Ulrich von Winterfeldt

Ulrich von Winterfeldt

Karl Ulrich Ludwig Franz von Winterfeldt-Menkin (born March 2, 1823 in Berlin ; † June 16, 1908 at Gut Menkin with Wollschow and Fahrenholz, Prenzlau district ) was the Prussian district administrator of the Prenzlau district and a politician.

family

He came from an old Brandenburg aristocratic family with the same parent company near Salzwedel and was the son of August von Winterfeldt (1789–1864) and his wife Ulrike, née von Le Cocq (1792–1882).

Winterfeldt married on June 14, 1861 on Gut Grünberg Marianna von Stülpnagel (1836–1873), the daughter of the landowner Heinrich von Stülpnagel, landlord on Grünberg, and Natalie von Kriegsheim. From the marriage the daughters Anna (* 1862) and Sibylle (* 1870) and the sons Joachim (1865–1945) and Georg (* 1867) emerged.

Life

Winterfeldt attended the grammar school in Prenzlau until 1841 and then studied law and camera science in Berlin. From 1844 he was an auscultator in Schwedt / Oder . He began his professional career in 1851 as a court assessor at the Court of Appeal , then with the public prosecutor's offices in Luckau ( district of Dahme-Spreewald ), 1855 in Lüben ( district of Prignitz ), 1856 in Wriezen ( district of Märkisch-Oderland ) and from 1857 with the public prosecutor's office in Prenzlau employed. From 1863 to 1896 he was district administrator in his home district of Prenzlau, where he also managed his inherited estates Menkin, Wollschow and Fahrenholz from 1864. From 1876 to 1901 he was deputy or chairman of the municipal council of the Kurmark . In 1884 he became a Privy Councilor.

From 1875 until his death (1908) Winterfeldt was a member of the Prussian mansion and from 1890 to 1908, as a member of the German Conservative Party (DkP), he was also a member of the Reichstag , which he presided over twice as senior president . Winterfeldt was a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

Orders and honors

• Honorary citizen of Prenzlau
• Crown Order II Class (1894)
• Order of the Red Eagle

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Noble houses A Volume XVIII, p. 542, Volume 87 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1985, ISSN  0435-2408
• Acta Borussica Volume 6 / I (1867–1878)
• Acta Borussica Volume 6 / II (1867–1878)
• Acta Borussica Volume 8 / I (1890–1900) (PDF file; 2.72 MB)
• Acta Borussica Volume 8 / II (1890–1900) (PDF file; 2.19 MB)
• Kurt Adamy: Winterfeld (t), Karl Ulrich Ludwig Franz v. In: Friedrich Beck and Eckart Henning (eds.): Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon. (= Single publication of the Brandenburg Historical Commission eV, Volume 5). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-39-X , p. 424.

Web links

• Ulrich von Winterfeldt in the database of members of the Reichstag