Hans Jürgen von Kleist-Retzow

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Hans Jürgen von Kleist-Retzow (born January 26, 1771 in Groß Tychow , Pomerania , as Johann Georg von Kleist ; † March 13, 1844 in Kieckow ) was a landowner , Prussian district administrator and politician, as well as hereditary master chef of Western Pomerania .

Life

origin

Hans Jürgen von Kleist came from the Muttrin ladies line of the noble von Kleist family . He was the youngest son of Peter Christian von Kleist (1727–1777) and Maria Charlotte von Retzow, daughter of General Wolf Friedrich von Retzow . In 1838 he inherited the Fideikommiss Möthlow in Havelland . His maternal grandmother had decreed in his will that in the event that one of her sons-in-law inherited the majorate , he should also bear the coat of arms and name of the noble von Retzow family. In 1839 Hans Jürgen von Kleist was allowed to increase the coat of arms and to use the name of Kleist-Retzow .

Career

Hans Jürgen von Kleist initially embarked on a military career and in 1786 joined the Dragoon Regiment No. 12 as a flag junior . In 1788 he was promoted to ensign and in 1790 to second lieutenant. After his mother's death, he had to say goodbye in order to manage the inherited goods Groß Tychow and Klein Krössin from 1793 .

He was from 1795 to 1804 and from 1820 to 1837 for the Belgard district deputy of the Treptow department of the Pomeranian landscape . In 1807 he was appointed district administrator of the Belgarder Kreis. During the French period he supported, among other things, the Freikorps of Reinhold Graf von Krockow . After the Wars of Liberation , he was honored with the Iron Cross on a white ribbon.

Since its establishment he has been a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Pomerania . He was assessor of the economic society in Köslin and president of the examination commission for building craftsmen.

He successfully farmed on his estates in Kieckow, Klein Krössin, Groß Tychow, Möthlow and Groß Konarzin. He was one of the first in Pomerania to introduce artificial irrigation in Kieckow. For a long period he was one of the largest sellers of seed - rye .

In 1837 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class. King Friedrich Wilhelm IV enfeoffed him with the office of hereditary kitchen master when paying homage in 1840. In 1844 he received the Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd class. He was a knight of the Order of St. John .

Together with his third wife, he joined the revival movement that emerged in Pomerania in the first half of the 19th century.

family

He was married three times. From his marriage with Henriette Auguste von Blanckenburg (1771-1803), which he entered into in 1791 , three sons were born. Two daughters died early. His second marriage in 1804 to Wilhelmine Maria Henriette von Wussow (1776–1810), divorced wife of Wilhelm von Kleist (1772–1841) on Zarnekow , remained childless. From the third marriage with Auguste von Borcke , widowed von Glasenapp , the son Hans Hugo von Kleist-Retzow emerged.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kratz: History of the Kleist family. III / 3, 1885, p. 126 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Origin of the von Kleist family - Retzow. Retrieved March 9, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Kleist-Retzow, Hans Jürgen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleist, Hans Jürgen von; Kleist, Johann Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner, Prussian district administrator and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Tychow
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1844
Place of death Kieckow