Ernst Senfft from Pilsach

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Ernst Karl Wilhelm Adolf Baron Senfft von Pilsach (born May 24, 1795 in the Reck house in Lerche ; † November 13, 1882 in Gramenz ) was President of the Prussian province of Pomerania .

Life

He was a son of Adam Friedrich Ernst Senfft von Pilsach (1747-1830) from the original noble family Senfft von Pilsach and his wife Friederike, born von der Recke († 1814). His father was district administrator of the Hamm district from 1788 to 1803 .

During the Wars of Liberation , Senfft joined the Prussian Army's Pomeranian Grenadier Battalion as a volunteer hunter in November 1813 and took part in the battles at Hoogstraeten , St. Antrine, Courtray and Oudenaarde in 1814. In September 1814 he was promoted to second lieutenant and in 1815 took part in the march on Paris . After the war, Senfft was approved to retire from military service on August 26, 1821 . After he had sold the Rottnow estate in 1828, he acquired the Gramenz estate there , an old property of the von Glasenapp family .

In 1829 he made the acquaintance of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia and in 1830 made contacts with Hans Hugo von Kleist-Retzow . When the Crown Prince became King of Prussia (Friedrich Wilhelm IV.) In 1840, he appointed Senfft as his advisor. From 1845 to 1848 Senfft was a secret chief finance officer in the Ministry of the royal house .

In 1848, Senfft was a co-founder of the Kreuzzeitung . Senfft was one of the promoters and active preachers of the East Elbe revival movement , such as the Below movement . After 1848 he became a co-founder and leading member of the Central Committee for Inner Mission and founder of a “boy rescue house”. Nonetheless, Senfft increased his landed property, sometimes in a ruthless manner, probably without being aware of the resulting social hardship of the previous tenants. After his brother-in-law Adolf von Thadden-Trieglaff , he was the most influential representative of the pietistic- Protestant revival movement in Pomerania. Adolf's daughter Marie von Thadden-Trieglaff had initially also been able to win Bismarck over to the goals of the movement; His later culture war against the Catholic Church alienated the Chancellor from the Pietists and led to a sharp correspondence with mustard.

From 1852 to 1866 he was the district president in Stettin and at the same time served as senior president of the Prussian province of Pomerania in Stettin and from 1855 he was a member of the Prussian manor house . After his death, the farm in Gramenz, which he had lavishly modernized, had to be sold due to excessive indebtedness.

family

He married Ida von Oertzen on March 7, 1825 († May 31, 1849). The couple had several children:

  • Ida (June 28, 1826; † May 24, 1891) ⚭ Reinhold von Glasenapp (1814–1887) on Buchwaldt
  • Elisabeth (born April 29, 1827)
  • Ernst Theodor (* July 30, 1831) ⚭ 1856 Luise Blanka Charlotte Wilhelmine Marie von Massow (* June 6, 1836)
  • Arnold (born March 16, 1834)
  • Frederike (born August 16, 1838)

After the death of his serious wife, he married Bertha Sophie August Friederike Wilhelmine von Luck (* October 6, 1811, † January 5, 1881), the widow of Lieutenant General Ludwig von Sohr .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The social hardship of farm workers: Excerpt from a letter from Friedrich von Bodelschwingh to his father, 1854. In: [www.lwl.org Internet portal "Westfälische Geschichte" ]