Wanda from Puttkamer

Wanda Anna Adda Wilhelmine von Puttkamer (born March 18, 1870 in Sorau , Brandenburg Province , † December 20, 1944 in Bielitz bei Freystadt , Lower Silesia ) was the lady-in-waiting and author of the Grand Duchess Sophie of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach .

Life

Wanda von Puttkamer came to Weimar in 1893 at the age of 23 as a young lady-in-waiting in the service of Grand Duchess Sophie von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1824–1897) , wife of the Saxon Grand Duke Carl Alexander . She described in detail her experiences from these five years at the Weimar court up to Sophie's death (1897) in her book The Court of Weimar under Grand Duke Carl Alexander and Grand Duchess Sophie (Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1932), from which in the Historians and other authors have always liked to quote and still quote.

Wanda von Puttkamer came from the Puttkamer noble family and was the daughter of the royal Prussian appellate judge and landowner Henning von Puttkamer (1826–1907), since 1865 landlord in German Karstnitz and the neighboring estate gasoline (both Stolp district ), also in Groß-Küssow ( district Pyritz ), Fritzow and Raddack (both rural districts of Cammin ), and the daughter of the district administrator Anna von Haza-Radlitz (1844–1899). She married her relative Erich von Puttkamer on June 23, 1900 at Gut Deutsch-Karstnitz (born July 18, 1864 at Gut Glowitz , Stolp district; † December 16, 1936 in Berlin ), royal Prussian government councilor and then landlord on Lossin until 1914 on Baumgarten ( district of Dramburg ). He was the son of the district administrator and landowner Richard von Puttkamer (1826–1898) and Countess Marie von Schwerin (1827–1910).

Publications

Bernhard Suphan and the Goethe-Schiller Archive in Weimar . In: Deutsche Rundschau . Volume XXXIX, Verlag Gebrüder Paetel, 1914, page 473ff.
Farewell to Beethoven. Memory of Mrs. Liszt . In: Daily review . March 26, 1927
The court of Weimar under Grand Duke Carl Alexander and Grand Duchess Sophie. Memories from the years 1893 to 1897 . Publishing house ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1932
How Goethe accompanied me through life . In: Deutsches Adelsblatt . 1932, page 167ff.
The Altenburger Stift . Presentation of the institution, head Ms. v. Thadden and Anna Nikisch v.Rosenegk . In: Deutsches Adelsblatt . 1932
The Goethe inheritance of Grand Duchess Sophie of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. A word about the Goethe Memorial Week . In: Deutsches Adelsblatt . 1932
The Wartburg , a guard in Thuringia . In: Deutsches Adelsblatt . 1933
Wilhelm Heinrich von Thulemeyer , royal Prussian budget and state minister 1683–1740 . unpublished typewritten manuscript
Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeyer , teased van Frederik den Grooten in The Hague (1763–1781) . In: Haagsch Maandblad . 1935, page 429ff.
Richard Voss (1851-1918) . In: Pomeranian Life Pictures . Volume 2, page 377ff.

literature

Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume XXII, page 297, volume 103 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1992, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4
Ellinor von Puttkamer (editor): History of the sex v. Puttkamer (= German Family Archives, Volume 83–85). 2nd edition, Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1984, ISBN 3-7686-5064-2 , p. 454

Web links

Wanda von Puttkamer on the side of the association of the von Puttkamer family (with picture)

Individual evidence

↑ Up until the Second World War, there were four oil paintings by Antoine Pesne in Karstnitz Castle with life-size portraits of Friedrich Wilhelm I , his wife Sophie Dorothea , and her ancestors, the Prussian Minister of State and War Wilhelm Heinrich von Thulemeyer and his wife Ernestine von Schilden. ( History of Deutsch-Karstnitz )
↑ At the beginning of the 19th century the Groß-Küssow estate belonged to her great-grandfather Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeyer , whose life story Wanda von Puttkamer later wrote. He bequeathed the estate to his daughter Louise in 1810, who married Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm von Puttkamer in 1816 .
^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser A Volume XIII, Page 221, Volume 60 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975.

personal data
SURNAME	Puttkamer, Wanda from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Puttkamer, Wanda Anna Adda Wilhelmine from (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saxon court lady and German author
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sorau , Brandenburg Province
DATE OF DEATH	December 20, 1944
Place of death	Bielitz near Freystadt , Lower Silesia

[1] Up until the Second World War, there were four oil paintings by Antoine Pesne in Karstnitz Castle with life-size portraits of Friedrich Wilhelm I , his wife Sophie Dorothea , and her ancestors, the Prussian Minister of State and War Wilhelm Heinrich von Thulemeyer and his wife Ernestine von Schilden. ( History of Deutsch-Karstnitz )

[2] At the beginning of the 19th century the Groß-Küssow estate belonged to her great-grandfather Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeyer , whose life story Wanda von Puttkamer later wrote. He bequeathed the estate to his daughter Louise in 1810, who married Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm von Puttkamer in 1816 .

[3] Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser A Volume XIII, Page 221, Volume 60 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975.