Henry of Burt

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Henry of Burt

Henry Victor von Burt (born January 15, 1841 in Itzehoe , † August 20, 1906 in Rostock ) was a Prussian officer and adjutant to Helmuth von Moltkes .

Life

Henry Victor Burt (called Punchy ) was the son of John Heyliger Burt (1797-1856) and his second wife Auguste (1809-1883; called Guste ), a sister of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. The father came from Colton near Rugeley in the county of Staffordshire and was the owner of the St. Johns sugar cane plantation on the West Indian island of Saint Croix . He died on the way home from Saint Croix off the British coast when Henry was 14 years old.

Alliance coat of arms Burt (right) & Moltke at the castle in Kreisau (today Krzyżowa )

Henry had two half-sisters Charlotte (* 1824) and Mary (* 1826) and a sister Ernestine (* 1839). Mary married Helmuth von Moltke the Elder in Itzehoe in 1842. Mary was also often called Marie in the family . Because of this marriage, the nephew Henry also became Moltke's brother-in-law. After Henry became a half-orphan, he moved to Flensburg to live with his uncle Friedrich Johann (1799–1874; called Fritz ) and his wife Elisabeth (called Betty ) . Mother Auguste and sister Ernestine moved to Altona . But Helmuth von Moltke also regarded him as his foster son.

Henry went to high school in Flensburg, but was more enthusiastic about singing. He left school before graduating from high school, then passed his ensign examination in Berlin and joined the infantry regiment in Minden . Within a year he became a lieutenant in the Prussian Army. Finally he became Helmuth von Moltke's adjutant in 1869. In the 1875 resulting image Moltke in the observatory outside Paris made Ferdinand of Harrach Moltke and his two aides Lieutenant Colonel Otto von Claer and Captain Burt from.

Field Marshal Graf von Moltke in front of Paris with his adjutants Henry von Burt and Otto von Claer ( heliogravure of a painting by Ferdinand von Harrach)

Henry von Burt suffered from nervous weakness and in 1883, accompanied by his mother, went on a recovery trip to Switzerland, where he collapsed and was taken to a sanatorium. The worried mother died of a heart attack that same year while visiting relatives in Potsdam. Henry von Burt received treatment at the 1st Saxon Cold Water Sanatorium in Kreischa , retired from active military service and bought a villa in Blasewitz on the left bank of the Elbe, which he lived in from 1884 and which was soon called Villa Moltke . His uncle Helmuth often visited him in Blasewitz. In 1887, Burt's long-time servant shot himself and Burt went to a mental hospital again. At the memorial service for Helmuth von Moltke's death in 1891, Henry von Burt was not present because he was in dispute with Wilhelm von Moltke. Henry had signed a contract with the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt through Joseph Kürschner for the publication of all letters from Helmuth von Moltke to Mary Burt. At the same time Wilhelm was the publisher intermediaries who collected works out of the field marshal.

The Villa Moltke was from 1893 by Cecilia and Henry Adolf Mohrhoff inhabited. The address of the villa was then in Blasewitz, Johannstrasse 33 (the villa, which was rebuilt in 1910/11, now has the address Dresden, Regerstrasse 2). Henry von Burt has not been detectable there since 1893. However, there was still an exchange of letters between Burt and the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt until January 1894. 15 years after the death of his uncle and benefactor Helmuth von Moltke, Henry von Burt died in Rostock at the age of 65.

literature

  • Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes: Biography of a Family. 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-60499-7 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes: Biography of a family. 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2011. p. 101.
  2. ↑ a b Anton Bettelheim (Hrsgb.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und deutscher Nekrolog Vol. 11. Reimer, Berlin 1908. S. 14.
  3. ↑ Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes: Biography of a family. 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2011. p. 159.
  4. ↑ Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes: Biography of a family. 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2011. P. 109ff.
  5. ↑ Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes: Biography of a family. 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2011. p. 159.
  6. ↑ Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes: Biography of a family. 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2011. P. 171ff.
  7. ↑ Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes: Biography of a family. 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2011. P. 171ff.
  8. ↑ Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes: Biography of a family. 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2011. p. 193.
  9. ^ Helmuth von Moltke: Moltke. Voltmedia, Paderborn 2005. ISBN 978-3-938478-50-9 . P. 281ff.
  10. ↑ Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes: Biography of a family. 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2011. p. 226.
  11. ↑ Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes: Biography of a family. 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2011. p. 226.
  12. ↑ Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes: Biography of a family. 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2011. p. 227.
  13. ↑ Joseph Kürschner (preface): Letters from General-Field Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke to his bride and wife (= Moltke series of publications, Count Helmuth von: Collected writings and memorials. Volume 6). German publishing company, Stuttgart 1892.
  14. ↑ Olaf Jessen: The Moltkes: Biography of a family. 2nd revised edition, Beck, Munich 2011. p. 245.
  15. ^ Address and business handbook for Blasewitz with Neugruna and Neuseidnitz 1893.
  16. ↑ Directory of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Moltke, Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von; (1800-1891); Officer; Ana 399.
personal data
SURNAME Burt, Henry from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burt, Henry Victor von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer and adjutant Helmuth von Moltkes
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Itzehoe
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1906
Place of death Rostock