Werner-Karl-Hermann Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg Castle

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Werner-Karl-Hermann Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg (born March 15, 1857 in Emden ; † July 21, 1924 in Bad Kissingen ), or Werner Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg for short , was entail master of Wolfsburg Castle and a member of the Prussian mansion .

family

Werner-Karl-Hermann Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg belonged to the von der Schulenburg family . He was the eldest child of Günther von der Schulenburg (* December 18, 1819 - February 21, 1895) and his wife Adelheid, born Countess von der Schulenburg-Emden (* February 13, 1834 - July 7, 1870), a daughter of Eduard von der Schulenburg-Emden .

He married on July 1, 1890 in Bad Essen Frieda Freiin von dem Bussche - Ippenburg called von Kessell (born March 21, 1871 in Ippenburg; † March 23, 1949 in Bisdorf ), a daughter of Wilhelm von dem Bussche-Ippenburg .

The marriage had six children:

• Günther Werner Busso (born April 15, 1891 in Hanover ; † March 12, 1985), married to Ursula born in 1928. Baroness von Dincklage (* July 27, 1905, † December 1, 1951). As the eldest son, he took over the Fideikommiss Wolfsburgafter the death of his father, but later had to sell the Wolfsburg estate and castle to build the Volkswagen factory and the city ​​of the KdF-Wagons , today's Wolfsburg . On his 90th birthday he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Wolfsburg and was buried in the family cemetery in Nordsteimke .
• Elisabeth Margarete (* July 8, 1892 in Ippenburg; † January 30, 1976 in Berlin ). She married on July 6, 1912, Adelbert Karl Werner Graf von der Schulenburg auf Burgscheidungen (* July 24, 1885 - April 4, 1951), a son of Werner von der Schulenburg-Burgscheidungen . The marriage was divorced in 1927, and March 20, 1928 she married Walter Hege (born November 12, 1893 in Naumburg , † October 29, 1955 in Weimar ). Hege was a photographer and artist, as well as a professor at the State University for Crafts and Architecture in Weimar . A tombstone in the Rothenfelde cemetery still reminds of them today .
• Bertha Ursula (born August 29, 1893 in Wolfsburg; † September 17, 1962). She married on October 5, 1922 in Wolfsburg, Dr. Konrad von Sydow -Zemlin (born March 8, 1881 in Rastatt , † February 14, 1949 in Königslutter am Elm ). The tombstones of the two married couples have been preserved in the Rothenfelde cemetery to this day.
• Renate Charlotte Julia (born March 15, 1897 in Wolfsburg, † June 24, 1971 in Wolfsburg ). She married Günther Graf von Stosch on May 15, 1918 in Wolfsburg (born May 29, 1893 in Liegnitz ; † March 23, 1955 in Essen - Rüttenscheid ), this marriage was divorced in 1931. On December 12, 1932, she married Christel Roggenbau in Berlin (* February 7, 1896 in Schleswig , † January 31, 1970). This marriage ended in divorce in 1970. A tombstone in the Rothenfelde cemetery still reminds of them today.
• Gisela Katherine Elisabeth (born March 14, 1901 in Wolfsburg, † December 6, 1975 in Stuttgart ). She married on July 12, 1921 in Wolfsburg, Friedrich Johann Graf von Alvensleben auf Erxleben (born August 21, 1895 in Hirschberg; † April 27, 1950 in Hamburg ).
• Werner Hermann Andreas Albrecht (born November 5, 1903 in Wolfsburg, † April 24, 1946 in Brest-Litowsk ). Werner studied law and received his doctorate in 1934 on the subject of the Reichsautobahn . He married Agnes Dubois on March 8, 1933 in Berlin (born August 22, 1892 in Berlin, † January 28, 1976 in Baden-Baden ). During World War II he served in Königsberg , Norway and Finland . He came as a corporal in western captivity , from which he was released. In 1945 he was once again taken prisoner of war during a journey through the Soviet- occupied part of Germany, where he died in 1946 in what is now Belarus due to illness and exhaustion. A tombstone in the Rothenfelde cemetery and an inscription on the war memorial in Alt-Wolfsburg still remind us of him today.

Tombs of some children

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  Elisabeth

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  Ursula

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  Renate

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  Werner

Life

In 1877 he joined the King's Uhlan Regiment (1st Hannoversches) No. 13 , where he left as Rittmeister in 1892 . Then he devoted himself to the management of his father's property. In 1904 he was appointed to the Prussian mansion, to which he belonged until 1918.

In 1911, Werner-Karl-Hermann Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg signed a mining contract with Wintershall AG, which allowed Wintershall AG to start mining in its Rothenfelde district . The union Rothenfelde promoted from 1913 potash for agriculture as well as under the brand Rothenfelder precious salt marketed table salt. The street Schachtweg in the center of Wolfsburg still reminds of the existence of the mine in this area.

During the First World War , he served as a reserve officer from 1914 to 1918 .

Werner-Karl-Hermann Graf von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg died in Bad Kissingen in 1924 and was buried in the Rothenfelde cemetery. His wife lived in Potsdam from 1932 , but moved to West Germany before the end of World War II , where she died in Bisdorf, which at that time belonged to the Gifhorn district . She was buried next to her husband's grave, both tombs have been preserved to this day.

literature

• Dietrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Hans Wätjen: History of the sex from the Schulenburg 1237 to 1983. Lower Saxony printing and publishing house Günter Hempel Wolfsburg, ISBN 3 87327 000 5 , Wolfsburg 1984, pp. 388, 389, 392, 393, 555.

Web links

• Roskilde's history, from the Schulenburg line Wolfsburg (Danish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfsburg Castle - History and Culture. City of Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 2002, ISBN 3-930292-62-9 , p. 160
2. ↑ In memory of Ursula Countess von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, b. Baroness von Dincklage. books.google.de, accessed on October 4, 2018