who are not related to each other or in which relationships have not been properly proven.
- Holstein nobility
- Noble family Sivers , founded by Peter v. Sievers
- Joachim Johan v. Sievers (1674–1753)
- Duke de Sievers Jean Lannes
The following article only covers the descendants of the brothers Peter Christian and Joachim Johan von Sievers, who, due to their officer ranks in the Swedish army , were counted among the Russian nobility from 1725 at the latest .
Knights, barons and counts von Sievers
Sievers is an aristocratic German-Baltic noble family that was mainly based in what is now Latvia , Estonia and Russia . Later, parts of the family also settled in Holstein , France and Croatia . The family originally came from Holstein and representatives of the sex came to the Baltic States through Swedish military service. In 1663 Johann von Sievers married Catharina von Husen, the daughter of the mayor of Hapsal Christian von Husen. There is more detailed information about his two sons Peter Christian (1671–1729, royal Swedish major) and Joachim Johann (1674–1752, royal Swedish captain). Joachim Johann lost his manor Satzo in the Northern War and fled to Finland. His seven sons from two marriages entered the Russian (partly also into the Holstein) service and acquired extensive goods in the Baltic States and Russia over the next few decades. Between the years 1745 and 1798 parts of the family were raised to the baron or count status. The Counts of Sievers achieved great political influence in the Russian Empire from the 18th century . Their manors were considered the cultural and scientific center of Livonia. The branch of the Russian counts had its headquarters in Wenden Castle (today Cēsis in Latvia) and the branch of the German imperial counts a. a. in St. Petersburg and Moscow . Descendants of the noble family live today in Latvia and Russia under real names.
Ranks
- Karl von Sievers (1710-1775) was by the Elector of Saxony August III. 1745 as imperial vicar in the realm baron raised and finally on February 15, 1760 Imperial Russian lieutenant general and Marshal in the German imperial counts with the official salutation "Construction and Honor" promoted and coat of arms improvement. He had three sons, one of whom continued the line.
- In 1798 the brothers Jacob Johann , Peter and Karl E. were raised to the status of Russian count by Tsar Paul . Peter and Karl each had several sons.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a bar in silver with three gold stars, accompanied by four (3: 1) red balls. On the helmet with right blue-gold-red-silver and left red-silver blue and gold helmet covers two red balls nebebeneinander, surmounted by a gold star between open from blue to red diagonally split flight .
Well-known namesake
- Karl Graf von Sievers (1710–1775), statesman and high court marshal
- Jacob Johann Graf von Sievers (1731–1808), reformer, diplomat and governor
- David Reinhold von Sievers (1732–1814), Russian officer and district administrator of Cismar
- Karl Eberhard Graf von Sievers (1745–1821), officer in the service of Holstein, Austria and Russia
- Karl Friedrich von Sievers (1761–1823), Danish and later Russian administrative lawyer
- Carl Gustav Graf von Sievers (1772–1856), governor of Prussia
- Georg von Sievers (1774–1843), Russian general
- Johann Graf von Sievers (1778–1827), Russian general
- Ernst Peter von Sievers (1795–1876), President of the Livonian Court Court
- Leopold Graf von Sievers (1813–1875), Russian diplomat in Belgium and the Netherlands
- Carl Georg Graf von Sievers (1814–1879), Livonian archaeologist
- Eugen Graf von Sievers (1818–1893), Russian general and member of the council of war
- Emanuel Karlowitsch Graf von Sievers (1817–1909), Russian senator and chief steward
- Alexander Graf von Sievers (1823–1887), governor of Moscow
- Kissa von Sievers , née Katharina von Sievers , (1889 at Wenden Castle, Livonia; † after 1919), actress during the silent film era.
- Edward Graf von Sievers (1900–1979), known as Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox priest and monk
literature
- Janis Baltnis: Count Sievers manors: cultural and scientific center in Livonia ; Lueneburg 1997
- Karl Ludwig Blum : A Russian Statesman: Memories of Count von Sievers , 4 volumes; Leipzig 1857–1958
- Karl Ludwig Blum: Count Jacob Johann von Sievers and Russia at his time . Leipzig; Heidelberg: Winter, 1864
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 8, Leipzig 1867, pages 494–495 ( digitized version )
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume 13, Page 353, Volume 128 of the complete series; CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2002; ISBN 3-7980-0828-0 , pp. 353-355
- Eugen Graf von Sievers: Graf Jakob Johann Sievers and the second division of Poland . St. Petersburg 1888
- Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , 3rd volume, Starke, Görlitz 1930, pp. 389–395 DNB 560936974
- Johannes Engelmann : Sievers, Jakob Johann Graf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 232-240.