Hermann von Malortie

Hermann von Malortie (born June 30, 1807 at Linden Castle in Linden near Hanover , † September 14, 1866 in Göttingen ) was a German nobleman and theater director in Hanover.

Life

family

Hermann von Malortie was a member of detectable as early as the first third of the 12th century and originally French aristocratic family of Malortie that after the lifting of the Edict of Nantes as Huguenots from France fled. He was a son of the Hanoverian general forest director Ferdinand von Malortie (1771-1847) and Sabine Luise Julia von Platen-Hallermund (1780-1826). He was a brother of the Hanoverian court marshal and minister Ernst von Malortie .

Career

Hermann von Malortie was born at Linden Castle. He suffered from rigid convulsions several times in his childhood , but soon became strong and agile under the care of his parents. At an early age he tended to do military service rather than school knowledge. He received his first scientific lessons in his parents' house at Schloss Linden, later together with his older brother Ernst from the historian Georg Heinrich Pertz and other private tutors . At times he also attended the second class of the Hanoverian Lyceum , but then switched to the Militair-Ecole in Hanover, where he passed various exams with distinction.

1823 Hermann was of Malortie the Garde du Corps - Regiment in Celle hired and in 1826 for officers promoted. Several trips made him want to pursue a career as a diplomat. His patron and fatherly friend, General Wilhelm von Dörnberg , known from the wars of liberation against Napoleon , mediated, and with the government's approval he was able to accompany him to Saint Petersburg in 1828 as an attaché to the Hanoverian embassy .

In the same year, 1828, von Malortie was allowed to accompany General von Dörnberg to the headquarters of Tsar Nicholas I in the Russian campaign against the Ottoman Empire and was given the opportunity to " attend various battles ". In this context, von Malortie was awarded the St. Anne's saber and the Order of St. Vladimir with the ribbon by the Tsar . The later King George V of Hanover added the Military Knight's Cross of the Guelph Order to these awards .

Due to the climate and the exertions in the field, Hermann von Malortie fell ill in the chest and in the nervous system, so that he temporarily returned to Hanover in 1829 to take care of his parents' house. Recovered, he was able to participate again in the metropolitan and elegant life of the Russian imperial city in 1830, which he was able to enjoy for a total of three years with interruptions. Towards the end of 1830 - when the elderly General von Dörnberg asked for his release for health reasons in order to retire to his private life with his family near Celle - Hermann von Malortie also returned to his Garde du Corps regiment, which had meanwhile moved to Hanover, where he lived Temporarily also in Hanover and Hildesheim . Of several major trips, one took him to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , where he perfected his English skills in England .

From 1836 Malortie was again able to work as an attaché to the Hanoverian embassy, this time the one in Berlin under Wilhelm Freiherr von Münchhausen . Von Malortie, who had an "outwardly excellent social education [...] and an engaging appearance", met his future wife Caroline, who was born in Carlsburg in 1819 . The daughter of the Count and - later - Lieutenant General Theodor von Bismarck-Bohlen and the Countess von Bohlen married Hermann von Malortie in June 1837 in Berlin.

Malortie's wife Caroline led the officer back from his diplomatic career to the garrison locations in Hildesheim and then in Hanover, into a brief happiness of domesticity. When, after the end of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover, King Ernst August ascended the throne of Hanover in 1837, Hermann von Malortie entered the service of the court with the title of Rittmeister in 1840 , was initially appointed real chamberlain and in the following year 1841 chamberlain .

From 1840, von Malortie was employed under Chamberlain vd Bussche, mainly in the financial administration of the artistic director of the former court theater in the royal seat . When King George V ascended the Hanoverian throne more than a decade later in 1851, he entrusted von Malortie with the provisional sole management of the court theater in 1851. Malortie was also solely responsible for moving the old theater from the rooms of the Residenzschloss to the newly built court theater on Georgstrasse . Financially and administratively he coped with these tasks with appreciation, but a lack of technical and musical knowledge as well as other reasons led to his resignation from the position of acting theater director, which was demanded by various sides and finally carried out himself; Circumstances that adversely affected his psyche and physical health. After all, he was compensated for the proven diligence and zeal in the theater administration after his release through a pension and also rewarded.

Such well-off , Hermann joined by Malortie now in the line of duty Chamberlain of Queen Marie , lived at the same time happily with his wife in Hanover and six children, three daughters and three sons. Caroline, his wife, was made Honorary State Lady of the Queen in 1862 .

During his service at the court of Hanover, Hermann von Malortie was also " pardoned by foreign sovereigns " with various medals and decorations . Thus, in addition to the awards already given by the Russian tsar, he received

awarded the Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class by Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia ,

the Commander's Cross of the Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig ,

the Commander's Cross of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order ,

the order of Henry the Lion by Duke Wilhelm von Braunschweig

and finally in 1862 the Military Knight's Cross of the Guelph Order by King George V.

In the last years of his life, Malortie's family happiness was marred by several financial debts of his eldest son, whom he excused several times, but then did not want to see again. On top of his grief, he was joined by his nervous ailments, which worsened in 1866 after the shock of the battle of Langensalza , which the Kingdom of Hanover had lost . Nevertheless, Hermann von Malortie voluntarily joined the Johanniter knights in order to rush to the aid of those wounded in the battle, but overworked his strength so much that a "serious head disease" irritated the nervous system. After a short recovery, he suffered a violent relapse at Hardenberg Castle , where he stayed with his daughter Julie, married Countess von Hardenberg. Six weeks later, entrusted to the supervision and care of a doctor in Göttingen , he died of a stroke in mid-September 1866 at the age of 59 .

After von Malortie's burial in the Engesohder cemetery and the division of the inheritance according to the will that was left , which also took into account the debt repayments made for the eldest son, the widowed Honorary State Lady Caroline Countess von Malortie moved to Dresden in 1867 .

Honor grave

Hermann von Malortie had founded a hereditary burial in the " Engesohder Kirchhofe " and was now buried there at the side of his younger brother, the Royal Hanoverian judicial advisor Adolph von Malortie (born November 13, 1815 - † August 26, 1847). The grave site is now an honor grave . On the double tombstone there are also the names of Caroline Baroness Malortie, née Countess Bismarck-Bohlen (* June 23, 1819 - February 24, 1908), and Agnes von Malortie (* July 11, 1840 - October 22 1879).

literature

Heinrich Albert Oppermann: On the history of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1832 to 1860 . Vol. 2. Wigand, Leipzig 1862, p. 126ff.
Ernst von Malortie : Historical news of the von Malortie family from 1132–1872. Klindworth's Hof-Druckerei, Hannover 1872, p. 66, especially 83-89 u.ö. ( Preview via Google Books ).

Web links

Tombstone on findagrave.com

Remarks

↑ It should be noted that - in contrast to Adolph von Malortie's year of death 1847 - the Engesohde city cemetery was only established between 1861 and 1864. Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Alte Döhrener Strasse 96 . In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 78f.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Ernst von Malortie: Historical news of the family von Malortie from 1132–1872. Klindworth's Hof-Druckerei, Hanover 1872, p. 66, especially 83-89 and others; Preview through Google Books .
↑ ^a ^b Compare the gravestone inscription on the photograph on findagrave.com
^ Malortie, Hermann von in the German biography
↑ Dieter Brosius : Malortie, Ernst von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 739 ( digitized version ).
↑ Karin van Schwartzenberg (responsible): Graves of honor and graves of important personalities at the Engesohde city cemetery , leaflet with overview sketch, ed. from the City of Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Hannover 2012.

personal data
SURNAME	Malortie, Hermann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German nobleman and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linden Castle , Linden near Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	September 14, 1866
Place of death	Goettingen

[6] It should be noted that - in contrast to Adolph von Malortie's year of death 1847 - the Engesohde city cemetery was only established between 1861 and 1864. Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Alte Döhrener Strasse 96 . In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 78f.

[Historische_Nachrichten-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Ernst von Malortie: Historical news of the family von Malortie from 1132–1872. Klindworth's Hof-Druckerei, Hanover 1872, p. 66, especially 83-89 and others; Preview through Google Books .

[Beachte_zunächst_NUR_das_Foto!-2] Compare the gravestone inscription on the photograph on findagrave.com

[3] Malortie, Hermann von in the German biography

[NDB_15-4] Dieter Brosius : Malortie, Ernst von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 739 ( digitized version ).

[Ehrengräber-5] Karin van Schwartzenberg (responsible): Graves of honor and graves of important personalities at the Engesohde city cemetery , leaflet with overview sketch, ed. from the City of Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Hannover 2012.