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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

  • 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
  • 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

    • References

    Wrangel family Wikipedia
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