Rembert von Münchhausen

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Rembert Freiherr von Münchhausen (born December 4, 1884 in Herrengosserstedt , Eckartsberga district ; † July 14, 1947 in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald , City of Weimar ) was a German administrative officer and manor owner.

Life

Vitzenburg Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Rembert von Münchhausen studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1905 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . After completing his studies and the government clerkship in Merseburg , he passed the assessor exam in 1912 and entered the Prussian civil service.

As a reserve lieutenant in the 2nd Guards Regiment , he took part in the first combat operations of the First World War, was seriously wounded in the Battle of St. Quentin at the end of August 1914 and was dismissed as incapacitated in February 1915. Later he was employed in the administration of Upper East as a district chief and until June 1919 in the organization of the border guard.

In 1919, von Münchhausen became a member of the government of the Upper Presidium of the Province of Brandenburg and then a consultant in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. In 1920 he was appointed district administrator of the Stolzenau district. In June 1923 he retired from civil service. He leased the manors Klein Eichstedt and Oberschmern in the Querfurt district . In 1930 he became master of Vitzenburg Castle when his wife Auguste Marie Anna b. Countess von der Schulenburg had become sole heir to the Vitzenburg entails.

After Vitzenburg became part of the Soviet occupation zone , he was arrested by the Soviet troops and imprisoned in special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald, where he died on July 14, 1947. The more than 2,700 hectare family property was expropriated. His widow went to West Germany , where her son Heyno became heir to Apelern Castle a few years later as a result of adoption by his uncle Hans Georg von Münchhausen .

literature

  • 541. † Baron von Münchhausen, Rembert . In: Hasso von Etzdorf , Wolfgang von der Groeben , Erik von Knorre: Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen and the Landsmannschaft Saxonia (1840-1844) as of February 13, 1972 , p. 99.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of the Dead Buchenwald Special Camp 1945 - 1950, Weimar-Buchenwald 2003, page 96
  2. ↑ a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 85 , 563
  3. ↑ Landkreis Nienburg a./Weser Verwaltungsgeschichte and Landräte on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke)
personal data
SURNAME Münchhausen, Rembert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münchhausen, Rembert Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrengosserstedt
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1947
Place of death Special camp No. 2 Buchenwald