Fritz Helfritz

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Fritz Helfritz , actually Johann George Friedrich Helfritz (born April 25, 1790 in Iven , † April 20, 1848 ibid) was a German lawyer, landlord, bailiff and freemason.

Life

Helfritz (third from the right, almost hidden) in a historicist depiction of the eve of Körner's death on the God's gift estate near Schwerin (engraving after Friedrich Wilhelm Heine around 1880)

Helfritz studied law at the newly founded University of Berlin . In 1813 he joined the Lützow Freikorps and became a Oberjäger ( NCO ). On August 26, 1813, in the Rosenow Forest near Lützow, he witnessed Theodor Körner's fatal wound , who died in his arms. After the Free Corps was transferred to the Prussian Army, Helfritz served in the 6th Uhlan Regiment , where he was promoted to lieutenant and awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. In 1815 he returned to Pomerania and dedicated himself to the management of Gut Iven. He was also the bailiff for the Iven office.

From 1830 he was a member of the Anklam Freemason Lodge Julius to the three sensitive hearts and from 1834 until shortly before his death their master of the chair.

In 1845 he was guest of honor at the sword celebration for the (re) hanging of Gottlieb Schnelle's weapon on the grain oak in Wöbbelin .

In July 1846 he prepared a report for Friedrich Christoph Förster on the circumstances surrounding Theodor Körner's death. Alongside those by Anton Probsthan and Ferdinand Zenker, this is one of the three reports of Körner's death that Emil Peschel considered authentic.

He was married to Antonia Cäcilie Franziska, née Dornstein (* 1801 in Inowrazlaw , † 1851 in Iven). The later mayor of Greifswald, Hugo Helfritz (* 1827, † 1896) was a son of the couple.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Spaeter: History of the Association of the Great National Mother Lodge in the Prussian States called to the three globes, Johannisloge Julius belonging to the three sensitive hearts and the associated old Scottish delegation Isis in the Oriente Anklam, 1776-1906. P. 9f.
  2. ^ Friedrich Brasch: The grave at Wöbbelin or Theodor Körner and the Lützower. Stiller, Schwerin 1861, p. 230 .
  3. ^ W. Emil Peschel , Eugen Wildenow: Theodor Körner and his own. Volume 1. Seemann, Leipzig 1898, p. 112.
personal data
SURNAME Helfritz, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helfritz, Johann George Friedrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, landlord, bailiff and freemason
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Iven
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1848
Place of death Iven