Konrad Gans zu Putlitz

Wolfgang and Konrad Gans zu Putlitz as children

Konrad Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz (born June 22, 1855 at Gut Retzin in Groß Pankow , Prignitz ; † September 17, 1924 there ) was a German landowner and politician. From 1916 to 1918 he was a member of the Prussian manor house . Putlitz was a friend and patron of the arts and music.

family

Konrad Gans Noble Herr zu Putlitz came from the old aristocratic family Gans zu Putlitz in Prignitz . The family held the honorary office of the Hereditary Marshal of the Kurmark Brandenburg, which entitles them to a hereditary seat in the Prussian manor house .

Konrad zu Putlitz was the second eldest son of the landowner and writer Gustav Gans zu Putlitz (1821–1890) and his wife Elisabeth, b. Countess von Königsmarck (1825–1901).

Konrad zu Putlitz was married to Emilie Lürman (1856–1934) from a Bremen merchant and senatorial family. The couple had five children:

• Stephan (1885–1951)
• Gisbert (1886-1915)
• Waldemar (1888–1945)
• Erika, married. von der Schulenburg (1890–1978)
• Elisabeth, married von Barsewisch (1894–1962)

Life

After schooling in Berlin and Ballenstedt, Konrad zu Putlitz learned agriculture and in 1878 took over the Groß Pankow estate, where his grandfather Eduard Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz (1821–1890) still lived. After his death in 1891 he had the old Biedermeier manor house in Groß Pankow rebuilt in 1827 by the government architect Wilhelm Moeller in the Wilhelminian style. In addition, Konrad zu Putlitz was active in the distillery, starch factories and as a co-founder of the Perleberg vaccine plant and the Perleberger Viehversicherungs AG. From 1899 to 1910 he was the head of the Spiritus headquarters in Berlin .

In the Ostprignitz district he was active in numerous honorary positions as district deputy, district committee member, district councilor, and head of public life. During the First World War he represented the district administrator for a long time. He also campaigned for the establishment and expansion of the district agricultural schools, which laid the foundation for modern agriculture. Together with his uncle Eugen Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz , he campaigned for the construction and financing of the Perleberg-Wittstock railway line at the beginning of the 1880s , which was completed by 1885.

Like his father, Konrad zu Putlitz developed a keen interest in culture, literature and poetry. As a corresponding member of the Société Nationale d'Agriculture de France , he translated into German the book by the French agricultural politician Jules Méline "The return to plaice and industrial overproduction", which was published in 1906 by Parey in Berlin, which was very popular in agricultural circles at the time. In the 1920s he began work on the translation of Dante's " Divine Comedy ". However, it was only printed in the first two thirds of 1923 with volumes 1 and 2 (Der Tempel Verlag, Leipzig). Putlitz also promoted talents such as the soprano Lotte Lehmann (1888–1976), who was born in Perleberg .

In 1901 Wilhelm II appointed Konrad zu Putlitz as royal Prussian chamberlain. In 1909, at the special request of Wilhelm II, he also took over the position of governor of the monastery at the Holy Grave. In 1916, after the death of Gebhard Gans zu Putlitz , he became a senior member of the Gans zu Putlitz family and hereditary marshal of the Kurmark Brandenburg and as such a hereditary member of the Prussian manor house . He had been part of the emperor's immediate environment for a long time and took part in one of his trips to the north of the country. Both knew each other from childhood, when Konrad's father was court marshal to the Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (later Emperor Friedrich III ) and he, like his older brother Stephan, was one of the playmates of Prince Wilhelm, who was almost the same age.

Konrad zu Putlitz found his final resting place in the family cemetery in the manor park in Groß Pankow, which was laid out in 1848 by his father's nephew, Theodor Carl (1816–1859).

literature

• Lita zu Putlitz, Konrad zu Putlitz, in: Heimatkalender der Ostprignitz 1924, 22nd year, Pritzwalk 1926, pp. 74–74;
• Waldemar zu Putlitz, portrait of my father Konrad Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz, Groß Pankow undated (typewriter around 1940);
• Bernhard von Barsewisch, Torsten Foelsch, Seven Parks in Prignitz. History and condition of the Gans Noble Herren zu Putlitz estate parks, Berlin 2004.

Web links

• The history of the noble lords of Putlitz and Wolfshagen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: German biographical encyclopedia. Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 978-3-598-25038-5 , p. 114 ( limited preview in Google book search).