Helmuth von Maltzahn (Upper President)

Helmut Freiherr von Maltzahn-Validz, Upper President of Pomerania

Memorial plaque on the house, Derfflingerstraße 8, in Berlin-Tiergarten

Helmuth Freiherr von Maltzahn (born January 6, 1840 in Gez , Demmin district , Pomerania ; † February 11, 1923 in Giz) was President of the Prussian Province of Pomerania in Stettin and a member of the Reichstag .

origin

His parents were the district administrator and manor owner Axel von Maltzahn (1808-1841) and his wife Auguste von Lützow-Boddin (born February 9, 1820 - May 9, 1891), a daughter of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Minister Ludwig von Lützow .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Helmuth Ludwig Wilhelm von Maltzahn studied law in Erlangen , Heidelberg (member of the Corps Vandalia ) and Berlin . He began his career in 1860 as an auscultator . In 1861 he became a trainee court judge, in 1862 a government referendar in Koblenz , and in 1866 a government assessor . In 1867 he resigned from civil service to manage his own property. In the years 1868 to 1872 he had a classicist manor house built in the form of Validz Castle .

He took part in the campaigns of 1866 and 1870/71 as a cavalry officer. In 1871, as a member of the German Conservative Party, he became a member of the Reichstag (MdR) for the Anklam-Demmin constituency and took over the chairmanship of the budget committee. He was a member of the Reichstag as a member of the constituency Stettin 1 (Demmin - Anklam) until 1888.

From 1888 to 1893 he was State Secretary in the Reich Treasury . In 1900 he finally took over the duties of Chief President of the Pomeranian Province in Stettin and held this office until 1911. In 1909 he became hereditary land marshal of Old Western Pomerania . He supported the establishment of the Historical Commission for Pomerania in 1910/1911 and was its first chairman.

In his Dohrn biography, Theodor Heuss names him with the abbreviation "von Maltzahn-VALZ".

family

In 1867 he married Anna von Rohrscheidt, who was born in Annaburg (* October 10, 1847, † November 26, 1913). The couple had several children:

Axel (born February 17, 1868), Royal Prussian Rittmeister ⚭ 1898 Helene von Platen, at Poggenhof (partly) (born January 30, 1879)
Agnes (born April 30, 1869) ⚭ 1887 August von Gadow (born November 29, 1861 - † November 1, 1929)
Helmuth (* December 22, 1870; † June 1, 1959) ⚭ 1912 Freda von Arnim (* August 22, 1889; † March 12, 1963), daughter of Hans von Arnim
Elsbeth (born January 24, 1874) ⚭ Servaz von Gerlach (born March 1, 1868), son of Friedrich von Gerlach
Gerhard (born June 25, 1877), Royal Prussian Rittmeister ⚭ Helene von Borcke (born November 14, 1884; † August 31, 1946)

literature

Helmuth Freiherr von Maltzahn: Helmuth Freiherr von Maltzahn-giltz. In: Pommersche Lebensbilder II. Saunier, Stettin 1936, pp. 266–280.
The members of Vandalia zu Heidelberg as of September 29, 1935 . [Berlin 1936]
Klaus Schwabe (Ed.): The Prussian Oberpräsident 1815–1945 (= German ruling classes in modern times. Vol. 15 = Büdinger research on social history. 1981). Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1985, ISBN 3-7646-1857-4 .

Christoph Freiherr von Maltzahn: Maltza (h) n, von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 740-743 ( digitized version ).

Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 104 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).

Web links

Commons : Helmuth von Maltzahn - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Freiherr von Maltzahn, Helmuth in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Helmuth Freiherr Maltzahn . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Footnotes

^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 45.
^ Roderich Schmidt : The historical commission for Pomerania in the past and present. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 55 NF, 1969, ISSN 0067-3099 , p. 111.

personal data
SURNAME	Maltzahn, Helmuth von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maltzahn, Helmuth Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, Member of the Bundestag and Upper President of the Province of Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH	January 6, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH	Validz , Demmin district , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH	February 11, 1923
Place of death	Validz , Demmin district , Pomerania

[1] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 45.

[2] Roderich Schmidt : The historical commission for Pomerania in the past and present. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 55 NF, 1969, ISSN 0067-3099 , p. 111.