Von Unger (noble family)
Unger or Unger is the name of an old, from the Erzgebirge originating sex , its trunk series begins with Markusunger 1587th
coat of arms
Pen drawing 1776 by Johann Baptist Mathäi, colors blue and yellow. The colors of the coat of arms are those of the state of Braunschweig : blue and gold (yellow). The colors of the Ungers are red, silver (white) and green. The hussar is the symbol of his native Hungary. The Hungarian coat of arms colors are blue and white (silver).
Known family members
- Johann Friedrich von Unger (1714–1781), Privy Councilor in Braunschweig, who was raised to the imperial nobility on January 8, 1776 in Vienna
- Fritz von Unger (1817–1893), Prussian country stable master in Celle
- Ernst von Unger (1831–1921), Prussian general of the cavalry
- Kurt von Unger (1859–1931), Prussian general of the cavalry
- Wolfgang von Unger (1855–1927), Prussian general of the cavalry, military historian, author of the biographies Blücher and Gneisenau , Shakespeare translator
- Friedrich von Unger (1885–1972), German major general
- Karl (1890–1987), head of the Dyckerhoff works between the wars, Colonel dR during the Sturm auf Ypres (1914), bearer of the Iron Cross, took an active part in the resistance against National Socialism in Paris as the organizer of July 20, 1944.
- Hans-Karl von Unger (* 1930), member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament (1980–1995), legal knight of the Order of St. John, organizer of the Unger family days
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility. Volume No. 26, 1961 and Volume No. 140, 2006.
- Theodor Fontane: The German War of 1866. Berlin 1871/2, 2 volumes, in volume 1, pp. 457-464.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handbook of the Nobility. Volume No. 26, 1961. Imperial nobility January 8, 1776.