August von Rheden

August Adolf Karl Georg Julius Ludwig von Rheden (born October 19, 1853 on Gut Rheden , integrated community Gronau (Leine) , district of Hildesheim , Lower Saxony ; †  January 3, 1907 ibid) was the 16th Erbdrost von Gandersheim , royal Prussian district administrator and politician.

family

He came from an old noble family of the Diocese of Hildesheim , which first appeared in a document in 1251, and was the son of the 15th Erbdrosten von Gandersheim Georg von Rheden (1819–1874), landlord of Rheden, and Sophie Bock von Wülfingen (House Elze) (1827-1902).

Rheden married on April 23, 1880 in Bückeburg ( Schaumburg-Lippe ) Elfriede of the blankets (Stellenfleth house) (born October 2, 1860 in Fallersleben (now part of Wolfsburg , Lower Saxony ); † May 30, 1930 at Gut Rheden), the Daughter of the royal Prussian forester Christoph von der Betten , co-lord of the Bruchhof, Kinten and other estates, and Maria Strahl . His son was the politician Hartwig von Rheden .

Life

Rheden was landlord on Rheden and Heinum, from 1888 landscape councilor of the Principality of Hildesheim, from 1889 to 1907 royal Prussian district administrator of the district of Gronau , from April 1902 with the award of this title for life in Brunswick 16. Erbdrost von Gandersheim, was president of the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture and from 1897 member of the Prussian manor house until his death in 1907 .

In 1898 Rheden signed an appeal for elections by the “ Bund der Landwirte ” (BdL), the forerunner of the German “Landbund” , which is why he was denied a medal.

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume VII, page 330, volume 34 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1965, ISSN  0435-2408
• Acta Borussica Volume 8 / I (1890-1900) (PDF file; 2.72 MB)
• Acta Borussica Volume 8 / II (1890-1900) (PDF file; 2.19 MB)