Georg von Hülsen-Haeseler

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Georg Baron von Hülsen, 1894
Grave of Georg von Hülsen-Haeseler in the Invalidenfriedhof Berlin (status 2013)

Georg Graf von Hülsen-Haeseler (born July 15, 1858 in Berlin ; † June 21, 1922 there ) was a Prussian court official and theater director.

Life

Count Hülsen was the son of the royal Prussian court theater manager Botho von Hülsen (1815–1886) and his wife, the writer Helene von Hülsen (1829–1892), née. Countess Haeseler . In 1877 he joined the Prussian army , first served in the Emperor Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 , then with the Guard Cuirassiers, and in 1888 became personal adjutant to the art-loving Prince George of Prussia . In 1893 he took his leave as Rittmeister and was appointed artistic director of the Royal State Theater Wiesbaden , where he organized the first International May Festival in 1896 under the protectorate of Kaiser Wilhelm II . From 1903 he was, in the successor of the dismissed Bolko von Hochberg , general manager of all royal theaters in Prussia, from 1908 also for the province of Hanover . He stayed in this position, which his father had already held, until the Prussian court was dissolved when it collapsed in 1918.

Hülsen-Haeseler was a loyal servant and close confidante of the emperor, but did not follow him in all aesthetic questions. Richard Strauss, for example, little appreciated by the monarch because he was too modern, was able to work almost unhindered under Hülsen's direction at the Berlin State Opera .

Georg v. Hülsen belonged to the Liebenberg district of Philipp zu Eulenburgs . In the course of the Harden-Eulenburg affair in 1907, he was also "suspected" of homosexuality . His older brother was Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler , head of the Prussian military cabinet from 1901 to 1908 . Both are buried in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin.

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  1. ↑ See Röhl, p. 108.
personal data
SURNAME Hülsen-Haeseler, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hülsen-Haeseler, Georg Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian court official
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1922
Place of death Berlin