Heinrich von Heintze-Weißenrode
Heinrich Ernst Freiherr von Heintze-Weißenrode (born September 27, 1834 in Schleswig ; † October 5, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German forest and court official and from 1911 a member of the Prussian manor house.
Life
Heinrich von Heintze was the son of Josias Friedrich Ernst von Heintze-Weissenrode and his wife Elisabeth Cornelia Komtesse Reventlow (1804–1890) from the Kaltenhof family . Johann Adolph von Heintze was his older brother. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school in 1854 .
From the winter semester of 1855/56 he studied forestry as Civileleve at the forestry school in Eberswalde . He joined the Prussian forest service in 1858 and was initially a hunting squire and government and forest trainee at the Royal Prussian Court Chamber . In 1868 he was appointed head forester.
In 1880 he was appointed Hofjägermeister and in 1886 Vice-Oberjägermeister. He became chief hunter on duty and from December 16, 1892 as the successor to Hans Heinrich XI. von Hochberg , Prince of Pless, head of the court hunting office. He held an upper court charge at the Prussian royal court or German imperial court and was responsible for the imperial hunts . His official residence was the pheasantry in the park of Charlottenhof Palace .
In 1894 he initiated the German Antler Exhibition , which then took place annually, from 1898 in the Palais Borsig on the corner of Vossstrasse and Wilhelmstrasse , and became an event for all hunters in Germany .
In 1911 he was given a seat in the Prussian mansion “out of the utmost confidence” through personal appointment by Wilhelm II as King of Prussia .
Since September 29, 1868 he was married to Josefine, geb. von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (1842–1903).
Awards
- Order of the Black Eagle on August 1, 1908 on the occasion of his 50th anniversary of service
- all others as at the beginning of 1908:
- Grand Cross of the Red Eagle Order with oak leaves
- Royal Crown Order I. Class with swords
- Star of the Commander of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern
- Iron cross on a white ribbon
- Red Cross Medal (Prussia) II class
- Right knight of the Order of St. John
- Cross of Honor 1st Class of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern
- Commander 1st class of the House Order of Albrecht the Bear
- Commander 2nd class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of St. Michael
- Grand Cross of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit
- Grand Ducal Hessian Military Medical Cross
- Commander of the Order of the Rising Sun
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy
- Grand Officer of the Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus
- Cross of Honor 1st Class of the Lippe House Order
- Grand Cross with the crown in gold of the House Order of the Wendish Crown
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Griffin
- Order of the Iron Crown 1st class
- Grand Cross of the Franz Joseph Order
- Grand Cross of the Order of Christ
- Russian Order of St. Anna I. Class with diamonds
- Grand Cross of the Order of Albrecht
- Commander with the Star of the House Order of the White Falcon
- Grand Cross of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order
- Cross of Honor from Schwarzburg 1st class
- Commander of the Grand Cross of the North Star Order
- Commander 1st class of the Vasa Order
- Order of Olga
literature
- Baron v. Heintze-Weißenrode. In: Deutsche Forst-Zeitung. 33 (1918), p. 490.
- Wolfram Theilemann: Aristocracy in green skirts: Noble hunters, large private forest property and the Prussian forest officials 1866-1914. (= Elite change in the modern age 5) Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 2004, ISBN 9783050047461 , p. 464.
Web links
- Heinrich von Heintze-Weißenrode and Kaiser Wilhelm II at the Letzling court hunt in 1912 ( Getty Images )
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 460
- ↑ Bernhard Danckelmann : The Eberswalde Forest Academy from 1830 to 1880. Berlin: Springer 1880, p. XVII No. 793
- ↑ Baron v. Heintze-Weißenrode (lit.)
- ↑ Danmarks Adels Aarbog 1906, p. 177
- ↑ Archive for lore and heraldry. 10 (1909/1910), p. 4
- ↑ After handbook on the Royal Prussian court and the state. 1908, p. 11
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heintze-Weißenrode, Heinrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heintze-Weißenrode, Heinrich Ernst Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forest and court official, member of the Prussian manor house |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schleswig |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1918 |
| Place of death | Berlin |