Gottlieb Schulz

Gottlieb Schulz around 1900

Gottlieb Schulz (born January 23, 1853 in Dennewitz , Bessarabia , today: Prjamobalka ; † April 25, 1916 in Seimeny ) was a Bessarabian German cattle dealer, farmer and large landowner in Bessarabia. He sold land to Bessarabian German compatriots, which he and his brother Gottfried Schulz had bought from aristocratic Russian landowners.

Life

Gottlieb Schulz was born in Bessarabia as the eighth child of Gottlieb and Christine Schulz, a farming family of German descent. At that time, the region belonged to the Russian Empire. Schulz was born in the village of Dennewitz, in which around 550 residents of German descent lived in 1940. The village was founded by German emigrants in 1834.

His origin is similar to that of many Bessarabian Germans. His ancestors, born at the end of the 18th century, came from Pomerania and moved to Poland as colonists. In 1818 they emigrated to Bessarabia at the invitation of Tsar Alexander I. The family settled in Kulm, founded in 1815, and moved to the newly founded Dennewitz in 1834. At the age of 19 Gottlieb Schulz married Christine Koth from Dennewitz. In 1876 the first of the couple's eight children was born.

Schulz did his military service in the Russian army from 1874 and was one of the first German settlers to be drafted. His ancestors were exempt from military service because of the immigration privileges that were forever promised. During military service he took part in the Russo-Turkish War in 1877 , where he was wounded in the Battle of Plevna .

Schulz earned larger capital with his brother Gottfried. They bought lean cattle at markets in winter. The owners, who mostly belonged to different population groups, could no longer raise the money for the feed. The Schulz brothers employed shepherds who fattened the cattle on leased pastures in spring and summer. In the autumn, the herds of cattle were driven to the cities of Akkerman and Odessa for sale .

With the capital, Gottlieb Schulz began buying and selling land in 1881 and moved to Neu-Posttal (today: Dolyniwka ) in 1883 , where his brother Gottfried Schulz was mayor. In 1890 Gottlieb Schulz was one of the first settlers in the village of Basyrjamka near the Black Sea. The brothers had acquired around 2,000 Desjatinen land from a Russian landowner and sold the land to 55 German settlers. In 1891 the first settlers came and erected temporary wooden buildings.

In 1894 there was another large land purchase from a Russian princess with around 3,000 desjatins. The brothers sold the land to settlers of German origin, who founded the Seimeny settlement there.

Gottlieb Schulz died of bone cancer at the age of 63 .

literature

• Norbert Brost: Stages of life of my great-grandfather of the colonist and farmer Gottlieb Schulz from Bessarabia in: Yearbook of Germans from Bessarabia, home calendar 1999. Hanover 1999