Trenck family

The Trenck, Trenk family, called von der Trenck bull, even barons and counts, is one of the old East Prussian native noble families that persist to the present day. Your homonymous headquarters located in the former county Samland Primorsk (German Fischhausen in East Prussia ).

The family is an old one, in the 13th and 14th centuries occurring knights that of Duke Albrecht of Prussia on October 25, 1533 with the sharp lacker goods in office Labiau, as the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg on April 5 1652 was invested with the Good Goldbach near Wehlau and also acquired several other goods. Johann Albrecht vd Trenck Gen. bull was 1655 manorial court president to Königsberg and Christian vd Trenck Gen. bull kurbrandenburgischer captain. Christian vd Trenck had two sons, of whom the elder, Christoph Ehrenreich († 1740) Royal Prussian Major-General and father of several children, the father of the Prussian vd Trenck was. Johann Heinrich, the second son of Christopher Ehrenreich, went over to the Catholic Church and acquired the dominion Prestorat in Slavonia and died in 1742 as Imperial Colonel and commander of the fortress Leuchta. Johann Heinrich founded in Austria a collateral line of the family, which already back with his son, Franz Freiherr vd Trenck, k.k. Pandurs Colonel (1711 - 1759 Spielberg at Brünn) went out.

The secured trunk number of the family starts with Augustin von der Trenck in the year 1404.

Early on, divided the family into three lines:

  • Line Kapstücken (Russian: Tulskoje, Rajon Polessk, not more exist): Registration in the Royal Saxon nobility book on April 13, 1907 No. 255, for the retired pastor in Greiz Albert von der Trenck, Superintendent and Princely Reussischer Konsistorialrat
  • Line Meyken (now Russian: Maiskoje, Rajon Polessk ): Prussian name and coat of arms union with those of Baron von Koenigsegg as Freiherr von der Trenck called by Koenigsegg, Berlin the May 9, 1825 for August von der Trenck on Sporwitten at Prawdinsk ( Friedland East Prussia ), the adopted son of Sophie Baroness von Koenigsegg was since December 21,
  • Line Schakaulack (Russian: Malaya Lipówka, Rajon Polessk, not more exist): Erbländisch -Austrian knighthood, Vienna April 8, 1783 for Friedrich von der Trenck on Schakaulack, today Rajon Polessk ( circle Labiau in East Prussia ) and Zwerbach in Lower Austria, KK Colonel Sergeant, Prussian Count stand with coat of arms proliferation for his brother Karl Albrecht von der Trenck, inheriting commissioner on Schakaulack. This Count's line is extinct in the male line.

Master of Arms

In red, the forward head of a silver bull with golden tongue and golden horns, beseitet down from two six-pointed golden stars.

Well-known bearers of the name

  • Christoph Ehrenreich von der Trenck († 1740), Prussian Major General
  • Friedrich von der Trenck (1727-1794), a Prussian officer and author
  • Friedrich Ludwig von der Trenck (1732-1797), Prussian Major General
  • Franz von der Trenck (1711-1749), Austrian officer, the " Pandur "
  • Alfred von der Trenck (1880-1967), German composer and church musician,
  • Siegfried von der Trenck (1882-1951), German writer.
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