Friedrich Heinrich von Podewils

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Friedrich Heinrich Graf von Podewils (born November 17, 1746 in Vienna , † May 28, 1804 in Gusow ) was a royal Prussian district administrator.

Life

Friedrich Heinrich Graf von Podewils came from the well- known noble family of the von Podewils , who lived in Pomerania . His parents were the royal Prussian ambassador Kasper Otto Christoph Graf von Podewils (* 1719, † 1781) and the daughter general Sophie Amalie Albertine von der Marwitz (* 1718; † 1784).

Podewils studied at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt and graduated with a doctorate in law , held various positions in Kleve and Halberstadt , most recently as a royal Prussian war and domain councilor before he was elected district administrator for the Lebus district in 1774 . He was also a deputy of the knighthood in the dike association of the Oderbruch .

In 1778 Podewils married Friederike Amalie Albertine Countess von Blumenthal (* 1765), the daughter of the royal Prussian state, war and conducting minister Joachim Christian Graf von Blumenthal (* 1720; † 1800) and Katharina Sophie Auguste von der Groeben (* 1728; † 1750).

In order to support his father, who became ill in old age, he gave up the district office and devoted himself only to the management of Gusow and Platkow . Here he created a recognized model economy of his time. Podewils also owned Schmargendorf , acquired the Tempelhof manor in 1796 and the Dahlem domain in 1799 .

From his father's inheritance he also owned the West Pomeranian goods Wusterwitz , Balenthin , Deutsch Puddiger , Dochow , Zarrentin and Großendorf.

He had the baroque pleasure garden in Gusow transformed into an English landscape park, where he also created the ruins in the neo-Gothic style.

Podewils was an honorary member of the Natural Research Society in Berlin and the Mecklenburg Agricultural Society . Podewilsstrasse in Berlin was later named after him.

Since Podewils himself remained childless, he bequeathed his Kurmark property in a will to the children of his deceased cousin on his mother's side, von Schönburg-Waldenburg . His Pomeranian possessions received his cousin, the royal Prussian captain in the guard on foot , Otto Friedrich Graf von Podewils (* 1745, † 1812).

plant

  • Economic experience in the Gusow and Platkow estates. Volumes 1–4, Berlin 1801–1804.
  • Comments on the saving of the potatoes, etc. 1803.

literature

  • Theophil Gerber: Personalities from agriculture and forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine: Biographisches Lexikon. Berlin 2005, Volume 2, pp. 581-582

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Podewilsstrasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
personal data
SURNAME Podewils, Friedrich Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Podewils, Friedrich Heinrich Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION royal Prussian district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1804
Place of death Gusow Castle