Julius von Platen (theater director)

Julius von Platen (from Die Gartenlaube , 1887)

Julius Graf von Platen (also: Julius Wilhelm Ludwig von Platen zu Hallermund and Platen zu Hallermund and name variants as well as Julius Gottfried Platen-Hallermund ; born December 26, 1816 in Hanover , † September 1, 1889 in Dresden ) was a royal Hanover theater director and major in the Royal Hanoverian Guard Regiment and wing adjutant .

origin

Julius von Platen-Hallermund was a member of the noble family von Platen-Hallermund and a son of the Hanoverian Lord Chamberlain Georg von Platen Hallermund (1785–1873) and Juliane (1788–1833), daughter of Karl Philipp Graf von Hardenberg . He was a brother of the Hanoverian Postmaster General Karl von Platen Hallermund (1810-1887), the Hanoverian diplomat and Minister of State Adolf von Platen-Hallermund and Georg von Platen-Hallermund (1827-1881) and the uncle of the poet and officer August von Platen (1796 -1835).

Life

The later Hanoverian Major in the Guards - regiment and adjutant Julius von Platen-Hallermund were awarded during his career many by several mansions Europe orders and medals, the Knight's Cross of Guelph-Order , the Oldenburg House and Merit of the Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig II Class, the House Order of Albrecht the Bear II class, the Duke Saxony-Ernestine House Order II class, the Austrian Order of the Iron Crown III. Class, the Austrian Imperial Leopold Order III. Class, the Prussian Red Eagle Order III. Class, the Swedish Order of the Sword III. Class, the Dutch Order of the Lions III. Class, the Kurhessische Wilhelmsorden III. Class, the Saxon-Weimar White Falcon Order III. Class and the Prussian Order of St. John .

In 1854, von Platen in the royal seat of Hanover was assigned the management of the court theater there. At the same time head of the orchestra, among others, the court conductor Heinrich Marschner , conductor Carl Ludwig Fischer , concert master Joseph Joachim , the chamber singer Madelaine Nottes , the orchestra valet Heinrich Gertz and other well-known personalities were under his control .

After the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia , Julius von Platen moved to Dresden in 1867 to the Royal Saxon Court Theater there .

literature

• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hanoverian biography. (In Gothic script ), Volume 1: Hanoverian men and women since 1866. Hanover: Sponholtz, 1912, p. 361.

Archival material

Archival material from and about the imperial count and theater manager Julius von Platen-Hallermund can be found in large numbers, especially in the correspondence and autographs listed in the Kalliope network .

Web links

• Portrait lithography by the artist Paul Rohrbach from the German stage almanac . Vol. XXIX (1865) in the Theater History Collection and the Hebbel Collection via the Museum Association Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg portal
• Platen-Hallermund, Julius von (1816 - 1889) at CERL Thesaurus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Compare the information in the German biography
2. ↑ ^{a b} o.V. : Platen-Hallermund, Julius Gottfried in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , last accessed on February 13, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the information in the Kalliope network
4. ↑ ^{a b c} o. V .: Orchestra. In: Hof- und Staatshandbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1856. Hanover: Druck und Verlag der Berenbergschen Buchdruckerei (Theaterplatz 3), 1856, p. 21 (as well as an explanation of the designation of patriotic orders and decorations ... from p. VIII - X); Preview over google books
5. ^ Dieter Brosius:  Platen-Hallermund, Adolf Ludwig Karl Reichsgraf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 511 ( digitized version ).
6. ^ State Archives Hanover , inventory of the directorate of the Hoftheater in Hanover