Family association von Stackelberg
 

Family History – Stackelbergs after World War I up to the present day

 
Stackelbergs
in Cologne | in Old Livonia | in Swedish times | in Russian times | after World War I up to the present day

After the independent republics of Estonia and Latvia were formed in 1919, the lands of the chivalry were expropriated, save small remaining plots. At the time, the chivalry owned 48 estates measuring 162,566 ha altogether. Due to expropriation, many Stackelbergs lost their basis of existence. Some of them emigrated to Germany as early as that. The Hitler-Stalin Pact forced all Germans at the beginning of World War II to leave their Baltic home country within only a few weeks in autumn 1939. They were “resettled” (as the Nazis called it) to Poland in the region of Poznan and Bromberg. From there, they had to flee in 1944/1945, often losing all they had been able to take with them from home. After World War II, thus many Stackelbergs were forced to build up a new existence from nothing. Many emigrated to other continents.

Today, only slightly more than half of all family members live in Germany, the others live in Canada, Sweden, USA, Finland, Russia and many other countries. In the 19th century, one line emigrated from Finland to Australia where it is successful since then. There is no Stackelberg living any more in Estonia or Latvia where the home of the family was for 650 years.

Stackelbergs
in Cologne | in Old Livonia | in Swedish times | in Russian times | after World War I up to the present day