Eduard Gans zu Putlitz

Albert Eduard Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz (born August 13, 1789 in Groß Pankow , Prignitz , † June 25, 1881 ) was a Prussian landowner, officer and politician. From 1855 until his death he belonged to the Prussian manor house .

family

Eduard Gans Noble Herr zu Putlitz came from the old aristocratic family Gans zu Putlitz in Prignitz . The family held the honorary office of the Hereditary Marshal of the Kurmark Brandenburg, which entitles them to a hereditary seat in the Prussian manor house .

Eduard zu Putlitz was the second son of the landowner, court clerk and private scholar Gebhard Gans zu Putlitz (1742–1827) and his wife Juliane Theodore von Winterfeld (1756–1813). His older brother Carl Theodor (1788–1848) was a member of the Paulskirche parliament . He had a younger brother, Eugene.

Eduard Gans was married to Caroline von Guretzky (January 11, 1796 - August 5, 1868). The couple had several children:

• Julie Emilie (February 15, 1820 - January 14, 1884), canon
• Gustav (1821–1890), writer and also member of the manor ⚭ Countess Elisabeth von Königsmarck (born November 22, 1825, † October 14, 1901), daughter of Adolf von Königsmarck
• Auguste Karoline (* January 21, 1827; † 1903) ⚭ 1860 Heinrich Werner von Meding († January 21, 1876), Lord of Barskewitz and Horst
• Eugen (1832–1893), also member of the mansion ⚭ 1861 Sophie Amalie Luise von Rohr (born October 21, 1841)

Life

Eduard Gans embarked on a military career and was accepted into the Berlin Military Academy in 1803. On October 18, 1805 he received his officer's license and then joined the Leib-Garde-Regiment, with which he a. a. witnessed the Prussian defeat at Auerstädt . After the surrender of Prenzlau on October 28, 1806, he was, like many officers, dismissed from service and witnessed the years of French billeting on his parents' estate in Pankow. From 1808 to 1812 he studied at the University of Göttingen and (from 1811) in Berlin. In 1812 he and his brother Carl Theodor took over the management of the Mansfeld Vorwerk, which was part of Pankow. Eduard interrupted agricultural activities in 1813 and again in 1815 to take part in the Wars of Liberation , in which he took part as captain of the Landwehr. For his services in the Battle of Dresden in 1813, Eduard zu Putlitz received the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the Russian Order of Vladimir .

From 1814 he managed his father's Retzin estate, where he also began building the new estate and in 1816, after returning from the French campaign, built a new manor house. Eduard zu Putlitz rebuilt the estate according to modern principles, introduced crop rotation, extensive potato cultivation and modern sheep breeding, which led to significantly improved yields. After his father's death in 1826, he also took over the Laaske estate and, after the death of his nephew Theodor Carl (1816-1859), also took over his father's old estate in Pankow. He also led these to good yields with modernizations. Later in 1850 he handed over Gut Retzin to his son Gustav, Laaske in 1859 to his second son Eugen and finally Gut Pankow in 1878 to his grandson Konrad (1855-1924).

Eduard Gans was enfeoffed with the dignity of Hereditary Marshal of the Kurmark Brandenburg since 1855 and was thus a member of the Prussian manor house. He was also an honorary knight of the Order of St. John .

literature

• Wolfgang zu Putlitz : Life picture of the Hereditary Marshal Eduard zu Putlitz (1789–1881) . In: Prignitzer Volksbücher Heft 21, Verlag Albert Tienken, Pritzwalk 1911.
• Wolfgang zu Putlitz-Barskewitz: Eduard zu Putlitz (1789–1881). A piece of family history, compiled for the family from letters and diary sheets . Labes 1903.
• Eduard Gans zu Putlitz . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . First volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1896, p. 659-661 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).

Web links

• The history of the noble lords of Putlitz and Wolfshagen