Ludwig Meyländer called Rogalla von Bieberstein

Ludwig Meyländer called Rogalla von Bieberstein (around 1900)

Ludwig Meyländer called Rogalla von Bieberstein (1908)

Ludwig Meyländer called Rogalla von Bieberstein with his wife Hanna (around 1914)

Ludwig Meyländer called Rogalla von Bieberstein with his wife Hanna (around 1930)

House Laukischken (around 1900)

Ludwig Meyländer called Rogalla von Bieberstein (born July 14, 1873 on Gut Adlig Laukischken , Labiau district ; † August 4, 1940 in Wartenburg ) was a Prussian Rittmeister a. D., landowner and legal knight of the Order of St. John as well as resistance fighters.

family

His grandfather Friedrich Gottlieb Meyländer, Rittmeister in the Black Hussar Regiment No. 5, was the adopted stepson of captain Johann Siegmund Rogalla von Bieberstein from the old East Prussian noble family who was hereditary ennobled as "Meyländer called Rogalla von Bieberstein" in 1807 . His father was the manor owner Oskar Meyländer called Rogalla von Bieberstein (1843-1889), lord of the nobles Laukischken, Powangen, Groß and Kl. Schmerberg and Popes, his mother (Lina) Walli Adolfine von Bieberstein Kasimirski (1854-1936) from Nadafken at Baranowen in the district of Sensburg . The younger brother Ernst died in childhood.

On January 24, 1913, Bieberstein married Gertrud Helene (Hanna) Woelki on noble grounds in the Labiau district (* Königsberg 1877, † Lage b. Oldenburg i. Holstein 1946), daughter of Captain Hermann Woelki and Gertrude Reich. She was the widow after Lieutenant Elimar Boltz on the manor Adlig Grunds (2500 acres) and brought the children Lilli Boltz, Richard Boltz, Ursula Hanna Boltz and Margot Hanna Boltz into the marriage. The own marriage remained childless.

Life

Childhood, school, cadet corps

Bieberstein grew up with his younger brother Ernst on their father's Laukischken estate in East Prussia. Riding was in the blood. First in the exercise area in front of the castle, then we went to the park, later to the grounds and then to Deime to see cousins ​​and aunties in Groß Schmerberg. The Sunday church attendance led from the manor house across the street to the old church, where a stone reminded of the work of Ännchen von Tharau . After preparation by a private tutor, he - like other cousins ​​- went to the Herzog Albrechts- Gymnasium in Allenstein or the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg.

On May 5, 1884, at the age of 11, he joined the 1st Company of the Royal Prussian Cadet Corps at Kulm under number 4217, where his cousin Hans Philipp Adolf Erdmann RvB from nearby Klein Schmerberg had already served since May 2, 1882. A photo shows both in cadet uniform. On February 19, 1887, Bieberstein was released. In 1889, at the age of 14, he lost his father and came under guardianship.

Military service (1893–1912)

Joined the army October 8, 1893 as an avant-garde in the 3rd Guards Uhlan Regiment in Potsdam, June 24, 1894 Portepee ensign. Ordered May 13, 1895 to the Magdeburg Hussar Regiment No. 10 in Stendal as a second lieutenant in the 5th squadron, transferred to the 2nd squadron in 1898 and participation in the imperial maneuver of the VII and X Army Corps in Westphalia in September , in the final parade before Kaiser Wilhelm II. and at the escort escort for the empress to the parade in Minden , 1899 lieutenant, transferred to the 5th squadron in 1900 and participation in the escort squadron for the unveiling of the monument to Kaiser Karl IV by Kaiser Wilhelm II and Crown Prince Wilhelm on November 29, 1901 –1902 1st squadron, 1903 without squadron membership, in 1904 assigned to the Royal Prussian Stud Administration, promoted to first lieutenant in 5th squadron on March 16, 1905 and resignation to the reserve on September 15, 1905. 1906–1908 Lieutenant of the reserve in Wehlau , 1909– 1910 in Königsberg (East Prussia) , transferred to Landwehr-Kavallerie-Brigade 1 Kommandantur Königsberg on November 23, 1910, March 26, 1912 Rittmeister of the Landwehr Cavalry (Ld2 Königsb erg), October 18, 1912, transferred back to the reserve officers of the 10th Hussar Regiment., 1912/14 Rittmeister of the Reserve a. D. of the 10th Hussar Regiment.

Farmer (1912-1940)

On the occasion of his wedding in 1913, the old mansion in Laukischken was demolished and the new modern castle with its 20 guest rooms was built on the foundation walls.

The manor belonged to the manor in 1913, at that time Richard Wolle was its administrator, as in 1932 the Gut Laukischken (640 ha), Papsten (39 ha) and the Gut Gr. Schmerberg (342 ha), which together are 1021 ha. Of this, 531 hectares were arable, 204 meadows, 32 pastures, 112 logs and 43 surrounding areas.

Animal breeding in 1913: 135 horses (all fox colored), 382 cattle (Red Bund, 189 cows), 72 sheep, 162 pigs. The herd of cows was attached to the herdbook. The milk from the cows was processed into butter in the estate's own dairy in Laukischken.

The chickens were successfully converted to the reddish brown Rhodian lands imported into Germany from the USA in 1901.

Political, social activities and exclusion

Bieberstein married in January 1913. In the same year the Kyffhäuser Verlag in Munich published the second year of the worst kind of work anonymously, the so-called Semi-Gotha adorned with swastika and German head, whose writer Wilhelm Pickl v. Witkenberg is recognized. He claims - without being able to provide any evidence - that the adopted and ennobled grandfather, Friedrich Gottlieb Meyländer, is gracious. Rogalla von Bieberstein, was of Jewish descent in the male line. This makes it clear that his family branch was subjected to the pressure of exclusion from everyday, economic and military life by the growing circle of ethnically-minded contemporaries even before the First World War .

Bieberstein immediately sought admission to the Order of St. John and was admitted to the Balley Brandenburg as a Knight of Honor by the Chapter of the Order in 1913 and assigned to the Prussian Cooperative. With this knight title and the line of genealogies extended to the great-grandparents compared to the depiction in the Brno diary, the references to adoption with subsequent ennoblement as well as the Protestant denomination, he went on the offensive in the Gothaischen genealogical pocket book, printed in 1914. He pointed out that great-grandfather was the royal Prussian judicial actuary Friedrich Meyländer and grandmother was the heiress of Groß Schmerberg and Powangen Marie Elisabeth Gerlach.

When they first invaded East Prussia in August 1914, the family fled to Königsberg, while the Russians occupied the village and Laukischken Castle. The machine-gun stands set up in the mansion's attic and in the church tower were fought by German artillery from beyond the Deime. The war damage and looting in the house were great and are captured in photographs.

After the lost war, the revolutionary unrest, the abdication of the emperor, whom he personally experienced and escorted, to whom he had taken his oath of allegiance, the unloved Weimar Republic established itself. Like large circles of the bourgeoisie, the replacement of the colors black, white and red of the Bismarckian Empire with the colors of black, red and gold of the 1848 revolution hurt his national pride. In the early days of the Weimar Republic he continued to hoist black, white and red.

Bieberstein became a staunch opponent of the National Socialists. There is evidence as early as 1936 that he refused to join the May Day parades and to give the new symbols of the Reich the desired place.

The Königsberger Zeitung wrote on Sunday, March 10, 1940 in the local section under the bar heading Reactionary Farmer Into Prison . : For a long time he was ripe for his subversive behavior, to be judged by the voice of the people. Namely, he listened to foreign broadcasters, gave a speech hostile to the state at the Christmas party, richly entertained the Polish prisoners of war with roast meat, tobacco products, etc., and as a matter of principle never used the German greeting, he even dared to put the flag of the German Reich on his gable To hoist the stable, whereas he used to hoist the flag of the Second Reich on the mast in his castle .

He died on August 4, 1940 by hanging on the orders of the Nazi government in Wartenburg prison , Allenstein district , East Prussia.

Honors

• Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John of the Balley Brandenburg 1913.
• Right knight of the Order of St. John June 25, 1935 by the master master Prince Oskar of Prussia

Footnotes

1. ↑ Association for Family Research in Ost- u. West Prussia eV: Old Prussian Gender Studies Family Archive Volume 11, 1986/87, Hamburg, pp. 102/103
2. ↑ Neuschaefer: Stammliste of the Royal Cadet House Culm-Cöslin (June 1, 1776 – November 1, 1907) . Berlin 1907, p. 336.
3. ^ Wilhelm Pickl v. Witkenberg: Weimar historical-genealogical paperback of the entire nobility of Jewish origin (Semi-Gotha). Collection of all the male lines of Jewish blood, that is, from the genuinely oriental racial type of the - actually incorrectly called Israelites - Hebrews or Jews, from then and now, without any particular consideration of their possibly current Christian denomination or any blood mixtures through marriage of Aryan people Women - from a racial point of view. 1913 second year, Kyffhäuser Verlag, Munich, p. 1853.
4. ^ Brno Genealogical Pocket Book of Noble Houses. 10th year, Brno 1884, p. 27, II line.
5. ^ Matthias Graf v. Schmettau: Memorial Book of the German Nobility , Limburg / Lahn 1967, p. 217.

literature

• Susanne Heim: Calories, rubber, careers, plant breeding and agricultural research at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes 1933–1945. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-696-2 .
• Christoph Kreutzmüller: On the handling of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society with money and goods: Real estate transfers and Jewish foundations 1933–1945. (Research program “History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism”, Volume 27). Berlin 2005, DNB 977939979 .
• Hans-Babo von Rohr: History of the Magdeburg Hussar Regiment No. 10 1813-1913. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1913.
• Ernst Seyfert: Niekammer's goods address books. Volume III: Goods address book for the province of East Prussia . 2nd Edition. Ernst Seifert, Leipzig 1913, p. 275.
• Gotha. B 1914, pp. 646/647.