Wrangel family

The Wrangel family (sometimes transliterated as Wrangell or Vrangel; Russian: Врангель) is a Baltic German noble family with branches in several countries.^[1] Members of the family have also been part of the Swedish, Russian, Spanish, and Prussian nobility.

Wrangel
Swedish, Baltic German, Russian, Spanish and Prussian noble family
Coat of arms for count Wrangel
Place of origin	Medieval Livonia
Founder	Eilardus (1241†)
Cadet branches	List Wrangel af Adinal Wrangel af Ellistfer Wrangel af Fall Wrangel af Salmis

The family's earliest known patrilineal ancestor is the knight Eilardus (1241†).

Overview

The most prominent member of the family is perhaps Ferdinand von Wrangel, an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, Arctic explorer, and governor of Russian Alaska. Another notable family member, Herman Wrangel, served as governor-general of Livonia.^[2]

Branches

Swedish branch

Coat of arms of the Wrangel family

The family was naturalized in 1772 and introduced in 1776 with number 2092 at the House of Nobility.^[3][4]

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)
• Heinrich Johann Freiherr Wrangell from Addinal (Andrei Ivanovich Wrangel, 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
• Ferdinand Georg Friedrich von Wrangel (Ferdinand Ferdinandovich Wrangel, 1844–1919)
• Pyotr Wrangel (Peter von Wrangel, 1878–1928), a leader of the White Army during the Russian Civil War
• Alexander von Wrangel (Alexander Evataiyevich Wrangel, 1804–1880), Baron, Russian infantry general
• Alexander Egorovich Wrangell (1833–1915), Baron, Russian diplomat
• Wilhelm Bernhard Friedrich von Wrangel (Vasily Vasiliyevich Wrangel, 1797–1872), Baron, Imperial Russian Navy admiral
• Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangel (1816–1860)
• Georg Gustav Ludwig von Wrangel (Yegor Vasiliyevich Wrangel, 1784–1841)
• Karl Michael von Wrangel (Karl Yegorovich Wrangel, 1794–1874), Baron Russian cavalry general
• Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Oskar von Wrangel (1812-1899), Prussian Infantry General
• Reinhold Otto Fabian von Wrangel (Roman Yegorovich Wrangel, 1797–1884), Russian General of Artillery
• Karl Karlovich Wrangel (1800–1872), Baron, Russian infantry general
• Hans Georg Hermann von Wrangel (Yegor Ermolayevich Wrangel, 1803–1868)
• Karl Gustav von Wrangel (Karl Reingoldovich Wrangel, 1742–1824), Russian infantry general.
• Georg von Wrangel (Yegor Yegorovich Wrangel, 1827–1875), Russian senator
• Baroness Helene Von Wrangel (or Vrangel) (1835-1906) Russian painter
• Michael von Wrangel (Mihhail Yegorovich Wrangel, 1803–1868), Russian General-Lieutenant, Governor of Livland
• Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangel (1862–1901), composer
• Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell (1877–1932), the first female full professor at a German university (University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart)
• Nikolaus von Wrangel (Nikolai Yegorovich Wrangel, 1847-1920), Baron, author of memoirs, "From Serfdom to Bolshevism"
• Nikolai Alexandrovitch Von Wrangel of Terpelitzy
• Herman Wrangel (1857–1934), Swedish Count, diplomat, Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Herman Wrangel (1859–1938), Swedish lieutenant general
• Herman Wrangel (1864–1945), Swedish major general
• [Николай Александрович|Nikolai Nikolayevich Wrangel] (1880–1915)
• Olaf von Wrangel (1928–2009), Baron, German parliamentarian
• George Wrangell (1903–1969), American advertising model

• 
  Herman Wrangel
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  Carl Gustaf Wrangel
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  Ferdinand von Wrangel
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  Margarete von Wrangell
• 
  Peter Wrangel

See also

• List of Swedish noble families

References

1. "Wrangel - Uppslagsverk - NE.se". www.ne.se. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
2. Fock, Henrik (2013). Släkten Fock: Personer och händelser under 450 år [The Fock Family: People and Events Over 450 Years] (in Swedish). p. 26. ISBN 978-91-7463-052-7.
3. Anrep, Gabriel (1862). Svenska Adelns Ättar-Taflor: Skytte af Duderhoff - Östner, jemte Tillägg, Rättelser och Slutord (in Swedish). P. A. Norstedt u. Söhne. p. 635.
4. Leijonhufvud, Karl Axel Karlsson (1898). Svensk adelskalender (in Swedish). P.A. Norstedt & söner. p. 686.

Further reading

• 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.