Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz

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Coat of arms of Counts Polzer-Hoditz and Wolframitz, 1917.

Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz (born April 23, 1869 in Prague as Ritter von Polzer , † October 13, 1945 in Vienna , from 1917 to 1919 Count von Polzer-Hoditz and Wolframitz ) was an Austrian officer , landowner , anthroposophist and publicist .

Life

Ludwig Ritter von Polzer was the eldest son of the officer Julius Ritter von Polzer (1834-1912) and Countess Maria Christine von Hoditz and Wolframitz (1847-1924), a descendant of Count Albert Joseph von Hoditz . He grew up in Vienna, Pilsen and Graz . Ludwig came to the high school at age 15 to the Cavalry - Cadet -Oberrealschule in Moravian Weisskirchen , where he graduated in 1888 as valedictorian. In 1889 he became a lieutenant , and in 1895 he was a riding instructor for officer students and an orderly officer. In September 1900 he married Berta Baroness Kotz von Dobrz (1879–1945); they had two sons, Josef and Julius.

Appointed Rittmeister in 1902 , Ludwig Ritter von Polzer soon retired for health reasons. In 1906 he acquired Tannbach Castle near Gutau in Upper Austria . At the suggestion of his father, a member of the Theosophical Society , he heard Rudolf Steiner's lecture for the first time in Vienna in 1908 . In 1911 he and his wife also became a member; later he was one of Steiner's closest pupils.

In 1917 Ludwig Ritter von Polzer von Steiner was the first to be informed about his idea of ​​a threefold social structure, alongside Otto Lerchenfeld and Walter Johannes Stein . He brought it to the cisleithan k.k. through his brother Arthur (1870–1945), then head of the cabinet of Emperor Karl I. Government approach.

During this time, his mother also asked Emperor Karl I to transfer the counts of the Hoditz family to her children with a coat of arms combining the emblems of the families of the Knights of Polzer and the Counts of Hoditz and Wolframitz . After the application was approved on October 11, 1917, Ludwig Ritter von Polzer was also entitled to the title of Count of Polzer-Hoditz and Wolframitz , which he lost again in 1919 in the course of the abolition of the nobility in Austria .

In 1935 Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz tried to prevent the split in the Anthroposophical Society ; after failing to do so, he resigned in 1936 and worked as a freelance publicist and lecturer until his death.

Works

  • Reflections during the time of the war . Central printing house, Linz 1917
  • The necessity of maintaining and developing German intellectual life for European culture . Manz, Vienna 1919
  • Political considerations based on the threefolding of the social organism . The coming day, Stuttgart 1920
  • The struggle against the spirit and testament of Peter the Great . The coming day, Stuttgart 1922
    • New edition (with a foreword by Renate Riemeck ) as: The Testament of Peter the Great. The fight against the mind . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1989, ISBN 3-7235-0542-2
  • The mysteries of the middle between East and West . In: Guenther Wachsmuth (Ed.): Gäa Sophia , Volume III, Stuttgart 1926
  • The mystery of the European center. A world historical examination of fate . With two remarks by Rudolf Steiner. Orient-Occident, Stuttgart 1928
  • Memories of Rudolf Steiner . Edited by Peter Tradowsky . Verlag am Goetheanum (Pioneers of Anthroposophy 3), Dornach 1985, ISBN 3-7235-0383-7
  • Fate pictures from the time of my spiritual students . Thirteen scenic pictures from the estate, ed. v. Thomas Meyer . Perseus, Basel 2000, ISBN 3-907564-52-9

literature

  • Thomas Meyer: Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz. A European . Perseus, Basel 1994; 2nd ext. A. 2008, ISBN 3-907564-17-0

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personal data
SURNAME Polzer-Hoditz, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer, landowner, anthroposophist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1945
Place of death Vienna