Karl von Maltzahn
Karl Hans Friedrich Freiherr von Maltzahn , even Carl von Maltzahn (* 17th November 1797 in Ivenack ; † 21st October 1868 in Pinnow ), a Prussian Oberland equerry and was District Administrator of the district Demmin . He was one of the pioneers of horse racing in Mecklenburg and Pomerania and was an important specialist in horse breeding .
Life
Karl von Maltzahn (No. 975 of the gender census ) was born as the fourth son of Albrecht Joachim Freiherr von Maltzahn , Count von Plessen at Ivenack Castle , and his wife Amelie von Schwerin (1769–1831) from the Wolfshagen family.
Together with his brother Rudolf , who was later a member of the First Chamber of the Prussian State Parliament and then a member of the Prussian manor house , he was tutored by private tutors in Ivenack. From 1810 he attended the pedagogy in Halle (Saale) .
In December 1813 he joined the light guard cavalry regiment as a hussar and took part in the campaigns against France in 1814. He was awarded the Iron Cross and promoted to lieutenant . In 1819 he retired from the military after he had met Karoline, b. von Bilfinger had married. The two lived in Ivenack for several years and then moved into the mansion newly built by Karl's father in Sommersdorf .
After his father's death in 1828, Karl von Maltzahn inherited the Sommersdorf and Leuschentin estates and bought the Wüstgrabow estate near Stavenhagen from his brother . He leased the Leuschentin and Wüstgrabow estates in order to be able to devote himself entirely to agriculture and in particular to the development of his stud in Sommersdorf . Already after the liberation wars his interest in horse racing and pedigree horse breeding was awakened on a trip to England . He was one of the founders of the racetracks in Doberan ( Ostseerennbahn ), Güstrow and Neubrandenburg and was also successful as a rider. In 1829 he won the second price in Doberan on Allegranti and in 1830 in Berlin on Ivanhoe the Golden Cup of the Berlin Horse Racing Association. In 1831 he won the Springing Meeting in Basedow and achieved second places in Güstrow and Doberan. In 1833 Karl and Rudolf von Maltzahn were made honorary members of the Mecklenburg Horse Racing Committee.
In 1831 he was appointed district administrator of the Demmin district. Until the end of his term of office, he rode almost every day from his residence in Sommersdorf to his official residence in Demmin , 17 km away . In Pomerania he founded the Anklamer Club for Horse Racing and Horse Dressage, and in 1834 he was one of the founders of the Stralsund Racing Club. Here he also took part successfully in competitions.
Together with Rudolf he made trips to England, Scotland and Ireland , where the two bought horses and cattle on behalf of the Pomeranian Association for Horse and Cattle Breeding as well as for the Princes Albrecht and Wilhelm of Prussia and the Prince of Württemberg. He was also elected second director of the Jockey Club for Northern Germany and was a member of the board of directors of the Berlin Association for Horse Breeding and Horse Training.
In 1842 he fell in love with Auguste von Dewitz . His wife agreed to the divorce. She moved to Dresden with the children . However, Auguste von Dewitz rejected his requests. Karl von Maltzahn then stayed in Sommersdorf for a few years, but then leased all of the goods and sold his stud and the cattle and merino sheep breeding . In addition, he resigned all offices and presidencies. In several trips he studied horse breeding extensively in Austria , Hungary , Italy , England, France and America. In 1848, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin made him head of the Redefin State Stud .
In 1851 he took up closer contact with his divorced wife, with whom he was reconciled. In 1852 he acquired the Vollrathsruhe estate , which he expanded into a family seat. As technical general director of the royal studs and chief stableman, he dedicated himself to horse breeding throughout Germany.
In 1864 he became a legal knight of the Order of St. John .
Shortly after the death of his brother Rudolf in autumn 1868, Karl Freiherr von Maltzahn suffered a stroke in Pinnow and died a few days later. He was buried in the tower vault of the village church Kirch Grubenhagen .
Theodor Fontane used the course of his marriage to Caroline von Bilfinger and their suicide as a template for his novel “ Irrecoverable ”.
family
He married Caroline von Bilfinger in March 1819 (* March 15, 1799, † August 1855). The couple had several children:
- Albrecht (born June 2, 1821), Herr auf Leuschintin ⚭ 1856 Caroline von Biel (born June 26, 1838)
- Arianna (February 8, 1823 - March 1851) ⚭ August von Heyden-Linden (1813–1881)
- Rosalie (born October 4, 1827) ⚭ August von Heyden-Linden (1813–1881), parents of Bogislav von Heyden-Linden
- Karl (born July 25, 1829), Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John ⚭ 1857 Camilla von Lemanska
- Rudolf (* July 15, 1834; † January 2, 1885) ⚭ Amalie (Ilma) Almasy von Zsadany and Török-Szent-Miklos (1842–1914)
literature
- Wolfgang Fuhrmann: A life for the horses. In: Heimatkurier. Supplement to Nordkurier , September 3, 2007, p. 23.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1870, p.552
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice in the weekly newspaper of the Johanniter-Ordens-Balley Brandenburg. 1868, p. 265.
- ↑ Christoph von Maltzahn: Maltza (h) n, v. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 741 f. ( Digitized version ). (Family item)
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1873, p.44
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maltzahn, Karl von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maltzahn, Karl Hans Friedrich von (full name); Maltzahn, Carl von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian head stable master and district administrator of the Demmin district |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ivenack |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1868 |
| Place of death | Pinnow |