Christian von Stenglin (1843–1928)

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Christian Freiherr von Stenglin (born December 22, 1843 in Beckendorf, today part of Bengerstorf , † June 20, 1928 in Ribnitz ) was a Prussian major , Mecklenburg Oberlandstallmeister and director of the Redefin State Stud .

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Stenglin comes from the Beckendorf house in the former Boizenburg office and thus from the younger line of the patrician and noble family von Stenglin . His grandfather Otto Christian Freiherr von Stenglin (1764-1851), Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Chamberlain and Canon of Lübeck , had acquired Beckendorf in 1815.

From 1853 to 1863 Stenglin attended the preparatory institute in Sülze near Celle and high schools in Celle and Gütersloh . In Jüterbog and Torgau he received a Prussian ensign training . His military career began in 1863.

In 1870/71 he took part in the Franco-Prussian War and from 1872 was stationed in the Leib-Kürassier-Regiment (Silesian) No. 1 in Breslau , where he was promoted to Rittmeister in 1876 . In 1885 he took his leave of active Prussian military service as a major .

Christian von Stenglin married on November 7, 1873 in Hanover, Klara (Gustava Johanna Friedrike Fernanda) von Plessen (1850-1920), the daughter of the Mecklenburg bailiff (1848) in Hagenow , Otto von Plessen and his wife Luise, née. from Schimmelmann from Letzlingen . Already one day after her birth, on February 10, 1850, Klara was entered under the number 1317 in the registered book of the Dobbertin monastery for admission to the convent, but this was deleted after her marriage. The couple had two daughters and a son: Irmgard, Margarethe and Otto. The unmarried daughters lived with their parents in Redefin and then with him in the kitchen master's house of the Ribnitz monastery until his father's death . Margarethe was registered at Dobbertin Monastery under the number 1644. In 1928 she followed the call from Dobbertin and died as one of the last conventual women there on February 27, 1965 in the state monastery. The son Otto was from 1916 to 1934 the state stable master in the Rhineland state stud in Wickrath .

In 1884 Stenglin attended the Berlin Veterinary School for three months . He then worked at the Graditz main stud and in the Hanover state stud in Celle . In 1891 he was appointed to the Brandenburg State Stud Neustadt / Dosse and a few months later to the Celle State Stud again.

On the recommendation of Berthold Graf von Bernstorff and Georg Graf Lehndorff , the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Minister Alexander von Bülow had Christian Freiherr von Stenglin from Celle with Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III . proposed to the chief stableman for Redefin. On April 1, 1892, he was appointed director of the state stud. In 1897, as Oberlandstallmeister in Redefin, he carried out Mecklenburg's first stallion show in Redefin. The second event took place as early as 1901. From 1901 he was on the board of the Ludwigsluster racing club.

From 1906 Stenglin had a special position of trust at the court: At the beginning of March 1906, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV (Mecklenburg) had Duke Paul Friedrich zu Mecklenburg incapacitate his uncle and his wife Marie and appointed Christian von Stenglin as their guardian.

During the First World War , the Ludwigsluster Dragoon Regiment No. 17 pulled numerous Redefin horses into the war. But the Oberlandstallmeister Freiherr von Stenglin managed to save the Redefiner State Stud from major losses during the war years.

In 1912 the state stud celebrated its 100th anniversary. 125 people were invited to the banquet in Redefin. At the Hagenow-Land station, handcarts for all trains were available for the participants to continue their journey to the state stud. The celebrations ended with a big public stallion demonstration on October 22nd, 1912. The list of stallions that were presented was drawn up personally by Stenglin's Oberland stable master.

Party on the outside staircase of the former Oberlandstallmeisterhaus at the 100th anniversary of the Redefin
State Stud in 1912, top row (from left) with State Ministers Stratmann, Eckermann, von Blücher, von Pressentin and their son Otto von Stenglin, middle row (from left) with Hofstallmeister von Maltzahn and State Minister Carl Graf von Bassewitz-Levetzow , front row (from left) with Duke Paul Friedrich von Mecklenburg , Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV. von Mecklenburg, their daughter Margarethe von Stenglin, his wife Klara von Stenglin, née. von Plessen, the Oberlandstallmeister Christian von Stenglin, the daughter Irmgard von Stenglin, Ernst August von Hannover .

After Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV renounced the throne . In 1918, Oberlandstallmeister von Stenglin submitted his departure from the state stud on September 30, 1920. Since his wife Klara had died on February 14, 1920 in Redefin, he moved with both daughters to Ribnitz and lived there until his death on June 20, 1928 in the former kitchen master's house of the Ribnitz monastery . After the public memorial service on June 24, 1928 in the monastery church in Ribnitz, he was buried next to his wife on June 25, 1928 in the cemetery in Redefin.

His son Otto Detlev Hartwig Karl (1877–1957) continued the tradition as state stable master and stud director in Wickrath , as did his grandson of the same name Christian von Stenglin (1914–2002) as state stable master and manager of the Lower Saxony state stud in Celle .

Awards

literature

  • Axel Attula: The Mecklenburg regional monastery Ribnitz from 1900 until the death of his last domina Olga von Oertzen in 1961. In: Ribnitz monastery, Dobbertin monastery, Malchow monastery, Rühn monastery. Greifswald 2009.
  • Wolf Karge: Achievement based on tradition - 200 years of the Redefin State Stud. Redefin / Rostock 2012.
  • Gerhard Vierguth: The Mecklenburg State Stud and State Horse Breeding 1812-1937. Schwerin 1937.
  • M. Naumann: The Plessen - family line from the XIII. to XX. Century. Published by Helmold von Plessen on behalf of the family association. 2nd revised and expanded edition. CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1971, pp. 164–165.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Friedrich von Restorff: History of the family von Restorff. Rostock 1945.
  2. ↑ M. Naumann: The Plessen - family line from XIII. to XX. Century. Published by Helmold von Plessen on behalf of the family association. 2nd revised and expanded edition. CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1971, p. 164
  3. ↑ Christian Freiherr von Stenglin, Celle 1999.
  4. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin 10 (1906), p. 52
  5. ^ Christian Freiherr von Stenglin, Celle 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Stenglin, Christian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stenglin, Christian Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg Oberlandstallmeister and director of the Redefin State Stud
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Beckendorf
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1928
Place of death Ribnitz