Karl Reckling

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Chef's house in the Dobbertin monastery

Karl Diedrich Ernst Rudolf Reckling (born April 28, 1877 in Wendisch-Priborn ) was the naval director's secretary and the last kitchen master in the Dobbertin monastery .

Life

Karl Reckling was the son of the Wendisch-Priborn military musician and composer August Reckling and the father of the engineer and university professor Karl-August Reckling (1915–1986). Karl was born in Wendisch-Priborn on April 28, 1877. Nothing is known about his youth.

On October 4, 1908, Karl Reckling married the 26-year-old daughter of the pastor Johann Adolf Heinrich Bahlcke, born on June 19, 1882 in Stuer . A year later, on November 18, 1909, Pastor Bahlcke died of a stroke.

Reckling had served for a number of years in Parchim and Schwerin in the paymaster's career before he became a senior administrative officer, naval directorate secretary in the military authority in Kiel . But during the war years , Karl Reckling returned to his homeland in Mecklenburg in 1916, following an advertisement in the Rostocker Anzeiger. His parents and his unmarried sister were already living in Wendisch-Priborn again.

Dobbertin Monastery

After 27 years of service at the Dobbertin monastery office, at the age of 71, the head chef, accountant Gustav Schulze, retired on October 1, 1916, but continued to work as there was no representative. The monastery chief, the provisional Cuno Graf von Bassewitz auf Perlin and chamberlain Rittmeister District Administrator Ernst von Gundlach auf Mollenstorf and the monastery captain Hellmuth von Prollius von Stubbendorf did not want to have the customs inspector Wüseney, who was to be his successor . They were glad that he was still in the field as a first lieutenant and that the Güstrow tax actuary Angerstein had not yet been hired in the monastery administration. The 39-year-old Karl Reckling was selected from the 112 applications by the monastery rulers and confirmed at the state parliament in Malchin on November 27, 1916. Among the applications, some with photos and already written with a typewriter, there were lawyers, managing directors, authorized signatories, office managers as well as employees of the Redefin state stud and the Richtenberg grain distillery. Even state secretaries and government councilors had come forward.

The 39-year-old Karl Reckling was invited to an introduction to the monastery office in Dobbertin on October 10, 1916, and on October 20, 1916 he was instructed and sworn in as a chef. Karl had made a deposit of 18,000 marks, just like the master chef Gustav Schulze had made. Gustav Schulze remained in the administration until October 24th, so he could at least give his successor some information on the management. During the probationary period, Reckling received a half-yearly salary of 1,500 marks with free apartment, lighting and firing. At the Landtag on November 26, 1917, the monastery chiefs reported that the Marine Directorate Secretary Reckling, who had been employed on a trial basis since October 1916, was finally employed as the kitchen master with validity from April 1, 1917.

With his permanent position as head chef, the apartment with the garden, the keeping of four cows and other natural products were connected to the previous chef. The annual cash salary was 6,500 marks, increasing every three years to a maximum of 8,000 marks. Not counted were various kinds of sports, such as military measure, percentages of leasing of the monastery property and the gradient of the hereditary tenants, Büdner , Häusler as well as the blacksmiths, mills, jugs etc., but also from the inscriptions of the noble daughters in the ladies' monastery . But Reckling was only granted a short term in office, because after the war years and the revolution, the state monasteries in Mecklenburg were dissolved at the end of 1918. With the reorganization of the legal relationships of the state monasteries on November 22, 1918, the three monastery heads in Dobbertin were dismissed by the Minister of State Sivkovich from Schwerin on December 12, 1918. From then on, kitchen master Reckling and the officials of the monastery administration were subordinate to the Mecklenburg Schwerin Ministry for Agriculture, Domains and Forests in Schwerin as Mecklenburg-Schwerin Landdrosteiabteilung Dobbertin .

With effect from April 1, 1922, a state monastery administration based on the monastery building yard was formed and the master chef Karl Reckling was entrusted with the management of the administrative business. In addition to the administration of the Dobbertin building yard, his area of ​​responsibility also included handling all convent affairs, including raising money to the monastery ladies, as well as leasing the mills, the jug, the fishery, the blacksmith's shop, the gardening shop and the bakery. In addition to renting and leasing buildings and lands, Reckling was also responsible for the entire cash and accounting system. For reasons unknown up to now, the master chef Karl Reckling was transferred to Schwerin on September 11, 1922. The administrative treasury and all files were handed over to the senior administrative secretary Hermann Kleesath and certified by him.

Kitchen master

The kitchen master was a tax officer and was responsible for all income and expenses of the monastery office in this commercial enterprise. The entire accounting and bookkeeping as well as the official treasury were subordinate to the chef.

He had a corn clerk and a kitchen clerk at his side to deal with the many small daily tasks in the office and in the building yard.

The kitchen master was also responsible for registering the virgins in the noble women's monastery in the Dobbertin monastery. The most important task was the daily functioning of monastic life with the supply of the 32 conventual women in the women's monastery.

The position of head chef seemed to have been very popular not only because of the long term of office.

Monastery administration

After the Reformation, the Dobbertin Benedictine monastery was converted into a noble women's monastery for the education of domestic virgins in 1572 . The administration of the monastery was no longer carried out by the provost and the prioress of the convent , but now as a monastery office by class officials elected in the state parliaments. The monastery captain and his two provisional agents were in charge of the monastery. The entire police and judicial system was also under the control of the monastery. The kitchen master was not the head cook in the monastery office, but the most important financial officer in the economic area of ​​the monastery administration. The responsibility and term of office of the officials and monastery servants was laid down in monastery regulations.

Additional monastery officials were needed to manage the extensive monastic property. In addition to the secretary and official actuary, the Syndicus as a lawyer, the land riders as the monastery’s own police officers, the forest inspector with his six foresters, three wood guards, an official hunter with five station hunters, the official gardeners and building yard workers, as well as the public servants and night watchmen.

Until 1918, the Dobbertin monastery office was one of the largest and richest commercial enterprises in Mecklenburg. In addition to 25,122 hectares of land, water and forests, the monastery owned 26 estates, 15 foresters, 16 mills, 13 village jugs, 6 brick factories, 3 lime kilns, several forges, glassworks and tar ovens, as well as the Dobbertiner monastery building yard. With the holdings in the Vorderen and Hinteren Sandpropstei , the monastery administration temporarily had to look after 132 villages in Mecklenburg with 17 leasehold farms, 27 schools and 19 parish churches. In addition to the monastery captain Hellmuth von Prollius in Stubbendorf and the two provisional agents Cuno Graf von Bassewitz in Perlin for the Duchy of Schwerin and master of ceremonies, District Administrator Major Ernst von Gundlach in Mollenstorf for the Duchy of Güstrow and the kitchen master Karl Reckling were also the syndic Geh. Court councilor and mayor Franz Friedrich Paschen from Bützow, the official secretary Hermann Kleesath, the official actuary Hans Angerstein, the forest inspector Karl Holstein with the official hunter Paul Linshöft and the land rider Paul Möller worked in the monastery administration until the monastery office was dissolved in 1918.

Schwerin, Wernigerode

Karl Reckling had only stayed in Schwerin for two years because he resigned there in 1924 as a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . In the annual report of the association from July 1, 1924 to June 30, 1925, it is noted that resigned Klosterküchemeister a. D. Reckling, Wernigerode. Karl Reckling must have moved to Wernigerode in 1924, because from 1925 to 1934 his son Karl-August Reckling, who was born in Kiel in 1915 , attended high school there. In 1929 the chief administrative inspector i. R. in Mönchstieg 11 in Wernigerode.

literature

  • Horst Alsleben : Head chef - a popular job in the monastery. SVZ, Mecklenburg-Magazin, April 8, 2016.
  • Horst Alsleben: Master chef ran the business. SVZ, Mecklenburg-Magazin, March 4, 2016, p. 25.
  • Klaus-Ulrich Keubke: A talented military musician from Mecklenburg. SVZ, Mecklenburg-Magazin, January 22, 2015, p. 25.
  • 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 monument preservation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Schwerin 2012, ISBN 978-3-935770-35-4 , pp. 42-52.
  • Horst Alsleben: Chef de cuisine was a tax officer. SVZ Lübz-Goldberg-Plau, February 13, 2009.
  • Heinz Geisterfeld: August Reckling. In: Forest biographies from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 1999, pp. 234-238.
  • Horst Alsleben : Head chef in the monastery, not a cook, but chief financial officer. SVZ Lübz, July 23, 1997.

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 2.12-3 / 2 Monasteries and orders of knights, Dobbertin. No. 34 kitchen master, No. 293–362 invoices and registers.
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin. No. 341 Salary claims kitchen master Reckling 1922–1923, No. 385 b appointments, service instructions 1713–1917, No. 385 c applications 1916.
    • LHAS 5.11-2 Landtag negotiations , Landtag assemblies , Landtag minutes and Landtag committee.
    • LHAS 5.12-4 / 2 Department of Agriculture, Domains and Forests. No. 8597-8607, 8625.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin. No. 385c Applications 1916.
  2. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Protocols of the Landtag. November 27, 1916, No. 9.
  3. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Protocols of the Landtag. November 26, 1917, No. 16.
  4. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Protocols of the Landtag. November 27, 1916, No. 9.
  5. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin, No. 205 of November 22, 1918.
  6. ↑ LHAS 5.12-4 / 2 MfLDF, Dobbertin Monastery Office. No. 8604 arguments with the monastery captain of Prollius.
  7. ↑ LHAS 5.12-4 / 2 MfLDF. Dobbertin Monastery. No. 8698a Reorganization of the legal relations of the regional monastery Dobbertin 1919–1957.
  8. ↑ Horst Alsleben: kitchen master ran the economy. SVZ, Mecklenburg-Magazin March 4, 2016, p. 25.
  9. ↑ Horst Alsleben: master chef in the monastery not a cook, but chief financial officer. SVZ July 23, 1997.
  10. ↑ Horst Alsleben: kitchen master ran the economy. SVZ, Mecklenburg-Magazin March 4, 2016, p. 25.
  11. ↑ Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Calendar 1916. Eleventh section Monasteries, charitable foundations and charities.
  12. ↑ MJB 89 (1925) p. 374.
personal data
SURNAME Reckling, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reckling, Karl Diedrich Ernst Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Naval directorate secretary, last kitchen master in the Dobbertin monastery office
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Wendisch-Priborn
DATE OF DEATH after 1929