Georg Ludwig of Oldenburg

Georg Ludwig Duke of Oldenburg (born June 27, 1855 at Rastede Castle ; † November 30, 1939 in Eutin ) was a temporary registrar of the County of Holzappel and a Prussian officer .

Life

Georg Ludwig was the second-born son of Peter II of Oldenburg and Elisabeth, born of Sachsen-Altenburg . His older brother was Friedrich August von Oldenburg . He received private lessons. The philologist Stephan Waetzoldt (1849–1904) was one of his tutors . After the death of Stephen of Austria he inherited according to the testament 1867 in the Duchy of Nassau located able lords rule Schaumburg and County of Holzappel . Associated with the rulership was a seat in the Nassau municipal parliament and in the provincial parliament of the province of Hessen-Nassau . Since he was a minor, his brother Friedrich August took part in the meetings of the municipal council in 1873. Georg Viktor , Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont , who was closely related to the testator, claimed the two counties in an inheritance dispute and, after 20 years through the courts, was awarded them in the last instance by the Imperial Court in 1887 , which affirmed their status as a fideikommiße . In 1873 he became lieutenant in Oldenburg. From 1876 to 1878 he studied in Bonn and in 1877 became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn .

After graduating, he continued his career as an officer. From 1878 to 1880 he served with the Oldenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 19 , from 1880 to 1883 with the Cuirassier Regiment “von Driesen” (Westphalian) No. 4 and from 1888 to 1889 with the 1st Guard Dragoon Regiment “Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland ” in Berlin. On January 27, 1911 he was given the character of a colonel and stood à la suite of the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment 91 and the 1st Guard Dragoon Regiment "Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland".

literature

Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902. Düsseldorf 1902, p. 188.
Gustav Gotthilf Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928. Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 189.
Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . 6th edition, Volume 7, Leipzig 1913, p. 333.
Ludwig Herrig and Heinrich Viehoff (eds.): Archive for the study of modern languages and literatures . Also: Archive for the study of modern languages and literature or “Herrig's Archive”. Volume CXIII, Westermann, Braunschweig 1904, p. 3.
Harald Schieckel : Central Germans in the Oldenburg region. Part I: Spouses of the House of Oldenburg, civil servants, officers, clergy, teachers and doctors. [In:] Oldenburg Yearbook. Volume 64, 1965, pp. 59-161, especially p. 139.

Rudolf Vierhaus : German biographical encyclopedia . Volume 10: Thies - Zymalkowski. Munich 2008, p. 335.

Individual evidence

^ Georg Ludwig, Duke of Oldenburg on www.geneall.net
^ Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , p. 248.

↑ Schaumburg . In: Meyers Konversationslexikon. Fourth edition. 1885-1892. Pp. 411-412. ( Digitized p. 411 ; digitized p. 412 ); Decisions of the Reichsgericht in civil matters . Volume 18

↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 509

^ Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. Ed .: War Ministry . Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Son . Berlin 1914. pp. 263, 356.

^ After Hans Friedl: Nikolaus Friedrich Peter, Grand Duke of Oldenburg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 224 f. ( Digitized version ). should he have been a general. However, a second proof of this has not yet been found.

personal data
SURNAME	Oldenburg, Georg Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oldenburg, Georg Ludwig Duke of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian officer and regent
DATE OF BIRTH	June 27, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rastede Castle
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1939
Place of death	Eutin

[1] Georg Ludwig, Duke of Oldenburg on www.geneall.net

[2] Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , p. 248.

[3] Schaumburg . In: Meyers Konversationslexikon. Fourth edition. 1885-1892. Pp. 411-412. ( Digitized p. 411 ; digitized p. 412 ); Decisions of the Reichsgericht in civil matters . Volume 18

[4] Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 509

[Rangliste1914-5] Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps for 1914. Ed .: War Ministry . Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Son . Berlin 1914. pp. 263, 356.

[6] After Hans Friedl: Nikolaus Friedrich Peter, Grand Duke of Oldenburg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 224 f. ( Digitized version ). should he have been a general. However, a second proof of this has not yet been found.