Leopold von Schlözer

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Leopold von Schlözer (1927)

Leopold von Schlözer , complete August Ludwig Leopold von Schlözer (born February 6, 1859 in Stettin , † May 1946 in Tutzing ) was a German officer, author, editor and translator.

Life

Leopold von Schlözer was the younger son of the imperial Russian consul in Stettin Nestor von Schlözer from his second marriage to the painter Luise Freiin von Meyern-Hohenberg (1823-1907). His brother Karl (1854-1916) worked as a diplomat. In 1873, both sons were dismissed from their Russian subjects at the request of the father.

He first grew up on Gut Rothensande , acquired by his father , where Wilhelm Wisser was his tutor. From 1875 he attended the Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden . After graduating from high school, he studied law and became a trainee lawyer in the Prussian judicial service.

Leopold von Schlözer as major (standing, right) at the parade of the royal hussars in Bonn in front of Kaiser Wilhelm II on the occasion of the inauguration of the monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I in 1906

From October 1881 to September 1882 he served as a one-year volunteer in the Leib-Dragoon Regiment (2nd Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 24 . As a secondary lieutenant in the reserve, he was aggregated to the Thuringian Uhlan Regiment No. 6 . In 1887 he entered the active officer service. In February 1890 he moved to the Hussar Regiment "King Wilhelm I" (1st Rheinisches) No. 7 in Bonn , where he was promoted to Prime Lieutenant on March 22, 1891. From October 1891 to July 1894 he was assigned to visit the War Academy . On September 1, 1896, he was promoted to redundant Rittmeister , and on January 27, 1897, he became chief of the squadron . In 1905 he was promoted to major. On April 1, 1907, he was initially on leave for one year; on April 21, 1908, he was granted leave with the statutory pension and permission to wear the regimental uniform.

Castle Winkel

He lived in Italy for the next few years . In 1907 he met Rainer Maria Rilke on Capri . In 1911 he moved from Rome to Merano , where he lived at the Schloss Winkel estate in the Obermais district . During the First World War he lived in Berlin; In 1919 he returned to Merano. Now the writer Georg von Ompteda , whom he knew from his school days in Dresden, became his roommate in Winkel Castle. Rilke's correspondent Gudi Nölke also moved here in November 1922. In 1934 Schloss Winkel was sold to Antonio Cembran. Schlözer moved to Tutzing in the Villa Neustätterstrasse 78, which he called Schlözerhaus . The house also became the home of Heinz Flügel and the editorial office of Eckart magazine .

Schlözer married the German-Baltic Baroness Maria, born on September 26, 1895 in Dresden . von der Ropp (* July 22, 1866; † 1939). His main work is the publication of the letter collections of his uncle Kurd von Schlözer in six volumes, initially together with his brother Karl and after his death in 1916 alone. Today they are considered "classics of German letter literature".

estate

In 1940 the University of Göttingen acquired Leopold von Schlözer's collection of family heirlooms ( Schloezeriana ), manuscripts and letters, which were expanded in 1943 with additional donations from the family.

Awards

Works

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the Turkish army. Berlin: Felix 1900–1901
Volume 1: About the origin and development of the old Turkish army. 1900 archive.org
  • Rêve mauresque. Grenade 1901 (1912)
Clay op! Maneuver sketches. Coben 1902
  • (Translator) Maurice Maeterlinck: The blind. 2nd edition, Munich: Langen 1902
  • Inner life. 2., through and probably edition, Munich: Beck 1907
  • Among Sardinian shepherds. Berlin: Stilke 1911
  • Field Marshal Baron von Loë: a military view of the times and life. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verl.-Anst., 1914
  • (Ed.): Garde-Feld-Post: Auslese. [1914/17] Berlin: Kalkoff 1917
  • (Ed.) Youth letters from Kurd von Schlözer: 1841-1856. Stuttgart; Berlin: German publishing house 1920
  • (Ed.) Kurd von Schlözer: Petersburg letters 1857-1862, together with an appendix: Letters from Berlin - Copenhagen 1862-1864 and an appendix. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1921 archive.org
  • Dorothea von Schlözer, the Philosophy Doctor: A German Woman's Life at the Turn of the Century 1770-1825. Stuttgart; Berlin; Leipzig: German publishing company 1923
6th and 7th thousand Göttingen: Deuerlich'sche Buchhandlung 1937
  • (Ed.) Kurd von Schlözer: Last Roman letters. Stuttgart: German publishing company 1924
  • (Ed.) Kurd von Schlözer: American letters. 4th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1927, 4th edition.
  • (Translator) Pius XI. : Alpine writings. Berlin: R. Mosse, 1925, 2nd edition Regensburg: Josef Habbel 1936
  • (Ed.) Karl von Schlözer: People and Landscapes: From the sketchbook of a diplomat. Stuttgart: German publishing house 1926
  • Rainer Maria Rilke on Capri: Conversations. Dresden: W. Jess 1931, 2nd edition 1932
  • (Ed. And introduction): Kurd von Schlözer: From a delicious life: Selected letters. Stuttgart; Berlin: German publishing company 1935
  • Forward! Life! From my hussar days in Bonn. Dresden: Jeß 1938
  • From the youth. Dresden: Jeß 1938
  • Preface: Memory of the poet , in Georg von Ompteda: Mountain War. [11-14 Thousand] Berlin: Steuben 1938
  • Maria: Letters from a Baltic woman from a bygone era. Dresden: Jeß 1940

Web links

Commons : Leopold von Schlözer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Program of the Vitzthum School: 1875/76. , P. 60
  2. ↑ All data on military service up to 1904 according to Adolf von Deines : The Hussar Regiment King Wilhelm I (1st Rheinisches) No. 7 from the formation of the main regiment to the present. 2nd edition supplemented and continued by Leopold Freiherr von Türcke, Berlin 1904, p. 84 *, no. 258
  3. ^ Military weekly paper 92 (1907), p. 883
  4. ^ Military weekly paper 93 (1908), Col. 1211
  5. ^ Leopold von Schlözer: Georg von Omptedas last works. In: Alpenzeitung of December 10, 1933, p. 4 ( digital copy)
  6. ^ Paul Obermüller (ed.): The letters to Mrs. Gudi Nölke: From Rilke's Swiss years. Wiesbaden: Insel 1953, p. 186
  7. ↑ For the history of the owner of the house, see Höfe in Mais. Volume 2, 2017, p. 249
  8. ↑ Heinz wing: Between the lines. Autobiographical records. Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1987. ISBN 3-459-01678-7 , p. 293ff
  9. ^ Friedrich Hassenstein: Schlözer, Conrad (Kurd) Nestor von. In: Lübeck CVs, ed. von Alken Bruns, Neumünster: Karl Wachholtz Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-529-02729-4 , pp. 346-350
  10. ^ Property of the von Schlözer family , collections of the University of Göttingen, accessed on November 14, 2018
  11. ^ Ranking list of the royal Prussian army. 1906, p. 364
personal data
SURNAME Schlözer, Leopold von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlözer, August Ludwig Leopold von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, author, editor and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH May 1946
Place of death Tutzing