Bruno von Lepel-Gnitz

Bruno von Lepel

Hans Constanz Leopold Bruno von Lepel-Gnitz (born July 16, 1843 in Neuendorf , Pomerania , † June 11, 1908 in Berlin ) was a German theater director . Heir to Gut Gnitz with Neuendorf, Lütow, Netzelkow and Görmitz Island.

family

Bruno von Lepel was a member of the Pomeranian branch of the von Lepel family , who had their ancestral home at Gut Neuendorf on the Gnitz peninsula on the island of Usedom . The addition -Gnitz was used to denote the branches of the family e.g. B. Wieck, Grambow, Nassenheide, etc. to be identified. His father was Karl Paul Felix Friedrich Wilhelm von Lepel (1817–1891), his mother Hebe Countess Jahnke (1818–1874). His sister Adelaide (1839-1917) was married to a brother Leo von Caprivis .

Bruno von Lepel's first marriage from 1871 to the American Juliet Buchanan-Austin (1852–1877) and his second marriage from 1880 to the painter and later storybook author Hedwig Laura Amalie Antonie Greve - Hedwig von Lepel-Gnitz (1850–1925 ) married. They had three children.

Education and career

Kgl. Prussia. Lieutenant in the 2nd Uhlan Regiment. 1873 to 1887 Kgl. Prussia. Spa and bathing commissioner for Bad Ems / Lahn. On October 1st, 1887, Bruno von Lepel succeeded Hans Bronsart as director of the Royal Court Theater in Hanover . In the Bruno von Lepel era, Hanover was independent of the general directorate in Berlin. Bruno von Lepel carried the title of Kgl. Prussia. Chamberlain . He remained director in Hanover until 1908. He was an important researcher of Lepel's family history.

literature

Historisch-Genealogisches Handbuch des Familie v. Lepel (Lepell). Developed by Andreas Hansert and Oskar Matthias Frhr on the basis of family history sources. v. Lepel with the assistance of Klaus Bernhard Frhr. v. Lepel and Herbert Stoyan. German Family Archives, Volume 151, Verlag Degener & Co., owner Manfred Dreiss, Insingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7686-5201-8
German necrology . Volume 13, 1908; Death list.

Individual evidence

^ Sabine Albrecht and George Alexander: Opera in Hanover - 300 years of change in the music theater of a city . Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, Hanover 1990, p. 62.

personal data
SURNAME	Lepel-Gnitz, Bruno von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lepel-Gnitz, Hans Constanz Leopold Bruno von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neuendorf , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH	June 11, 1908
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Sabine Albrecht and George Alexander: Opera in Hanover - 300 years of change in the music theater of a city . Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, Hanover 1990, p. 62.