Gebhard Nikolaus von Alvensleben
Gebhard Nikolaus von Alvensleben (* August 22, 1824 - † May 6, 1909 ) was head forest master and member of the Prussian manor house .
Life
Gebhard Nikolaus von Alvensleben came from the Low German noble family von Alvensleben . He was born as the eldest son of the later general of the cavalry Gebhard Karl Ludolf von Alvensleben , owner of Gut Woltersdorf , and Eugenia von Oppell in Brandenburg (Havel) . He received his education at the Knight Academy in Brandenburg Cathedral . After graduating from high school , he first served as a one-year volunteer with the 2nd Guard Regiment, completed a forestry apprenticeship, passed the surveyor's examination and in 1847 joined the Reitende Feldjäger Corps . From 1849 to 1851 he studied at the higher forestry school in Eberswalde . In 1854 he passed the chief forester's exam and initially worked in the courier service in Paris and London . In 1856 he was given a chief forester position in Eggesin (near Stettin), then in Neubrück (near Frankfurt (Oder) ) and then came as an inspection officer, first to Posen , then to Magdeburg . In the war of 1870/71 he served as a Johanniter in the hospital system.
In 1871 he took over the Lorraine district in Metz as head forester, and in 1879 the large Prussian forest district of Potsdam with 213,000 hectares of forest, which was divided into six inspections, 40 chief foresters and 236 foresters. He worked there for 22 years until 1901, when he retired at the age of 77.
From 1885 to 1900 he chaired the Märkisches Forstverein, which was re-established after the fall of the Wall in 1990 as the Brandenburgischer Forstverein. After retiring as chairman, he was elected honorary member in 1901. At the presentation of the von Alvensleben family, he was made a member of the Prussian manor house for life in 1880. He was a legal knight of the Order of St. John and received numerous medals.
family
His marriage to Agnes von Rohr (1828–1863) resulted in three sons and a daughter. Two other children were stillborn. He died on May 6, 1909 in Potsdam. The Woltersdorf family estate near Magdeburg had to be sold to the tenant Brandt in 1881 as a result of debts that still came from the Wars of Liberation . His brother was the general of the cavalry Gustav Hermann von Alvensleben .
literature
- Hermann Guse: Gebhard von Alvensleben - obituary . In: Zeitschrift für Forst- und Jagdwesen , Vol. 41 (1909), pp. 781–783.
- Otto von Hagen , Karl Donner : The forest conditions of Prussia (forest classics; Bd. 11). Verlag Kessel, Remagen-Oberwinter 2011, ISBN 978-3-941300-50-7 (reprint of the Berlin 1894 edition).
- Hellmut Kretzschmar : Historical news of the Alvensleben family since 1800, vol. 4 . Burg / Magdeburg 1930, pp. 24–26.
- Ekkehard Schwartz : 120 years of the forest association in Brandenburg 1873-1993. Brandenburg Forest Association, Potsdam 1993.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume XVII, page 3, volume 81 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1983, ISSN 0435-2408
- Albrecht Milnik : Gebhard Nikolaus von Alvensleben . In the S. (Ed.) Et al .: In the service of the forest. Life paths and achievements of Brandenburg forest people. Brandenburg pictures of life . Verlag Kessel, Remagen-Oberwinter 2006, ISBN 3-935638-79-5 , pp. 163-164.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Alvensleben, Gebhard Nikolaus von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian forest master and member of the Prussian manor house |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1824 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1909 |