Günther von der Schulenburg (politician)

Tomb of Günther von der Schulenburg (right) and his two wives (left)

Tomb (detail)

Ernst Gebhard Carl Günther Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg (born December 18, 1819 in Braunschweig , † February 21, 1895 in Wolfsburg ) was a German landowner and politician.

family

Günther von der Schulenburg came from the white line of the widely branched noble family von der Schulenburg . He was the eldest son of the Wolfsburg landowner Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (1792–1861) and his wife Charlotte, b. Baroness von Vincke (1797–1888).

Günther von der Schulenburg married his first marriage on June 5, 1856 in Emden, a distant cousin Adelheid Countess von der Schulenburg-Emden (born February 13, 1834 in Emden; † July 7, 1870 in Wolfsburg), with whom he had seven children. After her death on the day of the birth of their seventh child, he married her sister Margarethe Adelheid Countess von der Schulenburg-Emden in Potsdam on May 9, 1873 (* May 24, 1839 in Emden; † May 26, 1906 in Wolfsburg), this marriage remained childless. Both were daughters of the manor house member Eduard Graf von der Schulenburg-Emden (1839-1906).

The first marriage had seven children:

• Werner Karl Hermann (born March 15, 1857 in Emden , † July 21, 1924 in Bad Kissingen ) became his main heir and took over the Wolfsburg estate.
• Marie Adelheid (born September 17, 1858 at Schloss Oefte , † November 20, 1945 in Neumühle ).
• Elisabeth Wilhelmine (born March 23, 1860 in Braunschweig, † April 3, 1917 in Mirow ). She married on July 11, 1883 in Wolfsburg the forester Julius von Stralendorff called von Kolhans (born March 26, 1854 in the Golchen manor ; † November 25, 1932 in Schwerin ).
• Günther Werner (born September 19, 1861 in Wolfsburg, † December 30, 1918 in Braunschweig). Günther got the Rethmar Castle, acquired in 1885, with the associated manor from his father , which he sold again in 1906 and moved to Braunschweig. On March 1, 1897, he married in Frankfurt am Main Leonie von Chappuis (born August 11, 1873 in Frankfurt am Main, † September 30, 1926 in Braunschweig), a daughter of Hermann von Chappuis . Günther did research in the field of genealogy and was the author of the monthly Der deutsche Herold . In the First World War he served as Kgl. prussia. Rittmeister .
• Charlotte Helene (born March 5, 1864 in Wolfsburg, † March 22, 1917 in Neustrelitz ). She married on September 8, 1892 in Wolfsburg Ludolf von Veltheim at Schloss Veltheim (born September 3, 1840 in Braunschweig, † September 9, 1892 in Leipzig ), chamberlain in the Duchy of Braunschweig and grandfather of the sports official Ludolf von Veltheim .
• Anna Katharina Adelheid (born May 3, 1867 in Wolfsburg; † September 2, 1914 in Tirlemont ) became a deaconess in 1896 and worked as a nurse in Berlin. In August 1914, at the beginning of the First World War , she went to Belgium to nurse , where she died the following month in the Tirlemont military hospital as a result of abuse by Franc-tireurs and was buried with military honors . Her grave is in the German military cemetery in Vladslo , and an inscription on the war memorial in Wolfsburg also commemorates her.
• The seventh and last child, a daughter not known by name, died with his mother on the day of his birth, on July 7, 1870.

Life

Schulenburg studied until 1846 Jura , 1848 Forestry , in Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1841 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . After completing his studies, he began a legal career as an auscultator at the Halberstadt Regional Court. He later left the civil service and from 1860 devoted himself to the administration of his inherited estates in Wolfsburg, Steimke , Rohrberg , Meßdorf , Rothehof , Brome , Bisdorf , Boldeckerland, Diederichsburg. The Schillermühle, a water mill that has existed on the Großer Schillerteich since around 1600 , was expanded by a sawmill in 1863 . His mother's castle, Oefte Castle near Essen, was also managed and redesigned by him.

From 1869 to 1873 Schulenburg sat as a member of the constituency Magdeburg 1 (Salzwedel, Gardelegen) in the Prussian House of Representatives . He belonged to the faction of the Conservative Party . In 1884, as a representative of the von der Schulenburg family, he became a member of the Prussian manor house , to which he belonged until his death. In 1885 he bought Rethmar Castle for his younger son . He was hereditary chef in the Kurmark Brandenburg. His tomb in the Rothenfelde cemetery has been preserved to this day.

literature

• Johann Friedrich Danneil : The gender of the Schulenburg. Volume 2, Schmidt, Salzwedel 1847, p. 431 ( digitized version )
• Hermann Krüger (ed.): Chronicle of the Prussian manor house. A commemorative book to commemorate the manor's 30th anniversary. Berlin 1885, p. 204.
• Justhus Perthes (Hrsg.): Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Graeflichen Häuser, year 1879, p. 804 f.
• Bernhard Mann : Biographical handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and the political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 355.
• 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. 388, 392-394.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Countess Katharina von der Schulenburg. pflege-wissenschaft.info, accessed on October 8, 2018
2. ↑ on duty women in Belgium during the First World War. eschichtsforum.de, accessed on October 8, 2018
3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 112 , 495
4. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 355 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); 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 , p. 400.