August von Gerlach

August Friedrich Bernhard von Gerlach-Parsow (born August 28, 1830 in Parsow , Fürstenthum district ; † September 20, 1906 there ) was a landowner , royal Prussian district administrator and politician.

family

He came from a noble family from the Lower Silesian Breslau (14th century), later from Nienburg (Saale) in the district of Bernburg (17th century), and was the son of the landowner Karl Heinrich von Gerlach (1783–1860), Fideikommissherr on Parsow and Schwemmin and landlord on Dornow as well as the Prussian district administrator of the Fürstenthum district, and Charlotte von Beyme (1792–1870), landlady on the Trienke , Drosedow , Steglitz, Dahlem, Schmargendorf and Ruhleben estates .

Gerlach married on February 22, 1861 on Gut Groß- Dubberow Asta von Kleist (* 6 July 1840 on Gut Groß-Dubberow; † 14 April 1933 on Gut Parsow). The couple had several daughters:

Memorial stone for Hertha Reichsgräfin vdSchulenburg and her husband near Beetzendorf

Asta (April 16, 1863 - May 9, 1948) ⚭ Baron Carl von Pachelbel-Gehag-Ascheraden (June 15, 1859 - January 31, 1942)
Luise (* August 7, 1866) ⚭ 1891 Karl Ernst Manfred von Richthofen (* May 24, 1855 - † November 28, 1939)
Hertha (* February 23, 1871; † January 14, 1958) ⚭ 1907 Adolf Friedrich Reichsgraf von der Schulenburg at Beetzendorf ( Großer Hof ) and Osterwohle (* July 3, 1855 - September 13, 1925), son of Werner von der Schulenburg . A memorial stone on the Beetzendorf manor cemetery still commemorates the couple today.

Life

Like his father, Gerlach was entertainer on the two estates of Parsow and Schwemmin and landowner on Trienke and Drosedow .

From 1857 to 1872 he was district administrator of the Fürstenthum district , after its dissolution in 1872 district administrator of the newly formed district of Köslin until 1891.

From 1866 to 1870 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , from 1871 to 1887 and from 1890 to 1895 a member of the Reichstag as a member of the Conservative Party and German Conservative Party (so called from 1876). In 1889 he became a member of the Prussian manor house , to which he belonged until his death, upon presentation of the old and fortified properties in the Duchy of Kassuben .

Orders and decorations

Prussian Order of the Crown 2nd Class (1891)

literature

Hans-Joachim Schoeps : Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 294 ( digitized version ). (Secondary entry)
Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Noble Houses , Part B 1941, page 178, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1941
Acta Borussica Volume 8 / II (1890–1900) (PDF file; 2.19 MB)
Jürgen von Gerlach: von Gerlach. Life pictures of a family in six centuries. German Family Archives, a genealogical collection, volume 160, Verlag Degener & Co., owner Manfred Dreiss, Insingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7686-5209-4 , pp. 290 ff.

Web links

von Gerlach-Parsow, August in the database of the members of the Reichstag
Biography of August von Gerlach . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

↑ A. Kypke: History of the Kleist family. Third part. Second section, containing the biographies of the Tychow-Dubberower line. Trowitzsch and Son, Berlin 1882, p. 97 ( digitized version )

^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses, 1911, p.662

^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 142 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 260-262.

↑ E. David (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian manor house . Berlin 1911, p. 243 ( online ).

personal data
SURNAME	Gerlach, August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gerlach-Parsow, August Friedrich Bernhard von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landowner, royal Prussian district administrator and politician, MdR, MdH
DATE OF BIRTH	August 28, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH	Parsow , Principality District
DATE OF DEATH	20th September 1906
Place of death	Parsow , Principality District

[1] A. Kypke: History of the Kleist family. Third part. Second section, containing the biographies of the Tychow-Dubberower line. Trowitzsch and Son, Berlin 1882, p. 97 ( digitized version )