Alfred Count of Schwerin

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Alfred Wilhelm Detlof Graf von Schwerin (* 1859 ; † January 8, 1946 in Strasburg (Uckermark) ) was a Prussian landowner and politician .

Life

origin

Alfred Wilhelm Detlof Graf von Schwerin came from the Wolfshagen family of the Spantekow line of his family, proven since 1178, from the original Mecklenburg nobility , which later spread in Western Pomerania , where the family had owned Spantekow Castle since 1250, and in Brandenburg and extended real estate and the title of count acquired. Alfred von Schwerin was the eldest son of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz's court marshal a. D. and landlord on Fürstenwerder, Göhren etc., Wilhelm Stanislaus Hermann Graf von Schwerin (1827–1896), and Luise Sartorius von Schwanenfeld (1830–1910).

Career

As was common for young aristocrats at the time, Schwerin first entered the Prussian Army as an officer candidate , in which he was a major a. D. brought. Since he was also interested in politics, he was not satisfied with cultivating his inherited goods after leaving military service, but turned to questions of agricultural and social affairs. That is why he, whose family had had the right to present to the Prussian mansion since October 12, 1855, was appointed to the mansion, to which he belonged until this constitutional body was abolished after the revolution and the proclamation of the Republic in 1918.

After the First World War he managed his property and lived in the former Soviet zone of occupation until the land reform in 1945, when the large property was expropriated without compensation, on his estate in Lemmersdorf, in the Prenzlau district in the Uckermark . He died in Strasburg on January 8, 1946.

family

Since April 26, 1898 Alfred Graf von Schwerin was married to Anna von Düring (1870-1954). Since the marriage remained childless and otherwise heirless, in 1925 he adopted the two sons of his late sister Luise Countess von Schwerin (1853–1920), who was married to Erich von Krosigk (1829–1917). One adopted son was Johann Ludwig (Lutz) von Krosigk, who after adoption took the name Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk , that is, his mother's maiden name, and was Reich Minister of Finance from 1932 to 1945 . His brother fell in World War II.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Document about it in the Mecklenburg State Main Archive in Schwerin
  2. ^ A b Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume GA VI, page 377, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg, 1970
  3. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Volume GA VI, page 340, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg, 1970
  4. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Volume GA VI, page 378, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg, 1970
personal data
SURNAME Schwerin, Alfred Graf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwerin, Alfred Wilhelm Detlof Count of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian landowner and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1859
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1946
Place of death Strasburg (Uckermark)