Eduard von der Schulenburg-Emden

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Eduard Ernst Friedrich Carl Graf von der Schulenburg (-Emden) (born January 9, 1792 , † May 18, 1871 ) was a landowner and member of parliament in the Prussian mansion .

family

Emden manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Eduard Graf Schulenburg came from the Altmark aristocratic family von der Schulenburg, first mentioned in a document in 1237 . He was the eldest son of the landowner Philipp Ernst Alexander Graf von der Schulenburg on Emden in what was then the Neuhaldensleben district (today Bördekreis ).

Schulenburg married Adelheid Freiin von der Reck (1807-1891) in 1830 , with whom he had four children.

The first son Eduard Alexander Karl von der Schulenburg , born in 1830, became Klg. prussia. Government Council . He remained unmarried and died on January 24, 1905 in Berlin .

The second son, Ernst Eduard von der Schulenburg (born November 29, 1832, † September 2, 1905 in Emden), also became a member of the manor house in 1894. He retired from military service as a major in 1872 and then devoted himself to the management of the Emden estate. He married Anna Ida Amalie Countess zu Solms-Baruth (born June 30, 1841; † April 3, 1903 in Emden), a daughter of Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth . The marriage resulted in a son and two daughters. The son Matthias died unmarried in 1923, so that the Emden estate, which then comprised 1,126 hectares , passed to the Altenhausen family.

The daughters Adelheid Countess von der Schulenburg-Emden (* February 13, 1834 in Emden; † July 7, 1870 in Wolfsburg ) and Margarethe Adelheid Countess von der Schulenburg-Emden (* May 24, 1839 in Emden; † May 26, 1906 in Wolfsburg) were both married to their distant cousin Günther von der Schulenburg and are buried in the Rothenfelde cemetery.

Life

Schulenburg was trained by private tutors and studied in Göttingen from 1809 to 1813 . The duel between him and the member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen stud caused a sensation at this time . jur. Sophus Schmidt , which has come down to us in the Göttingen university court files. Both duelists temporarily received the Consilium abeundi from the university . He then joined the Prussian army and took part in the campaigns of 1813/14 . He remained in the army for almost 20 years and retired in 1832 with the rank of Rittmeister and became major in the reserve. In the following years he devoted himself to the management of the goods inherited in 1822. Politically, he was a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Saxony and since 1854 on presentation of the old and fortified property in the Duchy of Magdeburg in the Prussian mansion, to which he belonged until his death.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On this Dieterich Christian Sophus Schmidt , in: Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen , 19th year 1841, 1st part, no. 137, p. 437 ff. ( Digitized version ); Otto Deneke : Old Göttingen country teams. Göttingen 1937, p. 84 ff.