Adolf von Wangenheim-Wake

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Adolf von Wangenheim-Wake as a member of the Reichstag in 1912

Adolf Georg Walrab Freiherr von Wangenheim-Wake (born August 3, 1854 in Hanover ; † March 30, 1936 in Eldenburg ) was the owner of the manor and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Memorial stone for Adolf von Wangenheim-Wake as dike captain in Lenzen / Elbe

Wangenheim was the son of the monastery chamber director Hermann von Wangenheim . He attended the Vitzthumsche Gymnasium in Dresden from 1868 to 1873 and studied law and administration at the Universities of Bonn and Munich from 1874 to 1877. He was a member of the district councils for the Westprignitz and the Göttingen district , head of department and dike captain of the dike association of the II and III. Division of the Prignitzer Elbe Lowlands . The Westprignitzer Deichverband placed a memorial stone for its boss on the Elbe dike near Lenzen on June 22, 1929, during his lifetime, on the occasion of his 40-year activity as dike captain, which is still preserved today (2016). In 1888 the young Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class. From 1898 to 1903 Wangenheim was a member of the committee for the investigation of water conditions in the river areas particularly exposed to the risk of flooding, a member of the international permanent association of shipping congresses, a member of the Central Association for German Inland Navigation and a member of the Altona District Railway Council .

From 1881 to 1887, from 1890 to 1903 and from 1912 to 1918 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Province of Hanover 16 Lüneburg , Soltau , Winsen (Luhe) and the German-Hanover Party .

He had been a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn since 1874 .

family

Adolf Georg Walrab von Wangenheim still had 3 sisters, of which the oldest, Charlotte (1851–1879) with Berthold Graf von Bernstorff , member of the Reichstag, the middle one, Elisabeth (born 1852), with Eberhard Graf von Bernstorff (1848–1933), grand-ducal-meckl.-strel. Forstmeister and the youngest, Hedwig (born 1859), was married to Bernhard von Hammerstein . He himself married on October 3, 1882 with Ella Freiin von Wangenheim (1862-1934) from the B line (Winterstein) of the entire family. Since then, both have lived in the Eldenburg near Lenzen in the Prignitz , a renaissance castle of the von Quitzow family from around 1600. The castle suffered considerable damage from a major fire on April 14, 1881 and was then rebuilt in somewhat simpler dimensions and inside for the young Couple refurbished. The sons Hans Georg (born 1916) and Hermann Walrab Melchior (1884–1947) were born in Eldenburg . Walrab von Wangenheim married Elisabeth Freiin von der Recke (1893–1972) on May 3, 1922 in Rudolstadt and chose the Waake estate near Göttingen as the family residence, where the three children of this marriage were born: Margarete (1923), Charlotte (1924), presumably Countess v. Pfeil und Kl. Ellguth, as well as Adolf (1927), who inherited Waake in 1947 and later sat for the CDU in the Lower Saxony state parliament. During the First World War, the von Wangenheim couple lost their son Hans Georg in the field in 1916. His parents had a special grave cross and a memorial stone erected for him in the Eldenburg cemetery, as well as a memorial stone for those who fell in the war from the villages of Eldenburg, Seedorf and Moor . However, there was no separate burial place for the family in Eldenburg, it was in Waake.

In 1932 Adolf Freiherr von Wangenheim and his wife Ella von Wangenheim, née von Wangenheim ad H. Sonneborn (1862–1934), at Eldenburg Castle the celebration of the golden wedding, to which many delegations and guests from all over the circle had come. Ella von Wangenheim wrote the altarpiece, donated to the Seedorf Church in 1900 and painted by herself. She also made some beautiful oil paintings depicting the Eldenburg interiors from around 1910/1930. After the death of his wife (1934), Adolf von Wangenheim dictated his memoirs into the typewriter for his housekeeper, Fräulein Anni von Göben, in the summer of 1935. The pages were integrated and provided with some photos and drawings. These memories are in the archive in Waake.

literature

  • Torsten Foelsch: Eldenburg - a renaissance castle in Prignitz. In: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History, Vol. 60, Berlin 2009, pp. 93–118.
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, 76th Jg., Gotha 1926, pp. 761-777 (article Wangenheim).
  • Adolf Freiherr v. Wangenheim: Eldenburg. In: German agriculture under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Motherland and colonies. For the 25th anniversary of the reign of His Majesty the Emperor, ed. by Prof. Dr. Heinrich Gerd Dade, Volume 1, Kingdom of Prussia, Halle 1913, Vol. 1, pp. 281–283.
  • Adolf Freiherr von Wangenheim-Waake: Chronicle of the dike association of the II. And III. Division of the Prignitz'schen Elbe lowlands, Lenzen 1913.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 128-129.
  2. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 91 (Statistics of the German Reich, vol. 250)
  3. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 489
  4. ↑ a b Genealogical pocket book of the count's houses. 70th year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1897, pp. 112–115 (Bernstorff)

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personal data
SURNAME Wangenheim-Wake, Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wangenheim-Wake, Adolf Georg Walrab Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manor owner and politician (DHP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1936
Place of death Eldenburg