Werner von Strauch

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Werner von Strauch (born May 16, 1825 in Gera , † September 25, 1898 in Weimar ) was a Grand Ducal Saxon chief hunter and forest master.

Life

Strauch attended the Grand Ducal Saxon Forestry School in Eisenach . In 1845 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Jena . He became a forestry teacher in Lauterberg in the Harz , Hombressen and Bärenfels . As a hunting squire he was a civil servant in the Chamber and Forestry Directorate in Gera from 1850 to 1852. From January 1, 1852 he was forester and from November 1, 1852 forest inspector and forester in the Palatinate Allstedt . For 14 years - from October 16, 1861 to October 1, 1875 - he was a forest inspector in Berka an der Ilm (Saale) . In the meantime he was also in Ettersburg from October 1, 1866 to December 31, 1868 . Appointed Hofjägermeister on Christmas Day 1873, from October 1, 1875 to May 1, 1883 he was forest inspector in Eisenach and head of the court hunting system in Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . Since December 25, 1882, he was chief hunter, from May 1, 1883 to September 25, 1898, he was forest technology officer in the State Ministry (Finance Department) in Weimar and forest inspector at the Weimar Forest Inspectorate. On January 1, 1891 he was appointed head hunter and forest master. With the predicate of excellence , he was appointed to the Real Privy Council on September 1, 1892.

family

Strauch married Elisabeth Edle von der Planitz (* 1833) on August 21, 1853 in Kaschwitz . She was a daughter of Gustav Adolf von der Planitz and his wife Marie geb. von Watzdorff (1808–1862). Her father was Herr auf Kaschwitz, a royal Saxon court and judiciary as well as a ducal Saxon-Altenburg secret council and minister.

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener corps lists 1910, 125/116
  2. Ulrich Heß: The State Ministry of the Grand Duchy and Free State of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 1849 to 1920. Third part, Appendix p. 1182 (mach. Ms.)
  3. Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). Justus Perthes, Gotha 1905, p. 611.