Wrangel family

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†).

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

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 Nikolayevich 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"
  • 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
  • Nikolai Nikolayevich Wrangel (1880–1915)
  • Hans Olaf von Wrangel (1928–2009), Baron, German parliamentarian

See also

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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