Werner von Veltheim

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Franz Karl Adolf Werner von Veltheim
Franz Karl Adolf Werner von Veltheim

Franz Karl Adolf Werner von Veltheim (born May 13, 1843 in Ostrau , Province of Saxony , † May 26, 1919 in Schönfließ , Brandenburg ) was the captain of the Königs Wusterhausen castle and a Prussian politician.

family

He came from an old noble family in Lower Saxony , first mentioned in a document in 1106, and was the son of the landowner Werner von Veltheim (1817–1855), lord of the Ostrau, Kösseln, Groß-Weissand and Harbke, and Isidore von Krosigk (1824–1885) ). His grandfather was the royal Prussian chief miner Franz von Veltheim (1785–1839).

On July 28, 1868, Veltheim married his cousin Auguste von Gadenstedt (born January 3, 1849 in Gadenstedt; † April 15, 1886 in Schönfließ), the daughter of the ducal Braunschweig master stables at Gut Gadenstedt (today part of Ilsede , Peine district , Lower Saxony ) on July 28, 1868 Albrecht von Gadenstedt , landlord of Gadenstedt, and Hedwig von Krosigk .

Life

Veltheim was a royal Prussian major a. D., Chamberlain and Master of Ceremonies , Castle Captain of Königs Wusterhausen Castle in the Dahme-Spreewald district (Brandenburg) and legal knight of the Order of St. John . Veltheim was elected member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency of Potsdam 4 (Oberbarnim, Niederbarnim) from 1886 to 1908 and a member of the Prussian manor house from 1908 to 1918 for the presentation of the old and fortified property in the Mittelmark (Barnim) countryside. On December 10, 1907 von Veltheim sold around 750 hectares of land in the Stolper Heide area; The garden city of Berlin-Frohnau was built on this area from 1910 . As the owner of Schönfließ Palace, he is the namesake of Veltheimstrasse in the Berlin-Reinickendorf district .

Web links

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literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume I, page 395, volume 5 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1953, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Eva Maria Werner: The March Ministries: Governments of the Revolution of 1848/49 in the states of the German Confederation. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. For the biography compare Bernhard Mann (arr.) With the collaboration of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 394.