Carl von Monroy
Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Monroy (born February 1, 1846 in Güstrow , † December 24, 1924 in Schwerin ) was a German forester and chief forest master of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .
Life
Carl von Monroy came from the Huguenot noble family von Monroy , who came to Mecklenburg via Celle and worked here for generations as foresters and lawyers in the service of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . His father (Reinhold) Karl von Monroy was a judge and the last president of the Grand Ducal High Court in Güstrow. His brother Ernst (Carl Friedrich) von Monroy also became a judge.
After graduating from the cathedral school in Güstrow , Carl von Monroy joined the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment No. 89 . As a lieutenant he took part in the campaign against France in 1870/71, where he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class. In 1875 he passed the forest auditor exam and was a forester in Ludwigslust from 1877 to 1879 . In 1880 he was promoted to forestry inspector in Jasnitz, now a part of Picher . In 1888 he was appointed forest council and member of the grand ducal forest college in Schwerin. 1896 he was as Oberland forester overall responsibility for the Grand Ducal Forestry (the Domaniums transferred), and in 1898 he was appointed head of the Hofjägeramtes. On the XXVIII. At the gathering of German forest men in April 1899 in Schwerin, he was elected 2nd chairman of the newly founded German Forest Association.
Since 1899 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology and the Mecklenburg Heimatbund.
Two of his sons died in the First World War : Ernst Ludwig von Monroy, a forest science student in Munich and Oberjäger in the Mecklenburg Jäger Battalion No. 14 , on September 26, 1914, and the lawyer Karl Axel von Monroy on February 6, 1915. A Another son Johann Albrecht von Monroy also became a forester.
Awards
- House Order of the Wendish Crown : Grand Cross with the Crown in Gold (April 9, 1907)
- Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg)
- Iron Cross (1870) 2nd class
- Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class
- Royal Crown Order (Prussia) 2nd class with star
- Right knight of the Order of St. John
- Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig : Grand Commander
- Order of Orange-Nassau : Grand Cross
- German war memorial for 1870/71
- Landwehr service award 2nd class
Works
- The memory of the members of the von Monroy family who died in the World War. Karl Axel von Monroy † February 6, 1915. Ernst Ludwig von Monroy † September 26, 1914. Schwerin 1916
literature
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6752 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the number of employees at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich 1915 , p. VI (PDF; 14.9 MB)
- ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 19: 83 (1907); all other orders as of January 1908 according to the listing in Mecklenburg-Schwerinscher Staatskalender 130 (1908), p. 67
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Monroy, Carl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monroy, Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forester and chief forest master of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guestrow |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1924 |
| Place of death | Schwerin |