Friedrich von Homeyer

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Friedrich Homeyer , from 1863 by Homeyer , (* July 15, 1824 in Wolgast ; † July 31, 1898 in Ranzin ) was a Pomeranian landowner, farmer and animal breeder.

Coat of arms of the von Homeyer family.

Life

Murchin manor around 1860 from southwest, Alexander Duncker collection

Friedrich Homeyer was the son of the Wolgast grain merchant and shipowner August Wilhelm Homeyer (1793–1856) and his wife Wilhelmine, a daughter of the license inspector Ernst Konstantin Schubert . He attended the Putbus pedagogy , 1844/45 the Agricultural Academy Möglin and then studied in Berlin . He received his practical training on his uncle's estate in Murchin . He then went to Scotland , where he attended the University of Edinburgh and got to know Scottish agriculture, which was then considered progressive.

On his return he took over the Ranzin estate that his father had bought for him. In a short time he achieved significant success in increasing yields through the use of new amelioration methods , such as the drainage of wet fields, the use of artificial fertilizers and seed drills and thus became a pioneer in the modernization of agriculture in the 19th century in Pomerania.

After he had started with cattle breeding and imported Shorthorn bulls for it, he built up an important sheep farm with breeding rams from Rambouillet in a few years. His breeding sheep had an excellent reputation, he exported them to South Africa , North and above all South America . He also bred heavy workhorses , especially draft horses of the Clydesdale breed . After all, he also ran pigs and devoted himself particularly to the Yorkshire breed .

He was elevated to the Prussian nobility on November 12, 1863 . From 1871 to 1873 Friedrich von Homeyer was a member of the last two state provincial parliaments of the Province of Pomerania . He was a member of the district council of the Greifswald district.

After his second wife died, he withdrew from the public eye and left the estate. He returned after the Ranzin mansion was destroyed by fire on November 4, 1875 and had a new mansion-like mansion built according to plans by the Berlin architect Eduard Knoblauch .

family

Friedrich von Homeyer was married three times. He had four children with his first wife. His wife and two newborn babies died while giving birth to twins. The two older children died at the age of 14 and 19 years respectively. His second wife died in childbed in 1873 after giving birth to a son . In the same year he married Adelheid von Hinüber († June 15, 1922). This marriage remained childless.

literature

  • Ines Kakoschke: Wolgast family portraits. The Homeyers. In: Festschrift 750 Years of the City of Wolgast 1257–2007. History and stories from our city. City of Wolgast (Ed.) 2007, p. 97f.
  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses 1913. Seventh year, p.366

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The coat of arms, carved in wood around 1880, was in a coat of arms frieze with the coats of arms of the 24 lords of the manor districts and the 3 towns of the Greifswald district in the meeting room of the district building in Greifswald.
  2. ↑ Christoph Langner: The history of animal breeding in Western Pomerania with special consideration of cattle and pig breeding from its beginnings to 1990. Dissertation, Berlin 2008, p. 67.
  3. ↑ Christoph Langner: The history of animal breeding in Western Pomerania with special consideration of cattle and pig breeding from its beginnings to 1990. Dissertation, Berlin 2008, pp. 19-21.
  4. ↑ Christoph Langner: The history of animal breeding in Western Pomerania with special consideration of cattle and pig breeding from its beginnings to 1990. Dissertation, Berlin 2008, p. 68.
  5. ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner : J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms: The nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia. Volume 3, Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg, p. 177 ( Google books ).
  6. ^ Theodor Wengler : The Pomeranian Provincial Association. Directory of the members of the provincial assembly. Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, Series V, Volume 44. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20109-8 , pp. 61–65.
  7. ^ Hans-Joachim Jacobs: Ranzin. Züssow community, July 28, 2007, accessed on September 13, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Homeyer, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Homeyer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pomeranian landowner, farmer and animal breeder
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolgast
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1898
Place of death Ranzin