Ferdinand Rogalla von Bieberstein

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Ferdinand Rogalla von Bieberstein

Ferdinand Rogalla von Bieberstein (born January 21, 1857 on Gut Baranowen , Sensburg district , East Prussia ; † November 8, 1945 in Berlin ) was a landowner , Prussian politician and legal knight of the Order of St. John .

family

He came from the old East Prussian noble family Rogalla von Bieberstein and was the third child of the trained farmer and landowner Vollmar Gustav Julius Florentin Kasimir Rogalla von Bieberstein (1828-1892), lord of the Baranowen, and his first wife Mathilde von Ziegler and Klipphausen (1809-1876 ) from Bothau. His siblings were Agnes (1854–1911), Mathilde (1862–1946), Richard (1855–1900), Friderike (1863–1942), Dolores (1866–1954) and Hans Detlof (1872–1959).

On September 16, 1879, Bieberstein married Margarethe von Witzleben (born January 17, 1859 in Ober-Steinkirch; † July 1, 1929 in Plagwitz ), the daughter of the Prussian lieutenant colonel , on September 16, 1879 at Gut Ober-Steinkirch ( Lauban district , Silesia ) . D. Oskar von Witzleben, landlord on Ober-Steinkirch, and Emma Flinsch. The marriage was divorced in 1899. In his second marriage on December 17, 1912 in Berlin, Bieberstein married Hedwig Wendhausen (born August 11, 1872 in Schwerin , Mecklenburg ; † July 7, 1962 in Berlin), the daughter of the District Court President , University Vice Chancellor and Consistorial Director of Rostock Albrecht Wendhausen and Ida Mierendorf .

Daughter Wera (1883–1975) married in 1902 on Gut Bosemb Arthur von Schierholz, the co-owner of the porcelain manufacturer Plaue ( Thuringia ).

Life

childhood

Bieberstein spent his childhood on his father's estate Baranowen with his siblings with Sunday church trips to Nikolayken (Mikołajki) in the Protestant church. He grew up bilingual, German was spoken in the family and in government offices, Masurian-Polish was increasingly spoken on the farm and in traffic. He lost his mother at the age of four and remarried when he was eight. The children were looked after by the mother sister Agnes, who was married to Ferdinand von Suchodoletz on Bosemb without children and later bequeathed the Bosemb manor to him . The names of the tutors are not known.

education

Bieberstein began his academic training at the Friedrichskolleg zu Königsberg in order to start his military training at the age of 13. On May 5, 1870, he was admitted to the traditional Kulm cadet house under no. 3534 , like at least four family members before him. On December 20, 1872, he became a private and on May 1, 1873, he was sent to the Haupt-Kadettenanstalt Berlin. On September 1 of the same year he witnessed the laying of the foundation stone of the Central-Kadettenanstalt Berlin-Lichterfelde, which was expanded to 800 cadets, and attended the inauguration of the Victory Monument ( Victory Column ) on the Königsplatz on September 2, with the inauguration of the three consecutive wars with his comrades 1864 , 1866 , 1870/71 and the founding of the empire was thought.

Military service: active 1876–1886, reserve 1887–1901

From Lichterfelde Bieberstein was ordered to join the Prussian Army in the 1st Silesian Hussar Regiment No. 4 to Ohlau in the administrative district of Breslau: 1876 Portepee - Ensign , 1877 uniform photo in Metz, 1877 second lieutenant , 1879 uniform photo with his wife, 1880 adjutant , let himself be in 1884 Transferred to the guard cuirassier regiment in Berlin - after taking over the inherited estate Bosemb -, placed à la suite in 1886 and transferred to the reserve in Lötzen in East Prussia at the beginning of 1887, where he received the patent as Prime Lieutenant of the reserve of the guard cuirassier regiment in 1888 and the patent of the Rittmeister in 1894 , around 1901 as Rittmeister a. D. to finally resign from military service. In 1922 he became Major a. D. called.

Management of the estate 1885–1920

The Bosemb Manor (1902)

In 1885 Bieberstein took over the management of the inherited Bosemb manor with Wolka and Friedrichsberg. In 1901 the manor Vollmarstein with Nadawken, Kutzen with 625 (150) ha was added to the total of 1361 hectares (350 of which was forest) in the Sensburg district. He built up a model farm. Construction of massive new buildings, in addition to farm buildings, residential houses of the Guts-Instfamilien, craftsmen and treasurers on both sides of the Gutsstraße, drainage of the fields. The marshy lake meadow located below the Wolka in the elongated valley was drained by the landlord as a first pioneering act and a very valuable forage area was made available for sheep and horse breeding. In 1913, animal breeding consisted of 230 horses (mainly rearing remonts ), 346 cattle (including 168 cows), 600 sheep and 305 pigs. The black and white Dutch were bred from the cattle. The herd was attached to the herdbook . The milk from the cows was processed into butter in the estate's own steam dairy . The stately poultry farms included Italian chickens , Rouen ducks , bronze turkeys and Pomeranian ducks. The chicken eggs were sent to Berlin by post. Since 1898, under [District Administrator Georg von Schwerin (1893–1818)], the estate was connected to the Rastenburg-Sensburg small railway , which made the transport of yields and products, as well as the arrival of coal, fertilizer and animal feed very economical. The cultivation of the areas in the second year of the war, 1916, in acres: 550 winter rye , 10 summer rye , 375 winter wheat , 10 summer wheat, 105 barley , 480 oats , 500 barley, 500 fodder beet , saplings and carrots , 300 acres of clover . There were also 450 acres of meadows, 450 permanent pastures and 380 arable pastures. A steam plow and a motor plow were used to till the soil . In addition to abundant manure, the field received sufficient quantities of artificial manure in the form of canine, Thomas flour , ammonia superphosphate , calcium cyanamide , etc. In 1911, Bieberstein was one of the millionaires.

In the absence of a successor, Ferdinand Rogalla von Bieberstein sold Bosemb in 1920 to the East Prussian Landgesellschaft in Königsberg for settlement purposes and finally moved to Berlin.

Political career and social activities

Bieberstein as a member of parliament (1903/1908)

Bieberstein was politically active at an early age. He became a member of the district assembly in Sensburg in 1887 , was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives in Berlin from 1896 to 1918 and from 1903 to 1918 as a German Conservative member of the Reichstag for the Reichstag constituency of Gumbinnen 7 and won three Reichstag elections. One conservative teacher commented at the constituency level:

  • on 1903: “Before the Reichstag election, which took place on June 14th, Polish politicians made every effort to get a Polish candidate through here. No sacrifices in time and money were spared, as was the case five years ago. Thank God all in vain! With an overwhelming majority, the conservative candidate won the estate owner von Bieberstein-Bosemb. Hopefully the Wielkopolska will leave our district to rest. "
  • to 1912, the 13th and last Reichstag election in the Empire: The Reichstag election resulted in the re-election of the previous deputy v. Bieberstein Bosemb. The National Liberals had made great efforts, and the Polish party also spent a lot of money: “All in vain. Our Mazury remained conservative ”.

In 1919 he was elected head of office in the district of Bosemb for six years , including the rural community of Grunau and the manor districts of Bosemb (= Bosem) and Grunau (three communities / manor districts), but resigned from office in 1920 after the estate was sold.

In 1889 Bieberstein became a knight of honor and in 1904 a legal knight of the Order of St. John, in 1897 a member of the “Alterthumsgesellschaft Prussia”, in 1909 a founding member of the Rogalla von Bieberstein eV family association, and in 1922 a member of the German Nobility Association .

Orders and decorations

  • Bieberstein as a hussar ensign (1877)

  • Bieberstein with his first wife Margarethe von Witzleben (1879)

  • Bieberstein in rider's uniform (around 1900)

  • Bieberstein with his second wife Hedwig Wendhausen (1930/35)

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B volume XIV, page 448, volume 78 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1981, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Archive of genealogist Kuno Rogalla von Bieberstein, Hamburg (unpublished)
  • Monografia Wsi Boże, Opracowanie drugie, Boże 2005,

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Rogalla von Bieberstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The guest book with the entries of the 40 wedding guests has been preserved.
  2. ↑ For four other family members, his great-grandfather and three of his brothers, this can be assumed from their military data. The master data of the cadets No. 1 to 186 were lost due to a room fire and, unfortunately, have only been incompletely reconstructed, as Neuschäfer writes in the master list on p. 105.
  3. ↑ Lt. Neuschäfer: Stammliste of the Royal Cadet House Culm-Cöslin (June 1, 1776 - November 1, 1907). Berlin 1907.
  4. ^ Louis von Scharfenort: The Royal Prussian Cadet Corps 1859-1892. Berlin 1892.
  5. ↑ As evidenced by the dedication of a lidded vase donated by daughter Wera and son-in-law Arthur von Schierholz at the company's 25th anniversary in 1910.
  6. ↑ Wolf von Bila Heinrode, the property which is in the hands of the aristocracy in the province of East Prussia, Part II of the Gumbinnen district.
  7. ↑ Otto Brack: Business on the Bosemb manor. In: Kurt Templin: Our Masurian homeland 1818–1918. 2nd edition, Meiningen 1925
  8. ^ Rudolf Martin: Yearbook of Millionaires. 1911
  9. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 66 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)
  10. ↑ School u. Community Chronicle Alt-Gehland, Volume II. In: Old Prussian gender studies. 2007, pp. 327, 333, 342
  11. ↑ "Royal Prussian Order List" , 8th supplement, page 206, 1905
personal data
SURNAME Rogalla von Bieberstein, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner and Prussian politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Baranowen Estate , Sensburg District , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1945
Place of death Berlin