Ernst Rüdiger von Brüning

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Ernst Rüdiger (Rütger) von Brüning (born May 20, 1875 in Höchst am Main , † February 6, 1936 in Munich ) was a German regimental commander .

Life

Rütger von Brüning's father was Adolf von Brüning , a co-founder of Hoechst . His mother was Clara geb. Spindler (1843–1909), a daughter of the factory owner Wilhelm Spindler (the former boss of Adolf von Brüning).

Rütger von Brüning first studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1895 he became active in the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . As a trainee lawyer , he decided to join the Prussian Army . He joined the hussar regiment "von Zieten" (Brandenburgisches) No. 3 stationed in Rathenow , whose officers all belonged to the nobility . As a first lieutenant , Brüning worked in the German embassies in Tokyo and Washington . From November 16, 1914 to December 11, 1914, Rittmeister von Brüning was the commander of the hussar regiment.

In 1933 he married the secretary Eleonore Holtz (1904–1968), 29 years his junior , daughter of Richard Holtz and Hedwig geb. Müller. The marriage had two children.

Brüningslinden Castle builder

According to plans by the architect Georg Siewert , Brüning had the so-called Brüningslinden Castle built in Kladow from 1910 to 1912 . Fritz Greppert was responsible for the interior fittings .

Brüningslinden Castle was acquired in 1935 by the owner of the wine trading company Gruban und Souchay and operated as a hotel with excursion restaurants. After the end of the Second World War it was confiscated by the US Army and temporarily (occupied for 1947) used as a summer retreat for Jewish children. In the 1960s, the outdoor area was leased to Märchenwald GmbH, which soon ran into financial difficulties. At the end of 1972, the building was demolished due to its dilapidation with the approval of the then Berlin building senator. The property was acquired by GAGFAH , which built 39 terraced houses on it from 1977. The castle's lion fountain stood in the round courtyard of the former town hall of Berlin-Wilmersdorf from 1988 onwards , donated by the Berliner Bank . At the end of the operation of the town hall, the well was dismantled and stored. After a restoration, the fountain in Kladow was put back into operation on May 6, 2017.

After Brüning's death

On February 6, 1936, Brüning died of pneumonia . He left his wife Eleanor in great debt. In February 1938, who joined the NSDAP at an early age, gave birth to an illegitimate child in the first NS- Lebensborn -Heim established in Steinhöring (Upper Bavaria) in 1936 ; the girl was later adopted by Eleonore's second husband, Oswald Pohl , whom she married after Brüning's death (the second marriage for both of them) on December 12, 1942. Oswald Pohl was general of the Waffen-SS , head of administration of the SS main office with the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer and at the same time Ministerialdirektor in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . Pohl was responsible for the administration of the concentration camps and was instrumental in carrying out the Holocaust ; In 1947 he was sentenced to death as a war criminal in the Nuremberg trials, imprisoned in Landsberg am Lech and executed in 1951.

Brüningsau

In the estate of the Brüning family, the so-called Brüningsau near Halfing (Rosenheim district) in Bavaria, a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp was set up in 1942 at the instigation of Oswald Pohl (Dachau Command 556); Prisoners with skilled craftsmanship had to renovate the house several times until 1945, in which a children's home was partially set up. After the marriage, the family did not live on the Brüningsau estate, but in northern Germany . Only shortly before the end of the war, in April 1945, did the family return to Brüningsau fleeing the Red Army and Oswald Pohl went into hiding nearby. After the end of the war, Sudeten German refugees were temporarily quartered, later a children's home and from 1968 to 1998 a mother-child home. Today the Brüningsau property is rented out to holiday guests by an animal welfare association.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses . Part 2. Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1941, p. 75.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 64/890
  3. ^ The Schloss Brüningslinden Summer Camp . Vienna Library .
  4. ↑ https://www.berlin.de/ba-charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/ueber-den- Bezirk/gebaeude-und-anlagen/brunnen/ artikel.118249.php
  5. ↑ Venetian lion fountain in the round courtyard of the town hall Wilmersdorf. District lexicon on berlin.de
  6. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/bezirke/spandau/berlin-spandau-brunnen-mit-geschichte-die-loewen-sollen-zurueck-nach-kladow/13700192.html
  7. ↑ http://www.berliner-woche.de/kladow/kultur/venezianischer-loewenbrunnen-restauriert-und-feierlich-eingeweiht-d124896.html
  8. ↑ Peter-Ferdinand Koch: Himmler's Gray Eminence. Oswald Pohl and the SS Main Office for Economic Administration . Facta Oblita, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-926827-01-7 , pp. 82-83.
  9. ^ Dorothee Schmitz-Köster: Child L 364. A life-born family story . Rowohlt, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-87134-564-7
  10. ^ Dirk Riedel: Halfing-Brüningsau . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 2: Early camp, Dachau, Emsland camp. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3 , pp. 340-341.
  11. ↑ Advertising page with pictures (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Brüning, Ernst Rüdiger from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brüning, Rütger from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German regimental commander
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH High on the Main
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1936
Place of death Munich