Völkner (noble family)

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Völkner (Russian Фёлькнер ˈFelknerˈ) is the name of an aristocratic family originally from Halle (Saale) who provided important mining officials and mineralogists in the Russian Empire for several generations . In German-language sources, the name is often given as von Völkner with a German nobility predicate .

According to the current state of research, there is no connection with the East Prussian city ​​noble family of the same name , the direct line of which begins with the mayor and church leader zu Friedland Christoph Völckner (* approx. 1550).

history

The progenitor of the family is Christian Friedrich Völkner (1728–1796), orphan and pupil of the Francke Latina in Halle, who emigrated to Riga in 1742 and worked there as a writer and translator. In 1748 he was employed as a copyist for “German affairs” at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg . Because of his writing talent, the president of the academy Kirill Rasumowski became aware of Völkner and made him his private secretary. From 1774 Völkner held the office of conference secretary (most recently in the rank of councilor ) at the Russian Art Academy . For Völkner, this outstanding position was associated with the elevation to the hereditary Russian nobility. At the height of his career, he was appointed inspector of the mining school in St. Petersburg (now the State Mining University ) in 1787 and had his sons Johann Heinrich von Völkner and Alexander von Völkner trained as mining engineers. Building on this, the family rose to become the most famous "mining dynasty" in the Ural districts in the 19th century.

coat of arms

Blazon: “ In the black field above a diagonally crossed golden miner's teeth, a golden sun. On the crowned helmet with a black and gold cover three black ostrich feathers ”(confirmed by the Imperial Russian nobility diploma of May 1, 1853 for Friedrich von Völkner ).

Tribe list

  1. Christian Friedrich von Völkner (1728–1796)
    1. August Hermann von Völkner
    2. Johann Heinrich von Völkner (1776–1833)
      1. Woldemar Gustav von Völkner (1805–1871)
      2. Friedrich von Völkner (1802–1877)
        1. Leopold von Völkner (1829–1895)
          1. Dimitri von Völkner (1854–1923)
        2. Leonid von Völkner (* 1830)
      3. Michael von Völkner (* 1810)
    3. Alexander von Völkner (* 1768)
      1. Alexander von Völkner (* 1806)
      2. Nikolai August Wilhelm von Völkner (1817–1878)
        1. Alexander von Völkner (1843–1903)

Others

The mineral Völknerite (see hydrotalcite ) is named after the boss of the Kussaische Hüttenwerke .

Name bearer

Individual evidence

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