Jürgen von Kleist-Retzow
Jürgen Christoph von Kleist-Retzow (born August 21, 1854 in Kieckow , † December 14, 1897 in Dresden ) was a German manor owner and district administrator.
Life
Jürgen von Kleist-Retzow was the son of the Upper President of the Rhine Province Hans Hugo von Kleist-Retzow and his wife Charlotte, nee. Countess zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1821–1885), a daughter of Minister Count Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode .
On February 4, 1886, he married Count Ruth von Zedlitz and Trützschler (1865–1945) in Opole . In the same year the couple moved to Köslin and then to Belgard in Pomerania, where Jürgen von Kleist-Retzow took over the office of district administrator for the Belgard district . Four children were born in Belgard. In 1892 he became a co-heir of his father's estates Kieckow and Klein-Krössin .
On December 14, 1897, shortly after the birth of the fifth child, Jürgen von Kleist-Retzow died in Dresden on the way to a sanatorium. His widow, who was only 30 years old, moved to Stettin in 1899 , where she took two foster sons into the family: the brothers Gottfried von Bismarck and Herbert von Bismarck . She transferred the property in Kieckow to an administrator.
Of the couple's children, Hans-Jürgen von Kleist-Retzow (1887–1967) was arrested after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 and temporarily held in the Lehrter Strasse cell prison . The daughter Spes married the Szczecin entrepreneur Walter Stahlberg and was the mother of Alexander Stahlberg , the daughter Maria married her foster brother Herbert von Bismarck and the youngest daughter Ruth married Hans von Wedemeyer and was the mother of Maria von Wedemeyer .
literature
- Herman von Petersdorff : Kleist-Retzow: a picture of life. Stuttgart and Berlin: Cotta 1907 ( digitized version )
- Alexander Stahlberg : When Prussia was still Prussia: memories. Berlin: Ullstein 1992, ISBN 9783550075162 , p. 33ff
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Johannes Tuchel : "... the rope is waiting for all of you.": The cell prison Lehrter Strasse 3 after July 20, 1944. (Writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center: Analyzes and Representations 7) Berlin: Lukas 2014 ISBN 9783867321785 , p 276
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleist-Retzow, Jürgen von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kleist-Retzow, Jürgen Christoph von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manor owner and district administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kieckow |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1897 |
| Place of death | Dresden |