Campenhausen

Campenhausen is the name of a Livonian noble family. The family seat was the former Good Orellen.

History

In the Adelsmatrikel the Livonian knights 435 families are reported. The Campenhausen belong to a group of 45 families from the heritage established knighthood during the Royal Swedish reign ( 1629-1710 ).

The beginning of the family is distinguished from the inclusion in the Adelsmatrikel. The secured ordinary series of Campenhausen family starts with the merchant Hermann Kamp Husen, who had buried a child on March 14, 1595 in Lübeck. On December 5, 1622 the son of the same applied in Stockholm, the civil rights and was one of the 48 elders of citizenship. Two of his sons, the Royal Swedish Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence († 1672) and the Royal Swedish deputy commander of Riga, Johann Herrmann ( 1641-1705 ) were included in the Swedish nobility and in 1672 the Swedish knighthood in 1665 and 1667. In 1742 was made by the Russian lieutenant general Balthasar Campenhausen enrollment at the Livonian knights. On July 11, 1744 Balthasar was taken with the express permission of the Russian Tsar court in the Swedish baron. The right to use the title of Baron Campenhausen was recognized with Senatsukas No. 10002 of 7 December 1854 by the Russian side. Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen is the ancestor of all still living family members and barons of Campenhausen; it was he who later Orellen ancestral home for himself and his family acquired commercially in 1728.

The Campenhausen unfolded in the 19th century in the lines Orellen, Wesselshof, Loddiger and Ilsen. Of the still living family members, most come from the home Orellen. With the Bolschewikenzeit at the beginning of the 20th century ended the story of the family of Campenhausen in Livonia. As of 1920, the Latvian state began with the expropriation of German landowners. Some Campenhausen survived in spite of the destruction of their economic existence until 1939 in Latvia. After completion of the Hitler - Stalin Pact in 1939, the Campenhausen were evacuated with the last remaining Germans in the Reich District Wartheland ( former Prussian province of Posen ). From there they fled when the war ended in January 1945 in the West. Today's family members Campenhausen live scattered mainly in the western part of Germany and in Sweden.

The family of Campenhausen now maintains the tradition care contacts with the Baltic Ritterschaften founded in 1949, the successor to the 1920 resolution Estonian knighthood. The family archive of Campenhausen was deposited in the Herder Institute in Marburg and is looking today for the study of East European History are available.

Mansion Orellen (2010)

Mansion Wesselshof (2009)

Mansion Wesselshof (2001)

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of 1665 and 1667 shows in silver on green floor a twin-towered red castle with closed gate, about three blue feathered golden arrows, the outer ascending, the middle overthrown. On the helmet with red and silver covers behind a raised natural laurel wreath two facing away enwound with red ribbons, blood-spattered bare arms, hold the two facing blue feathered golden arrows.

Bearers of the name

  • Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen (1689-1758), a Russian lieutenant general and governor-general of Finland
  • Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen (1745-1800), Russian Senator and Privy Council, civil governor of Livonia
  • Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen (1772-1823), Russian statesman
  • Sophie Campenhausen (1776-1835), Russian Mistress at Schwerin Fürstenhof
  • Else Morstatt (also: Elsa Campenhausen; * 1880 Else Campenhausen ), German writer
  • Hans von Campenhausen (1903-1989), a Protestant German theologian
  • Otto von Campenhausen (* 1932), German jurist; 1989-1997 President of the Church Office of the Evangelical Church in Germany
  • Axel Freiherr von Campenhausen (* 1934), German canonist
  • Johannes Freiherr von Campenhausen (* 1935)

Balthasar ( II )

Balthasar ( III.)

Axel

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