Wimpffen (noble family)
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Wimpffen (also Count von Wimpffen or Wimpfen ) is the name of an aristocratic family originally from Württemberg , whose members held high military ranks in the French and Austrian armies.
history
The von Wimpffen family was originally called Heermann and was based in Wimpfen am Neckar, Haguenau (Alsace), Augsburg and Nuremberg ; she called herself "von Wimpfen" after her original home. Dominik Heermann, a citizen of Nuremberg, obtained an imperial letter of arms in 1555 . His grandsons Johann Friedrich (* 1581) and Johann Dietrich (* 1583) were raised to imperial nobility in 1658, which was confirmed by Emperor Joseph II (1741–1790) in 1781. Both grandchildren are the founders of the following main lines.
Franz Karl Eduard von Wimpffen (* 1776, † 1842) was a major general in Württemberg and was raised to the rank of count by Emperor Franz II on April 8, 1797. In 1841 he acquired Kainberg Castle near Graz , which the family still owns today.
The head of the first line, the Johann Friedrich tribe , was Freiherr Friedrich Ferdinand Franz von Wimpffen (born March 31, 1805). This was in the royal Danish forest services, whereby this branch in the male line became extinct in the 19th century .
The second line (also called Alsatian line), the Johann Dietrich tribe , later divided into four family branches due to the four sons - Stanislaus, Franz Ludwig, Georg and Felix - of Johann Georg von Wimpffen (1689–1767). The branches still live in Austria, Germany, and the United States today.
coat of arms
Blazon : The Count's coat of arms of those von Wimpffen from 1787 shows in red on a green background an upright, silver, crowned ram [declared as a lamb in another version] with golden claws and horns, carrying a golden cross on his forefeet; the count's crown rests on the shield , above a crowned helmet from which the ram of the shield grows between two red buffalo horns wrapped with golden leaves ; the helmet covers are red and silver.
Well-known namesake
- Alexandre-Stanislas de Wimpffen (1748–1819), French author and travel writer
- Carl Wilhelm Anton von Wimpffen (1802–1839), Danish guardian of the Wiesharde
- Emanuel Félix de Wimpffen (1811–1884), French general of German descent
- Felix von Wimpffen (general) (1744-1814), French general
- Felix von Wimpffen (diplomat) (1827–1882), Austrian diplomat
- Ferdinand von Wimpffen (1805-1892), Danish forester
- Franz Emil Lorenz Wimpffen (1797-1870), Austrian general
- Franz Ludwig Wimpffen (1732–1800), officer in the French service
- Friedrich Hermann von Wimpffen (1784–1845), major general from Württemberg
- Georg Siegmund Freiherren von Wimpffen (1735–1816), Austrian field marshal lieutenant
- Maximilian von Wimpffen (1770–1854), Austrian field marshal
- Siegfried von Wimpffen (1865–1929), heir to the major banker Simon Baron Sina
- Pauline von Montgelas (nee Countess von Wimpffen ; 1874–1961), German suffragette
- Victor von Wimpffen (1834-1897), Austrian corvette captain
literature
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses, 2nd year, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1849.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Wimpffen, the barons and counts of, coat of arms . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 56th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1888, p. 246 ( digitized version ).
- Entry in Constantin von Wurzbach : Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , vol. 56, Vienna 1888, p. 235 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Fr. Cast: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Kingdom of Württemberg , Verlag JA Gärtner, Stuttgart 1839, p. 493f
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels-Lexicon , Friedrich Voigt'sche Buchhandlung, 6th volume, Loewenthal - Osorowski, Leipzig 1872, p. 578
