Alfred Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden

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Count Alfred Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (born July 4, 1848 in Stuttgart , † April 18, 1887 in Wiesbaden ) was a German officer and writer .

Grave of Alfred Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden, Nordfriedhof in Wiesbaden , restored in 2018
Fenella , Stuttgart, 1886, first edition

Life

Alfred Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden was a scion of the Swabian noble family Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , named after the castle Adelmannsfelden ( Ostalbkreis ) , the elder of two sons of the judicial officer and imperial count Friedrich Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden and his wife Sophie, née. von Vischer-Ihlingen, a relative of Ludwig Uhland's wife Emilie geb. Vischer. He was Catholic , as was his father, while his mother was a Protestant . The father died in 1852.

Adelmann attended grammar school in Stuttgart and then went to what was then the war school in Ludwigsburg in the fall of 1864 to prepare for a military career. When the war broke out in 1866 , the war school was closed and Adelmann was transferred to the reserve with an officer license. After the peace treaty he entered the lieutenants' school in Ludwigsburg for a year and was then appointed second lieutenant in the 3rd cavalry regiment of King Wilhelm . In addition to his military duties, he devoted himself to literature, and in 1869 he published his first novella, "Mathilde" (Collected Works, Vol. IV) in the "Blätter für den Häuslichen Kreis".

Promoted to Premier Lieutenant in July 1870 , he took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 , in which he received the Iron Cross for an independent attack with his cavalry . In 1871 he published the memories, sketches and novellettes he wrote during the war months under the title “Aus dem Felde”. In 1872 his novel "Selbst errungen", begun before the war, followed, in 1873 the novella "An excursion to Normandy". In the meantime he had been transferred to Ludwigsburg, where, in addition to his daily duty, he also had to give lessons in history and geography in the regimental school and fencing lessons for the officers of the regiment.

In 1872 he made a trip to Norway , Sweden , Denmark and Heligoland and in 1873 one to the Salzkammergut and Vienna . In the fall of 1874 he was given a year of leave. He went first to Vienna and in the spring of 1875, after a brief visit to Budapest , to Italy , where he traveled around until autumn. He published his letters to his mother from Italy in 1877 under the title “From Italy: Seven Months in Art and Nature”.

After returning to his regiment, he was in the spring of 1876 to the aide of the 27th Cavalry Brigade and in January 1877 personal aides of the Württemberg crown prince Wilhelm appointed and shortly after the captain promoted. His new official position took him to various courts over the next three years. During these years he wrote the patriotic novel "Sword and Pen" (1881), which had already occupied him in Italy, the short novels "The Rose" and "The Girl from Foreign Lands", and the sketch "What is happiness?"

In order to devote himself entirely to his writing activities, he took the beginning of 1880 a half-year leave to attend the University of Berlin to continue his started in Vienna studies, and then retired in July 1880 completely from active service of the army. At the beginning of 1881 he went back to Berlin and renewed relationships there with Heinrich von Treitschke , Berthold Auerbach , Friedrich Spielhagen , Hermann von Helmholtz , Botho von Hülsen and others. Then he went to Paris and, after marrying Lucy Cockerill, daughter of the Aachen industrialist Philipp Heinrich Cockerill , in Aachen on May 2, 1882 , lived for five months on the Riviera , whose natural splendor he described in the book “Am Ligurischen Seas ”. After his return to Germany he lived at the castle and manor Horst in Rhenish Prussia, where he finished his 1886 novella “Fenella”. In November 1884 he moved to Allner Castle near Hennef an der Sieg, which his father-in-law had bought in 1883. The couple's only child, Irma, was born there in 1884. Finally he moved to Wiesbaden in 1886 .

In September 1882 he bought back the Adelmannsfelden Castle , which had no longer been family-owned since the middle of the 14th century, from the Kingdom of Württemberg , to which it had belonged since 1829 , probably with parts of the property acquired through his marriage . In February 1884 he then sold it to his brother Klemens Adolf Wilhelm Rudolf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1850–1900), who set up a Fideikommiss from it. Rudolf converted to the Protestant faith in 1888 and received the right to use the name predicate “from and to Adelmannsfelden” for himself and his descendants by means of a Württemberg rescript of April 25, 1890. This line of Rudolf IV residing in Adelmannsfelden was confirmed as Primogenitur on May 31, 1893 .

In the meantime, Alfred had also begun to express himself as a writer on political and ecclesiastical issues of the time. In his "reminder to the German youth" he conjured "a strong empire, ... a war-ready army and a unified state with powerful arms". As an opponent of the ultramontane party in the Prussian state parliament , he published an “Open Letter against the Center”, which also received a lot of attention because it was written by a Catholic. His other writings, “The noble liberalism and its most dangerous opponent” (1884), his manifesto “Free from Rome!” (1886) and his “wake-up call to German national pride” moved in the same direction. In between, he wrote his novels and short stories “Was ist Glück?” (1885); "Beno Donzini" (1885); “In the Königsforst” (Ges. W. II); "Italian Novellas" (Ges. W. IV) and smaller works.

Six volumes of his “Gesammelte Werken” were published in 1889–1900.

Alfred Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden died on April 18, 1887 and was buried in the Wiesbaden North Cemetery.

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  1. ↑ On December 18, 1871, the regiment was renamed the 2nd Württemberg Uhlan Regiment, King Wilhelm No. 20. On December 14, 1874, it was renamed the Uhlan Regiment King Wilhelm (2nd Württemberg) No. 20. 1891 became it Uhlan regiment King Wilhelm I (2nd Württemberg) No. 20.
  2. ^ Allner Castle on the website of the city of Hennef
  3. ^ Norbert Hofmann: The Count Adelmann Archive Hohenstadt. In: Baden-Württemberg State Archives, Ludwigsburg State Archives: Holdings PL 12 I.
  4. ↑ Gottfried Frhr. von Franz: On the history of Adelmannsfelden - A contribution to the Swabian homeland history. (PDF; 3.8 MB) Schwabenverlag, Ellwangen 1948 (Neusatz 2004), part 3, pp. 35–36.
personal data
SURNAME Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden, Alfred Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1887
Place of death Wiesbaden