Josias von Plüskow

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Josias Helmuth Albrecht von Plüskow (born July 12, 1815 in Kurzen Trechow , † March 16, 1894 in Kowalz ) was a Mecklenburg manor and district administrator .

Life

Coat of arms in the patronage church of Lohmen

Josias von Plüskow was born on July 12, 1815 as the third child of Carl von Plüskow and his wife Wilhelmine, nee. von Witzleben was born on the large, ancient castle of his father's Trechow estate . Four years later, on September 19, 1820, his father died. The guardians became the district administrator of Leers on Schönfeld and the colonel of Liebherr on Steinhagen . His mother and her children often stayed for a long time with their relatives in Holstein, for example in Kiel , Eutin and with her sister, the Countess von Rantzau in Rastorf .

Until he was 12 years old, Josias von Plüskow was tutored by a tutor who tried to teach him religion. Then he attended the pedagogy in Halle , where pious teachers taught him. He was confirmed at home. From autumn 1834 he studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and became a member of the Corps Vandalia Göttingen. He wasn't a brawler, but he was always his man on the scale. In the fall of 1835 he went to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and in 1836 joined the Corps Vandalia and Hanseatia. At the end of his studies, he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and at the end of 1837 to the home university of Rostock .

After completing his studies, he wanted to take over his father's estate. In order to prepare himself for agriculture, he went to the Herr von Mecklenburg auf Gehmkendorf for a while . The von Plüskow were owners of the manors Kowalz and Sophienhof. He took over Kowalz in 1841 from Dr. Georg Hermann Oertling, because the Trechow estate was sold in 1841 due to inheritance disputes with the siblings.

Dobbertin Monastery

Monastery governor's house in Dobbertin 2011

From 1861 to 1889 Josias von Plüskow was provisional at the Dobbertin monastery . When, after 41 years in office, his predecessor, District Administrator Hans Dietrich Wilhelm von Blücher auf Sukow near Teterow, died on February 5, 1861, District Administrator Josias von Plüskow was elected provisional for four years in the Sternberg state parliament on November 15, 1861 . The provisional could be re-elected after one electoral term.

On February 11, 1862, his inauguration in the Dobbertin Monastery was carried out observance, first in the convent hall of the Dominahaus with Mrs. Domina Hedwig von Quitzow as the elected head of the convent with her conventual women . Afterwards, he was introduced to the assembled officials, employees, foresters and wood guards of the monastery office and all village mayors as mayors of the monastery villages in the courtroom of the monastery master's house. Josias von Plüskow carried out his office with great faithfulness and efficiency as a man of justice, trust and equity in the monastery office until December 3, 1889. In his 28 years of service he had headed the monastery office with four monastery captains one after the other. There were (Otto) Julius von Maltzan , Freiherr zu Wartenberg and Penzlin on Klein Luckow , Drost Bogislav Wilhelm Theodor von Liebherr von Liebherr von Liebherr, Christian Joachim Hugo Karl Graf von Bernstorff on Wahrstorf and Ventschow and District Administrator Wilhelm von Oertzen on Lübbersdorf , Cosa and Barsdorf.

Mecklenburg State Parliament

Josias von Plüskow was a member of the knighthood and in the state parliament for 50 years. As a knight and landscape deputy, he was a member of the directing commission of the Güstrow farmhouse, which Adolph von Sprewitz co-founded .

In 1850 he had already gained such trust from the fellows that he was elected on February 26, 1851 at the state parliament in Malchin as a deputy of the knighthood of Wendish circle in the select committee, in which honorable position he remained until December 4, 1865. Also religiously and politically established, he now appeared orally in the state parliament in the discussion and in the work of the committees and commissions.

In the summer of 1864, the district administrator Friedrich Freiherr von Maltzan on Rothenmoor died, Plüskow received on 30 November 1864 at the diet to Malchin of the three gift Andes the most votes for the district office of the Duchy Güstrow and was the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. Of Mecklenburg to District Administrator appointed and sworn in by the Chairman of the District Administrator in the meeting room of the Select Committee. The district administrators had the rank of grand ducal real secret councilors and were the intermediary between sovereigns and estates and equally committed to both.

Josias von Plüskow was a sharp opponent of all attempts to open Mecklenburg to democratic reforms such as free elections and parliament. In 1866 he voted against Mecklenburg's accession to the North German Confederation and is considered by historical research to be the ultra and prototype of an extremely conservative Junker . In the Mecklenburgisches Tageblatte in 1869 he publicly criticized the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia Otto von Bismarck , for which he was answerable to the Rostock Justice Chancellery on March 13, 1869 . On April 29, he was sentenced to 14 days in prison and a fine of 20 thalers. Given the dependence of his country on the Prussians, the Grand Duke was probably embarrassed to see that one of his high-ranking district administrators had committed a criminal offense for attacks on Prussian politics . He should now be silent as long as he was district administrator. Plüskow then joined the legal association and after the war of 1870/71 took an active part, also in Leipzig and Central Germany.

On June 28, 1892, after 50 years, Plüskow resigned from his district office and was dismissed by the Grand Duke at his request. In the Rostocker Anzeiger of November 30, 1892 it can be read that he was honored several times at the Malchin state parliament on November 16, 1892. Hofrat Hermes from Röbel / Müritz as the oldest member of the landscape of the Duchy of Güstrow who was present in the state assembly, declared on behalf of the Mecklenburg landscape and a. everyone held him in high regard, even those who were not his friends and who were not fond of him. His memory will last a long time. District Administrator Graf von Bernstorff auf Wedendorf and District Administrator von Engel auf Breesen formulated a letter of thanks from the regional assembly to Josias von Plüskow on behalf of the knighthood.

family

On October 9, 1840 von Plüskow married the twenty-year-old Bertha von Schack , a daughter of Ernst Peter von Schack (1783–1842) on Nustrow . They lived on Gut Trechow until 1841, after which they moved to the unsightly Kowalz house. Plüskow expanded the manor house into a stately building, had a tree-rich garden and park paths leading to the nearby forest. The young landlord devoted himself diligently and successfully to the management of his property.

After several daughters, son Hans Albrecht was born on January 7, 1850 and a second son, Walther, on August 1, 1862. Walther died at the age of six. At the age of 19 Albrecht went to Demmin's 2nd Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment No. 9 . A year later he fell as a second lieutenant in the Franco-Prussian War on October 18, 1870 near Yères .

The daughter Margarete, born in Kowalz on October 14, 1854, now heir daughter , married Lieutenant Friedrich von Oertzen auf Woltow in 1873 and became known as a writer under her married name Margarete von Oertzen .

In the last years of his life, Plüskow lived very withdrawn because of increasing weakness. He died on March 16, 1894 at the age of 79 in Kowalz and was buried on March 20, 1894 in Vilz . Julius von Maltzan , who was head of the monastery in Dobbertin from 1854 to 1866, wrote an obituary. At the funeral in the church in Vilz, the Grand Duke from Schwerin sent a condolence telegram and the Grand Duke von Strelitz sent his deputy.

The Homagialeid because of inherited on them Lehngüter Kowalz and Sophienhof Major Carl rendered on January 8, 1897 by Plüskow the Lancers Regiment. 9 for himself and his three cousins, Major Carl von Plüskow the Dragoons. 18 , the Captain Otto von Plüskow from the 1st Guards regiment of foot and the first Lieutenant Hans von Plüskow from the same regiment - without prejudice to the daughters of Wailand Landraths Josias von Plüskow entitled Erbtochterrechts .

See also

literature

  • Julius von Maltzan : In memory of District Administrator Josias v. Plüskow on Kowalz. From: the Mecklenburg. Volume 14 No. 2, Ludwigslust April 14, 1894.
  • 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. 7673 .
  • Horst Alsleben : The Jungfrauenkloster as a Protestant women's monastery - a monastery office in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In: Dobbertin Monastery, History - Building - Life. Volume 2. Contributions to art history and preservation of monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Schwerin 2012, ISBN 978-3-935770-35-4 , pp. 42-52.

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin.
    • LHAS 5.11-2 Landtag negotiations , Landtag assemblies , Landtag minutes and Landtag committee.
    • LHAS 5.12-4 / 2 Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, Dobbertin Monastery Office.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Extract from the burial register of the ev .. luth. Vilz parish. Year 1894, p. 229 No. 4. Ticino January 12, 2000, Pastor Beste.
  2. ↑ In 1839 she became the chief steward of Amalie von Oldenburg , since 1836 Queen of Greece as wife of King Otto , and accompanied her to Bamberg .
  3. ↑ a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 87/282; 122/56; 1910, 113/73
  4. ↑ Registration of Josias von Plüskow on matrikel.uni-rostock.de
  5. ^ Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar, 1850, p. 95 ( digitized version )
  6. ^ Report of the monastery revision committee to the state parliament in Malchin on November 19, 1862 on the Dobbertin monastery, No. 1.
  7. ↑ Julius von Maltzan: In memory of the District Administrator Josias v. Plüskow on Kowalz. 1894, pp. 6-7.
  8. ^ Horst Alsleben: Compilation of all personalities of the Dobbertin monastery. Schwerin 2010-2013.
  9. ↑ Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar, 1847, p. 209 ( digitized version )
  10. ↑ Julius von Malzan: In memory of the District Administrator Josias v. Plüskow on Kowalz. 1894, pp. 5-6.
  11. ^ Michael Heinrichs (ed.): Modernization and Freedom: Contributions to the History of Democracy in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Schwerin: Stock-und-Stein-Verlag 1995 ISBN 978-3-910179-56-1 , p. 689
  12. ↑ Julius von Maltzan: In memory of the District Administrator Josias v. Plüskow on Kowalz. 1894, pp. 8-9.
  13. ↑ Danmarks adels aarbog 14 (1897, p. 386)
  14. ^ The Franco-German War, 1870-71. Edited by the War History Department of the Great General Staff. Volume 2, Berlin: Mittler 1880, p. 310 *; see also the school program of the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin 1871, p. 69 , but with the wrong date of death 23 October
  15. ^ Extract from the burial register of the Evangelical Lutheran. Vilz parish. Born 1894, p. 229 No. 4. Tessin, January 21, 2000, Pastor Beste.
  16. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1897, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Plüskow, Josias von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plüskow, Josias Helmuth Albrecht von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mecklenburg manor owner and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Trechow near Bützow
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1894
Place of death Kowalz