Spankeren (noble family)
Spankeren is the name of a Dutch family, which has also been German since the 19th century, which takes its name from the town of Spankeren (now part of Rheden ) near Arnhem and whose line of roots begins with Bernt van Spankeren , mentioned in a document in 1637, Gildeknecht of the Schiffergilde in Arnhem .
Name change and nobility rise
On June 12, 1858 in Berlin by cabinet order the brothers Wilhelm (1797 to 1862), royal Prussian administrative director of the federal fortress Mainz , and Friedrich von Spankeren (1804-1886), royal-Prussian district president in Arnsberg , permission to name leaders of Spankeren granted , but without admission to the Prussian nobility .
The elevation to the hereditary Prussian nobility did not take place until September 12, 1896 in Berlin for the Prussian Lieutenant General Rudolf von Spankeren (1839–1920), eldest son of Wilhelm van Spankeren.
Coat of arms from 1896
In black, a rising, inflected golden tip, to the right of a golden crown of leaves , to the left of a golden anchor lying diagonally to the right, accompanied a red-tongued black lion. On the helmet with black and gold covers the lion growing with the crown of leaves in the right paw and the anchor in the left paw .
Known family members
- Eberhard van Spankeren (1761–1840), Protestant clergyman
- Friedrich von Spankeren (1804–1886), Prussian District President
- Oskar von Spankeren (1835–1921), Prussian major general
- Rudolf von Spankeren (1839–1920), Prussian lieutenant general
- Rudolf von Spankeren (District Administrator) (1875–1930), Prussian District Administrator in the Schroda district
- Wilhelm von Spankeren (1797–1862), Prussian civil servant
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon. Volume XIII, p. 436, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2002, p. 420