Alfred Alsleben (politician)

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Alfred Alsleben

Alfred Woldemar August Alsleben (born December 24, 1861 in Kalnekrug in Adiamünde , Livonia Governorate ; † March 10, 1941 in Posen ) was a German-Baltic master painter and politician in Riga .

Life

Alsleben was baptized in the church in Pernigel in today's Salacgrīva district . He attended the famous Birkenruh boarding school and learned the painting trade from master painter Petersen in Wenden in the Livonia governorate . He went to Riga and worked in the machine factory founded by Johann Christoph Wöhrmann and later at Felser & Co. He worked for Kerns - Kern was a master carpenter and modeller at Felser & Co. - and in 1890 married their daughter Emilie Charlotte Kern. During the wedding reception the sentence was dropped at a toast and he didn't take the bowl, he took the core. On February 11, 1895, he was accepted as a master painter in the St. John's Guild in Riga under number 115. His wife, Emilie Charlotte, was registered under number 114. He later became the official master painter and the elder of the painter's office. He was on the supervisory board of the Gildenbank, honorary member of the Nordeck volunteer fire brigade, founder and senior of the Hagensberg gymnastics and sports club and honorary elder of the St. Johannis guild. On the lists of the Baltic Constitutional Party and the Party of Peaceful Renewal, he successfully ran for election to the Second State Duma of 1907 . He was involved in Riga's city ​​council .

Before the First World War, he had a painting business with almost 300 employees who were employed in three departments, each with a managing director at AEG in Riga, at the Zepp shipyard and one as a column of painters building houses. He owned a rental property with four houses and 33 rental apartments for his employees in Riga, at Goldinger Str. 8/10 and Hamannstrasse. 5. This included wooden barns, wagon showers and gardens as well as a dacha on Rigas beach. He was the elder of the painter's office and senior man of the St. Johannis Gilde in Riga, was on the supervisory board of the Gilden-Sparkasse, honorary member of the volunteer fire department of Nordeckshof.

left Emilie and Alfred Alsleben, right the sons Herbert and Alfred on the bumper

In 1925 he was elected to the 2nd Saeima as a member of the German parliamentary group . In December an (unidentified) “Latvian Fascist Lodge on the Cathedral Cross” informed him that he had betrayed Latvian interests and had been sentenced to death. He had to resign from his mandate by December 16. The deadline passed, nothing happened. Despite intrigues, there were still five Germans in the Latvian parliament.

After the German-Soviet non-aggression pact was signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939, Germans were resettled from Latvia and Estonia to the German Reich in November 1939 . On November 22nd, 1939 the MS Steuben went from Riga to Gotenhafen and with trains on through Pomerania to Posen. In March 1840 he was naturalized with a German passport. He died in Poznan in 1941. Alfred Woldemar is the father of the athlete Alfred Alsleben and the grandfather of the engineer Horst Alsleben .

literature

  • Friedrich Brunstermann: The history of the small or St. Johannis guild in Riga. with name register of Nils Saje. In: Baltic genealogical booklets. Issue 5, Darmstadt, 2010.

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Printed sources

  • Archive German-Baltic Genealogical Society V., Darmstadt.

Unprinted sources

  • Latvian State Historical Archives Riga, Civil Status Archives.
  • Herbert Oskar Alsleben: Family Chronicle Alsleben. Part I.-II. Riga 1933, part III. Gardelegen 1995. (unpublished)

Web links

Commons : Alfred Alsleben (politician)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pase No. 10644, Riga December 5, 1919.
  2. ^ Family chronicle Alsleben, part II. Riga 1933, p. 2.
  3. ^ Family chronicle Alsleben, part II. Riga 1933, p. 2.
  4. ^ Family chronicle Alsleben, part II. Riga 1933, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Name register of the St. John's Guild in Riga, 2010, pp. 354, 357, 691, 694.
  6. ↑ To the voters of Riga! Baltic Post, No. 30, February 6, 1907.
  7. ↑ Baltic Post, No. 37, of February 14, 1907.
  8. ↑ Baltic Post, No. 31, of February 7, 1907.
  9. ↑ Family Chronicle Alsleben, Part II. Riga 1933, p. 3.
  10. ↑ Nordeķu muiža (Nordeckshof)
  11. ↑ Rigasche Rundschau , No. 286, from December 19, 1925
  12. ↑ Rigasche Rundschau, No. 227, October 9, 1925.
  13. ↑ Mentioned in the Latvian resettlement lists 1939/1840 under No. 372 Alsleben (Alsleben), Alfreds, dzim. 1861. g. December 24 Rigas.
personal data
SURNAME Alsleben, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alsleben, Alfred Woldemar August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic master painter and member of parliament in Riga
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Adiamünde , Livonia Governorate
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1941
Place of death Poses