Diederich of Mecklenburg

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Diederich von Mecklenburg , often incorrectly spelled as Diedrich von Mecklenburg (born June 13, 1833 in Wieschendorf, today part of Hohenkirchen (Mecklenburg) ; † April 25, 1893 in Rostock ; full name: Diederich Karl August Friedrich Hans von Mecklenburg ), was a Lawyer, Mecklenburg manor owner, provisional , court official and administrative officer.

origin

Diederich von Mecklenburg was born as the son of the owner of the Wieschendorf manor Christian (Ludwig Ernst) von Mecklenburg (1803–1861) and Gustave (Luise Marie Wilhelmine Detloffine Philippine), née. from Stegmann.

Life

After visiting the Katharineum in Lübeck until Easter 1854, he studied law at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and from October 1856 at the University of Rostock . In 1855 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . In the same year he joined the Corps Borussia Bonn . After his father's death, he became the owner of the Wieschendorf and Dessow manors. He was an official auditor and from 1860 to 1862 an auditor at the Justice Chancellery in Schwerin.

From 1869 Diederich held a number of offices in the court administration of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II as well as in the state administration. Over time, his extensive knowledge of taxation had made him particularly active in this area, including at the corporate level. His three main areas of activity were divided into personal court service for the sovereign, administrative in the tax administration and the rural in the knightly self-administration. He was the first in Mecklenburg who, in addition to guardianship duties, took up a rich and varied activity outside of the family and the state service in addition to his actual job as a landowner. From 1869 on he held the following offices:

  • 1869 to 1893 Chamberlain of the Grand Dukes Friedrich Franz II. And III., Of which from 1869 to 1880 as chamberlain on duty.
  • 1876 ​​to 1884 deputy of the knightly circle Mecklenburg for the select committee in Rostock.
  • 1884 to 1893 as a deputy (from 1886: district administrator) of the knightly district of Mecklenburg, representing its interests at the annual state parliaments in Sternberg and Malchin .
  • 1886 to 1893 District Administrator of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, as such ex officio member of the Select Committee.
  • From 1886 to 1893 estate commissioner of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Debt Repayment Commission, elected for the first time as a deputy of the estates at the Malchiner Landtag in December 1886.
  • 1890 to 1893 member of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg State Railway Council.
  • From 1887 to 1893 he was a member of the head office of the Knighthood Credit Association.
  • 1888 to 1893 member of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fideikommissverwaltung zu Rostock.

Provisional in the Ribnitz and Dobbertin monastery

From 1872 to 1880 Diederich von Mecklenburg was one of three elected provisional members of the Ribnitz monastery . Since the provisional Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Bülow on Cammin refused to be re-elected in the Malchin state parliament on November 17, 1880 , Chamberlain Diederich von Mecklenburg auf Wieschendorf was elected provisional for the Dobbertin monastery for the Duchy of Schwerin . The Schwerin Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II confirmed his election on December 9th, 1880. The introduction with the handover of the appointment certificate took place in a solemn form on July 6th, 1881 in Dobbertin. Since the monastery captain Christian Joachim Hugo Karl Graf von Bernstorff on Ventschow was regrettably prevented from taking part in the ceremony due to a painful foot condition, the provisional district administrator Josias Helmuth Albrecht von Plüskow took over Kowalz in the presence of the kitchen master Wilhelm Heinrich Johann Schultz, the forest inspector Garthe and the Official actuary and clerk Gustav Lierow presented the new commissioner to the assembled monastic convent in the choir hall. Mrs. Domina Ernestine Hedwig von Schack auf Pankelow presented the 32 conventual women . The prepositus Friedrich Pleßmann and the monastery doctor Dr. Havemann had appeared. After 11 a.m. the monastic village mayors and foresters had gathered in the courtroom in the office building to see the provisional Chamberlain von Mecklenburg as their new superior and then to have them individually held responsible with a handshake.

After eight years, Diederich von Mecklenburg resigned from the office of commissioner in the Dobbertin monastery on New Year's 1888 because of many other businesses .

family

Diederich von Mecklenburg married on October 26, 1869 in Galenbeck Minka (Luise, Auguste, Anna, Georgine, Dorothea) von der Lancken from Uradel on Rügen . The 21-year-old bride was the daughter of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz Chamberlain and Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John Bernhard von der Lancken auf Galenbeck and his wife Bertha, née von Plüskow . They had six children. Minka was the court lady of the Mecklenburg Grand Duchess Marie in Schwerin and was dismissed from the court service of the ruling Duchess on October 1, 1869 due to the impending marriage. Minka von der Lancken may also have met her husband at court.

swell

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 2.26-2 Hofmarschallamt Schwerin No. 3596. Minka von der Lanckens decommissioned.
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin No. 371a / b. Introduction of the monastery rulers 1691–1921.
    • LHAS 5.11-2 Landtag assemblies , Landtag negotiations , Landtag minutes , Landtag committee.

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902 . Düsseldorf, 1902, p. 147.
  • Gustav Gotthilf Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 140.
  • Helge bei der Wieden : Outline of German administrative history 1815–1945. Vol. B.13: Mecklenburg. (1976). Pp. 21, 22.
  • Claus Heinrich Bill: History of the Mecklenburg family and their progenitor Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1675-2000. Series of publications by the Institute for German Aristocracy Research, Volume 19, Sonderburg 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. Mecklenburger Nachrichten No. 97 of April 27, 1893 Landrath von Mecklenburg died Obituary and curriculum vitae.
  2. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907), No. 520
  3. Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. Kösener corps lists 1910, 85 , 136
  5. Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 351
  6. Maybe Dassow in the knighthood of Grevesmühlen? There was no manor Dessow in Mecklenburg!
  7. LHAS Genealogical Collection Freiherr von Rodde II. K 19 Appointed chamberlain on duty at the end of January 1869.
  8. ^ LHAS 5.11-2 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Landtag Landtag protocols 1886.
  9. LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin No. 371b Introduction of the monastery rulers 1691–1920, Protocol 6 July 1881.
  10. LHAS 2.26-2 Hofmarschallamt Schwerin No. 3596 decommissioning Minka vd Lankens.