Gerhard von Negenborn

Gerhard Georg Reinhold Negenborn , from Negenborn since 1901 , (born January 30, 1864 in Klonau ( Osterode district in East Prussia ); † August 2, 1931 ibid) was a German farmer and politician ( DNVP ).

Negenborn was the son of Richard Negenborn (1834-1875), a manor owner in Klonau and his wife Hedwig, née Holtz (1842-1918). He attended high school in Gdansk and did an agricultural apprenticeship. He did his military service as a one-year volunteer with the 1st Guard Dragoon Regiment in Berlin.

In 1888 he took over the administration of the Konau estates for his mother and his siblings. His grandfather acquired it in 1831 at the auction of the Finckenstein possessions of Gilgenburg Castle . It was 1750 hectares, which he took over in 1903. He expanded the property through purchases to 2480 hectares and was then the manor owner and master of Klonau, Hedwigshöhe, Elgenau and the old town. This purchase was made possible by profits from the increase in yields through drainage, fertilization and crop rotation. The main crops were potatoes. There were two distilleries on the estate that converted these potatoes into alcohol.

Negenborn was the leading force behind the formation of the alcohol manufacturers' cartel. He was head of the association for alcohol recycling and later president of the working group of German alcohol manufacturers. This in fact determined the annual burning rights and the takeover price of the Reich monopoly administration . He was chairman of the potato growing company and deputy member of the supervisory board of the East Prussian Landgesellschaft. From 1906 to 1918 he was in front of the Central Agricultural Association of Allenstein, the subdivision of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Olsztyn administrative district . During the First World War he worked in the General Government of Warsaw .

Negenborn was head of office and church patron of Marwalde (1888–1931) and Frögenau (1891–1912), 1907–1931 district deputy, 1900–1902 and 1918–1931 district councilor and 1902–1913 member of the district committee of the Osterrode district. From 1902 to 1918 he was a member of the Chamber of Agriculture and from 1907 to 1918 a deputy member of the Landesökonomiekollegium in the Ministry of Agriculture in Berlin. From 1912 to 1929 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia for the DNVP . From May 1921 to January 1930 he was a deputy member of the Prussian State Council . He was a leader in the referendum on July 11, 1920.

On January 18, 1901, he was raised to hereditary nobility. In 1893 he married Katharina Verw. Thomasius born Freiin von Eckhardtstein (1852–1925). The only child, son Richard (* 1894), comes from the marriage. In his second marriage he married Gertrud verw. Baroness von Eckhardtstein, born von Scheffler (1870–1967). Karl Georg Negenborn was his brother.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the state councilors appointed in the “Third Reich”. (= Handbooks on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties , Volume 13.) Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 978-3-7700-5271-4 , page 112.
• Norbert Korfmacher: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933, 2018, p. 40 ( digitized version ).
• Old Prussian Biography , p. 1137.