Heinrich von Schwerin (District Administrator)

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Count Heinrich von Schwerin (born December 19, 1776 in Schwerinsburg , † August 8, 1839 in Putzar ; full name Carl Wilhelm Ludwig Heinrich von Schwerin ) was the owner of a manor in Pomerania and a Prussian district administrator .

Life

Heinrich came from the Schwerinsburg line of the Pomeranian noble family von Schwerin . He was the eldest son of Heinrich Bogislav Dettlof von Schwerin (1743–1791) and Anna Beate Luise von Ramin (1752–1826). Heinrich von Schwerin attended the Knight Academy in Brandenburg . In 1793 he entered the cuirassier regiment No. 2 as a cornet, and in 1796 he was promoted to second lieutenant. In 1802 he took his leave from the military and devoted himself to the management of his estates. In the inheritance dispute with his brothers, he had received the so-called Putzarschen estates, Putzar, Boldekow , Glien, Sophienhof, Sarnow , Wendfeld and Bornmühl. In 1812 he bought Schwerinsburg, Werder, Löwitz and Wusseken from his brother Curd .

As an estate commissioner, he was involved in building up the Landwehr in 1813 during the wars of liberation . On December 27th of the same year he was made Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John.

In 1818 the estates elected him to the district administrator of the Anklam district . His tasks included the implementation of Stein-Hardenberg reforms , the improvement of rural schools and the implementation of the church union in the district. In this office he worked until 1833. For his services he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class.

Heinrich von Schwerin tried to regain the former Spantekow fiefdom , which had come to the Count of Steenbock during the Swedish era and had been expropriated by King Friedrich Wilhelm I in 1715 . In 1803 Heinrich von Schwerin succeeded in resuming the process, which finally ended after 30 years with the return of the goods to the family in 1833. He administered the property with unrestricted authority of his co-owners until the end of his life.

In 1833 he accompanied the theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher (the father-in-law of his eldest son) on a trip to Sweden, Norway and Denmark. In 1834 he was given the office of hereditary kitchen master of Old Western Pomerania , which was due to his family . He was also director of the West Pomeranian Department of the Pomeranian Landscape .

Heinrich von Schwerin died in 1839 while inspecting his property after falling from his horse. He was buried next to his wife in the crypt in front of the Putzar church .

progeny

Heinrich von Schwerin married Charlotte Friedrike Luise von Berg (born August 9, 1783 in Quedlinburg ; † June 7, 1826 in Schwerinsburg) on May 8, 1803 in Prenzlau , a daughter of the Prussian Privy Council and governor of Quedlinburg, Anton Friedrich Ernst von Berg auf Neuenkirchen , and Margarethe Elisabeth Veronica, née von Wulffen, widow of Friedrich Ludwig von Lobenthal. Her descendants were:

  • Elisabeth Luise Ulrike Charlotte (1804–1899), married to Ludwig Jonas (1797–1859), theologian
  • Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar (1804–1872), manor owner, liberal parliamentarian and minister in Prussia, married to Hildegard Schleiermacher
  • Emma Caroline Friederike Henriette (1807–1846)
  • Moritz (* † 1808)
  • Rosalie Wilhelmine Sophie Ernestine Ottilie (1811–1867), married to Adolf Ferdinand Krech , professor in Berlin
  • Wilhelmine Friederike Alexandrine Franziska (1813-1852), married to Alexander Freiherr von Forstner († October 31, 1871)
  • Victor von Schwerin (1814–1903), manor owner, Prussian chamberlain and politician
  • Charlotte Elisabeth Luise Beate (1826–1898), married to Ehrenfried von Willich

Fonts

  • Patriotic chants. Dedicated to the women's association of the Anclam circle. Greifswald 1814. (Poems)

literature

  • Ludwig Gollmert, Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin, Leonhard Graf von Schwerin: History of the family von Schwerin. Part 2: Biographical News. Wilhelm Gronau, Berlin 1878, pp. 228-229.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Gollmert, Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin, Leonhard Graf von Schwerin: History of the von Schwerin. Part 2: Biographical News. Wilhelm Gronau, Berlin 1878, p. 226.
  2. ↑ The later Prussian Major General Karl Friedrich Ludwig von Lobenthal was her son
personal data
SURNAME Schwerin, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwerin, Carl Wilhelm Ludwig Heinrich von (full name); Schwerin, Heinrich Graf von; Schwerin-Putzar, Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian district administrator, landscape director
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerinsburg
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1839
Place of death Putzar