Johann von Stietencron
Johann ("Iwan") Hartwig Georg Philipp Otto Freiherr von Stietencron (born February 12, 1811 in Neustadt am Rübenberge ; † November 15, 1873 in Schötmar ) was the heir to the Schötmar manor from 1835 to 1873, Princely Lippian Chamberlain , member of the Lippe district Parliament and since 1841 President of the Lippe Knighthood .
Life
Iwan von Stietencron first studied from 1831 at the University of Heidelberg , where he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia . At the University of Göttingen he met his brother Hermann von Stietencron with his corps brother Otto von Bismarck and remained in friendly contact with Bismarck even after his studies.
In 1835 he inherited the Schötmar manor in the Principality of Lippe from his father .
On September 9, 1841, Iwan von Stietencron married Charlotte Wilhelmine Hermine Catharina, called Cathinka, von Freymann (born July 3, 1821 in Groß-Zschachwitz , † July 2, 1910 in Schötmar ) in Detmold , the granddaughter (and heir) of the Russian prince Nikolai Abramowitsch Putyatin . Over the years, the couple toured large parts of Europe. They had three children together: Benedicta (* 1842), married to Baron Otto von Uexküll at Fickel and Wellenhof near Reval in Estonia, Iwan Friedrich Hermann Gustav (* 1844 - 22 December 1897) and Hartwig (* 4 January 1847; † December 30, 1932), who owned the Schötmar estate from 1915 to 1930.
Iwan von Stietencron died in Schötmar in 1873. He was buried in the Schötmar crypt.
Works
Iwan von Stietencron enjoyed with Leopold III. to lip great influence. Bismarck wrote about him in 1854: “ The real ruler of the Principality and the Prince of Lippe now seems ... to be Baron von Stietencron, with whom I am friends from the university. "(After K. Wallbaum from: E. Kittel, Geschichte des Landes Lippe, p. 211)
Politically, he was very conservative. As a nobleman and manorial estate owner, he was concerned about the endangered chivalric and rural rights. K. Wallbaum quotes in his book from a letter to Bismarck: “ Here a knightly prince and few nobles stand alone against a gang and defend their right, the right of the whole country against a servants who want to usurp state authority and against one democratic ejection personifying passed state parliament. The people, a mass of stupid people, will cheer the victor. The servants studied almost in general in Jena, were members of the fraternity and tried to introduce the ideas of this planting place of Satan for 30 years. "
As part of the March Revolution , the state election law in the Principality of Lippe was changed in 1848. The privileges of the nobility ended, the state parliament was determined in free and equal elections. As president of the state parliament, Johann von Stietencron was a leading representative of the conservatives. However, these could only win 8 to 9 out of 25 mandates in the new state parliament. Among them was Johann von Stietencron, who had received the mandate in the 11th electoral district. At the constituent session of the new state parliament on June 11, 1849, he ran against Franz Hausmann for the office of deputy parliamentary president, but was defeated in the second ballot with 16 to 8 votes.
At the same time he promoted the expansion of the village of Schötmar by making urgently needed building land available. In doing so, he founded Neue Strasse in 1839 and Gartenstrasse in 1857 (today: Vehrlingstrasse).
He enriched the park of the manor with rare trees and had a family chapel with a mausoleum built in it in 1867.
literature
- Kurt Wallbaum: Manor and Schötmar Castle 1664–1985 . Lippischer Heimatbund eV, Detmold 1988, ISBN 3-926311-65-7
This and that
There are two traditions about the choice of his nickname Ivan.
- On the one hand, in order to seal his brotherhood in arms with a Russian officer friend, his father is said to have renamed him Ivan and the Russian his son Ivan, of about the same age, to Johann.
- On the other hand, his wife Cathinka is said to have used "Iwan" as a pet form for her husband.
The first name Ivan became a tradition in the von Stietencron family .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 112 , 329.
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 70 , 80; previously Corps Curonia Bonn.
- ↑ Wage No. 48 of June 13, 1849, online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stietencron, Johann von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stietencron, Johann Hartwig Georg Philipp Otto Freiherr von (full name); Stietencron, Ivan von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hereditary lord of the Schötmar manor, Princely Lippian chamberlain, member of the Lippe state parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neustadt am Rübenberge |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1873 |
| Place of death | Schötmar |