Hermann von Suckow (Artistic Director)

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Hermann von Suckow , complete: Hermann Ernst Adolf Wilhelm von Suckow (born August 1, 1820 in Toddin ; † May 1, 1895 in Dresden ) was a German administrative lawyer, Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin Chamberlain and director of the Heiligendamm seaside resort .

Life

Hermann von Suckow came from the younger Mecklenburg line of the noble family von Suckow and was the son of Landdrosten (Viktor) August (Gottfried) von Suckow. He received his school education at the Blochmann Institute , the later Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden , where he was a schoolmate of the later Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II .

He studied law, first at the University of Bonn , where he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn in 1840 , then from January 1842 at the University of Rostock . In Rostock he and seven other students reconstituted the Corps Vandalia Rostock, which was temporarily suspended after 1836 . At Michaelmas 1843 he passed the legal exam and entered the Mecklenburg civil service. At the beginning of July 1850 he was appointed administrator and 4th official at the Grand Ducal Office of Schwerin .

The conversion of his little older brother Paul von Suckow (born January 29, 1818) to the Roman Catholic Church made a deep impression on him. Out of consideration for his strictly Protestant wife and the Grand Duke who was friends with him, he initially remained Lutheran. The 1861 paper of the Paderborn bishop Konrad Martin An Episcopal Word to the Protestants of Germany convinced von Suckow to convert after all, and on a trip to southwest Germany he visited Bishop Nikolaus von Weis in Speyer in 1864 . As a result of his conversation with the bishop he made the Catholic creed in Speyer.

As early as 1858, von Suckow had been appointed by the Grand Duke as intendant and director of the Doberan bathing establishments in Bad Doberan and Heiligendamm, which he was able to stay after his conversion. His decision to forbid the display of the Kladderadatsch in the reading halls in Doberan and Heiligendamm during the Kulturkampf , for which the editors of the paper characterized it as ultramontane , caused a stir .

For the Catholic bathers he obtained permission to have services held for them without prior request. When the Heiligendamm seaside resort, which had been a grand ducal bathing establishment at that time , was sold to a stock corporation in 1873 , the Grand Duke, at the instigation of Suckows, reserved a site of 25 square rods in the forest for the construction of a Catholic chapel. Suckow also took care of collecting the building costs. At the end of 1882 he was able to hand over a building plan by Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel , then still in Dresden. In 1886 von Suckow made a trip to the Rhineland to collect the missing sum, and construction could begin in the summer of 1887. The Sacred Heart Chapel was inaugurated on August 23, 1888.

Memorial stone

Next to the chapel, a memorial stone with the inscription Deo Gratias ( Thank God ) commemorates the Chamberlain von Suckow and the consecration of the chapel.

Von Suckow spent the last years of his life in retirement in Dresden.

Awards

Fonts

  • About appropriate stage management. Rostock: Stiller 1864
  • The Sacred Heart Chapel on the Holy Dam. In: Bonifacius-Blatt 1890, No. 3

literature

  • Hermann von Suckow , in: David August Rosenthal : Convert images from the nineteenth century. Volume 1/3, Regensburg: Manz 1902, pp. 481-484
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9927 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 19 , 275.
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 119 361.
  4. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin from July 1, 1850
  5. ↑ Rosenthal (lit.), p. 482.
  6. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin of January 12, 1858
  7. ^ Supplement to the Kladderadatsch from July 28, 1872 ( digitized version )
  8. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin of March 7, 1863, p. 71
  9. ^ According to Mecklenburg-Schwerinsches Staatshandbuch for 1891, p. 21
personal data
SURNAME Suckow, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suckow, Hermann Ernst Adolf Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin Chamberlain and Director of the Heiligendamm seaside resort
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Toddin
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1895
Place of death Dresden