Xylander (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Xylander

Xylander is the name of an aristocratic family that begins with Lieutenant Colonel Johann Adolf Xylander , who fell in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1713) . His descendant, the electoral-Palatinate-Bavarian military provisions and barracks administrator Karl Xylander , received the imperial knighthood on July 4, 1792 with the name "Edler von Xylander". His son, the Bavarian major Carl Ritter and Edler von Xylander , was enrolled in the knight class in Bavaria with his siblings in 1809.

coat of arms

The coat of arms awarded at the time of the ennoblement is quartered and covered with a red heart shield with 4 silver balls. In fields 1 and 4 there is a half black eagle in silver at the slit, in 2 and 3 in blue there are three (2, 1) horizontal mill irons . The coat of arms has two helmets . On the right with black and silver covers a growing golden lion, on the left with blue and silver covers a silver mill iron between an open flight , blue on the right and silver on the left .

Known family members

• Emil von Xylander (1835–1911), Bavarian Colonel General
• Ernst Ritter von Xylander (1922–1998), qualified psychologist , philosopher and astrologer
• Heinrich von Xylander (General) (1840–1905), Bavarian general of the infantry
• Heinrich von Xylander (historian) (1904–1941), German historian
• Joseph von Xylander (1794–1854), Bavarian major general , authorized representative at the Military Commission of the German Confederation and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• Marlen von Xylander , historian and writer
• Robert von Xylander (1830–1905), Bavarian lieutenant general, military representative to the Federal Council
• Rudolf von Xylander (1872–1946), German major general, military historian
• Oskar von Xylander (1856–1940), Bavarian infantry general
• Wolf-Dietrich von Xylander (1903–1945), German lieutenant general

literature

• Max Ritter von Xylander: Family History of Xylander. Munich 1861.
• Genealogical paperback of the knight and noble families. Volume 3, Brünn 1878, pp. 797-798 ; Volume 8, 1883 (older genealogy)
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1908 . Second year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907, p. 965 ff. (Family series and older genealogy) ; Continued 1909–1940
• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Limburg / Lahn
  • Adelslexikon , Volume 16, Volume 137 of the complete series, 2005, pp. 436–437
  • Genealogical handbook of noble houses , Volume 5, Volume 26 of the complete series, 1961, pp. 506-511; Volume 10, Volume 52 of the complete series, 1972, pp. 498-504; Volume 17, Volume 89 of the complete series, 1986, pp. 508-514
• Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria. Volume 1, Neustadt / Aisch 1950, pp. 931-935; Volume 9, 1967, pp. 353-359; Volume 14, 1982, pp. 526-533; Volume 19, 1992, pp. 605-613; Volume 23, 2000, pp. 606-613; Volume 27, 2008, pp. 674-681, 985-986