Rüdiger von der Goltz (politician, 1869)

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Rüdiger Freiherr von der Goltz (born March 1, 1869 in Kreitzig , Schivelbein district , † April 22, 1945 in Posen ) was a German manor owner and district administrator .

He was a member of the noble von der Goltz family ; his father of the same name, Rüdiger Freiherr von der Goltz, was the district administrator of the Schivelbein district and later also a member of the Reichstag. After graduating from the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Stettin , he studied law at the University of Lausanne and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Berlin . After serving as a one-year volunteer , he entered the Prussian civil service.

From 1902 to 1911 he was district administrator of the Kolberg-Körlin district . From 1911, after the death of his father, he managed his inherited estates Kreitzig , Zietlow and Langhof . In 1911 he became a member of the Pomeranian Provincial Parliament , to which he belonged until 1920 with a brief interruption (1918); He was chairman of the 49th Provincial Parliament, which met from April 28 to 30, 1920.

During the First World War , he initially served as a catering officer in the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot . After the district administrator of the Schivelbein district, Nikolaus Graf von Baudissin , died in April 1917 , Rüdiger Freiherr von der Goltz was appointed acting district administrator. He held this office until April 1919.

Rüdiger Freiherr von der Goltz was married to Emma Viktoria von Derenthall (* 1880, † 1960), a daughter of the Prussian diplomat Eduard von Derenthall . The marriage resulted in a son and two daughters.

After Kreitzig was captured by the Red Army on March 3, 1945, Rüdiger Freiherr von der Goltz was deported to Posen , where he died in a camp on April 22, 1945 at the age of 76.

Fonts

  • Rüdiger Freiherr von der Goltz. In: Pomeranian Life Pictures . Volume 1, Saunier, Stettin 1934, pp. 279-287. (Biography of his father)

literature

  • Jürgen W. Schmidt: The district administrators of the Schivelbein district (1865-1932) . In: Baltic Studies Volume 98 NF, 2012, ISSN  0067-3099 , pp. 81-108.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Theodor Wengler: The Pomeranian Provincial Association. Directory of the members of the provincial assembly. Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, Series V, Volume 44.Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20109-8 , p. 121 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Goltz, Rüdiger from the
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goltz, Rüdiger Freiherr von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manor owner and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Kreitzig , Schivelbein circle
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1945
Place of death Poses