Georg Sylvester von Freymann

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Georg Sylvester Magnus von Freymann adH Nursie (born December 31, 1870 in Abja ( Livonia ), † August 20, 1946 in Berlin ) was a Baltic genealogist , lawyer and author .

Life

George Sylvester received first domestic private lessons, after which he attended from 1880 to 1889, the private school of Rudolf von Zeddelmann in Tartu , reaching 1889, the school-leaving examination . From 1890 to 1895 he studied at the Imperial University of Dorpat ( Imperatorskij Derptskij Universitet ) Law and was a member of the Baltic Corporation Livonia Dorpat . After completing his law degree, he worked as a private tutor in 1895/96 . In 1897 he passed his legal state examination with success. It was followed from 1897 to 1898 acting as judicial official candidate on Wilnaschen District Court. In the following years until 1917 he was an authorized syndic of the city of Fellin and at the city orphan's court. At the same time he was active in several functions in the state service from 1898 to 1915, in addition he held some church and secular honorary offices. One of his most important voluntary work was the reorganization of the Altfellini city ​​archive carried out between 1900 and 1914 .

His successful work was interrupted by the events of the Russian Revolution , he, and with him the city council of Fellin, was expelled from the city offices. In 1917 he worked as a lawyer in Fellin. He and several allies were deported to Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in January 1918 . With the conclusion of the peace treaty of Brest-Litowsk , Georg Sylvester was able to return to Fellin on May 1, 1918. Here he took over the office of German justice of the peace , which he had to hand over to the Estonian government that same year. At the end of 1918 he fled to Germany and first arrived in Stettin , where he stayed from December 1918 to January 1919, he then moved to Neustrelitz in February 1919 and acquired the citizenship of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . From November 1, 1919, he was managing director of the Baltic Trust Council in Berlin and, from 1926, a managing member of the Adelrat of the Livonian Nobility Band. He worked for the monthly "Ostrecht" from April 1927 (later "Zeitschrift für Ostrecht").

The global political upheavals, the flight and the expulsion had made Georg Sylvester a penniless man. He was unable to repurchase the goods from Nursie, and the Estonian government also expropriated them . He died on August 20, 1946 in Berlin.

Fonts

  • The Felliner Bürgerbuch (1728–1889), edited by Georg Sylvester Magnus von Freymann, Feldt, Fellin 1902 ( digitized version of the Estonian National Library )
  • Works from the Fellin City Archives in the annual reports of the Fellin Litterary Society :
    • A short outline of the Livonian history by Dionysius Fabricius, translation from Latin by Georg and Karl von Freymann, vol. 1896–1899.
    • The Restitution of Fellin Privileges , Vol. 1902–1904.
    • Materials for a population statistics of the city of Fellin in the 18th and 19th centuries , Vol. 1905–1906.
    • Report on the question regarding the St. Katharinen Chapel in Fellin, Vol. 1907–1908.
    • Remains of Medieval Fellin , Vol. 1912–1917.
    • Documents and files from the Fellin City Archives 1481–1889 , Vol. 1912–1917.
  • Legal work, among other things, in the monthly Ostrecht for the law of Eastern European countries (Berlin, Verlag Carl Heymann), then in the Zeitschrift für Ostrecht in the same publishing house.

Origin and family

Georg Sylvester Magnus von Freymann came from the Baltic noble family von Freymann from the house of Nursie. His father was the parish judge Georg Hermann von Freymann (1835-1885), gentleman on old Nursie , who was married to Karoline Louise von Lobry. His brother was the Baltic journalist and poet Carl Johann von Freymann (1878-1907).

Georg Sylvester married Mia Körber (* 1880) in 1900. Her daughter was the future painter Gerdrutha Christina Freymann-Knispel (* 1905 in Fellin , † 1981 in Neustadt near Coburg ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Rudolf von Zeddelmann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. ↑ Rudolf von Zeddelmann: Album of the Zeddelmann'schen private educational institution 1875-1900 . C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1900, p. 101 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ On May 10, 1915, the Baltic Trust Council was founded in Berlin to represent the interests of the Baltic Germans living in Germany. The main task was the implementation of political war aims in the Baltic States, see the inventory description of the Baltic Trust Council of the Federal Archives , accessed on February 23, 2019.
  4. ↑ On this Karl von Löwis: About the uncovering of the remains of this chapel. Ibid, p. 1 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Freymann, Georg Sylvester from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freymann adH Nursie, Georg Sylvester Magnus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic genealogist, lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Abja ( Livonia )
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1946
Place of death Berlin