Wrangel family

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Coat of arms of the Wrangel family
Coat of arms for count Wrangel.

Wrangel (sometimes transliterated as Wrangell or Vrangel, from the Russian Вра́нгель) is a Baltic German noble family, included in Swedish, Russian, Spanish and Prussian nobility. Its earliest known ancestor is the knight Eilardus (1241†).

Notable members[]

  • Herman Wrangel (ca.1584-1643), a Swedish Governor-General of Livonia, Field Marshal, and Privy Councillor
  • Carl Henrik Wrangel (1681–1755), a Swedish Field Marshal
  • Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613–1676), a Swedish soldier and Privy Councillor (son of Herman Wrangel)
  • from Addinal (, 1736–1813), Russian General-Lieutenant
  • Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel (1784-1877), a Generalfeldmarschall of the Prussian Army.
  • Ferdinand von Wrangel (Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, 1797–1870), Imperial Russian Navy admiral, Arctic explorer, Governor of Russian Alaska
  • (, 1844–1919)
  • Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Peter von Wrangel, 1878–1928), a leader of the White Army during the Russian Civil War
  • (Alexander Evataiyevich Wrangel, 1804–1880), Baron, Russian infantry general
  • (1833–1915), Baron, Russian diplomat
  • (, 1797–1872), Baron, Imperial Russian Navy admiral
  • (1816–1860)
  • (, 1784–1841)
  • (, 1794–1874), Baron Russian cavalry general
  • (1812-1899), Prussian Infantry General
  • (, 1797–1884), Russian General of Artillery
  • (1800–1872), Baron, Russian infantry general
  • (, 1803–1868)
  • Karl Gustav von Wrangel (, 1742–1824), Russian infantry general.
  • (, 1827–1875), Russian senator
  • Baroness (or Vrangel) (1835-1906) Russian painter
  • (, 1803–1868), Russian General-Lieutenant, Governor of Livland
  • (1862–1901), composer
  • Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell (1877–1932), the first female full professor at a German university (University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart)
  • (Nikolai Yegorovich Wrangel, 1847-1920), Baron, author of memoirs, "From Serfdom to Bolshevism"
  • Herman Wrangel (1857–1934), Swedish Count, diplomat, Minister for Foreign Affairs
  • Herman Wrangel (1859–1938), Swedish lieutenant general
  • (1864–1945), Swedish major general
  • (1880–1915)
  • (1928–2009), Baron, German parliamentarian

See also[]

External links[]

Baensch, Henry von (1887). Geschichte der Familie von Wrangel vom Jahre 1250 bis auf die Gegenwart [History of the von Wrangel family from 1250 to the present] (in German). Adamant Media Corporation. ISBN 1-4212-4594-9. Retrieved 2008-08-25.

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