Adolf von Plessen
Baron Adolf von Maltzahn, Count von Plessen (born September 28, 1835 in Ivenack ; † September 18, 1909 ibid; full name: Adolf Rudolf Carl Felix Baron von Maltzahn , Count of Plessen ) was majorate of Ivenack , resident of the castle on Kummerow and member of the German Reichstag . He was also hereditary land marshal of Old Western Pomerania and commander of the Mecklenburg Cooperative of the Order of St. John .
Life
origin
Adolf von Maltzahn (No. 1019 of the gender census ) was a younger son of Adolf Freiherr von Maltzahn, Count von Plessen (1788-1862), Majorate Lord on Ivenack in Mecklenburg and Lieutenant Colonel in the Regiment of the Gardes du Corps , and his wife Cecilie, born of Smoke .
Career
Maltzahn attended the Vitzthum-Blochmannsche Gymnasium in Dresden and studied from 1863 to 1866 in Bonn and Berlin . In Bonn he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . After his two older brothers Mortimer and Friedrich died at an early age, after the death of his father in 1862 he became majorate owner of the estate and castle Ivenack and assumed the title of Count von Plessen, which is hereditary with this property . He became the main director of the Mecklenburg Patriotic Association and a member of the Mecklenburg Statistical Office.
From 1867 to 1871 he was a member of the constituent Reichstag and the Reichstag of the North German Confederation for the constituency of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 3 ( Ludwigslust - Parchim ). Between 1878 and 1881 he was again a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Mecklenburg - Schwerin 4 ( Malchin - Waren ) and the German Conservative Party .
family
He married Elisabeth Charlotte von Meyerinck, a daughter of Major General Richard von Meyerinck and his wife Agnes, née Freiin von Kinsky and Tettau .
The couple had three sons and four daughters:
- Albrecht (1858–1900), Prussian lieutenant a. D. ⚭ 1883 Honor Guard von Klitzing (1863–1948)
- Adolf (1860-1881)
- Magdalene (1862–1945) ⚭ 1882 Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz (1855–1928), owner of the manors Burg Schlitz , Karstorf, Görzhausen, Hohen Demzin and Ziddorf, chamberlain from Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Elisabeth (1864–1941) ⚭ 1888 Georg Graf von Waldersee (1860–1932), Prussian lieutenant general
- Alhard (1869–1903)
- Cecilie (1873–1960) ⚭ 1893 August Graf von Behr-Negendank (1866–1942), Fideikommißherr auf Semlow , member of the Prussian manor , hereditary kitchen master of the Principality of Rügen and the Lande Barth , Prussian Chamberlain, Prussian Rittmeister dR
- Asta (1876–1968) ⚭ 1896 Hugo Freiherr Knigge (1869–1945), Prussian colonel
Web links
- Adolf von Plessen in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of Adolf Graf-Comte Plessen . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Gräfliche Häuser. Justus Perthes publishing house, Gotha. 1921, pp. 66, 81, 706 f.
- Literature about Adolf von Plessen in the state bibliography MV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 342.
- ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , short biography p. 449.
- ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, pp. 269-270.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plessen, Adolf von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maltzahn, Adolf von; Plessen, Adolf Rudolf Carl Felix Graf von; Maltzahn, Adolf Rudolf Carl Felix Freiherr von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landowner, majorate (Count von Plessen) and politician, MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ivenack |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1909 |
| Place of death | Ivenack |