Wegner
Wegnern is the name of one of Saxony -derived noble family whose direct regular series with Henning Wegner on Osterweddingen begins at the 1500th
Nobility rise
The elevation to the Polish nobility with Prussian indigenous as "von Wegnern" took place on March 14, 1635 for the brothers Dr. jur. utr. Henning Wegner , landlord at Kapkeim and Kuggen as well as professor at the University of Königsberg and mayor of the old town of Königsberg , and Dr. jur. utr. Christoph Wegner, squire to Danerau, Pregelswalde and Sageiten and Elector of Brandenburg advice advocate fisci and Consistorial - Assessor .
August Friedrich Viktor Ball (1802–1848), foster and adoptive son of the Oberlandesvizgerichtspräsident Ludwig von Wegnern (1777–1854) was raised to the Prussian nobility on May 30, 1822 with the nobility title of Wegner with a slightly changed coat of arms.
Description of coat of arms
Divided, above in red a growing silver unicorn , below in silver a red rose between two black stakes. On the helmet with red and silver blankets the growing unicorn.
Thus the coat of arms has a resemblance to the coat of arms of the old aristocracy in Pomerania belonging gentlemen of Weger (also Weyger ) , of which Albrecht in 1337 in the monastery Stargard was buried. As early as the 17th century, some of those von Weger belonged to the generals . Emperor Charles VI. granted the royal Prussian court counselor in Pomerania Johann Jakob von Weger , who referred to this ancestry, the Bohemian knighthood including incolat in Silesia , Bohemia and Moravia . The Bischdorf estate in Silesia and the Bukowine estate and bathing resort near Polish Wartenberg were owned by his family. The coat of arms of the originally Pomeranian, later Brandenburg von Weger shows two golden diagonal bars on the right in the red and black split shield, on the left a silver unicorn. The unicorn is also repeated on the helmet.
Name bearer
- Henning von Wegnern (1584–1636), Prussian jurist
- Johann Christoph von Wegnern (1702–1774), Prussian colonel and chief of the Magdeburg regional regiment named after him, "Alt-Wegnern"
- Ernst Boguslaw von Wegnern (1725–1768), Prussian President of the War and Domain Chamber in Aurich
- Georg Friedrich von Wegnern (1729–1793), Prussian major general
- Carl von Wegnern (1777–1854), President of the Tribunal and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Prussia
- Anton von Wegnern (1809-1891), Prussian district president in the administrative district of Bromberg
- Martin von Wegnern (1855–1897), Minister of State of Schaumburg-Lippe
literature
- Johannes Gallandi : Königsberg councilors. In: Old Prussian Monthly New Series , Königsberg iP 1883, pp. 620–627
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISBN 3-7980-0837-X , pp. 3-4
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Adeligen Häuser , Alter Adel und Briefadel 1928, Verlag Justus Perthes , Gotha 1928, pp. 704–708
- Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon of the Prussian Monarchy , Volume 3, Berlin 1858, p. 90
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 86.
- ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1837, p. 320
- ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 3, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632780 , pp. 162-163, no. 1073.