Alexander von Pfuel

Portrait of Alexander von Pfuel (1870) by Oskar Begas

Alexander Friedrich Karl Reinhold von Pfuel (born July 16, 1825 in Berlin , † March 15, 1898 in Jahnsfelde ) was a Prussian officer and knighthood director and lord of the Jahnsfelde.

Life

Pfuel came from the old to Jahnsfelde in the Brandenburg Switzerland -based noble family of Pfuel . He was the son of Lieutenant General Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Pfuel and Klara Maria von Rochow (1796-1865) from the Goltzow family . His mother was the only daughter of Caroline de la Motte Fouqué (see, Theodor Fontane : Effi Briest ). His brother Gustav von Pfuel was the father-in-law of Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg . The Prussian Prime Minister Ernst von Pfuel was his uncle. Pfuel's grandfather, Ludwig von Pfuel , was the court marshal of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia .

Pfuel advanced to lieutenant in the Prussian army . After his time in the military, Pfuel devoted himself to the management of his manor . In May 1870, Pfuel initiated extensive construction work on Jahnsfelde Castle , which lasted until 1875. With the additions completed in the neo-Gothic style on both gable sides of the main building, a generous extension of the castle was created. In the Prussian knighthood, Pfuel was promoted to knighthood director.

In the early sixties of the 18th century, Pfuel was in lively exchange with Theodor Fontane about the family history of those von Pfuel, which Fontane processed in the volume Oderland of his hikes through the Mark Brandenburg .

Pfuel married Anna Emilie Henriette Mathilde (1835–1918), born on August 12, 1862 at Seifersdorf Castle . Countess von Brühl , daughter of the Prussian general manager of the theater and museums, Karl Graf von Brühl and Countess Jenny von Pourtalis (1795–1884). She was the granddaughter of Hanns Moritz and Christina von Brühl . The electoral Saxon and royal Polish Prime Minister Heinrich Reichsgraf von Brühl and his wife Maria Anna Franziska Countess von Kolowrat-Krakowsky (1717–1762) were their great-grandparents.

The marriage had three children:

• Ursula Augusta Johanna (* 1869)
• Heino Friedrich Albrecht (1871–1916), Prussian Rittmeister in the 1st Brandenburg Dragoons Regiment No. 2 , Fideikommiss Herr auf Jahnsfelde, legal knight of the Order of St. John , fatally wounded in World War I ⚭ 1902 Leopoldine (Leonie) Karola Julie Henriette von Rohr (1876– 1941). They were the parents of Curt-Christoph von Pfuel .
• Gertrud Barbara Klara (* 1873–1956)

Awards and honors

• He was a legal knight of the Order of St. John.

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Noble houses A. Volume XX, p. 332, Volume 93 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1988, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 .
• Genealogical manual of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume X, pp. 336f., Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISBN 3-7980-0819-1 .
• Genealogical paperback of the knights and Noble families. Buschak & Irrgang, Brünn (1880), p. 324.
• Phull and Phull-Rieppur. In: Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1868. Eighteenth year, p. 601 ff.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses. 1906 p. 573 ff. With stem series , 1918 p. 594 ff.
• Description of the ancestral castle of the von Pfuel family. In: Marco Schulz: Jahnsfelde castles and gardens of the Mark. Friends of the Palaces and Gardens of the Mark, Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger (Ed.), ISBN 978-3-941675-00-1 .