Sivers (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Sivers

Sivers is the name of a letter noble Baltic German noble family . Branches of the family persist to this day.

history

Northwestern Germany is generally assumed to be the home of the gender, and Fehmarn in particular would be considered. Research on the kinship with the Holstein nobility of the same name could not identify any verifiable connection. The secured trunk line begins with the citizen and merchant Peter Seifferts († 1684) who was documented in Ystad in Skåne from 1633 . His son Johann Sivert (1646–1712) first entered the Swedish and later Danish military service in order to devote himself to commercial duties after 38 years of service until his death. From his marriage to Kornelia Schwentz (1651-1711) the well-known Russian admiral Peter Sievers (1674-1740) was born, who on March 28, 1716 received the indigenous class in Estonia . His son, the Livonian district and gentleman on Euseküll , Friedrich Wilhelm von Sivers was in 1747 in the Livonian Knighthood enrolled (no. 172), whose grandson, the Russian cavalry general form Hold August Sivert († 1862), was in 1857 in the Kurzeme Knighthood received, but without continuing the tribe. The von Sivers family had a considerable influence on the politics and economy of the Baltic provinces until the Russian Revolution in 1917.

The sisters Aglaide von Sivers and Elisabeth von Sivers received the Württemberg nobility recognition in Stuttgart on March 6, 1900 and November 24, 1902, respectively .

On October 20, 1957, a family council was founded in Frankfurt / Main.

possession

Alt Kusthof, Arrohof, Autzem, Cassinorm, Euseküll, Friedholm, Gotthardsberg, Gränhof, Heiligensee, Heimthal, Jeri, 1/2 Schloss Karkus, Kerjel, Kersel, Kiidjerw, Morne, Nabbern, Neu Tennasilm, Neudrostenhof, Podfem, Schloss Randen, Satchel with Zioren, Rappin, Raudenhof, Römershof with Salubben and Winterfeld, Rosenbeck Castle, Serben, Seyershof, Soosaar, Waidau, Walguta, Warbus, Willust and Wöbs.

Most of the listed properties remained in family ownership until the Estonian land reform in 1919 .

Coat of arms of the von Sivers

coat of arms

The family coat of arms (1716, 1747) is split, in front a black star in silver, behind in black half a silver lily at the gap. On the helmet , with black and silver blankets , over a likewise black and silver bead , two silver ostrich feathers, with the star in between.

Relatives

  • Peter von Sivers (1674–1740), Russian admiral
  • Friedrich Wilhelm II. Von Sivers (1748–1823), Livonian noble marshal and district administrator, civil governor of the Russian Baltic Sea province of Courland
  • Peter Reinhold von Sivers (1760–1835), Livonian district administrator and master of Heimthal
  • Friedrich August von Sivers (1766–1823), Livonian agronomist
  • Peter Felix von Sivers (1807-1853), Livonian portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
  • Peter Anton von Sivers (1807-1893), Livonian district administrator and Mr. auf Rappin
  • Jegor von Sivers (1823–1879), professor of agriculture, writer and gentleman at Raudenhof
  • August von Sivers (1825–1876), Livonian landowner and district administrator
  • Clara von Sivers (1854–1924), German flower painter
  • Maximilian von Sivers (1857–1919), Livonian district administrator, forester, dendrologist and master of the Römershof
  • Marie von Sivers (1867–1948), Russian-German actress, theosophist and anthroposophist
  • Siegfried von Sivers (1887–1956), Baltic German activist, doctor and writer
  • Marie-Louise "Malou" von Sivers (born 1953), Swedish journalist and television presenter

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helene Höhnk: messages from the ancestors and the family of the Russian Admiral Peter v. Sievers. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History. 1913, Vol. 43, pp. 256-352

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