Udo III. from Alvensleben

Udo von Alvensleben

Udo III. von Alvensleben (born February 21, 1823 in Benkendorf b. Holleben , † May 6, 1910 in Schollene ) was a manor owner , author and Prussian captain.

family

Udo von Alvensleben came from the Low German noble family von Alvensleben . He was the fourth son of Wilhelm von Alvensleben (1779–1838) from Kalbe (Milde) and his wife Sophie Günther (1784–1847) from Dresden and had eleven siblings, including the landlord and musician Gebhard von Alvensleben (1816–1895) and the landscape painter Oskar von Alvensleben (1831–1903). On October 24, 1855, he married Agnes von Pritzelwitz (1835–1911) in Berlin and had thirteen children with her, including the later doctor and director of the Magdeburg women's clinic, Alkmar von Alvensleben .

Life

Maiwaldau Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Schollene Castle

Udo von Alvensleben attended a secondary school in Leipzig and from 1840 the Royal Commercial Institute in Charlottenburg . This was followed by a degree in mechanical engineering . After completing his studies and serving as a one-year volunteer with the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot, an educational trip through southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy followed in 1846/47. After agricultural studies in Neugattersleben and Rosenburg, which were interrupted by participation in the Baden campaign in 1849, and after the raffle for the Kalbe (Milde) manor in 1851 , Udo acquired the Maiwaldau manor near Hirschberg in Silesia (2,434 acres) for 110,000 thalers.

After carrying out numerous agricultural and forestry improvements, he sold this property again in October 1858, and in an effort to be closer to his brothers who lived in the Altmark, he acquired the allodial property Schollene, which mainly consisted of heathland, pine forest, meadows and arable fields in 1860 ( 1180 ha). Here, too, he succeeded in promoting the fairly run-down property, particularly in terms of forestry. Most of the agriculturally usable part of the property has been leased since 1877. In 1903 Udo acquired the Schollener See (196 ha), which had previously belonged to the Schollene manor. The tenant house and farmyard were essentially rebuilt, and the castle, which was built around 1770, was modified in individual parts while preserving its valuable late Baroque forms.

For many years he was a member of the family board of trustees, where he mainly took care of financial matters. He also added the Udo Schollene Foundation to her from his assets, which was intended to support younger family members in vocational training and for charitable purposes beyond the family. He also initiated the first Havel regulation work against floods in his area . He also left a collection of excavations of prehistoric antiquities.

He was conservative and tended towards the "Christian-social" direction of Adolf Stoecker , which wanted to remove the breeding ground for the emerging democracy movement and socialism through social improvements from above .

Works

In 1867 he published “memorial sheets from the Havelwinkel” about the prehistory of the place and the Schollene estate , which was followed in 1892 by an “overview of the history and genealogy of the von Alvensleben family” . In 1887 he wrote his memoirs , which were never printed.

literature

• Hellmut Kretzschmar : Historical news of the Alvensleben family since 1800 . Burg 1930, pp. 89–92.
• Udo von Alvensleben-Wittenmoor : The Alvensleben in Kalbe 1324-1945 , edited by Reimar von Alvensleben , Falkenberg August 2010.

Web links

• familie-von-alvensleben.de
• Material on Maiwaldau Castle in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 279 kB)