Friedrich von Plettenberg-Heeren

Friedrich von Plettenberg-Heeren

Friedrich Gisbert Adolf Freiherr von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg , from 1913 Count von Plettenberg-Heeren , (* December 21, 1863 in House Heeren ; † June 9, 1924 there ) was a manor owner and Prussian cavalry master .

Life

family

He comes from the Westphalian noble family von Plettenberg . His parents were Adolf Eugen Ludwig von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg from the Bodelschwingh house (1826–1902) and Bertha Freiin von Plettenberg- Heeren (1832–1900). In 1892 he married Ehrengard Freiin von Krosigk - Rathmannsdorf (* Rathmannsdorf 1873, † Muttrin 1943). The two had seven daughters and one son:

• Ehrengard (* Bamenohl 1895; † Essen 1979), married in 1918 Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (* Rathmannsdorf 1887; † Essen 1977), who later became Minister of Finance (1932 to 1945). They had four sons and five daughters.
• Bertha (* Heeren 1896; † Bonn 1996), married Friedrich Karl von Zitzewitz-Muttrin in 1920 (* Muttrin 1888; † Bonn 1975). They had two sons and three daughters.
• Anna-Luise (* Heeren 1898; † Kamen 1971), married Friedrich von Trotha (* Hecklingen 1888; † in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald 1947) in 1922 . They had two sons and four daughters.
• Twin sons (* Heeren 1899; † shortly before or after the birth)
• Minette (* Heeren 1901; † Düsseldorf 1965), married Vollrat von Krosigk in 1924 (* Hohenerxleben 1893; † Cuitila / Angola 1974), farmer. They had two sons and three daughters.
• Wilhelm-Adolf (* Heeren 1902; † ibid 1950), he inherited the entire property and in 1930 married Emilie "Emmy" Countess Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin (* Düsseldorf 1909; † Hilbeck 1995). They had four sons and a daughter. After Wilhelm-Adolf's death, Emmy married Friedemann von Münchhausen (* Kölleda 1906; † Hilbeck 2002), State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia , with whom she had another daughter.

Career

Friedrich attended the Protestant grammar school in Burgsteinfurt . After finishing school, he joined the Guard Hussar Regiment of the Prussian Army in Potsdam as an avantageur , where he was promoted to Second Lieutenant in 1887 . The commanding officer of this regiment was the young Crown Prince, who later became Kaiser Wilhelm II. Here, Friedrich participated in the training of the Prince. After the coronation of the emperor, the regiment was renamed the Leib-Garde-Husaren Regiment on June 19, 1888, which the emperor presided over as head of the regiment . In 1894 Friedrich retired from active military service in order to devote more time to managing his father's property. As a reservist , he was promoted to Rittmeister in 1902 . After the death of his father he took on numerous offices. He became the patron saint of the Protestant parishes of Heeren and Hilbeck and owner of the entails with the estates Heeren, Werve , Hahnen, Bamenohl , Borghausen and Weuspert . This property was entered in the main register of goods eligible for parliament in the province of Westphalia .

Friedrich received numerous honors from the Kaiser in the years before the First World War . He was appointed Royal Prussian Chamberlain and thus belonged to the court . He was also a member of the Prussian mansion from 1907 until it was dissolved . He received the office of Hereditary Marshal of the County of Mark in 1909. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the throne in 1913, Friedrich was raised to the Prussian count status under the name Graf von Plettenberg-Heeren . The title was passed on to the eldest son and was tied to the property of the Fideikommisses Heeren. After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Friedrich volunteered for military service, even though he was no longer compulsory at the age of 50. He was hired in the high command in Berlin as an adjutant to the Commander-in-Chief in the Marken Colonel General Gustav von Kessel , where he remained until his reactivation in 1917.

Friedrich died in 1924 at the age of 60. He was buried in the private cemetery in the park of the House of Heeren.

literature

• Karl-Heinz Stoltefuß: Heeren-Werve. The story of a Hellweg parish. 2000, ISBN 3-00-005868-0 .
• Karl-Heinz Stoltefuß: Heeren-Werve. Landscape-Settlement-Peasant-Nobility. 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-041739-9 .
• Karl-Heinz Stoltefuß: House Heeren. Westphalian art sites. Issue 103. Ed .: Westfälischer Heimatbund, Münster 2006, ISSN 0930-3952.
• Dedo Schwerin von Krosigk u. a .: The Frhr. v. Plettenberg's hereditary burial in Heeren. Came in 2011, self-published.