Dietrich von Breitenbuch

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Ludwig Dietrich von Breitenbuch , until 1906 von Breitenbauch (born September 1, 1871 at Ranis Castle ; † February 25, 1949 in Starnberg ) was a German major, archeologist and manor owner.

Life

He came from the Saxon-Thuringian noble family Breitenbauch , whose main line took the name Breitenbuch in 1906 . Dietrich von Breitenbuch was briefly referred to as Dietz in the family .

He was the son of Arthur von Breitenb (a) uch and Isidore nee von Wurmb from the Thuringian noble family Wurmb .

After training by private tutors at Ranis Castle, which his father owned, and in Jena , he went to the military in Charlottenburg, later to Metz. He took an active part in the First World War, in which he was promoted to major.

After the death of his father, he and his brothers inherited their father's possessions, of which Ranis Castle remained jointly owned. After returning from the war, he moved with his family to the castle, which he sold to the German Red Cross in 1940. However, he retained the right to live in the castle for life, forcibly left it after Ranis was occupied by Soviet troops in 1945 and moved to Drognitz with his son-in-law .

Dietrich von Breitenbuch was interested in antiquity and in 1926 set up a museum for prehistory at Ranis Castle, in which he later mainly exhibited his own finds from the Ilsen cave. In the following years he devoted himself increasingly to the exploration of this cave until 1931.

In 1936 he joined the NSDAP.

In 1948 Dietrich von Breitenbuch left Thuringia and moved to Lake Starnberg in Bavaria, where he died the following year.

family

Dietrich von Breitenbuch married Hertha, who was divorced from Stechow, née Rassmuss, from Berlin on April 28, 1908 . She brought Joachim von Stechow into the marriage as a stepchild. The marriage resulted in four daughters.

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. Vol. 3, 1902, ZDB -ID 204181-9 , p. 907.
  • Clementine von Breitenbuch, Asta von Breitenbuch, Matthias Donath , Lars-Arne Dannenberg : Red rafters on a blue background. The von Breitenbuch family (Breitenbauch) in Saxony and Thuringia (= nobility in Saxony, volume 8), Meißen 2016, pp. 323–329.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sigrid Dušek (ed.): The secrets of the Ilsen cave under the Ranis castle - results of archaeological research in text and images - In: Pre- und Frühgeschichte Thüringens, (Thuringian State Office for Archaeological Monument Preservation, Weimar), Theiss, Stuttgart 1990
  2. ^ Clementine von Breitenbuch, Asta von Breitenbuch, Matthias Donath , Lars-Arne Dannenberg : Red rafters on a blue background. The von Breitenbuch family (Breitenbauch) in Saxony and Thuringia (= nobility in Saxony, volume 8), Meißen 2016, p. 326.
personal data
SURNAME Breitenbuch, Dietrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breitenbuch, Ludwig Dietrich von (full name); Breitenbauch, Ludwig Dietrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major, explorer of the Ilsenhöhle and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Ranis Castle
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1949
Place of death Starnberg on Lake Starnberg