Totleben (noble family)

Family coat of arms of Count Totleben

Totleben (also Todtleben or Todleben) is the family name of a German-Baltic noble family .

history

The sex of Totlebens came from Gera . Adam Heinrich Totleben (1714–1773) moved from there to Insterburg . His son Theodor Friedrich Totleben moved to Zabeln in the Duchy of Courland and Semgallia , he was a merchant in Mitau and later in Riga . He is considered to be the progenitor of the Baltic line.

From this line, which died out in 1945 with Major General Nikolai Totleben (1874–1945), the future General Eduard Totleben (1818–1884) acquired the Russian nobility and on October 5, 1879 was raised to the status of Russian count . Count Totleben received the indigenous membership in Livonia , Estonia , Ösel and Courland as an honorary member and was included in their nobility registers of the knighthoods .

coat of arms

Heraldic shield : in red under a golden shield head , inside a black fortress wall with three tinned towers , a raised golden rafter accompanied by three silver eagles . Crest of the crown growing a golden griffin , covered with a golden black bordierten sign with the Russian imperial eagle . Helmet covers : red – gold and blue – gold. Shield holder : two golden griffins each holding a red, gold bordered standard , on the right with the monograms of Tsar Nicholas I framed by the chain of the Order of St. Andrew, above a Georg ribbon with the year 1854; on the left the same only Alexander II and 1855. Banner with the motto : "TRUE TO DEATH AND LIFE".

The again increased coat of arms was awarded to Eduard Graf Totleben in 1882.

literature

Adelslexikon , Volume XIV, Limburg / Lahn 2003, pp. 492–493
Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , part 3, Görlitz 1930, p. 49 and p. 308–309
Genealogisches Handbuch der Oeselschen Ritterschaft , Tartu 1935, pp. 600–603 and p. 695

Web links

Biography: Nikolai Georg Eduard Graf Totleben (Russian)

Individual evidence

↑ Alexander II. 1855–1881, No. 65, March 3, 1856 “The adjutant general von Todleben is with his descent as an honorary member in the ehstl. Nobility register added. " (Also Matr. Livl., Kurl. And Oesel.) Today's spelling of the name: Totleben. In: Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knights , Görlitz 1930 p. 308.

[1] Alexander II. 1855–1881, No. 65, March 3, 1856 “The adjutant general von Todleben is with his descent as an honorary member in the ehstl. Nobility register added. " (Also Matr. Livl., Kurl. And Oesel.) Today's spelling of the name: Totleben. In: Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knights , Görlitz 1930 p. 308.