Ferdinand von Maltzan

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Ferdinand von Maltzan with marshal's baton as hereditary marshal in the uniform of the Mecklenburg estates (around 1820)

Georg Ferdinand Friedrich von Maltzan, Imperial Baron of Wartenberg and Penzlin (born September 27, 1778 in Werder, today a part of Penzlin ; † May 5, 1849 in Penzlin) was a German manor owner and hereditary marshal of the Wendish district of Mecklenburg. In 1816 he was the first in Mecklenburg to revoke serfdom on his estates .

Live and act

Ferdinand von Maltzan (No. 652 of the gender census ) was the son of Joseph (Christian Heinrich) von Maltzan (1735–1805) from his second marriage to Johanna (Katharine), née. von Luckner (1753–1810), a daughter of Nikolaus von Luckner . After attending the secondary school founded by Johann Julius Hecker in Berlin, the predecessor of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium , he received commercial training at Johann Georg Büsch's commercial academy in Hamburg . From 1797 he devoted himself to agriculture, initially at Gut Peckatel . In 1798/99 he took care of the management of the Wiazowna castle estate in Poland (7 km east of Otwock ), newly acquired by his father , before he married his cousin Sophie von Moltke (1783–1834) in Genin in 1800 , the daughter of the Danish budget council and the last Cathedral dean of the Lübeck bishopric Friedrich Ludwig von Moltke (1745–1824) and his wife Agnes (1759–1847), b. by Luckner.

After the death of his father in 1805, Ferdinand von Maltzan received the Penzlin, Werder, Bauhof and Neuhof, Krukow, Mallin, Rehse and Wustrow estates as a result of an inheritance settlement with his two brothers Friedrich and Adolph, from which he donated a family entreprise.

Maltzan took at the top of Penzliner Landsturm - battalion to the wars of liberation in part. The planned hanging of the flag of the Landsturm battalion from 1813 in the St. Mary's Church in Penzlin was an opportunity in 1816 to keep a promise made in 1813 and to have Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin conclude that serfdom on his estates should be lifted , what also happened, but with the reservation of all mutual rights and obligations, especially with regard to the farms, insofar as these are not based solely on the previous personal serfdom . The corresponding decree was announced on August 18 by prepositus Eberhard von der Kanzel. With this step, however, Maltzan was initially alone and far ahead of his time in Mecklenburg; It was not until 1820 that serfdom was abolished for the grand ducal domanium, and in some cases it persisted on knightly estates until 1863.

In 1815 (according to other sources, 1822) Maltzan was sworn in as hereditary land marshal of the Wendish district of Mecklenburg and until his death was the owner of this hereditary dignity in his family and thus one of the highest ranking dignitaries in the entire state of Mecklenburg.

family

Ferdinand von Maltzan was married twice and had 20 children from both marriages. He is considered to be the progenitor of the Penzlin branch of his gender.

He married on February 14, 1800 in the St-Georgs-Kirche in Genin (near Lübeck) Sophie von Moltke (1783-1834), a daughter of Friedrich Ludwig von Moltke . The couple had 7 daughters and 6 sons, including:

  • Josephine (born January 1, 1801)
  • Ludwig (Heinrich Otto Karl; called Lutz) (born January 27, 1803; † June 6, 1831)
  • Friedrich (Wilhelm Julius) (* September 25, 1804; † September 25, 1869) ∞ Elisabeth von Steinfeldt (* October 10, 1809; † October 14, 1862)
  • Adolf (born October 15, 1805; † November 14, 1834) ∞ Sophie von Maltzan from the House of Sarow (born February 19, 1805; † August 10, 1857)
  • Ferdinand (October 24, 1806 - August 6, 1890) ∞ Luise von Below (October 15, 1819 - August 6, 1880)
  • Friedrich Ernst Karl Bernhard (1812–1813)
  • Ludwig Karl Georg (born October 16, 1813 - † October 25, 1838)
  • Gebhardine Amalie Henriette Karoline Ernestine Sophie (* May 25, 1817 - † July 10, 1880) ∞ Ferdinand August von Langermann and Erlencamp (* February 25, 1814 - June 26, 1879), major general

After the death of his first wife, he married Luise Dorothea von der Lancken on December 18, 1835 in Penzlin (* October 28, 1806; † January 7, 1885). The couple had another 3 daughters and 2 sons, including:

  • Betty (born June 18, 1837) ∞ Dr. Phil. Robert Chalyhaus
  • Auguste (born August 7, 1840)
  • Cordula (born September 25, 1842)
  • Johannes Rudolf Friedrich Ferdinand (April 9, 1845 - May 30, 1927)
  • Georg Karl Ignatz Bernhard (June 2, 1849 - August 28, 1859)

monument

Memorial stone (2014)

In memory of Ferdinand von Maltzan, his son, Erblandmarschall Johannes von Maltzan (1845-1927), erected a memorial in the form of an obelisk on the Galgenberg near Neuhof on the centenary of the announcement of the abolition of serfdom on October 18, 1916 , which is still preserved today is.

literature

( Digitized from the Harvard University Library copy ). Previous owner: from Borcksche Bibliothek Möllenbeck . With dedication from Friedrich von Maltzan.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6209 .

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand von Maltzan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives for regional studies in the Grossherzogthümen Mecklenburg. Vol. 15 (1865), p. 206
  2. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1874, p.434
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1868, volume 18, p.519
personal data
SURNAME Maltzan, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maltzan, Georg Ferdinand Friedrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manor owner and Mecklenburg hereditary marshal (Wenden)
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Werder, today part of Penzlin
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1849
Place of death Penzlin