The Manteuffel family is an old and influential German
Pomeranian noble family
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, which later also resided in
Brandenburg
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,
Prussia
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,
Silesia
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,
Mecklenburg,
Poland
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, the
Baltics
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and in
Russia
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.
Name of the family
The surname Manteuffel is a combination of the German words for a man of knightly condition (man) and devil (teufel). Originally it was a surname denoting a person inclined to violent and criminal acts.
History
Manteuffel family was first mentioned in 1256 in the person of John I Manteuffel, who was a landed lord of Taglim (Anklam) in the service of Duke Barnim I. His son ''Henricus Manduvel'' who is first mentioned on 14. November 1287 started the German line of the family, which was one of the oldest and most distinguished one in the region of
Westphalia
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. On 10 March 1709 the family was raised to the title of
Baron
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, while in 1719 they were raised to the hereditary title of
Count
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. On 25 August 1790 the family received the title of
Imperial Count from
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria as an
Imperial vicar.
His second son, unknown by name, started the second Pomeranian line of the family, which divided into more than a dozen lines. Another line moved as late as the 13th century to what is now
Estonia
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, then a Danish province. By the 17th century, they bore the surname Soie, Soye, Zoege, Zoge, Szoege or, in a polonized form, Sey. At the beginning of the 17th century, there was a realization of common ancestry with the Pomeranian Manteuffles and the adoption of the surname in the form of Manteuffel-Szoege. During the Polish-Swedish War, a representative of the family, Andrew Manteuffel-Szoege, entered Polish service, as a result of which he lost his estates in Estonia and settled in Courland. His descendants belonged to the Polish-Livonian nobility and by the 19th century had become completely Polonized.
Notable family members
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Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809–1885), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall in the
Franco-Prussian War
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.
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Fritz Manteuffel (1875–1941) German gymnast
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Hans Manteuffel (1879-1963), architect
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Hans-Wilhelm Doering-Manteuffel (1898–1963), general in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany during World War II
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Hasso von Manteuffel (1897–1978), German general and politician
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Heinrich von Manteuffel (1696–1798), Prussian Lieutenant General in Wars of
Frederick the Great
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* (1806-1879), German politician, prussian agriculture minister
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Otto Karl Gottlob von Manteuffel (1844-1913), German politician, member of German Reichstag
* Count Ernst Andreas Ernestovich von Manteuffel (1873-1953), Russian nobleman who had an affair with
Aurora Demidova and caused her divorce from
Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia.
* Count Arvid Victor Clemens Ernestovich von Manteuffel (1879-1930), Russian nobleman who famously killed
Nicholas Yusupov in a dispute over his wife in 1908
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Otto Theodor von Manteuffel (1805–1882), Prussian Prime Minister
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Sabine Doering-Manteuffel (born 1957), German ethnologist
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Wanda Zawidzka-Manteuffel (1906–1994), Polish graphic artist
Members of the family Zoege von Manteuffel or Manteuffel-Szoege
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Edward Manteuffel-Szoege (1908-1940), Polish artist
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Felix von Manteuffel or Friedrich Karl Baron von Manteuffel-Szoege (born 1945), German actor
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Georg von Manteuffel-Szoege (1889–1962), politician
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Gustaw Manteuffel (1831 – 1916), historian
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Kurt Zoege von Manteuffel (1881–1941), Baltic German art historian
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Leon Manteuffel-Szoege (1904–1973), Polish surgeon
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Tadeusz Manteuffel or Tadeusz Manteuffel-Szoege (1902–1970), Polish historian
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Werner Zoege von Manteuffel (1857–1926), medical surgeon
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