Adelbert von Löwenstern

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Baron Adelbert von Löwenstern , completely Baron Georg Christian Adelbert v. Löwenstern ad Hs. Rösthof (* March 23, 1817 in Jendel , † March 8, 1879 in Carlsburg ) was a Royal Danish Chamberlain and Royal Prussian Auditor of the Army .

Origin and family

Adelbert came from the noble family of the Barons v. Löwenstern ad Hs. Rösthof and was one of five children of Baron Georg Heinrich v. Löwenstern ad Hs. Rösthof and Adelaide Laura Tugendreich (born November 30, 1796 in Copenhagen as Countess von Schimmelmann ad Hs. Lindenbourg, † 1876). His uncles were Baron Woldemar Hermann v. Löwenstern and Baron Johann Peter Eduard v. Lion star .

Adelbert had three sisters: Georgine (1819–1893), Laurette (1821–1851) and Adelaide (1823–1849) as well as the brother Baron Friedrich Sebastian v. Löwenstern (1829–1910), who later settled with his family in Oberalm and founded the Freiherr von Löwenstern`schen Maarmor-Fabriken , now known as the Kiefer marble industry .

One of his later grandsons was Major General of the Air Force in World War II Baron Elard v. Lion star . Great-great-grandson is the Hamburg entrepreneur, landowner, captain at sea d. R. of the German Navy Ludolf Baron v. Lion star.

biography

Adelbert v. Löwenstern was born in 1817 on his parents' estate Jendel (today Jäneda , Estonia) as the son of the extremely wealthy family v. Lion star to the world. In the same year his parents left the Baltic States and went to their in-laws in Dresden . The estate was handed over to the v. Benckendorff sold.

After receiving Danish citizenship (1832), the family first lived in Denmark in the Schimmelmann manor at Hellebæk near Helsingör on Zealand and in the Löwenstern villa Seelust near Klampenborg near Copenhagen. In 1827, Adelbert's father entered service in Denmark with the consent of the Tsar .

In 1827 father Georg became Imperial Russian Guard Colonel d. R., also Danish Major General d. R., Associate Danish Ambassador and plenipotentiary Minister of King Frederik VI of Denmark and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein in Rio de Janeiro and received as ambassador in Brazil the contract with the Emperor Don Pedro I . to conclude a commercial contract. Together with 10-year-old Adelbert and the three other children at the time, the parents sailed to Rio de Janeiro in 1827. In 1829 the family returned to Denmark and first moved in with their father-in-law in Wandsbek Castle.

After that Adelbert first came to the Metrologiten-Schule in Copenhagen. Since he made little progress here, his father gave him to the cathedral school in Ratzeburg on April 23, 1832 . Adelbert stayed here until 1835 and then began his university studies, studying legal scholarship , first in Berlin, then in Kiel in 1836 and in Leipzig in 1839. In 1842 he completed his studies in Kiel with distinction. Until 1847 Adelbert worked as a railway commissioner in Plön .

Afterwards Adelbert became the Royal Danish Chamberlain and Royal Prussian Auditeur (military judge). As the eldest son, he was at the same time co-owner of the Gräflich Schimmelmann'schen Fideikommiss as well as co-owner of the Baron v. Löwenstern's Fideikommisses.

On April 25, 1848, he married Rosamunde Francke in the St. Nicolai Church in Flensburg . From 1850 the family lived on Gut Buckhagen in the province of Schleswig-Holstein . All eight children were born here (except for the eldest daughter Adeline):

  • Adeline Clara Henriette Baroness v. Löwenstern (1848–1932)
  • Ernst Hermann Georg Baron v. Löwenstern (1850-1894)
  • Ernst Heinrich Karl Baron v. Löwenstern (1851–1870)
  • Georg Friedrich Baron v. Löwenstern (1853–1941)
  • Luise Sieglinde Baroness v. Lion Star (1855–1901)
  • Anna Baroness v. Löwenstern (1858–1877)
  • Adelaide Baroness v. Löwenstern (1859–1900)
  • Sergei Baron v. Löwenstern (1860–1889)

Shortly before his 62nd birthday, Adelbert died on March 8, 1879 in Carlsburg an der Schlei.

Activity as a painter

Adelbert v. Löwenstern also gained a reputation as a North German landscape painter. Many of the pictures were taken during his stays in Bordesholm , where his mother lived until her death in 1876. His sister Georgine, who was married to the local bailiff, Christian Andreas Julius Reventlow , lived there as a widow until her death in 1893.

Most of his watercolors and drawings are in the family archive of Ludolf Baron v. Löwenstern (great-great-grandson) and in the Schleswig-Holstein State Library, Kiel .

Web links

literature

  • The Bordesholmer Land in old views , European Library, Zaltbommel / Netherlands 2002, ISBN 90-288-6696-5 (chap. 5)
  • Friedrich von Smitt (ed.): Woldemar Hermann von Löwenstern : Memories of a Livländers. 2 volumes, Leipzig and Heidelberg: Winter 1858, digitized version of volume 1, digitized version of volume 2. (About the life of the von Löwenstern family in the Baltic States)
  • Bordesholmer Rundschau , Volume 16, No. 8 from April 15, 1977

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data from Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (edit.): Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods Part 2, 1.2: Estland, Görlitz 1930, p. 124f. ( Digitized version )
  2. ↑ List of over 40 family-owned goods in the Baltic States on loewenstern.de
  3. ↑ Georg Heinrich v. Löwenstern on salzburg.com
  4. ↑ museen-sh.de
personal data
SURNAME Löwenstern, Adelbert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwenstern, Georg Christian Adelbert Baron von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Danish chamberlain and Prussian military lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Jendel
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1879
Place of death Carlsburg