Victor Count of Reventlow-Criminil

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Victor Graf von Reventlow-Criminil (before 1953)

Victor Graf von Reventlow-Criminil , completely Friedrich Victor Ludwig Carl Curt Graf von Reventlow-Criminil (born May 5, 1916 in Charlottenburg , † June 27, 1992 in Belfair, Mason County (Washington) ) was a politician of the Danish minority in Schleswig- Holstein .

Life and work

Count of Reventlow-Criminil, who was of Protestant faith, came from a sideline of the Holstein - Mecklenburg prehistoric noble family Reventlow . His parents were the Mecklenburg-Strelitz Chamberlain Count Adolf Cécil von Reventlow-Criminil (1861-1927) and Alice Lilian Komtess Hoyos (* 1877 in Fiume ; † 1923)., A granddaughter of Robert Whitehead . The author Cecilia Countess von Sternberg (1908–1983) was his older sister. After the death of mother and father in 1929, the family's headquarters, Gut Emkendorf , had to be sold.

After graduating from the Humanist Gymnasium in Husum in 1935, he joined the German Navy at the beginning of 1936 , of which he was a member until 1945. In 1944 he was captain lieutenant in command of U-1017, which belonged to the 31st U- Flotilla (training flotilla ), and then served in the small combat units of the Navy . After the war he was a farmer and politician.

He was a nephew of Diana von Reventlow-Criminil (1863-1953), who had acquired the Hallig Südfall in 1910 , and researched the archeology of the island of Strand and Rungholts in the Wadden Sea in the 1950s until his aunt's death in 1953 .

MP

Graf von Reventlow-Criminil was a councilor in Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) . In 1946/47 he was the youngest member of the two appointed state parliaments of Schleswig-Holstein . He represented the Danish ethnic group there. From June 12 to August 20, 1946 he was an intern with the CDU parliamentary group. In the first state election in 1947, he was elected to the SSW list. The Landtag elected him a member of the first Federal Assembly , which elected Theodor Heuss as the first Federal President on September 12, 1949 . In the state election in Schleswig-Holstein in 1950 , he did not run again.

Public offices

Count von Reventlow-Criminil was mayor of Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) from 1945 to 1947 , after which he was a member of the city council. His successor as mayor was Kai-Uwe von Hassel .

emigration

In 1953 he emigrated to Canada . In 1961 he applied for a US patent for a concrete constituent indicator . At that time he was living in White Rock, British Columbia ; he later moved to Belfair, Mason County , Washington state .

literature

  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The German submarine commanders , p. 191/192
  • Walter Hildebrand, Hans H. Lohmann: The Kriegsmarine 1939–1945 , Volume 3

Web links

Commons : Victor Reventlow-Criminil  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "United States Social Security Death Index ," database, FamilySearch ( accessed August 3, 2015 ), Victor F Reventlow-Cr, Jun 27, 1992; citing US Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing)
  2. ↑ Entry at reventlow.dk
  3. ↑ entry at reventlow.dk; her autobiography: There was a castle in Bohemia. Years of travel for a European woman . German by Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-455-07485-5
  4. ↑ page on Hallig Südfall
  5. ^ SSW MPs 1946-2000
  6. ^ Concrete constituent indicator
  7. ↑ Entry in the state parliament information system SH
personal data
SURNAME Reventlow-Criminil, Count Victor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reventlow-Criminil, Friedrich Victor Ludwig Carl Curt Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SSW), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1992
Place of death Belfair, Mason County (Washington)