Adolph von Sprewitz

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Adolph Karl Christian von Sprewitz (born January 12, 1800 in Rostock , † November 30, 1882 in Neubrandenburg ) was a German fraternity member and chief inspector of the state workhouse in Güstrow .

Life

Adolph of spreaders joke was the younger son of 1803 ennobled quartermaster Joachim Jacob of spreaders wit and his Dutch wife from 's-Hertogenbosch , whom he married when he was with the Mecklenburg troops in the Dutch pay. As a 15-year-old he took part in the Battle of Waterloo , studied from 1817 first in Rostock and then from 1820 in Jena jurisprudence . In 1818 he became a member of the Rostock Burschenschaft / Rostochia and the Greifswalder Burschenschaft , in 1819 the Landsmannschaft Pomerania Greifswald , in 1820 the Jenaische Burschenschaft / Germania . In 1821 he became a member of the Youth Association and traveled to Switzerland to obtain instructions from the “Men's Association”. He began to recruit members in other university cities such as Freiburg and Tübingen . On August 31, 1823, the Youth League was betrayed by Johannes Andreas Dietz. As a result, Adolph von Sprewitz was arrested on January 24, 1824. In Koepenick prison he attempted suicide by drilling a secretly retained table knife three times in his chest. In 1826 the trial for high treason took place. He was 15 years imprisonment convicted and into the fortress Stettin spent. In imprisonment in a fortress he acquired knowledge of forest science in order to later work in forestry. In 1829 a pardon was rejected, but he was released early from prison in 1831 and expelled from Prussia. He went back to Mecklenburg and did a forestry internship in Grabow and in the Dobbertin and Penzlin forests.

From 1832 he worked as the chief inspector of the farmhouse in Güstrow and from 1847 implemented the state-sponsored convict migration from Mecklenburg-Schwerin to the United States.

He was married to Bertha, geb. Knappe von Knappstädt (1818–1885). The couple had six children.

In 1876 he retired, which he spent in Neubrandenburg. His successor was Karl von Nettelbladt . He finally died in 1882 in the arms of his youngest daughter, the deaconess Anna von Sprewitz .

Fonts

  • The emergence of salvation. Dam. A legend edited by Ad. v. Sprevitz. Stettin: M. Böhme n.d. (1825?)
  • Tabular overview of the natural history of those caterpillar species which have already caused great damage in German softwood forests. 1831
  • Treatise on the establishment of forced labor institutions in the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Based on the experience and ... the establishment of the Großh. Mecklenburg-Schwerin country workhouse in Güstrow. 1846
  • Illumination of the ordinance of May 15, 1848 for the establishment of arbitration commissions to determine the contentious situation of farm laborers ... 1849
  • Overview of the drains goods of the farmhouse brickworks in Güstrow, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, together with the standardizing prices in Pr. Court. From mid-November 1855. through 4 lithographic plates and accompanying comments , Ms. Werner, Bützow 1856 ( digitized version )
  • A mother's heart. Dramatic family painting. 1860
  • The female figures on the Neuthor and Stargarder Thore in Neubrandenburg. (Poem), in the General Mecklenburgischer Anzeiger of January 21, 1877

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 407-473.
  • Herman Haupt: Sources and representations on the history of the fraternity and the German unity movement. Volume 10, Heidelberg 1927.
  • Anna von Sprewitz: On an eternal path. Unitätsbuchhandlung publishing house, Gnadau 1923.
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses 1928. P. 739–740.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9600 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. HK Eggers: From the family circle of the Eggers: The Detmering, Nyholm, von Sprewitz, Oersted, Hudtwalker. In: Quarterly magazine for coat of arms, seal and family studies. 8 (1880), pp. 99-116, here p. 105; see also Bernd Johann Carl Friedrich von Below
  2. Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. Franz Stadtmüller : The development of the Landsmannschaften (Corps) in Rostock at the beginning of the 19th century in: Einst und Jetzt , Volume 9 (1964), pp. 52–82 (pp. 75ff.)
  4. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 53 , 97
  5. "Landarbeitshaus" ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.gaunerkartei.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gaunerkartei.de
  6. The farm work house was in Güstrow Castle from 1817 to 1945
  7. ^ Matthias Manke: Convict migration from Mecklenburg-Schwerin from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century in Yearbook for European Overseas History , Volume 9, Wiesbaden 2009, p. 67 ff.