Wrangel family
The Wrangel family is a Baltic German noble family with branches in several countries. Members of the family have also been part of the Swedish noble families|Swedish], Russian, Spanish, and Prussian nobility.
The family's earliest known patrilineal ancestor is the knight Eilardus.
Overview
The most prominent member of the family is perhaps Pyotr Wrangel, a military officer in the Imperial Russian Army and later commanding general of the anti-Bolshevik White Army in Southern Russia. Other notable family members include Ferdinand von Wrangel, an admiral in the Russian Navy">Russian nobility">Russian Navy, Arctic explorer, and governor of Russian Alaska, and Herman Wrangel, who served as governor-general of Livonia.Branches
Swedish branch
The family was naturalized in 1772 and introduced in 1776 with number 2092 at the House of Nobility.Notable members
- Herman Wrangel, a Swedish Governor-General of Livonia, Field Marshal, and Privy Councillor
- Carl Henrik Wrangel, a Swedish Field Marshal
- Carl Gustaf Wrangel, a Swedish soldier and Privy Councillor
- Heinrich Johann Freiherr Wrangell from Addinal, Russian General-Lieutenant
- Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel, a Generalfeldmarschall of the Prussian Army.
- Ferdinand von Wrangel, Imperial Russian Navy admiral, Arctic explorer, Governor of Russian Alaska
- Ferdinand Georg Friedrich von Wrangel
- Pyotr Wrangel, a leader of the White Army during the Russian Civil War
- Alexander von Wrangel, Baron, Russian infantry general
- Alexander Egorovich Wrangell, Baron, Russian diplomat
- Wilhelm Bernhard Friedrich von Wrangel, Baron, Imperial Russian Navy admiral
- Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangel
- Georg Gustav Ludwig von Wrangel
- Karl Michael von Wrangel, Baron Russian cavalry general
- Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Oskar von Wrangel, Prussian Infantry General
- Reinhold Otto Fabian von Wrangel, Russian General of Artillery
- Karl Karlovich Wrangel, Baron, Russian infantry general
- Hans Georg Hermann von Wrangel
- Karl Gustav von Wrangel, Russian infantry general.
- Georg von Wrangel, Russian senator
- Baroness Helene Von Wrangel Russian painter
- Michael von Wrangel, Russian General-Lieutenant, Governor of Livland
- Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangel, composer
- Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell, the first female full professor at a German university
- Nikolaus von Wrangel, Baron, author of memoirs, "From Serfdom to Bolshevism"
- Herman Wrangel, Swedish Count, diplomat, Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Herman Wrangel, Swedish lieutenant general
- Herman Wrangel, Swedish major general
- Nikolai Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian art historian
- Olaf von Wrangel, Baron, German parliamentarian
- George Wrangell, American advertising model