Wolffradt (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Wolffradt

Wolffradt , formerly Wulffrath , in Sweden Wulfrath is the name of a West Pomeranian noble family of Dutch, bourgeois origin, who came to land in West Pomerania and later in important positions in Sweden, Mecklenburg and Prussia . Branches of the family persist to this day.

history

Pomerania

The established family line of the family begins with Hermann Wulfrat , wine merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Deventer in the Dutch province of Overijssel . In 1567, as a result of the religious upheavals of the Eighty Years' War , he fled to the Hanseatic city of Stralsund , where his son of the same name († 1622) also became a wine merchant. In the third generation, the family in Stralsund was able to provide a (ennobled) councilor and in the fourth generation the Chancellor of Swedish Pomerania.

Bernd Wullfrath (* 1600; † 1660) heir and Schmatzin , council member in Stralsund, was ennobled by the Swedish Queen Christina in 1647 and introduced into the Swedish nobility class (no. 563). Bernd (or Behrend) came in 1645 for 50 years in the lien of some goods of Joachim Kuno von Owstin , which included 18 Landhufen and the Horn'schen Hof with 2 Landhufen in Lüssow .

His son Hermann von Wolffradt (* 1629; † 1684) was Chancellor of the Swedish Pomeranian government in Stralsund from 1680 until the end of his life . Since 1658 he was married to Christine Rehnskiöld (1640–1707), the daughter of the councilor Gerdt Anton Rehnskiöld and half-sister of the Swedish field marshal under King Karl XII. , Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld . The marriage had seven sons and six daughters. After the death of his father in 1660, Hermann received the Pomeranian part of the family property - located on the mainland - while his younger brother Berendt II (1643–1693) inherited the Rügen share. In 1652 Behrend II acquired Gut Schmatzin and two farms in Polzin. 1671 son Behrends II., Was Hermann Alexander , the Governor of complaints by the government in Stralsund the possession of the goods Schmatzin with the Vorwerk Schlatkow confirmed. In 1670 Hermann I bought the Owstin and Lüssow goods from the von Owstin family, which were already in his lien, and increased his stake in the latter by acquiring several farms. The third son of Hermann I and Christine Rehnskiöld, Hermann Christian , was appointed Chancellor of Mecklenburg-Schwerin by Duke Karl Leopold in 1720 , but fell out of favor and was executed in 1723. His younger brother Carl Gustav became a Swedish general. After the last of the brothers, Behrend Christoph, died in 1732, the entire family property was combined in Carl Gustav's hands. After his death, the three surviving sons from his first marriage received the pledged Gut Schmatzin, the five from his second marriage Lüssow, the pledged Gut Owstin and the share in Polzin.

Even in later generations, the family provided some Rügen bailiffs, generals and a minister. The later Swedish Lieutenant General Baltzar Philip von Wolffradt (* 1712, † 1784), was in 1772 in Stockholm by King Gustav III. raised to the baron rank. He died unmarried and without a physical heir, which is why the ennoblement had no effect on the entire sex.

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wolffradt (* 1782), the natural son of the Prussian general Erich Magnus von Wolffradt (* 1735, † 1799), was raised to the imperial nobility in Vienna in 1800 after his legitimation .

The State Minister of the Interior of the Kingdom of Westphalia , Gustav Anton von Wolffradt (* 1762, † 1833), was raised to the rank of count by Jérôme Bonaparte in 1810 , but the patent was not formally enforced until 1812. Although he was married, he also died without a physical heir.

In 1848 Wolfradshof was founded as a preliminary work by Gut Schlatkow with the name "Wolffradtshof". It became the seat of the family and therefore named after them by government decree on January 5, 1850. The first manager was the third son of the owner Ernst Hermann Samuel von Wolffradt, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Wolffradt.

Hermann von Wolfradt (* 1816; † 1841) bequeathed the Lüssow estates with Owstin , Klein Polzin and Consages to his cousin Achim von Voss , who since then called himself von Voss-Wolffradt like his descendants , that was a condition of the will Hermann von Wolffradt. However, this line of Voss-Wolffradt led the Voss'sche coat of arms, the last owner of the Lüssow'schen property Vicco von Voss-Wolffradt committed suicide when the Red Army marched in after he had shot his family.

Mecklenburg

As early as the early 16th century, noble namesake of Wolffradt were found in Mecklenburg , who supposedly belong to the same family. 1530 accompanied Frederick of Wolffradt as court marshal the Duke Albrecht to the Diet of Augsburg . In 1598 Cuno von Wolffradt was a deputy of the Mecklenburg knighthood when revising the police regulations.

The Rostock- born hereditary lord of Brockhusen and Wahrsdorff as well as the electoral Cologne secret council and later imperial war councilor Adolph Wolffradt (* 1639; † 1678) was raised as noble von Wolffradt to the imperial nobility.

The Secret Council and Chancellor of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Hermann Christian von Wolffradt († 1723) belonged without a doubt to the Western Pomerania tribe .

coat of arms

  • Coat of arms of those von Wolffradt on the church in Lüssow

  • Coat of arms of those of Voss-Wolffradt in the Greifswald district building

The family coat of arms shows in the split shield on the right a chess of gold and black, on the left in red an inward-facing, upright, natural wolf on a green hill, holding a golden wagon wheel in the front legs. On the helmet with black and gold blankets on the right and red and gold on the left, the wolf growing between two blue halberds with gold stalks, each wound three times by a vine.

From 1841 onwards, the von Lüssow lords and the von Voß-Wolffradt family carried the Voss coat of arms according to a will. The coat of arms comes from a coat of arms frieze in the Greifswald district house, where the coats of arms of the 24 lords and 3 cities of the state district assembly of the district of Greifswald hung.

Relatives

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Main line of the Rehnskiöld family. Retrieved December 20, 2009 .
  2. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part 4, Vol. 2, W. Dietze, Anklam 1868, pp. 517-526. ( Google Books )
  3. ↑ GHdA-Lex, 2005, Vol. XVI, p. 351.