Dimitri von Vietinghoff

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Dimitri Karl Wilhelm Hartwig Heinrich Alexander von Vietinghoff (born May 21, 1836 in Ludwigslust ; † October 24, 1914 in Schwerin ) was a Mecklenburg officer and court official.

Life

Dimitri von Vietinghoff came from the Westphalian - Baltic noble family von Vietinghoff . He was a son of the major and battalion commander (Wilhelm Friedrich) Jasper von Vietinghoff (1801-1851) and his wife Marie, born in Mecklenburg . von Moltke (1803-1883). In 1854 he joined the Mecklenburg Jäger Battalion as an officer candidate and in 1855 switched to the artillery department. In the same year he became a lieutenant and in 1860 a prime lieutenant . From 1863 he served as adjutant of the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. Of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . In 1868 he was promoted to captain and battery boss.

In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he was a general staff officer in the staff of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz. In 1872 he was transferred to the Silesian Field Artillery Regiment No. 6 as battery chief . In 1875 he became a major in the 1st Guard Field Artillery Regiment . In 1876 he was appointed military attaché at the German embassy in London .

In 1883 Vietinghoff took his leave of the Prussian army as a colonel . In the same year he was appointed court marshal of the Mecklenburg grand duchess Alexandrine . After her death in 1892, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III appointed him . to the upper castle captain. After the death of Friedrich Franz III. In 1897 he became court chief of the regent's wife, Duke Johann Albrecht and Duchess Elisabeth . In 1901 he was appointed chief chamberlain at the court in Schwerin and in 1903 chief court marshal of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV.

From 1883 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .

From January 1909 until his death he was the successor of Adolf von Maltzahn Graf von Plessen on Ivenack, the third commander of the Mecklenburg Cooperative of the Order of St. John . His successor was Hermann Otto Louis Karl Graf von Schwerin .

From 1905 to 1914 Vietinghoff was the 5th senior of the Vietinghoff family association. In 1886 he married Madeleine von Witzendorff (1856–1904). The marriage had a son, Alexander Wilhelm Theodor Paul Adolf Otto von Vietinghoff (1887–1940).

Awards

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Beutner: The Royal Prussian Guard Artillery: in particular the history of the 1st Guard Field Artillery Regiment and the 2nd Guard Field Artillery Regiment. Volume 2, Berlin: Mittler 1894, pp. 137f. (No. 548)
  • 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. 10346 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The nobility title Freiherr bei Grewolls (lit.) cannot be found in sources such as the state calendar and the regimental history.
  2. ^ History of the Johanniter in Mecklenburg , accessed on December 1, 2014
  3. ↑ Awards and their arrangement according to the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar. 1908, p. 27.
  4. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Official supplement. 1913, p. 198.
personal data
SURNAME Vietinghoff, Dimitri von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg officer and court official
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigslust
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1914
Place of death Schwerin