Carl Baron Manteuffel-Szoege
Carl Baron Manteuffel-Szoege (born July 20, 1872 at Gaicken Castle in Courland ; † April 3, 1948 in Traunstein , Bavaria ) was a German author and German-Baltic baron in Katzdangen and a district marshal in Hasenpoth in Courland.
Life
origin
His parents were Karl Georg Baron Manteuffel called Zoege (1846–1895) from the Manteuffel family called Zöge and Alice Alexandrine nee. from Fölkersahm .
Career
After visiting the school in Mitau he went to Germany and studied in Bonn economics . In 1890 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . He received his PhD in 1899 in Halle to Dr. phil. and later received the honorary title of Dr. hc of medicine from the University of Dorpat .
Back in Courland he was elected to the Courland Landtag by Mitau and later also district marshal in Hasenpoth. His majority included 14 estates. Here he carried out social reforms in coexistence with the Latvians on his estates. In the Russo-Japanese War was the Courland Knighthood a column of the Red Cross in Manchuria sent. The leadership transferred the knighthood to Baron Manteuffel-Szoege and Baron Hahn . Manteuffel-Szoege received the Russian Order of St. George for his work .
The revolution in Russia in 1905 also hit him and his goods. Much of his manor houses were destroyed. Under this impression, Manteuffel-Szoege began to settle Germans from the Volhynian governorate .
Shortly before the beginning of the First World War, he too was exiled as a German to Vyatka in Siberia . He escaped to Japan in 1917 and reached Germany via the United States and Sweden. He joined the Imperial German Army and served on foot in the 2nd Guard Regiment .
Expropriated by the First Latvian Republic after the end of the war , he settled in Germany and worked as a writer. He often visited the German Kaiser Wilhelm II in Doorn .
During the Second World War he was trained as a special leader in Königsberg , East Prussia. After the end of the war he was a US prisoner of war until 1946.
Manteuffel-Szoege is buried in the family crypt at Pappenheim Castle.
Works
- Germany and the East. Munich-Berlin 1921.
- My settlement work in Courland. 1941. ( Online ( Memento from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
- Experienced songs. 1934.
literature
- Georg Baron v. Manteuffel-Szoege: Karl Wilhelm Baron v. Manteuffel called Zoege. In: Yearbook of Baltic Germanism 1957 , pp. 47–56.
- Siegfried Boström: We were Balts . Türmer, Berg (Starnberger See) 1983, ISBN 3-87829-077-2 , p. 141-164 .
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 886 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Baron Manteuffel-Szoege in the catalog of the German National Library
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Carl Baron Manteuffel-Szoege. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Photos from Katzdangen Castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 638
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manteuffel-Szoege, Carl Baron |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Manteuffel-Szoege, Karl Baron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and German-Baltic baron on Katzdangen as well as district marshal in Hasenpoth in Courland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gaicken Castle, Courland |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1948 |
| Place of death | Traunstein , Bavaria |