Tiele-Winckler

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Tiele-Winckler

The von Tiele-Winckler family was originally a Mecklenburg , later also an Upper Silesian noble family , the male line of which goes back to the von Tiele family.

In the 19th century, the family made large fortunes in the Upper Silesian industrial area through mining , built up companies in the coal and steel industry and acquired large estates in Prussia and Mecklenburg. She received a hereditary seat in the Prussian manor house .

history

The progenitor is the Courland or Russian court councilor Christian Gottlieb von Tiele (* 1751, † 1811).

Franz von Winckler (1803-1851)

Franz Winckler laid the foundations of wealth, from Winckler since 1840 . He started out as a miner in an Upper Silesian ore mine in 1818 . After training at the Tarnowitz mountain school in Upper Silesia, which was founded in 1803, he worked as a manager in a small mine on the Miechowitz estate . In 1831 he married the widow and heiress of his boss, Maria Freifrau von Aresin, and expanded her business to a large extent. After all, he was the master of 14 zinc mines and 69 coal fields. There were also zinc and iron smelters . Like Karl Godulla , he made it to one of the great Upper Silesian "coal magnates", alongside Count Henckel von Donnersmarck and Ballestrem , while Hans-Ulrich Graf von Schaffgotsch married the Godulla fortune and Prince Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen became one of the world's largest Zinc producer.

In 1838 and 1839, in addition to Miechowitz, the Wincklers also acquired the manors Kattowitz and Myslowitz , which were separated from the principality of Pless . In connection with this, the family succeeded in gaining a monopoly for coal mining in both places . In addition, she obtained sovereign rights such as the Bergregal , the Bergpolizei and the tithe in several trials for some places . Some of the Tiele-Winckler mining operations had had modern transport links through the Upper Silesian Railway since 1846.

After the death of the widow Maria von Winckler, the owner of the company, the daughter Maria Valeska von Winckler inherited it. She married the officer Hubertus Gustav von Tiele. The name and coat of arms association with those of Winckler as "von Tiele-Winkler" took place on December 6, 1854 in Schwerin.

The couple had the Tiele-Winckler palace built in 1872/1873 on Regentenstrasse (today: Hitzigallee) in Berlin's Tiergarten district based on a design by Berlin architects Gustav Ebe & Julius Benda (later used as the Spanish embassy). They had a son, Hubert Gustav von Tiele-Winckler, and a daughter, the deaconess Eva von Tiele-Winckler . Hubert Gustav inherited his mother's businesses. In 1866 he acquired the Moschen estate and castle in the Silesian lowlands, which was rebuilt after a fire in 1896. He also invested his money in various estates in Mecklenburg, he acquired Fleesensee Castle in 1871 (rebuilt in 1912, sold in 1934), in 1876 Gut Vollrathsruhe , 1877 Gut Rothenmoor and 1890 Gut Schorssow with Gut Bülow (both sold in 1929).

After Hubert Gustav's death in 1893, his sons Franz Hubert von Tiele-Winckler inherited the Upper Silesian businesses and Walter von Tiele-Winckler inherited the Mecklenburg businesses. On June 25, 1895, Franz Hubert received the primogenic title of count from the German Emperor , the other family members were elevated to the Prussian baron status in 1905. After the fire of 1896, Franz Hubert had Moschen Castle rebuilt. He was eighth in the ranking of the richest inhabitants of Prussia in 1912.

In 1889 the family company was transformed into the Kattowitzer AG for mining and ironworks . After the partition of Upper Silesia in March 1921, Franz Hubert sold the industrial company in autumn 1921 to Friedrich Flick , who also joined Ballestrem's companies the following year. He died in 1922. His son and heir Klaus Peter Graf von Tiele-Winckler also sold the Miechowitz estate (the castle is now in ruins) to Preußengrube AG Flicks in 1925 . He died childless in 1938. Heir to the Moschen estate was his nephew Günter von Tiele-Winckler, who fled the Red Army in February 1945 . Mosques was after the expulsion of the Germans also confiscated from Upper Silesia as Vollrathsruhe and Rothenmoor by the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone since 1945 . In Vollrathsruhe, the family bought back a forest property after the German reunification . Tiele-Winckler'sche Guts- und Forstverwaltung Vollrathsruhe GmbH is managed.

coat of arms

  • The Tiele family coat of arms shows in gold a right-turned steel bracer accompanied by three (2: 1) red roses . On the helmet with red-gold helmet covers three (red-gold-red) ostrich feathers .
  • The Winckler coat of arms shows in red a golden angle measure with the tip turned to the top right, enclosing a golden star. On the helmet with red and gold covers, a closed red flight covered with an upwardly sloping gold stalk and miner's iron .
  • The coat of arms from 1854 is quartered. Fields 1 and 4 show the family coat of arms of Thiele, 2 and 3 the coat of arms of Winckler. Two helmets with red and silver covers, the Winkler's ancestral helmet on the right, that of the Tiele on the left.
  • The count's coat of arms from 1895 is like 1854, it also shows the count's crown and two golden lions holding the shield. The motto is: "SOLID AND TRUE."

  • Family coat of arms of those of Tiele

  • Coat of arms of those von Winckler (1840)

  • Coat of arms of the von Tiele – Winkler family (1854)

Prominent family members

literature

Web links

Commons : Tiele-Winckler family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klemens Skibicki: Industry in the Upper Silesian Principality of Pless in the 18th and 19th centuries (Google Book Search)
  2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neustadt_os.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  3. ↑ Thiele-Winckler Haus, handicapped aid
  4. ↑ Mother Eva from Tiele-Winckler care home
  5. ↑ Eva-von-Tiele-Winckler-Haus retirement and nursing home
  6. ^ Tiele-Winckler-Schule Private special education and advice center