Victor von Podbielski (politician, 1844)

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Victor von Podbielski

Victor Adolf Theophil von Podbielski , also Viktor von Podbielski (born February 26, 1844 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † January 21, 1916 in Berlin ) was a Prussian lieutenant general , state and agriculture minister and state secretary of the Reich Post Office .

family

Bootz manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Victor came from the noble family von Podbielski . He was the son of the later general of the cavalry Theophil von Podbielski (1814–1879), a veteran of the Wars of Unification , and his wife Agnes, née von Jagow (1823–1887).

Podbielski married Margarete von Twardowski, 25 years his junior on May 5, 1891 at Gut Buschow in the Westhavelland district (* August 18, 1869 in Hanover ; † June 7, 1951 in Villingen ). She was the daughter of Fritz von Twardowski (1839-1870), Prussian Premier Lieutenant and company commander in the 3rd Guards Regiment on foot during the Franco-Prussian War , and his wife Hedwig, née von Blücher (1849-1921). He was the landowner of the Dallmin , Bootz and Streesow estates with Wittmor (today in the Prignitz district ).

Military background

Memorial plaque at the Olympic Stadium Berlin , in Berlin-Westend

Podbielski received his preparatory training at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin and later at the cadet school . In 1862 he joined the 2nd Brandenburg Uhlan Regiment No. 11 of the Prussian Army .

During the war against France in 1870/71 Podbielski served as an officer in the general staff of the X Army Corps . From 1885 to 1890 he was commander of the Brandenburg Hussar Regiment (Zietensche Hussars) No. 3 in Rathenow and then took over the newly formed 34th Cavalry Brigade in Metz . In this capacity he advanced to major general .

Civil work

He inherited the Dallmin estate in Westprignitz from his father , where he had the interior of the noble manor house, which in its baroque basic structure still exists from the time of the von Jagow family (around 1800), was partially redecorated in the historicizing style. In the course of his ownership time around 1900, he had almost all of the farm buildings of the estate rebuilt, as many day laborer's houses and the parsonage were rebuilt. In the surrounding parishes of Strehlen and Postlin, he promoted church renovations around 1910. In Dallmin himself, he founded the starch factory, which is still producing today. In 1891 he was released from service and promoted to lieutenant general in 1896, after he had been elected to the Reichstag in 1893 as a member of his home district of Westprignitz . Here he was committed to the German Conservative Party .

After the death of State Secretary Heinrich von Stephan , Podbielski was appointed head of the Reich Post Office on July 1, 1897 , and in 1898 he was appointed to the Real Privy Council . Through several reforms, he made a contribution to the development of the postal system . In his honor the Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke named the first German cable layer Von Podbielski, which came into service in 1900 .

In May 1901 Podbielski was appointed Prussian Minister of Agriculture . He resigned in November 1906 because he was involved in a bribery affair in connection with the equipment of the German protection force . From 1909 his goods were supplied to the Hermann Tietz department store chain .

After that, Podbielski devoted his activity to sports. In 1909 he became President of the German Reich Committee for the Olympic Games (DRAfOS) and in 1912 he was the head of the German Olympic team at the Olympic Games in Stockholm . As a board member of the Union Club for Horse Racing, he played a key role in the creation of the Grunewald racecourse in 1909 and secured the financing of the German stadium built inside the racecourse and completed in 1913 , at that time located in Grunewald on the site of today's Olympic Stadium . The 1916 Olympic Games , which did not take place because of the First World War, were to be held there. A distinctive oak in the stadium was named Podbielskieiche in his presence on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1914 .

His burial in 1916 in the family cemetery next to the church in Dallmin showed the extraordinary popularity of the statesman and squire in court and political circles as well as in the civil service, the military and the population. The Podbielskiallee in Berlin-Dahlem and the Podbielskistraße in Hanover were named after him, as was a ship (recently also a street in Postlin). A bronze relief with a portrait in a hussar uniform was erected for him in Dallmin, which the resident family of Pastor Peter Stiewig did particularly well in the 1980s and 1990s. A Courschleppe his wife from the time the big yard Couren the empire (around 1900) was issued in 2008 in the Castle Museum Wolfhagen.

literature

Web links

Commons : Victor von Podbielski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerd Fesser : Reich Chancellor Prince von Bülow. Miletzke-Verlag Leipzig, 2003, p. 119 ff
  2. ^ Georg Tietz: Hermann Tietz. History of a family and their department stores , Stuttgart 1965, p. 105
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger : Neo-Olympism between nationalism and internationalism. Horst Ueberhorst (Ed.): History of physical exercises , Volume 3/1. Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin 1980, pp. 522-568
  4. ↑ Podbielskiallee. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Podbielski, Victor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Podbielski, Victor Adolf Theophil von (full name); Podbielski, Viktor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian lieutenant general, politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1916
Place of death Berlin