Gisbert von Romberg II.
Baron Gisbert von Romberg II , also Gisbert von Romberg, (born July 20, 1839 in Dülmen - Buldern , † November 24, 1897 ibid) was a Westphalian Catholic nobleman from the von Romberg family . It is the historical template for Josef Winckler's successful novel, which was published in Stuttgart in 1923 under the title The Great Bomberg and was filmed in 1932 and 1957 , and is the grandson of Baron Gisbert Christian Friedrich von Romberg ( Gisbert von Romberg I. ).
Life
Born in Buldern Castle near Münster as the son of the royal chamberlain Clemens Conrad Franz von Romberg and his wife Marianne Freiin von Fürstenberg, Romberg was brought up appropriately. He first enjoyed private tuition in his home castle before attending the Collège de St. Servais in Liège in 1854 . He then switched to the royal Progymnasium in Linz and completed his school career in 1858 at the Laurentianum Gymnasium in Warendorf .
The von Romberg family, a re-Catholicized noble family from the county of Mark , were among the richest families in the Kingdom of Prussia . They took part early on in the budding industrialization of the Ruhr area (successful in early capitalism) and owned stakes in collieries .
Gisbert von Romberg, royal chamberlain, Herr auf Brünninghausen , Ermelinghof , Rüdinghausen in the Dortmund district , Kolvenburg in the Coesfeld district, Westhemmerde in the Hamm district , took over the manorial power of the family after his father's death at the age of 30 in 1869.
As an officer of the 4th Cuirassier Regiment , he took part in the German War in 1866 and set up a hospital for war wounded under the direction of his family doctor in Brünninghausen during the Franco-German War of 1870/71 .
In 1873 and 1890 he acquired goods on what is now the Danish island of Alsen . Gisbert used a large part of his income for equestrian sport; He bred racehorses on his Buldern estate. He made lavish loans and speculated in unsafe securities. In spite of this, and because he was noble, he let innkeepers and musicians sit on their bills for a long time and fought each other after going to bars.
Romberg caused a sensation through an incapacitation process . In 1881, Gisbert Graf von Wolff-Metternich and Clemens von Romberg submitted an application to the district court in Dülmen for the incapacitation of their cousin Gisbert von Romberg because of drunkenness and extravagance , which ultimately did not succeed.
Josef Winckler immortalized the baron and his actual excesses and the excesses he was accused of in the novel The Great Bomberg , a Westphalian picaresque novel .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Winckler: The great Bomberg. A Westphalian picaresque novel. Edition of the Bertelsmann reading ring, Gütersloh 1961.
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| SURNAME | Romberg, Gisbert II. Von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Romberg, Gisbert Freiherr von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Westphalian nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buldern Castle |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1897 |
| Place of death | Buldern Castle |