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†).

Notable members

Coat of arms of the Wrangel family.

• 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
• 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 Evstafiyevich Wrangel (1804–1880), Baron, Russian infantry general
• Alexander Egorovich Wrangell (1833–1915), Baron, Russian diplomat
• Wilhelm Bernhard Friedrich von Wrangel (Vasili Vasiliyevich Wrangel, 1797–1872), Baron, Imperial Russian Navy admiral
• Vasili 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
• 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
• Vasili Georgiyevich Wrangel (1862–1901), composer
• Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell (1877–1932), the first female full professor at a German university (University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart)
• Nikolai Egorovich Wrangel (1847-1920), Baron, author of memoirs, "From Serfdom to Bolshevism"
• Herman Wrangel (1857–1934), Swedish Count, diplomat, Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Nikolai Nikolayevich Wrangel (1880–1915)
• Hans Olaf von Wrangel (1928–2009), Baron, German parliamentarian

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  Herman Wrangel
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  Carl Gustaf Wrangel
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  Ferdinand von Wrangel

See also

• Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel (1784–1877), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall

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.