Fritz von Hennigs

Fritz von Hennigs , actually Friedrich Ernst Paridam von Hennigs , (born September 6, 1863 in Techlin , † November 17, 1919 in Rostock ), major, manor owner at Techlin and member of the Prussian House of Representatives .

Childhood, education and life

Fritz was the eleventh of thirteen children of the manor owner and lieutenant colonel Hermann Carl von Hennigs and his wife Ernestine, née. von dem Knesebeck was born from the Langenapel family. He married Hedwig, b. von Restorff- Radegast (born January 24, 1872 - † June 11, 1922). The couple had seven children.

education

After being educated on the estate in Techlin by private tutors, he attended the Potsdam Cadet Corps from May 1875 for grammar school training , from where he was temporarily seconded to the Prussian royal court. He was appointed lieutenant on April 15, 1882 and joined the Dragoon Regiment No. 16 in Lüneburg. In 1886 he was seconded to the squadron of Rittmeister Bernhard von Hindenburg . In the autumn of 1889 Fritz von Hennigs was assigned to the orderly officer of Wilhelm II during the imperial maneuvers of the 10th and 7th Corps. After the death of his father in 1890, he resigned from active service to look after the Techlin manor. He did an agricultural training.

Riding and racing

Fritz von Hennigs was an avid rider. From 1884 to 1888 he won every regimental race nine times in a row, five of which were the batch horse races in a row. He also won the coveted challenge cup of the city of Lüneburg in the years 1885 to 1887 and was allowed to keep it after his third victory.

Military and First World War

Fritz von Hennigs took part in the First World War and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class on January 27, 1915 . Promoted to major, Fritz von Hennigs took over the leadership of the regiment on November 20, 1915 as commander of the 14th St. Avold Uhlan Regiment of the 34th Division . Since he was still a member of the House of Representatives during the war, he interrupted his front-line deployment to attend meetings in Berlin.

politics

He was first head of department in Deyelsdorf, later district deputy in the district of Grimmen , then a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Pomerania and was finally elected to the Prussian House of Representatives for the administrative district of Stralsund (constituency 2: Grimmen-Greifswald) , to which he belonged from 1905 to 1918.

Corporate activities

Fritz von Hennigs was on the board of the Stralsund sugar factory and the dairy in Tribsees .

Thomaskirche Tribsees : Coat of arms of the Knights of Hennigs in the patron's box

church

Fritz von Hennigs, as the lord of Techlin, was also the patron saint of the Thomaskirche in Tribsees , a member of the district synod of the Evangelical Church and there, among other things, 16 years on the Synodal Board.

He was chairman of the so-called Positive Union , a religious movement widespread in Prussia at the end of the 19th century, and Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John .

Railway Initiative

Fritz von Hennigs also supported the initiative to build a railway in Western Pomerania and to better connect the Western Pomerania villages. This was also driven by the idea of supplying the sugar factory in Stralsund, of which he was a member of the board, with enough sugar beet and of creating a good sales opportunity for sugar beet for the local farmers.

As a member of parliament, he was a member of the State Railway Council. He was part of a commission in the region that worked together with the gentlemen von Rodbertus (from Katzenow), von Bahswitz (from Rekentin), Eggerhs (from Landsdorf) and Mayor Ewe from Tribsees . Not only was it difficult to find support, but also funding. Fritz von Hennigs made land available for the construction of the train station, which was later called Stremlow, although it was in the Techliner district. In order to secure the financing of this project, he became a shareholder of this railway line with 10,000 marks. On May 8, 1895, Wilhelm II, in his role as King of Prussia, issued the concession document, and on November 19, 1896, the Greifswald – Grimmen – Tribsees railway line was accepted and put into operation .

Orders and awards

• Order of the crown by personal handover from Wilhelm II.
• Iron cross 1st class.
• Knight of Honor Cross of the Order of St. John .

swell

• Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Who is who? The German WHO's WHO. 1906, p. 467.
• Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State for 1906. Berlin 1905, p. 226.
• Ranking list of the active service status of the royal preuss. Army. 1901.
• A. Voerster: Yearbook of the German Agricultural Society. Darey, 1892.
• Dirk Stegmann: The heirs of Bismarck: parties and associations in the late phase of Wilhelmine Germany (1897-1918). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1970, p. 39.
• On the regional history of the Greifswald – Grimmen – Tribsees railway line (PDF file; 5.45 MB)
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch (GGT) , Volume 1911.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch (GGT) , Volume 1940.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Call for applications 2007
2. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 174; for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 267-270.
3. ↑ Horst Robert Balz, Gerhard Krause, Gerhard Müller, Siegfried M. Schwertner: Theologische Realenzyklopädie. Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 1977, ISBN 3-11-015155-3 .

Web links

• Literature about Fritz von Hennigs in the state bibliography MV