Georg von Krusenstjern
Georg Friedrich Benedict of Krusenstjern (* June 24 . Jul / 6. July 1899 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 15. October 1989 in Munich ) was a Baltic German historian and genealogist .
Life
origin
He was the son of Otto von Krusenstjern (1870–1923), a district deputy and director of the Petersburg copper rolling and tube works, and Marie von Ramm.
Act
Krusenstjern had put together the "Baltic Heimatbildarchiv Georg von Krusenstjern" in decades of work . It contained over 15,000 historical views of cities in the Baltic Sea governorates in what is now the Baltic States and photos of many mansions and country estates of the mainly German-Baltic aristocratic houses that have been destroyed today . In addition, the Baltic Heimatbildarchiv contained more than 10,000 portraits of German-Baltic personalities. In addition to photographic reproductions of photos from family collections, these are primarily historical carte de visite photos from visit cards from the years 1860 to 1918.
The "Baltic Heimatbildarchiv Georg von Krusenstjern" is now in the German Documentation Center for Art History - Photo Archive Photo Marburg .
He worked with Erik Amburger on the Baltic German Biographical Lexicon .
The Baltic Corporation Fraternitas Dorpatensis to Munich took him in 1979 as a choice Philistines in their connection to.
family
Georg von Krusenstjern married Gertrud von Minding (* 1908) in Reval in 1927 , daughter of the engineer Ernst von Minding and Margareta née Reimer. The marriage resulted in a son and two daughters.
Georg von Krusenstjern later married Lore von Dehn, née Koch (1913–1974), who had previously been married to Alexander von Dehn (1901–1938) and Kurt von Dehn (1901–1978).
Works
An incomplete selection of his works, u. a .:
- Courland and his knighthood , 1971.
- The land marshals and district administrators of the Livonian and Ösel knighthood in portraits , 1963.
- Heroes memorial book of the Baltic regiment , 1938.
- MG man in the Baltic regiment , 1938.
literature
- Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 . Volume 2, pp. 777-779
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg von Krusenstjern in the catalog of the German National Library
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Georg von Krusenstjern. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Baltic Heimatbildarchiv Georg von Krusenstjern
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krusenstjern, Georg von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krusenstjern, Georg Friedrich Benedikt von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic historian and genealogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1989 |
| Place of death | Munich |