Gustav von Kleist (District Administrator)

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Gustav von Kleist

Gustav Freiherr von Kleist (born June 11, 1801 in Lübben , † September 29, 1884 in Colochau , Schweinitz district ) was a Prussian district administrator and politician .

Origin and family environment

Gustav von Kleist came from the branch Zützen from the Lower Lausitz the original Pomeranian uradeligen sex of von Kleist . He was the youngest son of the Saxon Colonel Leopold von Kleist (1752-1830), knight of the Saxon Order of St. Henry and the French Legion of Honor , and Friederike von Klitzing. The Prussian chamberlain Xaver von Kleist was his older brother.

He was married to Antonie von Uebel (1803–1872) since June 7, 1824. The later divorced marriage resulted in three daughters and one son.

Military career

Following the family tradition, Gustav von Kleist initially aimed for a military career. However, he did not choose the Saxon army as the basis of his professional goals, as his father had done, but the royal Prussian army, since Lower Lusatia had no longer belonged to the Kingdom of Saxony , but to Prussia since 1815 . He stepped on April 17, 1819 as Portepee - ensign in one of the finest Prussian regiments, the Garde du Corps one. On April 20, 1820 he was promoted to second lieutenant and transferred to the 12th Hussar Regiment. On July 22, 1825, he quit his job and moved to the Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau .

Political career

In 1830 he bought the Kollichau estate, located in the Prussian province of Saxony , and thus became a Prussian subject again. 1843 he was appointed as successor to Christian Friedrich August summer district administrator of the district Schweinitz in the administrative district of Merseburg , a position he managed to 1879th From 1849 to 1861 he was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , to which he was elected for the Schweinitz and Wittenberg districts of the 2nd Merseburg electoral district.

Awards

By royal cabinet order he was allowed to use the title of baron for himself. He was also honored with the award of the Order of the Red Eagle , IV class and the Austrian Order of the Iron Crown , III. Class excellent. He was also an honorary knight of the Order of St. John .

literature

  • H. Kypke: History of the Kleist family. Third part, Second Department, Trowitzsch and Son, Berlin 1882, p. 174, no. 209 ( digitized version ).
  • H. Kypke (basis of the text, 1882); Diether Dennies v. Kleist and Berndt v. Kleist (Supplements, 1971); Sigurd v. Kleist (revision): History of the sex v. Kleist. Third part: biographies up to 1880. Second section: Tychow-Dubberower line. 2nd edition, Bergisch Gladbach 2013, p. 228, No. 209 (with picture; digital version ; PDF; 5.6 MB).
  • Nobility Lexicon. Volume VI (= Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume 91). CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1987, p. 270 ff.
  • Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 , p. 145, no.797.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Volume 91: Adelslexikon. Volume VI, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1987, p. 271
personal data
SURNAME Kleist, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleist, Gustav Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebben
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1884
Place of death Kolochau , district of Schweinitz