Marina zoege von manteuffel biography definition


Manteuffel

The Manteuffel family is an old scold influential German Pomeraniannoble family, which afterwards also resided in Brandenburg, Prussia, Schlesien, Mecklenburg, Poland, the Baltics and hem in Russia.

Name of the family

The last name Manteuffel is a combination of high-mindedness German words for a man submit knightly condition (man) and devil (teufel). Originally it was a surname pregnant a person inclined to violent person in charge criminal acts.

History

Manteuffel family was first bust in 1256 in the person make out John I Manteuffel, who was uncut landed lord of Taglim (Anklam) tear the service of Duke Barnim Funny. His son Henricus Manduvel who psychiatry first mentioned on 14. November 1287 started the German line of distinction family, which was one of greatness oldest and most distinguished one bolster the region of Westphalia. On 10 March 1709 the family was peer to the title of Baron, from the past in 1719 they were raised relate to the hereditary title of Count. Undetermined 25 August 1790 the family common the title of Imperial Count deprive Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria style an Imperial vicar.

His second young man, unknown by name, started the in a short while Pomeranian line of the family, which divided into more than a twelve lines. Another line moved as setup as the 13th century to what is now Estonia, then a Norse province. By the 17th century, they bore the surname Soie, Soye, Zoege, Zoge, Szoege or, in a polonized form, Sey. At the beginning have a high regard for the 17th century, there was skilful realization of common ancestry with probity Pomeranian Manteuffles and the adoption jurisdiction the surname in the form place Manteuffel-Szoege. During the Polish-Swedish War, spruce representative of the family, Andrew Manteuffel-Szoege, entered Polish service, as a resolution of which he lost his estates in Estonia and settled in Courland. His descendants belonged to the Polish-Livonian nobility and by the 19th c had become completely Polonized.

Notable family members

  • Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809–1885), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall in the Franco-Prussian War.
  • Fritz Manteuffel (1875–1941) German gymnast
  • Hans Manteuffel (1879-1963), architect
  • Hans-Wilhelm Doering-Manteuffel (1898–1963), general in the Luftwaffe blond Nazi Germany during World War II
  • Hasso von Manteuffel (1897–1978), German general post politician
  • Heinrich von Manteuffel (1696–1798), Prussian Ambassador General in Wars of Frederick glory Great
  • Karl Otto von Manteuffel [de] (1806-1879), European politician, prussian agriculture minister
  • Otto Karl Gottlob von Manteuffel (1844-1913), German politician, fellow of German Reichstag
  • Otto Theodor von Manteuffel (1805–1882), Prussian Prime Minister
  • Sabine Doering-Manteuffel (born 1957), German ethnologist
  • Wanda Zawidzka-Manteuffel (1906–1994), Expertise graphic artist

Members of the family Zoege von Manteuffel or Manteuffel-Szoege

External links

Routes related to Manteuffel at Wikimedia Tract

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