Bernhard von Mellenthin

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Falkenburg Castle around 1860

Bernhard von Mellenthin (born November 9, 1811 in Groß-Schönberg in Pomerania , † April 4, 1875 at Falkenburg Castle ) was a German manor owner, entrepreneur, officer and parliamentarian.

Life

Bernhard von Mellenthin came from the noble von Mellenthin family and was the son of Rittmeister a. D. and Knighthood Councilor Otto Jobst Ferdinand von Mellenthin and Henriette Hedwig Philippine Karoline, née von Wolde from the Wusterwitz family. From 1828 to 1831 he attended the Kölln high school in Berlin . He then studied cameralia at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1832 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn .

After graduating, he served as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian Army . In 1834 he became Second Lieutenant in the 9th Landwehr Regiment and in 1848 Prime Lieutenant in the 21st Landwehr Regiment. In 1853 he was promoted to Rittmeister. In 1864 he took his leave as a major. During the German War he took part in the battles in Bohemia as a Knight of St. John . In the Franco-Prussian War he led the stage commanderships in Vesoul and Bar-le-Duc . Since 1842 he was the owner of the manor Schloss Falkenburg in the Dramburg district with a size of 3,033 hectares. In 1860 he set up a hand-painted brickworks that marketed its products across large parts of Prussia. Among other things, they were used in the construction of the Spandau Citadel .

From 1869 to 1870, in the 3rd session of the 10th legislative period, Mellenthin sat as a member of the Köslin 3 constituency (Schievelbein, Dramburg) in the Prussian House of Representatives .

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Devens , Biographical Corps Album of Borussia in Bonn 1827–1902. Düsseldorf, 1902, p. 83.
  • GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928. Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 58.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 62
  2. ↑ Bernhard Mann : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and the political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 266.
personal data
SURNAME Mellenthin, Bernhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manor owner, entrepreneur, officer and parliamentarian
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß-Schönberg, Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1875
Place of death Falkenburg Castle