Martin Rücker from Jenisch

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Martin Rücker Freiherr von Jenisch (1913)

Martin Johann Rücker Freiherr von Jenisch (born June 8, 1861 in Hamburg ; † September 22, 1924 at Blumendorf Castle near Oldesloe ) was a German diplomat of the Empire .

Life

origin

Jenisch's maiden name was Martin Johann Rücker . He was the third child and the eldest son of Alfred Rücker , a Hamburg senator and former Hanseatic Minister- Resident at the court of St. James in London , and his wife Olga Adelaide, née. d'Araujo Abreâ (1840-1890). The German Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow was his cousin , as his mother Luise Victorine was a sister of Rücker's father. The fact that he received the first name Martin Johann, which was traditionally carried by the head of the Hamburg merchant family Jenisch , shows that he was chosen as the future heir of his great-uncle, Martin Johann Jenisch the Younger , who died childless four years before his birth . The inheritance occurred unexpectedly early, however, as Rücker lost his father at the age of seven.

Martin Rücker Jenisch as a young diplomat (around 1890)

career

Rücker attended high school in Plön , completed his year of service as a one-year volunteer with the 1st Guard Uhlan Regiment after graduating from high school, and then studied law in Bonn and Berlin . In Bonn he belonged to the exclusive Corps Borussia and was thus the corps brother of the future Emperor Wilhelm II.

Jenisch in the wake of Kaiser Wilhelm II at Highcliffe Castle 1907 (back row, 2nd from left)

In 1881 he inherited from his great-aunt Fanny Henriette Jenisch, the widow of Martin Johann Jenisch the Younger, the Jenisch Family Fideikommiss , consisting of the former model estate Flottbek and the properties Blumendorf and Fresenburg near Oldesloe . The Danish estate Kalø near Rønde in Djursland also belonged to the family . Martin Johann Jenisch the Younger had set up the entails in his will and stipulated that an heir must take the name Jenisch. By Hamburg Senate decree of August 10, 1881, Rücker's application was granted to use the family name Jenisch from now on, while retaining the name Rücker.

After completing his studies with a doctorate and a brief activity in the Ministry of Justice , Martin Rücker Jenisch entered the diplomatic service and was initially an attaché at the embassy in Washington from November 1886 to November 1887 , then for a year at the Foreign Office in Berlin, and in 1889 legation secretary at the German Embassy in Vienna and from December 1890 in the same position at the German embassy in Buenos Aires . From 1891 to January 1897 he was second secretary at the German embassy in London . Promoted to Legation Council in 1897 , he worked for a short time at the Prussian embassy in Munich and then from 1898 to 1900 at the German embassy in Brussels . From there he was appointed in 1901 as a lecturing councilor in the Political Department of the Foreign Office . The capable diplomat belonged (not least thanks to his relatives to Bülow) to the inner circle of Kaiser Wilhelm II, whom he accompanied on numerous trips for many years as a representative of the Foreign Office. On January 1, 1903, he received the rank of envoy with the title of Excellency and went to Cairo as Consul General . Shortly before he was transferred to Darmstadt as the Prussian ambassador in May 1906 , the Emperor granted him the hereditary Prussian nobility on January 27, 1906 and at the same time elevated him to the rank of baron (tied to the family entrustment). Jenisch, who enjoyed both the confidence of Bülow and the Kaiser, was also involved in the affair surrounding the Kaiser’s Daily Telegraph interview . Jenisch was present at the talks at Highcliffe Castle on which the “interview” was based, and when Wilhelm II sent the text to Bülow with a request for an assessment, Jenisch enclosed a cover letter in which he wrote, “that in several places the words most highly placed in his mouth need correction because they do not agree with the facts ".

In January 1913 Jenisch was appointed ambassador to Rome as successor to Gottlieb von Jagow , but was unable to take up this position due to a heart disease from which he suffered until the end of his life and resigned with the title of "Royal Prussian Real Privy Council " Civil service off.

Jenisch died at the age of 63 after suffering a long time in Blumendorf Castle and was buried in Jenisch's hereditary funeral at the Nienstedten cemetery. The former emperor from Doorn also sent a wreath for the funeral service .

Construction activity and archeology

In the years 1898–1899, the well-known Danish architect Hack Kampmann built a small hunting lodge inspired by German models on the Kalø Manor on behalf of Jenisch, which the family used for vacation and hunting trips. Jenisch also commissioned Kampmann with the modernization and expansion of the manor house there and other manor buildings and in 1904 with the construction of a hunting and bathing hut for Jenisch's fiancée Thyra Countess Grote, who is still known today as Thyrahytten . On the occasion of his elevation to the nobility, Jenisch had the “Kaisertor”, which still exists today, built in Jenischpark for a visit by the emperor in 1906 . In the same year, Blumendorf Palace was redesigned in the neo-baroque style.

During his work in Egypt, Jenisch supported the work of German archaeologists such as Ludwig Borchardt and acquired mummies and other Egyptian antiquities himself , which he donated to the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg and thus established its ancient Egyptian collection. In 1903 he had the ruins of the medieval Kalø Castle excavated and preserved in Kalø by the archaeologist CM Schmidt from the Danish National Museum . The foundations of the castle were uncovered, their ground plan was clarified and the ruined tower, threatened by decay, was repaired, although much of the material that is archaeologically valuable from today's perspective was destroyed.

Jenisch free school

As head of the family, Jenisch was also at the head of the foundation established by his relative Margaretha Elisabeth Jenisch , which ran the Jenisch'sche Free School in Lübeck . When the school had to stop its work for financial reasons in 1923 after the inflation-related loss of the foundation's assets, Jenisch was involved in the negotiations about the closure as the school's “patron”.

family

On January 16, 1905 Jenisch married his cousin Thyra Countess Grote (1881-1967) in Varchentin . The family residences were Blumendorf Palace and the Jenisch House in Hamburg. The marriage resulted in two daughters and three sons: Marie-Izabel (1906–1971), married since 1934 to Victor Baron von Plessen , Ursula (* 1907), Wilhelm, Martin and Johann Christian. The eldest son Wilhelm von Jenisch (* 1908) died in 1943 as a first lieutenant in the Wehrmacht in Greece, his brother Martin (* 1910) also died in World War II . The youngest brother Johann Christian von Jenisch (1915–2003) became the sole heir. Gut Blumendorf and the Derby Park in Hamburg- Klein Flottbek are still family-owned; the Danish estate Kalø was expropriated as enemy property without compensation in 1945.

  • Blumendorf Castle in Bad Oldesloe

  • Jenisch House in Hamburg

  • Hunting lodge in Kalø

Web links

Commons : Martin Rücker von Jenisch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Martin Johann Rücker Baron v. Jenisch. In: Bernhard Koerner (Hrsg.): German Gender Book Volume 27 (= Hamburg Gender Book. Volume 5). CA Starke, Görlitz 1914, pp. 202-204.
  • Carl Theodor Plessing : Minister a. D. Baron von Jenisch. In: Father-city sheets . Year 1924/25, No. 3, November 2, 1924, pp. 10–11 ( digitized version of the journal at the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (PDF, 39.7 MB), accessed on November 25, 2017)
  • Envoy a. D. Baron v. Jenisch †. In: Father-city sheets. Year 1924/25, No. 4, November 16, 1924, p. 13.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At his death he had the rank of major d. R. a. D. inside.
  2. ↑ a b Lea Glerup Møller: A Country House for Leisure and Recreation - the Jenisch Family at Kalø 1825–1945 ( Memento of November 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on herregardskortet.dk, accessed on November 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Reinhard Crusius, Paul Ziegler, Peter Klein: Chronological data on Caspar Voght, on his model estate and on Jenisch Park and its surroundings until today , updated version January 2015 (PDF, 100 KB), p. 9, accessed on 9 November 2017.
  4. ^ Eduard Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer, Oskar Louis Tesdorpf: Hamburg coat of arms and genealogies. Hamburg 1890, p. 180 ( online at SUB Hamburg; PDF, 153 MB)
  5. ↑ Hans Ficker: German status surveys from the year 1906. In: Archive for Stamm- und Wappenkunde. 7 (1906-07), p. 146 ( digitized in the Internet Archive)
  6. ↑ Printed in: Peter Winzen : Das Kaiserreich am Abgrund. The Daily Telegraph Affair and the 1908 Hale Interview - Presentation and Documentation. (= Historical communications. Supplement 43). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08024-4 , p. 102.
  7. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963. Foreign heads of mission in Germany and German heads of mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer. de Gruyter 2001, p. 143.
  8. ↑ Vilfred Friborg Hansen: Hack Kampmann på Djursland (PDF, 1.2 MB, Danish), accessed on November 25, 2017.
  9. ↑ Vilfred Friborg Hansen: Thyrahytten at Borgerforeningen Mols (PDF, 276 KB, Danish), accessed on November 25, 2017.
  10. ↑ a b Tonio Keller: The noble Gut Blumendorf (2004) on the Stormarn district website, accessed on November 12, 2017.
  11. ↑ Collection of Ancient Egypt on the website of the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg, accessed on November 10, 2017.
  12. ↑ Renate Germer: The unsolved riddle of a child mummy. In: Nicole Kloth, Karl Martin, Eva Pardey: It will be put down as a document. Festschrift for Hartwig Altenmüller on his 65th birthday. Buske Verlag, Hamburg 2003, p. 133.
  13. ↑ Vilfred Friborg Hansen: Kalø - Jenisch- Familien (2010, Danish), accessed on November 25, 2017.
  14. ↑ Envoy a. D. Baron v. Jenisch †. In: Father-city sheets. Year 1924/25, No. 4, November 16, 1924, p. 13 ( digitized version of the journal at the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (PDF, 39.7 MB), accessed on November 25, 2017)
  15. ↑ Heino Grunert: How the Jenischpark came to the city of Altona. Short version of a lecture given to the Friends of Jenischpark on January 14, 2009 (PDF, 114 KB), accessed on November 9, 2017.
  16. ↑ Jens Meyer-Odewald: Martin Freiherr von Jenisch, the master of the derby park. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . June 3, 2011, accessed November 9, 2017.
  17. ↑ Vilfred Friborg Hansen: Kalø konfiskeret - et justitsmord? In: Djursland Posten. April 2015, online (PDF, 695 KB, Danish), accessed November 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Rücker from Jenisch, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rücker Freiherr von Jenisch, Martin Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1924
Place of death Blumendorf Castle near Bad Oldesloe