Günther Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg

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Street in Nordsteimke named after him
Wolfsburg Castle
Neumühle Castle

Günther Werner Busso Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg (born April 15, 1891 in Hanover ; † March 12, 1985 ), Günther Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg for short , was Fideikommißherr and last noble owner of Wolfsburg Castle , builder of Neumühle Castle and honorary citizen from Wolfsburg .

family

Günther Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg belonged to the von der Schulenburg family . He was the eldest child of Werner-Karl-Hermann Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg (born March 15, 1857 - † July 21, 1924) and his wife Frieda Countess von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, b. Freiin von dem Bussche - Ippenburg (* March 21, 1871 - March 23, 1949), a daughter of Wilhelm von dem Bussche-Ippenburg .

He married on May 4, 1928 in the garrison church in Potsdam Ursula geb. Baroness von Dincklage (born July 27, 1905 in Hanover , † December 1, 1951 in Wolfsburg).

The marriage had four children:

  • Ina Frieda Elisabeth Agnes Irmgard Ursula Johanna Sybille (born March 5, 1929 in Berlin ), married Herman Freiherr von Schorlemer - Lieser (born August 11, 1925 in Lieser; † May 2, 2016), a grandson , on June 16, 1951 in Nordsteimke von Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser , moved to Serrig , and was divorced in 1971 .
  • Werner Rudolf Karl Erhard Friedrich Hermann Joachim Alfred (born November 2, 1930 in Hanover; † October 31, 1962), died as a result of an accident. He attended high school in Wolfsburg, completed an agricultural apprenticeship from 1949 to 1951, received his doctorate in 1960 in Göttingen as a doctor of natural sciences , was knight of honor of the Order of St. John , died in a car accident at the Kamener Kreuz in 1962 and was buried in the family cemetery in Nordsteimke.
  • Günzel Gerhard Alvo Werner Justus Adolf Ferdinand (born February 13, 1934 - † July 25, 2018), took over the agricultural and forestry business from his father in 1969.
  • Rudolf (* 1937), married to Jutta geb. Freiin von der Leyen zu Bloemersheim . In his professional life he worked at BMW ,among other things, attimes as Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW South Africa and as Managing Director of BMW-Motorrad . After his retirement, he took on a number of honorary positions, such as the presidency of the German Automobile Club from 2008 to 2012.

Life

From 1911 served von der Schulenburg in King Lancers (1 Hannoversches) no. 13 as a lieutenant , and in 1918 the brigade - aide appointed. After the end of the war he retired from military service and learned agriculture, but remained captain of the reserve . He then studied forestry and agriculture in Berlin , Halle (Saale) , Munich and Hann. Münden . In 1924, after the death of his father, he took over the management of the Wolfsburg estate and its operations. From 1924 until it was incorporated into Heßlingen in 1928, he was also the head of the Wolfsburg district . In 1925 he was elected Drömlings show director. In the Lüneburg knighthood he was elected to the landscape council.

On March 8, 1934, at the opening of the 24th International Automobile and Motorcycle Exhibition (IAMA) in Berlin , Adolf Hitler called for a car to be built for broad sections of the population. At the end of 1937 / beginning of 1938 the Society for Preparation of the German Volkswagen mbH (GeZuVor) selected an area near Wolfsburg Castle as the location for the factory for the construction of this automobile and the city required for the workforce - today's Wolfsburg Boden belonged mainly to Günther Graf von der Schulenburg. To a feared expropriation forestall that sold von der Schulenburg purchase agreement of 12 July 1938, the Good Wolfsburg to the Gezuvor , further, the forest district Rothehof and other real estate in Heßlingen and Sandkamp , the Wolfsburg castle remained excluded from the sale. In 1937 he acquired a property in Golzow (Oderbruch) (575 hectares) with the funds from the sale , and a property (2,038 hectares) was also acquired in Remplin .

As the economic basis for maintaining the castle had been lost with the loss of around 2000 hectares of land and property, he left a new castle on a forest property belonging to him in the former municipality of Tangeln in the Altmark , around 35 kilometers from 1938 away from Wolfsburg Castle. From 1939 to 1940 he served as a cavalry officer in the reserve of a military reconnaissance department on the Siegfried Line as commander . He was then able to devote himself again to managing his estates and building the Neumühle Castle, which his wife had looked after in collaboration with the architect Paul Bonatz during his absence . In mid-November 1942, Günther Graf von der Schulenburg and his family left Wolfsburg Castle and moved into his newly built Neumühle Castle . On March 19, 1943, he sold Wolfsburg Castle to the city ​​of KdF-Wagen , which is now Wolfsburg , which was founded for the production of the Volkswagen .

Nordsteimke manor house

In April 1945, US soldiers took Neumühle Castle, which was replaced by the British military in May. Shortly before the takeover by Soviet units in June 1945, Günther Graf von der Schulenburg fled with his family to the British occupation zone and settled on the Nordsteimke manor , which had been in existence since it was acquired by his great-grandfather Werner Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg in Family owned in 1846. Neumühle Castle was assigned to the Soviet occupation zone and expropriated, as were the goods in Golzow and Remplin.

In memory of his wife Ursula, who died in 1951, and his son Werner, who died in 1962, who both died as a result of car accidents, Günther Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg donated a bell each to the St. Nicolai Church in Nordsteimke, of which he was the patron .

On July 1, 1969 Günther Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg handed over the overall management of his estates and forests to his son Günzel.

On April 15, 1981, he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Wolfsburg, because his personal sacrifice, giving up the family seat of Wolfsburg Castle, was the prerequisite for the creation and development of the city of Wolfsburg, and he later showed a special bond with the city. This highest award of the city of Wolfsburg, which only the VW general director Heinrich Nordhoff and the works council chairman and politician Hugo Bork had received before him, was given to him on his 90th birthday. In Nordsteimke the street leading to the manor was named after him. He was also honorary chairman and co-founder of the Reit- und Fahrverein Vorsfelde und Umgebung eV as well as an honorary member of the Schützengesellschaft Wolfsburg eV

Günther Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg died on March 12, 1985 at the age of 93 and was buried in the family cemetery in Nordsteimke.

Trivia

The Kreissparkasse Gifhorn opened on 18 November 1938, the first branch of a foreign bank, which was founded only on 1 July 1938 the city of KdF car . The first current account was opened for Günther Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg on the opening day.

literature

  • Dietrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Hans Wätjen: History of the sex from the Schulenburg 1237 to 1983. Lower Saxony printing and publishing house Günter Hempel Wolfsburg, ISBN 3 87327 000 5 , Wolfsburg 1984, pp. 304, 387, 389, 394 and 395.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfsburg Castle - History and Culture. City of Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 2002, ISBN 3-930292-62-9 , p. 158
  2. ↑ In memory of Ursula Countess von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, b. Baroness von Dincklage. books.google.de, accessed on October 4, 2018
  3. ↑ Freiherr von Schorlemer is dead. Volksfreund.de, accessed on October 5, 2018
  4. ↑ Dr. Siemens , accessed September 30, 2018
  5. ^ Obituary notice in the Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung from November 2, 1962
  6. ^ Farewell to a gentleman: funeral service for Günzel Graf von der Schulenburg. waz-online.de, accessed on October 5, 2018
  7. ↑ The ride into the red. zeit.de, accessed on October 6, 2018
  8. ↑ A man of the world from Kirchanschöring. Rudolf Graf vd Schulenburg turns 75th Passauer Neue Presse on September 6, 2012, accessed on October 6, 2018
  9. ↑ Stadtmuseum Schloss Wolfsburg (ed.): The history of the region, the castle and the city of Wolfsburg. Wolfsburg 2000, ISBN 3-922618-24-3 , pp. 37, 43
  10. ^ Jürgen Lewandowski: VW Types and History, Steiger-Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-89652-126-8 , p. 8.
  11. ^ Willi Schulz: Wolfsburg, center of a changing landscape. Wolfsburg 1969, p. 83.
  12. ↑ History of Golzow amt-golzow.de, accessed on 19 October 2018
  13. ^ Heinrich Wertheimer and the manor Golzow (Oderbruch). maerkische-landsitze.de, accessed on October 19, 2018
  14. ↑ Stadtmuseum Schloss Wolfsburg (ed.): The history of the region, the castle and the city of Wolfsburg. Wolfsburg 2000, ISBN 3-922618-24-3 , p. 38
  15. ^ Karl-Wilhelm Frhr. v. Wintzingerode-Knorr: Wolfsburg-Nordsteimke, Ev.-luth St.-Nicolai-Church. PEDA Art Guide No. 198/2003, ISBN 3-89643-204-4 , pp. 21-22
  16. ↑ Honorary Citizen of the City of Wolfsburg wolfsburg.de, accessed on October 7, 2018
  17. ^ Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung of March 18, 1985.
  18. ↑ 25 years of Kreissparkasse in Wolfsburg. In: Verkehrsverein Wolfsburg eV (ed.): Current Wolfsburg. Volume 2, issue 7, July 1963, p. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, Günther Graf von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, Günther Werner Busso Graf von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION last German noble owner of Wolfsburg Castle, builder of Neumühle Castle and honorary citizen of Wolfsburg
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1985