Georg Alexander von Rieben

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Georg Alexander von Rieben (born February 9, 1799 in Homburg , † January 5, 1877 in Galenbeck ) was a Mecklenburg landowner, district administrator and politician.

Life

Georg Alexander was a member of the noble family of Rieben . He was a son of the Hesse-Homburg privy councilor and heir to Galenbeck, Gehren and Wittenborn August Wilhelm von Rieben (1766-1827) and Caroline von Creutz (1769-1842). Rieben married Adelheid von Oertzen (1800–1873) in Lübbersdorf in 1827 . Together with his wife, he donated silver candlesticks for the churches in Gehren and Wittenborn. The marriage remained childless.

Rieben inherited the paternal estates of Galenbeck, Gehren and Wittenborn, and donated a Fideikommiss from this property on October 15, 1845 . On June 22, 1846, he also acquired the Heinrichswalde and Hohenstein estates from the bankrupt Riebenschen rule Brohm .

He was a district administrator and in 1848 was a member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives for Mecklenburg-Strelitz / Stargardischer Kreis 10 / Sandhagen .

literature

  • Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: Families from Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, genealogies of extinct and living generations. Volume 1. 1989, p. 269 (Rieben, Blatt 7, St.-Nr. 84)
  • Julius Wiggers : The Mecklenburg constituent assembly and the previous reform movement: A historical account , 1850, p. 55 ff., Online
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1913, p. 591