Gustav von Pfuel

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Gustav von Pfuel (full name Felix Bertram Gustav von Pfuel ; * March 24, 1829 in Berlin ; † March 7, 1897 at Wilkendorf Castle ) was a Prussian landowner, high state official and politician as a member of the manor house .

Life

Wilkendorf Castle

After attending high school in Neisse and Stettin studied Pfuel in Bonn and Berlin Jura . In 1848 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . In 1851 he entered the state judicial service, which he left in 1855. After extensive journeys through Europe and the Orient, he devoted himself to the management of his goods Wilkendorf , Gielsdorf and Eichenbrandt , which he combined to form a Fideikommiss . In Wilkendorf he had a hunting lodge built in Tudor style between 1852 and 1855, and Wilkendorf Palace was his residence from then on. Theodor Fontane developed the idea for his novel Effi Briest at Wilkendorf Castle .

He participated in the war against Austria in 1866 as a member of the Order of St. John . He then returned to the civil service and took on administrative tasks in the occupied Kingdom of Hanover . From 1868 to 1872 he was district chief and police director of the administrative area Amt Celle . During the Franco-Prussian War , Pfuel was the prefect of the Seine-Inférieure department in Rouen and civil commissioner in the Aisne and Ardennes departments . In 1872 he left this time for good and in 1874 became chief judge of the Kurmark and the Neumark . In 1879 the Prussian King Wilhelm summoned him to the manor house , to which he belonged until his death in 1897, at the presentation of the association of old and fortified property in the Mittelmark (Barnim) countryside .

family

Martha von Pfuel (1865–1914) bust by Georg Kolbe , 1910
Tombs of Gustav and Elise von Pfuel, Wilkendorf village church

Gustav von Pfuel came from the ancient noble family of the Pfuel , who had lived in the Margraviate of Brandenburg since 926 and had extensive land holdings, especially north of Berlin ( Pfuelenland ).

He was the son of the Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Pfuel from his marriage to Klara von Rochow and the grandson of the Court Marshal Ludwig von Pfuel . The Prussian Prime Minister Ernst von Pfuel was his uncle.

Pfuel married Elise von Reventlow (* September 8, 1842, † May 30, 1865), daughter of Theodor von Reventlow from his first marriage to Sophie Countess von Bernstorff . The couple had two daughters:

  • Klara Sophie (born September 1, 1863)
  • Martha (April 20, 1865 - May 11, 1914) ⚭ 1889 Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (* November 29, 1856 - January 2, 1921), administrative officer, later Chancellor

Elise died a few weeks after the birth of their daughter Martha. In his second marriage, Pfuel married Agnes Amalie Charlotte Clementine Burggräfin and Countess zu Dohna-Schlodien (1847–1911), a daughter of Alfred zu Dohna-Mallmitz, in 1879 . There were five other children from this marriage:

  • Bertram (February 22, 1880 - August 25, 1880)
  • Clementine Agnes (born June 5, 1881)
  • Freda Agnes Gabriele (January 1, 1883 - 1920) ⚭ 1914 Waldemar von Mohl (September 6, 1885 - March 1, 1966), lawyer and district administrator
  • Agnes Gustava (* May 10, 1884; † 1964) ⚭ 1922 Waldemar von Mohl (1885–1966)
  • Richard Gustav (born August 6, 1889)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Pfuel, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfuel, Felix Bertram Gustav von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian landowner and parliamentarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1897
Place of death Wilkendorf Castle