Friedrich von Hahn (horse breeder)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Adolph Graf von Hahn (born May 18, 1804 in Grabowhöfe ; † July 7, 1859 in Berlin ) was a German landowner and rider. He promoted horse breeding and equestrian sports.

Life

Friedrich von Hahn (No. 365 in the gender census ) was the only son of Count Ferdinand von Hahn (1779–1805, # 362) and his wife Luise, née. von Wolffrath (* 1783). His sister Luise Wilhelmine Countess von Hahn (1805–1833, # 366) was married to the landowner and district administrator Felix von Voss (1801–1833) on Groß Gievitz , who was also known as a horse lover.

After the early death of his father on January 12, 1805, Hahn was initially under the guardianship of his grandfather Friedrich II von Hahn , who, however, also died within a year, so that the lawyer and legation councilor Carl Friedrich Hansen from Güstrow was appointed guardian. Hansen was under the guardianship of Chamberlain Anton von Wickede , who went bankrupt in 1815, so that Hansen was the sole guardian until 1820. From 1820 until Frederick came of age, the court and regional judge assessor von Blücher auf Wasdow and the major von Voss auf Kammin were appointed guardians.

Friedrich studied in Heidelberg and Göttingen and went on study trips to England, France and Italy. In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Göttingen in 1822 and at the same time a co-founder of the short-lived Corps Vandalia Rostock II. Declared of age on December 29, 1826, he took over the grandfather's inheritance or what happened after Hahn's great bankruptcy in 1816 of which was left. The goods in Basedow (Mecklenburg) , Faulenrost , Lansen , Grabowhöfe and Arensberg with associated farms were part of his inherited property, comprising almost 100 Hufen . When he reached the age of majority, he also took over the management of the Hereditary Land Marshal's Office of the knightly district of Stargard, which had already fallen to him in 1815. He was able to increase his property to a total of 127 hooves through acquisitions. His annual income was estimated at £ 18,000 in 1828; In Basedow alone he employed 45 rangers.

Friedrich took his seat at Schloss Basedow , the family seat. He had the palace complex expanded and redesigned significantly by Friedrich August Stüler , in particular having the extensive stables adapted to the requirements of modern horse and sheep breeding. Friedrich seemed particularly inspired by the English equestrian sport, which he had got to know on his study trip to England. In 1828 he received the famous English racing rider Charles James Apperley in Basedow, who described the encounter in his travelogue. In the first half of the century Friedrich himself was one of the most famous German breeders of English thoroughbreds. From 1839 to 1852, as a breeder, he won the "Friedrich-Franz-Race" in Doberan in uninterrupted succession .

The remodeling of the entire village ensemble from Basedow into a "decorated country estate" and the redesign of the palace gardens by Peter Joseph Lenné can also be traced back to Count Friedrich von Hahn.

For reasons of family policy, Friedrich was married to his cousin, Countess Ida von Hahn (1805–1880), on July 5, 1826 . Ida was the daughter of his uncle Karl Graf von Hahn (the theater count ) from Remplin. This marriage, which was divorced on February 5, 1829, arose the mentally handicapped daughter Antonie ("Toni"). She was born on March 3, 1829 in Greifswald and died on February 16, 1856 with her nurse Molly Mundt in Berlin.

On March 15, 1830, Friedrich married Agnes Countess von Schlippenbach (1812-1857), daughter of the Royal Prussian Chamberlain Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Schlippenbach on Schönermark and Arendsee. This marriage gave birth to four more children: Anna (1830–1894), Kuno (1832–1885), Werner (* 1836) and Max (1838–1903). The latter sold the properties of Kuchelmiß , Serrahn , Wilsen, Wilser Hütte and Hinzenhagen to Prince Albert of Saxony-Altenburg in 1896 ; the area was considered one of the best deer hunts .

In his third marriage after Agnes' death from October 5, 1858, Friedrich was married to Elisabeth von Le Fort (1834-1919), daughter of the landowner Friedrich Adolf von le Fort auf Papendorf, Pulow and Warnekow.

In 1846 Fritz Reuter published anonymously in the yearbooks Meklenburgisches Volksbuch for the year 1846 and Meklenburg, edited by Wilhelm Raabe . A yearbook for all estates , born in 1847 (both Hamburg) his nobility satire A count's birthday: The celebration of the birthday of the ruling Countess, as it happened on May 29th and 30th, 1842 in the appraisal . The lavish birthday party described by Reuter was organized by Friedrich von Hahn in Basedow in honor of his second wife Agnes.

literature

  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : History and documents of the Hahn family. Volume 4: The Basedow-Seeburg line. Schwerin 1856.
  • 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. 3768 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 87 , 137; 185 , 70
  2. ↑ Full text at Projekt Gutenberg-DE
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Friedrich Wilhelm Adolph von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowners and riders
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Grabowhöfe
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1859
Place of death Berlin