Alexander Andrae (politician)

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Alexander Ferdinand Ludwig Andrae called Andrae-Roman (born December 17, 1821 in Hanover , † March 13, 1903 in Stettin ) was a German farmer and politician .

Life

Andrae was born the son of a businessman and landowner and studied in Berlin and Bonn . During his studies he became a member of the Fridericia Bonn fraternity in 1843 and was in contact with Ernst Moritz Arndt , Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann and Gottfried Kinkel .

He was married to Helene Flügge. Their father Wilhelm Flügge acquired the Ramelow estate in the Kolberg-Körlin district in Pomerania in 1845 , divided it into two farms - Niedergut and Obergut -, managed the Niedergut and sold the upper estate to his son-in-law. Alexander Andrae and his wife moved to the Ramelow estate in 1845.

A few years later, Andrae sold the Ramelow estate to a brother-in-law. Instead, in 1851 he bought the Roman manor with Buchwald , also located in the Kolberg-Körlin district. Here he founded Waldhaus , an asylum for released prisoners, in 1853 .

He was friends with Bismarck , through which he joined the circle of the Pomeranian revival movement in 1846 . He worked in the Inner Mission of Pomerania, was active as an author and from 1848/49 member of the Second Chamber of the Prussian State Parliament .

After selling Roman he lived in Szczecin from 1881. Here too he was involved in the Inner Mission. He was a board member of the Kückenmühler Anstalten , the Magdalenenstift , an institution for the education of neglected girls, and the Szczecin City Mission . He died in Szczecin in 1903.

His marriage had eleven children. His daughter Marie Andrae was a writer, educator and nurse. She also published under the pen name Marie Andrae-Romanek. The son Hans was a well-known lawyer.

Fonts

  • Illumination of the reply of the royal. Ober-Kirchenraths on the entry of the Pomeranian cartridge from January 1858. 1858.
  • Memories of an old man from 1848. Bielefeld 1895.
  • From days long gone. Memories of an old man. Bielefeld, Leipzig 1899. ( digitized version )

literature

Footnotes

  1. ^ Manfred Vollack : The Kolberger Land. Its cities and villages. A Pomeranian homeland book. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1999, ISBN 3-88042-784-4 , pp. 535-536.
  2. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part III, Volume 1. W. Dietze, Anklam 1867, p. 421. ( Online )
  3. ^ Ingeborg Andrae: Andrae, Hans . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, p. 36