Carl von Lorck

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Carl Emil Ludwig von Lorck (born August 29, 1892 in Schleswig ; † June 6, 1975 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and art historian .

Life

After studying law and completing his doctorate , Carl von Lorck became a lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Königsberg (Prussia) . After 1945 Lorck u. a. President of the Senate at the Higher Regional Court in Schleswig , later President of the Senate at the German Patent Office and (from 1955) judge at the Supreme Restitution Court in Herford . He retired on August 31, 1959. He spent his last years in Munich.

After studying art history at home and abroad, von Lorck wrote numerous art history treatises. His work on the East Prussian manor houses , which he was able to inspect himself before the destruction of the Second World War and in the post-war period, is of particular importance . Since 1962 he was a member of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research .

Based on a manuscript by his wife Anni geb. Freiin von Schrötter (1890–1963) he published under the pseudonym Klaus Klootboom-Klootweitschen the swan collections Der Carol (1964) and Der neue Carol (1968). The real role model for the eponymous main character Carol Graf Sassenburg was the unconventional Count Carol Meinhard von Lehndorff (1870–1936), an uncle of his wife.

Works

  • Manor houses of East Prussia. Design and cultural content. Gräfe and Unzer, Königsberg 1933.
Extended new editions:
2nd edition under the title: East Prussian manor houses. Design and cultural content. Holzner, Kitzingen / Main 1953
3rd edition under the title: Country castles and manor houses in East and West Prussia. Weidlich, Frankfurt / Main 1965 (4th edition 1972, 5th edition Flechsig, Würzburg 1992)
  • New research on the country castles and manor houses in East and West Prussia. Weidlich, Frankfurt / Main 1969
  • Castles, palaces and villas in Italy. Weidlich, Frankfurt / Main 1961
  • Castles, chateaux and gardens in France. Weidlich, Frankfurt / Main 1962
  • Cathedrals, churches and monasteries in East and West Prussia. Weidlich, Frankfurt / Main 1963
  • Klaus Klootboom-Klootweitschen: The Carol. Half a shock of shocking taunts from the life of the East Prussian Count Carol Sassenburg, collected from the mouths of nannies, grandmothers, farmers, coachmen, foresters, yarn guides, waiters and landladies . Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 1964.
  • Klaus Klootboom-Klootweitschen: The new Carol. A new half-shock of unknown taunts from the life of the East Prussian Count Carol Sassenburg. Collected from the mouths of grandmothers, farmers, coachmen, foresters, stud keepers, caravan guides, Chinese coolies, waiters and landladies . Weidlich, Frankfurt / Main 1968.
  • Europe private. Weidlich, Frankfurt / Main 1967

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cabinet minutes of the Federal Government 1955, online version. Meeting on May 18, 1955. Retrieved April 2, 2013 .
  2. ^ Cabinet minutes of the Federal Government 1958, online version. Meeting on June 18, 1958. Retrieved April 2, 2013 .
  3. ^ Cabinet minutes of the Federal Government 1959, online version. Meeting on September 9, 1959. Retrieved April 2, 2013 .
  4. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexikon , Würzburg 2002.
  5. ↑ Wulf D. Wagner : The advantage of the timeless. About the simplicity of baroque manor houses in East Prussia. In: The Ostpreußenblatt . June 2, 2001, Retrieved April 4, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Wulf D. Wagner: Many wonderful things in the world ... When recording the East Prussian manor houses, there are still many gaps to be closed. In: The Ostpreußenblatt. 1997, accessed April 4, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Old Prussian Biography, Vol. 4, p. 1129; Prussia 14, p. 58 f.
  8. ↑ Ruth Geede: The East Prussian Family. (PDF) In: The Ostpreußenblatt. November 9, 2002, accessed April 4, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Ruth Maria Wagner: An elected Prussian travels across Europe. (PDF; 12.5 MB) Carl von Lorck's youth trips - he found his home on the Mauersee. In: The Ostpreußenblatt. February 15, 1969, p. 5 , accessed April 4, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Marion Countess Dönhoff : An East Prussian Grand Seigneur. In: DIE ZEIT 52/1964. December 25, 1964, accessed April 4, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Lorck, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lorck, Carl Emil Ludwig von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1975
Place of death Munich