Emil von Schlitz called von Görtz

Emil Graf von Schlitz

Count Emil Friedrich Franz Maximilian von Schlitz called von Görtz (born February 15, 1851 in Berlin ; † October 9, 1914 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German sculptor and cultural politician , Hessian nobleman and confidante of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Life

Emil Graf Görtz came from the noble, former imperial counts , who were wealthy in Hesse , the von Schlitz gen. Von Görtz . His parents were the grand ducal Hessian diplomat Karl Graf von Schlitz gen. Von Görtz (1822-1885) and Princess Anna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1827-1902). With the death of his father in 1885 he became the head of the family and assumed the title of ruling count . Untypical for an aristocrat, he studied sculpture under Joseph Echteler at the Munich Art Academy and became an artist. From 1885 to 1901 he headed the art school in Weimar , in 1894 he and others founded the pension institution for German visual artists .

As a Hessian registrar , Görtz was a hereditary member and finally from 1900 to 1914 President of the First Chamber of the Grand Duchy of Hesse - a position that his father already had.

Friendship with Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Count Görtz and Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, who was eight years his junior, were raised together in their youth, among others by Georg Hinzpeter . The two boys formed a friendship for life: In later years, Count Görtz belonged to the inner Liebenberg circle around Count Eulenburg . The emperor in turn often visited him to hunt in his Hessian castle; between 1891 and 1910 he is said to have spent every year at Görtz hunting capercaillie .

Artistic creation

Monument group to the Brandenburg Margrave and (first) Elector Ludwig II of the Romans (1328–1365) in the former Berlin Siegesallee. The secondary characters show the knight Hasso the Red von Wedel (left) and the governor Friedrich von Lochen. Sculptor: Emil Graf Görtz zu Schlitz, the group was unveiled on November 14, 1900.

Monument to Coligny. Location in front of the Berlin City Palace, whereabouts unknown.

Count Görtz mainly created sculptures in the sense of contemporary historicism , such as the Colignys statue in front of the Berlin Palace and the statue of Margrave Ludwig the Romans ( monument group 11 ) in Siegesallee in Berlin's Tiergarten .

family

Count von Görtz married the French-Spanish aristocrat Sophia de Villeneuve Cavalcanti d'Albuquerque (1858–1902) on February 15, 1876. The couple had six children:

• Anna Countess von Görtz (1877–1938)
• Carl August Konstantin Hereditary Count of Görtz (1877–1911) ⚭ August 29, 1905 Princess Amélie von Thurn und Taxis (1876–1930)
• Elisabeth Countess von Görtz (1879–1940)
• Wilhelm Graf von Görtz (1882–1935) ⚭ October 25, 1906 Katharina Riedesel Freiin zu Eisenbach (1883–1969)
• Maria Anna Countess von Görtz (1883–1946)
• Anna Margareta Countess von Görtz (1885–1959) ⚭ 1907 Magnus von Levetzow

See also

• Liebenberger Circle
• Schlitz (noble family)

literature

• Entry in the German Biographical Encyclopedia
• Isabel Hull : The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II , Cambridge 1982.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 333.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 769.
• John Röhl : Emperor, Court and State. Wilhelm II and German Politics , Munich 1988.

Web links

Commons : Emil von Schlitz called von Görtz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Schlitz called von Görtz, Emil Friedrich Franz Maximilian Graf and Herr von. Hessian biography. (As of October 9, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).