Alfred von Görtz-Wrisberg

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Alfred von Görtz-Wrisberg , in the USA Alfred G. Wrisberg and Alfred Wriesberg (born February 16, 1814 in Hildesheim , † December 29, 1868 in Dubuque , Iowa, USA) was a German officer and politician. During the revolution of 1848/1849 he was the military commander of Freiburg im Breisgau and Koblenz . After the failure of the revolution, he first emigrated to Switzerland and then to the USA as a so-called Forty-Eighter .

Life

Alfred von Görtz-Wrisberg came from the dynasty of the Imperial Count von Schlitz called von Görtz ; his brother was the future Minister of State Hermann von Görtz-Wrisberg, Brunswick . Little is known about his youth and early adulthood. He embarked on a career as an officer and was last Prussian prime lieutenant and adjutant before the 1848 revolution.

In 1849 he was involved in the uprising in Baden and became military commander in Freiburg im Breisgau and Constance .

After the failure of the revolution, he fled to Switzerland in July 1849. He then emigrated to the USA, where he carried out various professional activities from 1851 (?) And lived in Monroe (Wisconsin) . For a while he was Town Clerk in neighboring Clarno.

At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861/62 he was a lieutenant colonel in the 9th Volunteer Infantry Regiment of Wisconsin , in 1865 he became a captain in the 2nd Infantry Regiment of Iowa.

After the war ended in 1865, he settled in Dubuque, Iowa , and opened a private school there. In autumn 1868 he was elected justice of the peace . His life ended by suicide in December of the same year .

literature

  • Günter Kosche: Places of German history in the new federal states: divided, united, found. G + H Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931768-39-2 (especially p. 35f.).
  • Dieter Lent: Görtz-Wrisberg, Alfred Graf von. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 19th and 20th centuries. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 216 f. (with archival records from the Wolfenbüttel State Archives ).
  • Elke Niewöhner: A man from 1848 put an end to his life in America: Count Alfred von Görtz-Wrisberg. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Elke Niewöhner (ed.): Bridges into a new world: Emigrants from the former state of Braunschweig. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04278-8 , pp. 57-61.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses for the year 1878, p.319

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Dieter Lent: Görtz-Wrisberg, Alfred Graf von . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1996, p. 216.
  2. ^ Helen Maria Bingham: History of Green County, Wisconsin. Milwaukee 1877, p. 126
  3. ↑ Cf. Dieter Lent: Görtz-Wrisberg, Alfred Graf von . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1996, p. 217.
  4. ↑ Cf. Elke Niewöhner: An 1848er puts an end to his life in America: Count Alfred von Görtz-Wrisberg. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Elke Niewöhner (ed.): Bridges into a new world: Emigrants from the former state of Braunschweig. Leipzig, Harrassowitz 2000, p. 60.

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personal data
SURNAME Görtz-Wrisberg, Alfred von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wrisberg, Alfred G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and politician, 1848 revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1868
Place of death Dubuque , Iowa